Semantics books

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a selection of pivotal articles published in the hundred years since the launch of the...  Read More >>

The period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa’s history. This book examines the tactics of resistance...  Read More >>

A study of mental spaces and the connections between them. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads to new...  Read More >>

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy,...  Read More >>

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy,...  Read More >>

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy,...  Read More >>

The main aim of this study is a comparative analysis of conceptual metaphors, metonymies and metaphtonymies on Polish...  Read More >>

Das Repertorium dokumentiert die zwischen 1450 und 1700 in deutscher Sprache gedruckten Werke zu den weit gestreuten...  Read More >>

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This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish....  Read More >>

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the...  Read More >>

This book reviews systematic training programs that are designed to enhance the language, reading, literacy and...  Read More >>

Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give...  Read More >>

The Sinn und Bedeutung conferences are one of the leading international venues for research in formal semantics....  Read More >>

The Sinn und Bedeutung conferences are one of the leading international venues for research in formal semantics....  Read More >>

Der Superlativ wird fast durchweg verurteilt, als marktschreierisch, als gewalttatig, als ungenau. Die Liste seiner...  Read More >>

Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance...  Read More >>

This book offers a rhetorical examination of how femininity is defined and portrayed across media and popular culture....  Read More >>

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that...  Read More >>

The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke By Leonard Cox To the reuerende father in god& his singuler good lorde / the lorde...  Read More >>

English: Composition and Literature By W. F. (William Franklin) Webster In July, 1898, I presented at the National...  Read More >>

On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-191 By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch...  Read More >>

Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative...  Read More >>

This collection of especially commissioned papers presents state of the art research on semantics, pragmatics, presupposition,...  Read More >>