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Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions by Barbara Dancygier 9780521591515
RRP: $214.50$190.59This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of... -
Regularity in Semantic Change by Elizabeth Closs Traugott 9780521617918
RRP: $87.73$74.37This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees... -
Regularity in Semantic Change by Elizabeth Closs Traugott 9780521583787
RRP: $214.50$181.80This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees... -
Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory by Christina Y. Bethin 9780521591485
RRP: $243.75$206.76In Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these developments to issues in phonological theory. First Professor Bethin argues that the... -
Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity by Graeme Hirst 9780521428989
RRP: $74.08$64.86Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity presents an important advance in computer understanding of natural language. While parsing techniques have been greatly improved in recent years, the approach to semantics has generally improved in... -
Conditions on Phonological Government by Monik Charette 9780521392464
RRP: $195.00$159.92This 1991 book was the first extended study written within the framework of Government Phonology. Following the presentation of the main aspects of this theory, the process of vowel-zero alternations is addressed and analysed together with the idea that... -
Etymology by Yakov Malkiel 9780521311663
RRP: $87.73$74.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology by Danny D. Steinberg 9780521204996
RRP: $107.23$90.38This 1978 book is a collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other. Papers on philosophy from Charles Caton, David Wiggins, William Alston, H. P. Grice, Paul Ziff, Gilbert Harman,... -
The Syntax and Semantics of Middle Constructions: A Study with Special Reference to German by Sarah M. B. Fagan 9780521107464
RRP: $72.13$59.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mass Terms and Model-Theoretic Semantics by Harry C. Bunt 9780521105910
RRP: $77.98$64.86'Mass terms' like water, rice and traffic, have proved very difficult to accommodate in any theory of meaning since, unlike count nouns such as house or dog, they cannot be treated as denoting sets of individuals. In this study, motivated by the need to... -
Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and other Paradigms by M. Lynne Murphy 9780521070584
RRP: $77.98$64.86Semantic Relations and the Lexicon explores the many paradigmatic semantic relations between words, such as synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy, and their relevance to the mental organization of our vocabularies. Drawing on a century's research in... -
Grammar and Meaning: Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons by F. R. Palmer 9780521054775
RRP: $52.63$42.69Since the publication of his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968), Sir John Lyons became one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. In a career which spanned several decades, he addressed... -
The Language of Word Meaning by Federica Busa 9780521080149
RRP: $87.73$75.15This volume is a collection of original contributions from outstanding scholars in linguistics, philosophy and computational linguistics exploring the relation between word meaning and human linguistic creativity. The papers present different aspects... -
Formal Semantics of Natural Language by Edward L. Keenan 9780521111119
RRP: $95.53$80.87A volume of studies in natural language semantics which brings together work by philosophers, logicians and linguists. The main topics treated are: quantification and reference in natural language; the relations between formal logic, programming... -
Defining Pragmatics by Mira Ariel 9780521517836
RRP: $185.25$162.61Although 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... -
Pragmatics and Grammar by Mira Ariel 9780521559942
RRP: $87.73$75.15When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter... -
Argument Realization by Beth Levin 9780521663311
RRP: $140.40$126.93The relationship between verbs and their arguments is a widely debated topic in linguistics. This comprehensive 2005 survey provides an overview of this important area of research, exploring theories of how a verb's semantics can determine the... -
Lexical Strata in English: Morphological Causes, Phonological Effects by Heinz J. Giegerich 9780521023535
RRP: $107.23$89.60In Lexical Strata in English, Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the morphological processes of the language. Drawing examples from English and German, he uncovers and spells out in... -
Two-Dimensional Semantics by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780199271955
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Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture by Pilar G. Blitvich 9781009494830
RRP: $97.48$97.21This Element shows the basis for pragmatics/(im)politeness to become intergroup-oriented to be able to consider interactions in which social identities are salient or are essentially collective in nature, such as Cancel Culture (CC). CC is a form of... -
Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture by Jack Wilson 9781009454407
