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Pragmatics by Stephen C. Levinson
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $66.29Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This... -
Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Stephen C. Levinson
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.30Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across... -
Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Stephen C. Levinson 9781108424288
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $143.63Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across... -
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics: Known Unknowns by Stephen C. Levinson 9781009489638
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.31This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. We can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed... -
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics: Known Unknowns by Stephen C. Levinson 9781009489591
Booksplease Price: $72.41This 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... -
Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity by Stephen C. Levinson 9780521671781
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $61.89Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this... -
Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity by Stephen C. Levinson
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $60.17Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core... -
Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature by Stephen C. Levinson 9780262621304
Booksplease Price: $92.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262621304Author Stephen C. LevinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher... -
Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction Stephen C. Levinson 9781845203948
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.39This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of... -
Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity by Stephen C. Levinson 9780521812627
RRP: $156.09Booksplease Price: $150.54Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core... -
A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island by Stephen C. Levinson 9783111358666
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $25.46This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic... -
The Interaction Engine: Language in Social Life and Human Evolution by Stephen C. Levinson 9781009570329
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.96Communicative interaction forms the core of human experience. In this fascinating book Levinson, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, explores how human communicative interaction is... -
A Grammar of Yeli Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island by Stephen C. Levinson 9783110738476
RRP: $177.38Booksplease Price: $119.48This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic... -
The Pragmatics Reader by Dawn Archer
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $70.43The Pragmatics Reader is the indispensable set of readings for all students studying Pragmatics at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Combining key classic texts with newer extracts... -
Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order Paul Drew (University of York) 9780745603933
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.08Erving Goffman was one of the most pre-eminent authors of the post-war period in social science. His ideas have had an extraordinary influence and have become well known to a wide audience. This is... -
Using Language by Herbert H. Clark 9780521567459
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $55.86This book, first published in 1996, argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners -... -
Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones by Anne Cutler
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.68Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a...