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  • Textual Interpretation in the Law

    What Words Say, and How Judges Read Them

    by N. H. E. Diamond ...
    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    How do courts choose among competing readings of a text? This work draws on linguistics, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and literary criticism for insights into how texts impart meaning. Through vivid examples and in-depth case studies—of reported judicial decisions rather than stylized hypotheticals—it translates learnings into practical guidance.Many interpretive disputes arise from ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Introduction to Pragmatics

    by Betty J. Birner ...
    Series Book 38 - Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication.Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmaticsAddresses the ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Linguistics

    Why It Matters

    by Geoffrey K. Pullum ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist.Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many ways in which linguistics, as the scientific study of language, matters. With its close relationships to psychology, education, ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Argumentation

    Analysis and Evaluation

    by Frans H. van Eemeren, A. Francisca Sn Henkemans ...
    This book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal. Crucial concepts from the theory of argumentation are systematically discussed and explained with the help of examples from real-life discourse and texts. The basic principles are explained that are instrumental in the analysis and evaluation of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Linguistics Wars

    Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure

    by Randy Allen Harris ...
    An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from the 1950s to the current day The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • English Historical Linguistics

    Approaches and Perspectives

    Edited by Laurel J. Brinton ...
    Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches and perspectives. Each chapter features textboxes, case studies, suggestions for further reading and exercises, enabling students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and guiding them on ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Methods of Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science, politics and business. The best way to learn it is to try it out on real instances of arguments found in everyday conversational exchanges and legal argumentation. The introductory chapter of this book gives a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Power of Words

    Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

    by David S. Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Brian S. Butler, Jeff Collins ...
    In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recognize that being ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    Edited by Andrei Marmor, Scott Soames ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Ant Trap

    Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences

    by Brian Epstein ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are they made, and what is the role of people in making them? In The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English

    by Hans Lindquist ...
    Series series Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

    $30.99 USD