Semantics books

"Everyone can improve his or her writing ability. Effective essay writing is an acquired skill. It is not a subject...  Read More >>

Donald Lazere issues a call to action for the return to an emphasis on critical thinking skills and multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

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The present volume, Current Approaches to Discourse and Translation Studies, presents innovative theoretical models...  Read More >>

The provocations for scholarly disputes during the early modern period are as diverse as their objects of contention....  Read More >>

Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which...  Read More >>

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State uses a broad range of materials, including technical,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard's sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms...  Read More >>

This book is a linguistic research study of trade names, especially names of firms (in the production and services...  Read More >>

So, you have a sense of humor, but do you have a sense of irony? A sense of humor is an ability to appreciate and...  Read More >>

This text explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we...  Read More >>

Investigating linguistic, pragmatic and social factors, the authors of these contributions trace the triggers, mechanisms...  Read More >>

Synthesizes three decades of scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical...  Read More >>

This book explores the various forms and functions of follow-ups in a range of political speech events. Follow-ups...  Read More >>

This book is about how toddlers learn their first adjectives, such as, for example, red, big and tasty. Adjectives...  Read More >>

Die Handbücher erschließen das rhetorische Wissen seiner disziplinären Vielfalt nach in systematischer Ordnung und...  Read More >>

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to...  Read More >>

From the dumb and silly to the outright paranoid, pathological, and delusional, America is awash in Dumb Arguments....  Read More >>

This text discusses the meaning of words. The author establishes the descriptive and generalizable facts about lexical...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage rassemble des contributions qui interrogent des phénomènes linguistiques des deux principales langues...  Read More >>

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Examines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and...  Read More >>

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The essays collected into this volume are organized into five interrelated sections exploring discourse on the interaction...  Read More >>