Semantics books

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Neurosemantics: Neural Processes and the Construction of Linguistic Meaning

Neurosemantics: Neural Processes and the Construction...

Author: Alessio Plebe ,  Vivian M. De La Cruz
ISBN: 9783319803753
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This book examines the concept of “ Neurosemantics”, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational...  Read More >>

‹Speaking› Quotation Marks: Toward a Multimodal Analysis of Quoting Verbatim in English

‹Speaking› Quotation Marks: Toward a Multimodal Analysis...

Author: Martina Lampert
ISBN: 9783631599969
Format: Hardback
$197.17

In-depth video analyses of 70 verbatim quotations found that US speakers in diverse public settings do neither translate...  Read More >>

Ich schreibe an Dich

Ich schreibe an Dich

Author: Nazanin Ansari Tari
ISBN: 9786202441469
Format: Paperback
$38.58

"""ich denke immer wieder über die Vergangenheit nach. Was habe ich falsch gemacht, was kann ich daraus lernen?...  Read More >>

Voice Lessons: Understanding the Writer's Tools

Voice Lessons: Understanding the Writer's Tools

Author: Nancy Dean
ISBN: 9781496609731
Format: Paperback
$65.87

How does Kate Chopin create a mood in just a few sentences? How does Shakespeare make a character say one thing...  Read More >>

Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages

Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign...

Author: Annika Hübl (University of Göttingen) ,  Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen)
ISBN: 9789027200877
Format: Hardback
$214.76

The contributions will appeal to theoretical linguists, sign language linguists, typologists, literary scholars,...  Read More >>

The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams

The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams

Author: Joyce van Leeuwen
ISBN: 9783319798592
Format: Paperback
$232.85

In addition, the book’s critical examination helps clear up many of the current misunderstandings about the transmission...  Read More >>

The Metaphor: A Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric (Classic Reprint)

The Metaphor: A Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric...

Author: Gertrude Buck
ISBN: 9781333811631
Format: Paperback
$24.81

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Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms

Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms

Author: Wayne A. Davis
ISBN: 9789402413762
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations....  Read More >>

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The Humanist Tradition in Peril

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The...

Author: Avihu Zakai
ISBN: 9783319822273
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical...  Read More >>

Copper Nickel (26)

Copper Nickel (26)

Author: Wayne Miller
ISBN: 9780986247064
Format: Paperback
$17.99

""Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. Published in March...  Read More >>

Thought-based Linguistics: How Languages Turn Thoughts into Sounds

Thought-based Linguistics: How Languages Turn Thoughts...

Author: Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781108421171
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Discusses the hotly debated subject of the extent to which the structure of language is inseparable from thought....  Read More >>

AP Lang. Writing: For Students and Teachers

AP Lang. Writing: For Students and Teachers

Author: Eduardo Barreto
ISBN: 9781656709714
Format: Paperback
$32.78

"This book condenses thorough research, my experience as an AP Reader, and my own classroom practice, into a guide...  Read More >>

Pragmatics

Pragmatics

Author: Stephen C. Levinson
ISBN: 9780511813313
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature,...  Read More >>

Beleidigungswörter: Die Semantik und Pragmatik pejorativer Personenbezeichnungen

Beleidigungswörter: Die Semantik und Pragmatik pejorativer...

Author: Björn Technau
ISBN: 9783110560886
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This study empirically investigates the complexities behind the meaning and use of slur terms. It proposes a semantic...  Read More >>

Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives

Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational...

Author: Jakub Szymanik
ISBN: 9783319804149
Format: Paperback
$232.85

"Before this volume, advances in ""classic"" generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and...  Read More >>

Thinking about Things

Thinking about Things

Author: Professor of Philosophy Mark Sainsbury (University of Texas Austin)
ISBN: 9780191841538
Format: Undefined
$145.20

In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president...  Read More >>

Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering

Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering...

Author: Professor of Philosophy Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo and University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780191852404
Format: Undefined
$121.31

Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and how...  Read More >>

Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics

Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics

Author: John Taylor
ISBN: 9789004347557
Format: Hardback
$327.36

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Elements of Style

Elements of Style

Author: William Strunk, Jr
ISBN: 9781515432951
Format: Hardback
$28.44

"The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., and E..B. White, is an American English writing style guide....  Read More >>

The Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch

Author: Enoch
ISBN: 9781515436171
Format: Hardback
$31.02

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Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online...

Author: Rich Rice ,  Kirk St.Amant
ISBN: 9781607326632
Format: Paperback
$110.75

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment...  Read More >>

Tasteful Domesticity: Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940

Tasteful Domesticity: Women's Rhetoric and the American...

Author: Sarah Walden
ISBN: 9780822965138
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook...  Read More >>

Writing Together: Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course

Writing Together: Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting...

Author: Scott Warnock ,  Diana Gasiewski
ISBN: 9780814159231
Format: Paperback
$58.30

Narrates the experience of an asynchronous online writing course (OWC) through the dual perspective of the teacher,...  Read More >>

The Lifespan Development of Writing

The Lifespan Development of Writing

Author: Kristen Campbell Wilcox ,  Charles Bazerman
ISBN: 9780814128169
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Offers a first step toward understanding how people develop as writers over their lifetimes. This book presents...  Read More >>

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