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Critique of Pure Verbiage: Essays on Abuses of Language in Literary, Religious and Philosophical Writings by Ronald Englefield 9780812691085
RRP: $31.18$26.44These essays may at first give the impression of being no more than hatchet jobs in which Thomas Carlyle, Benedetto Croce, T.S. Eliot, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Bishop John A.T. Robinson, John Ruskin, Gilbert Ryle, A.N. WHitehead and others are... -
Language Within Language by Maria Brusco - Osso 9780986430558
RRP: $40.93$33.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986430558Author Maria Brusco - OssoFormat PaperbackImprint True Perspective Publishing HousePublisher True Perspective Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 435g -
Word Up!: A Lively Look at English by Rob Kyff 9780595124787
RRP: $23.38$17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595124787Author Rob KyffFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 272g -
Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes 9781643364742
$53.37A deep dive into how Appalachian food tells the story of resilience of Appalachian people, culture, and region.Book InformationISBN 9781643364742Author Ashli Quesinberry StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of South Carolina... -
Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard by Paul Lynch 9780271097091
RRP: $163.70$144.55The nations of the global north find themselves in a post-secular or post-Christian period, one in which the practice, expression, and effects of religion are undergoing massive shifts. In Persuasions of God, Paul Lynch pursues a project of... -
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Meaning and Culture by Bert Peeters 9789813299740
RRP: $233.98$220.35This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. It focuses on meaning and culture, with sections on "Words as... -
Locality in WH Quantification: Questions and Relative Clauses in Hindi by Veneeta Dayal 9789048147168
$180.59Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by local movement. The primary data for the claim of locality at LF is drawn from Hindi but English data is used... -
Meaning in Subtitling: Toward a Contrastive Cognitive Semantic Model by Mikolaj Deckert 9783631628287
RRP: $73.52$60.37The book's principal argument is that the concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be systematically used in accounts of translation, and especially of subtitling as its more specifically constrained... -
Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimisation Strategies in Crisis and Conflict by Robert Butler 9781399523189
RRP: $175.50$142.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399523189Author Robert ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 517g -
Infinity in Language: Conceptualization of the Experience of the Sublime by Kenneth Holmqvist 9781847189554
$66.28The book Infinity in Language is a research monograph on the problem of the sublime in language. The authors use methods from cognitive semantics and poetics in order to thoroughly describe how the sublime is used in language. It is a unique attempt to... -
An Illustrative Dictionary of Semantics by Mohammad Forouzani 9781685623081
$65.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685623081Author Mohammad ForouzaniFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers... -
An Illustrative Dictionary of Semantics by Mohammad Forouzani 9781685623074
RRP: $37.03$29.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685623074Author Mohammad ForouzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers... -
Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language by Alexey Koshelev 9781644696064
RRP: $58.48$56.69This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of... -
Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language by Alexey Koshelev 9781644690024
RRP: $179.38$171.07This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of... -
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times by Robin Reames 9781541603974
RRP: $48.75$34.52How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived... -
Think Generic!: The Meaning and Use of Generic Sentences Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) 9781575862088
RRP: $39.00$37.83Our knowledge about the world is often expressed by generic sentences, yet their meanings are far from clear. This book provides answers to central problems concerning generics: what do they mean? Which factors affect their interpretation? How can one... -
Conflicts in Interpretation by Petra Hendriks 9781845534370
RRP: $146.25$75.58"Conflicts in Interpretation" applies novel methods of constraint interaction, derived from connectionist theories and implemented in linguistics within the framework of Optimality Theory, to core semantic and pragmatic issues such as polysemy,... -
From Language to Multimodality: New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning by Carys Jones 9781845533472
RRP: $146.25$72.33This book shares the recent debates by systemic functional linguistics and other linguistic forums. Its principal focus is on how we use language to make meaning of the world, on how the systems and structures of the ideational function of language... -
Semantics: A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning: 2015 by Zeki Hamawand 9781781792483