RRP: $97.48$97.21Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has been... -
Leveraging Relations in Diaspora: Occupational Recommendations among Latin Americans in London by Rosina Márquez Reiter 9781009507486
RRP: $97.48$97.21This Element expands the horizon of sociopragmatic research by offering a first inquiry into the sociocultural norms that underlie the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations in a diasporic context. Based on accounts of the practices... -
Pragmatic Inference: Misunderstandings, Accountability, Deniability by Chi-Hé Elder 9781009500838
RRP: $97.48$97.21The concept of inference is foundational to the study of pragmatics; however, the way it is theoretically conceptualised and methodologically operationalised is far from uniform. This Element investigates the role that inference plays in pragmatic models... -
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics: Known Unknowns by Stephen C. Levinson 9781009489591
RRP: $97.48$97.21This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. The authors can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed of speech encoding: Pragmatics occupies the... -
Positive Social Acts: A Meta-Pragmatic Exploitation of the Darker and Brighter Sides of Sociability by Roni Danziger 9781009184427
RRP: $33.15$28.70Sociability is friendly behavior that is performed by a variety of positive social acts that are aimed to establish, promote, or restore relationships. However, attempts to achieve these interactional goals can fail or backfire; moreover, interactants... -
Advice in Conversation: Corpus Pragmatics Meets Mixed Methods by Nele Poldvere 9781009054515
RRP: $33.15$28.70This Element is a contribution to a new generation of corpus pragmatics research by taking as its starting point the multifaceted nature of speech acts in conversation, and by adopting a mixed-methods approach. Through a unique combination of... -
Relevance Theory by Billy Clark 9780521878203
RRP: $132.58$117.23Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into two... -
Event Representation in Language and Cognition by Jurgen Bohnemeyer 9780521898348
RRP: $136.50$124.23Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into the cognitive processes involved when people view events and talk about them is still a young field. The... -
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax by Gillian Catriona Ramchand 9780521842402
RRP: $195.00$159.92The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular... -
Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction by Milton M. Azevedo 9780521801263
RRP: $194.98$171.23This accessible book provides a comprehensive introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese. Clearly organised, it covers the central topics of syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, and explores the social and historical... -
Mood and Modality by F. R. Palmer 9780521800358
RRP: $175.48$153.66Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's first edition of Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of 'modality' was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is... -
Defining Pragmatics by Mira Ariel 9780521732031
RRP: $60.43$49.63Although 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... -
The Syntax of Hungarian by Katalin E. Kiss 9780521669399
RRP: $95.53$81.32Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical features of the language, focusing on the phenomena that have proved to be theoretically the most relevant and... -
Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers by Diane Blakemore 9780521640077
RRP: $214.50$181.02The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to... -
The Syntax of Spanish by Karen Zagona 9780521571777
RRP: $142.35$129.42Clear and well-organised, this textbook is an introduction to Spanish syntax, which assumes no prior knowledge of current theory. Beginning with a descriptive overview of the major characteristics of the grammar, it goes on to describe facts about... -
Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents by Knud Lambrecht 9780521587044
RRP: $130.63$111.21Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and... -
Semantics: An Introduction to Meaning in Language by Ronnie Cann 9780521525664
RRP: $87.73$75.62The study of meaning in language has developed dramatically over the last fifty years. Semantics is distinctive as it not only presents a general introduction to the topic, including the most recent developments, but it also provides a unique perspective... -
The Lexical Field of Taste: A Semantic Study of Japanese Taste Terms by A. E. Backhouse 9780521445351
RRP: $195.00$169.51Dr Backhouse undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese. Through an investigation of the range of vocabulary available for the description of taste qualities, and their interrelationship in terms of meaning, Dr Backhouse... -
Foundations of French Syntax by Michael Allan Jones 9780521381048
RRP: $208.65$186.81Designed for students, this detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more traditional grammarians. Theory is placed firmly in the service of description and analysis, and... -
Modification by Marcin Morzycki 9780521264167
RRP: $60.43$49.63Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field. Modification offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of...