Semantics books

This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to the terms, concepts, and theories of pragmatics - the study of language in use - from the...  Read More >>

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection...  Read More >>

This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by...  Read More >>

Suitabe for those who study pragmatics, discourse analysis, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, corpus...  Read More >>

Reprint of the edition published in 1918.  Read More >>

Focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. This book contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional...  Read More >>

This volume collects papers presented at the 2011 WRAB conference.  Read More >>

Explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie's eleven novels. This study establishes Salman Rushdie's prose as highly...  Read More >>

Die Erlebnisse und Erkenntnisse, die uns der Arzt und Gesundheitswissenschaftler Adolf Gottstein (1857 - 1941) in...  Read More >>

Presents an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. This book analyzes how news discourse...  Read More >>

Offers a showcase of the developments in Japanese applied linguistics, within discourse analysis and sociolinguistics....  Read More >>

Using a range of case studies, this book examines the impact technology has had on written communication.  Read More >>

This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. But we, the three authors, have...  Read More >>

In Guillotined, Alexander Cockburn sets out to save the English language from abuse by journalists, politicians,...  Read More >>

In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned a science which studies the role of signs as part...  Read More >>

China's opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues,...  Read More >>

This book is written from the standpoint of 1919. The time has not yet come for telling how the Russian Church met...  Read More >>

Satire reveals fault lines and incongruities between ideal and practice. Satirical discourse may be independent...  Read More >>

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed...  Read More >>

An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research. What...  Read More >>

Argues that students of English as a second language, rather than always being novice English language learners,...  Read More >>

Brings us inside teachers' local contexts - classrooms, schools, and communities - to illustrate how teachers are...  Read More >>

Features a novel, hands-on approach to the study of rhetorical devices. This book provides an examination of critical...  Read More >>

A student's companion to better collegiate writing. In comparison to other rhetorical pedagogy, this is a reader-friendly...  Read More >>