RRP: $146.25$33.27Semantics: A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions in English: words and sentences. In conducting the analysis, it draws on two sources. First, it relies on the... -
The Presidential Rhetoric of Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge: The Centennial of the Modern American Presidency by Ben Voth 9781666917956
RRP: $165.75$145.29In this book, Ben Voth argues that the centennial of the modern presidency embodied in the rhetoric of presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge provides an opportunity to re-examine our conventional understanding of U.S. presidents and presidential... -
Applied Business Rhetoric by Elizabeth C. Tomlinson 9781666905472
RRP: $150.15$131.86In this book, Elizabeth C. Tomlinson offers a rich analysis of the ways that rhetorical principles inform the world of work. With in-depth, engaging examples from across business, Tomlinson draws on a broad range of rhetorical scholarship including both... -
Language: From Meaning to Text by Igor Mel'Cuk 9781618114563
RRP: $179.38$171.07This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach-that a natural language must be... -
Semantics versus Pragmatics by Zoltan Gendler Szabo 9780199251520
$95.88to followBook InformationISBN 9780199251520Author Zoltan Gendler SzaboFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 689g -
Two-Dimensional Semantics by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780199272020
$89.21According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and... -
The Logic of Pronominal Resumption by Ash Asudeh 9780199206438
RRP: $138.45$96.15This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound pronoun. Resumption occurs in unbounded dependencies, such as relative... -
Lexical Semantics: The Problem of Polysemy by James Pustejovsky 9780198236627
$87.28Lexical ambiguity is one of the most intractable problems facing language processing studies and, not surprisingly, it is at the core of research in lexical semantics. The papers in this collection constitute not just a set of diverse yet related... -
Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species by Jennifer Clary-Lemon 9780271095431
RRP: $163.70$144.55As more and more species fall under the threat of extinction, humans are not only taking action to protect critical habitats but are also engaging more directly with species to help mitigate their decline. Through innovative infrastructure design and by... -
Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse by Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski 9781032366906
RRP: $263.25$228.70A combination of linguistic analysis and a pragma-dialectic approach to legal argumentation provides a new way of understanding evaluation. Analyzes a vast corpus of judicial opinions from both the United States Supreme Court and Poland’s Constitutional... -
Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse: The Case of ta by Kerry Sluchinski 9781032504315
RRP: $263.25$229.48Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse explores how recent language change in the third-person pronoun system of Mandarin Chinese is harnessed by netizens to construct spaces of (non-)belonging along a fluid continuum in the context of pro- and... -
Literary Semiotics: A Critical Approach by Scott Simpkins 9780739102916
RRP: $224.25$196.44Literary Semiotics brings much needed revitalization to the conservatism of modern semiotic theory. Scott Simpkins' revisionist work scrutinizes the conflicting views on sign theory to identify new areas of development in semiotic thought and practice,... -
Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure by Violeta Demonte 9780199693498
$192.70This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by... -
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language by Peter J. Capuano 9781501772863
RRP: $48.73$42.26Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue... -
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language by Peter J. Capuano 9781501772856
RRP: $210.60$182.91Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue... -
Semantics and the Lexicon by James Pustejovsky 9789048142040
$182.99This book integrates the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. It provides a stimulating and unique discussion between the... -
Understanding Semantics by Sebastian Loebner 9780415826730
RRP: $253.50$219.39Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions... -
Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language by Dirk Greimann 9780415542517
RRP: $105.28$91.40Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book fills that... -
Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes by Anastasia Giannakidou 9780226763200
RRP: $202.80$194.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226763200Author Anastasia GiannakidouFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Temporality: Universals and Variation by Maria Bittner 9781405190404
RRP: $155.90$136.46Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and... -
Indefinites and the Type of Sets by Fred Landman 9781405116305
RRP: $233.90$202.74"Indefinites and the Type of Sets" explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. The book provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories;... -
Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning by David I. Beaver 9781405112635
RRP: $183.20$159.65Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show...