Semantics books

The first book length study of the genre of 'chick lit' informed by an advanced stylistic approach, covering tradition...  Read More >>

Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there...  Read More >>

Includes papers that explore the issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical...  Read More >>

Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive introduction to semantics, synthesizing work on meaning and communication...  Read More >>

The linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical...  Read More >>

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning....  Read More >>

Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity we are undertaking, forming...  Read More >>

Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward...  Read More >>

Presents new models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts, illustrating these...  Read More >>

Gillian Brown examines the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what...  Read More >>

Discourse markers, the particles and the connectives, perform important functions in conversation, and have called...  Read More >>

This book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains...  Read More >>

Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Professor Lambrecht addresses this question...  Read More >>

Discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. This new edition...  Read More >>

Computational semantics is the art and science of computing meaning in natural language. This comprehensive text...  Read More >>

Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's important study Language, Meaning and...  Read More >>

This book introduces the linguistic study of English between the 5th century and the Norman invasion in 1066, tailored...  Read More >>

In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches...  Read More >>

Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance....  Read More >>

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot...  Read More >>

Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole...  Read More >>

Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to...  Read More >>

Offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and...  Read More >>

A clear introduction to English phonetics and phonology, tailored to suit the needs of individual, one-term course...  Read More >>

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Each unit includes...  Read More >>