Semantics

Athapaskan languages are well known for their intricate morphology, in particular the complexity of their verbs. The significance of these languages for linguistic theory is widely acknowledged. In this book, Keren Rice offers a rich typological survey...

This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and methodologically...

Semantics and pragmatics – the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively – are two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how meaning is created. However, their theoretical ideas are often...

This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it...

The 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...

Linguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations...

The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates. The emergence and consequences of fake news and misinformation are at the core of what some call a post-truth world.Divided into two parts, Language and Truth develops...

The Creative Argument sets itself apart from its competitors by presenting a series of compelling works of literary nonfiction that challenge what students think they know about arguments. Each chapter begins with an engaging argument from a work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631554364Author Iraide Ibarretxe-AntunanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 460g

With the “discursive turn” has come a distrust – a complete rejection by some – of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic...

The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point: participles are not verb forms which behave like adjectives, but actually are adjectives, linked with...

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense,...

How Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse.This groundbreaking analysis examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American...

What is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese? This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at...

This volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512812442Author James E. IannucciFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556715303Author John BeekmanFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic PublicationsPublisher Summer Institute of...

Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives...

In this book, Wanda Little Fenimore traces the resurrection of the phrase “New South” with South Carolina’s governor, Nikki Haley. Through analyzing speeches, Fenimore demonstrates how politicians use historical terms in new ways that obscure their roots...

In Rhetoric in the Time of Torture, Laura A. Sparks investigates how rhetoric and interrogational torture are imbricated with one another, troubling clear distinctions between persuasion and violence. In light of the U.S. government’s post-9/11 reliance...

This collection of papers is the result of the first Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language conference (CSDL) held at the University of California, San Diego. The conference brought together researchers from both 'Cognitive' and 'Functional'...

Rhetorical Investigations of the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Body in Media: Countering a Wicked Problem examines the power of hegemonic institutions and their impact on bodies. Marissa C. McKinley focuses on how women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789518586312Author Aino KoivistoFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden SeuraPublisher Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden...

Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison...

The book deals with the important shift that has been heralded in cognitive linguistics from mere universal matters to cultural and situational variation. The discussions examine cognitive and cultural linguistics’ theories in relation to the following...

Too often our use of language has become lazy, frivolous, and even counterproductive. We rely on cliches and bromides to communicate in such a way that our intentions are lost or misinterpreted. In a culture of "takeaways" and buzzwords, it...

Get to grips with the fundamentals of semantics research. Written by a team of world-class experts, this book introduces the subject for a broad audience of linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists. It explores the core...

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contextsEntitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality offers a rhetorical theory of opinions, especially as opinions operate within social media. Many urgent...

Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487807801Author John DeelyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Royal Collins Publishing CompanyPublisher Royal Collins Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812277593Author Uriel WeinreichFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Focusing on Slavic languages, Danko Sipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing research, which focuses heavily on syntactic and phonological approaches, Sipka's approach is novel, more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999795118Author Mohammed ChihabFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Mohammed ChihabPublisher Mohammed ChihabWeight(grams) 68g

This Sourcebook is intended for students of liberal arts and great books. It treats such books as primary sources for inquiring into the nature of human speech because they clarify the terms and stakes of perennial questions thinking human beings ask...

This is a compilation of papers presented at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, held February 20-22, 1998 in Vancouver, Canada, hosted by the University of British Columbia Department of Linguistics. The...

Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by about ten people in the top end of the Northern Territory. It possesses an unusual open class of words which Wilson calls 'coverbs'. Coverbs are responsible for conveying a wide range of mostly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993594540Author Michael K. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Pendlebury Press LimitedPublisher Pendlebury Press Limited

A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatismI The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a variety of texts—ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets—to...

To one who has just begun to make his acquaintance with the literature of general semantics, Mother Gorman's book will prove an invaluable guide. From her first chapter giving a historical sketch of the main ideas to her final chapter surveying the ways...