Semantics

In this book, Monika Bednarek addresses the need for a systematic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies.She presents both corpus stylistics and manual analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of...

Examining the syntax and semantics of discourse markers, this book employs a syntactic approach to describe discourse markers in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), relevant in a theory of discourse because it provides a framework in which all...

The book deals with the synesthetic metaphors in Synamet - a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus. The texts included in the corpus are excerpted from blogs devoted to, among others, perfume, wine, beer, music, art, massage and wellness. The...

Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and perfect(ive) participles? This book discusses the long-standing mystery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639054231Author Julija KorostenskajaFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 449g

In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession. It had been prepared by Ernest Adams of the Philosophy Department at Berkeley as a handout for a colloquim. Headed 'SOME FALLACIES OF FORMAL LOGIC' it simply listed eleven little pieces of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631541692Author Seana CoulsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 530g

By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger...

Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component...

PM is a firm favourite amongst Primary Schools due to its reputation for reading success. Offering over 800 carefully levelled fiction and non-fiction books, PM builds confidence through gradual progression and step-by-step support.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607327387Author Maureen Daly GogginFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The...

This book shows that the semantic analysis of modal notions of possibility and necessity can be used to enhance our understanding of the interpretation of reports of belief or emotional state. It introduces intuitive notation and terminology to express...

Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224476237Author Hank YoungmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Hank YoungmanPublisher Hank YoungmanWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607328803Author Neal LernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 268g

Verbal silence touches on every possible aspect of daily life. This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, grammar and poetics, and...

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher expressions (the `relative tense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027921161Author Trevor EatonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 260g

A kinship term is defined as a lexical item which is used to name a person who is connected by certain blood relations with other persons or a group of persons. Kinship term systems were first studied scientifically in the latter half of the 19th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926906478Format PaperbackImprint Nsemia Inc.Publisher Nsemia Inc.Weight(grams) 245g

This volume brings together a number of corpus-based studies dealing with language varieties. These contributions focus on contemporary lines of research interests, and include language teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and...

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse. Interdisciplinary in nature, it provides insights beyond semantics and lexicology, commenting on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607326946Author Rita MalenczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 515g

A rigorous, yet accessible and entertaining introduction to the field of logic, this book provides students with a unique insight into logic as a living field and how it connects to other fields of inquiry including philosophy, computer science,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224815630Author Viet-Phuong LaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint VnzonePublisher VnzoneWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848900912Author Staffan LarssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 503g

For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in develop mental journals...

Children’s literature shapes what children learn about the world. It reflects social values, norms, and stereotypes. This book offers fresh insights into some of the key issues in fiction for children, from the representation of gender to embodied...

This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on two new concepts: numerical scale and consistency-driven methodology. The numerical scale model provides a unified framework to connect...

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...

This book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original new information from an interview with his son) and critical stylistic analyses of two selected poems. The...

This book sheds light on the addressees of online reviewer discourse on wine, perfume and chocolate in order to explore how the discourse construes the consumer of experiential luxury. In the 21st century, luxury is more complex than ever before. Luxury...

The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language with imagery, tagging, hashtags and voice-recognition tools have become the norm. Bringing together concepts...

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of...

Event 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...

Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been covered in English as a foreign language (EFL) materials and textbooks. Bringing together current theories...

The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or "metalinguistic") negations. A total of ten distinct negatives-several previously unclassified-are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny...

This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism. Here, new ecocultural identities are taking shape as people strive to make sense of...

This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Grounded in the field of aspectual research, this study bridges the gap between theory and practice by presenting a set of equivalency rules...