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  • Antonyms in English

    Construals, Constructions and Canonicity

    de Steven Jones, M. Lynne Murphy, Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Language

    de Scott Soames ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Metaphor

    de L. David Ritchie ...
    Series series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
    'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of semanticists, pragmatists, discourse analysts and also those working at the interface of language and literature and in other disciplines such as philosophy and psychology. This book provides a summary, critique ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Defining Pragmatics

    de Mira Ariel ...
    Series series Research Surveys in Linguistics
    Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Meaning and Humour

    de Andrew Goatly ...
    Series series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
    How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour, such as systemic functional linguistics, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

    Edición de Manfred Krifka, Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions provide insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. The volume’s reach is ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Grammar, Philosophy, and Logic

    de Bruce Silver ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers can fail to notice; concentrating on subtle missteps and errors that can make the difference between good and excellent prose. Each chapter ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Redefining Indefinites

    de Claire Beyssade, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Exemplarist Moral Theory

    de Linda Zagzebski ...
    In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, modeled on the Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized semantics in the seventies. In Exemplarist Moral Theory, exemplars are identified through the emotion of admiration, which Zagzebski argues is both a motivating emotion and an emotion whose cognitive content permits the mapping ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Language of Stories

    A Cognitive Approach

    de Barbara Dancygier ...
    How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Discourse, Grammar and Ideology

    Functional and Cognitive Perspectives

    de Prof Christopher Hart ...
    Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts.The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks – functional grammar, multimodal ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases

    Edición de P. Saint-Dizier ...
    Series Libro 6 - Text, Speech and Language Technology
    This volume is a selection of papers presented at a workshop entitled Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases organized in Toulouse in August 1996. A predicate is a named relation that exists among one or more arguments. In natural language, predicates are realized as verbs, prepositions, nouns and adjectives, to cite the most frequent ones. Research on the ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD