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Semantical Investigations in Heyting's Intuitionistic Logic

Semantical Investigations in Heyting's Intuitionistic...

Author: Dov M. Gabbay
ISBN: 9789048183623
Format: Paperback
$607.20

From the point of view of non-classical logics, Heyting's implication is the smallest implication for which the...  Read More >>

Metaphor and Cognition: An Interactionist Approach

Metaphor and Cognition: An Interactionist Approach

Author: B. Indurkhya
ISBN: 9789048141463
Format: Paperback
$947.76

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities....  Read More >>

Alliteration in Culture

Alliteration in Culture

Author: Jonathan Roper
ISBN: 9781349313013
Format: Paperback
$169.00

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and...  Read More >>

The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching

The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and...

Author: Randall VanderMey (both of the University of Iowa College of Medicine) ,  Verne Meyer
ISBN: 9780495915836
Format: Paperback
$282.35

Features an all-in-one writing resource for students at various skill levels. This title features numerous student...  Read More >>

Write Now

Write Now

Author: Karin L Russell, Program Director/Instructor
ISBN: 9780077512835
Format: Mixed media product
$343.86

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Prosody in Interaction

Prosody in Interaction

Author: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (University of Freiburg) ,  Elisabeth Reber (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
ISBN: 9789027226334
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. This book illustrates research trends and uncovers directions for...  Read More >>

Discourses in Interaction

Discourses in Interaction

Author: Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (University of Helsinki) ,  Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (University of Turku)
ISBN: 9789027256072
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Features the contributions that come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation...  Read More >>

Dialogue – The Mixed Game

Dialogue – The Mixed Game

Author: Edda Weigand (University of Münster)
ISBN: 9789027210272
Format: Hardback
$377.52

The 'Mixed Game Model' represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings' competence-in-performance...  Read More >>

Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader

Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader

Author: Barbara Fine Clouse
ISBN: 9780073383958
Format: Paperback
$223.08

Provides coverage of the writing process and the elements of the essay, including specific procedures for generating...  Read More >>

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Author: Gerd Bayer ,  Ebbe Klitgard
ISBN: 9786613442703
Format: Electronic book text
$421.34

<p>This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the...  Read More >>

The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses

The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical,...

Author: Eugene Paul Wigner ,  Jagdish Mehra
ISBN: 9783642081804
Format: Paperback
$789.36

Mehra, this volume will become an important source of reference for historians of science, and it will be pleasant...  Read More >>

Quantity Implicatures

Quantity Implicatures

Author: Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
ISBN: 9780511975158
Format: Undefined
$435.60

A pioneering study of quantity implicatures, a type of pragmatic inference which has been widely debated in linguistics,...  Read More >>

Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration

Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration...

Author: Claudia Claridge (Universität Duisburg–Essen)
ISBN: 9780511779480
Format: Undefined
$435.60

The first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on genres such as spoken language, TV, newspapers, and...  Read More >>

Negative Indefinites

Negative Indefinites

Author: Doris Penka (, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz)
ISBN: 9780199567270
Format: Paperback
$122.95

Doris Penka delivers a unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites - as in the expressions...  Read More >>

Key Terms in Discourse Analysis

Key Terms in Discourse Analysis

Author: Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK) ,  Dr Sibonile Ellece
ISBN: 9781847063212
Format: Paperback
$48.00

Offers a comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of linguistics and language...  Read More >>

Imaginary Syllabi

Imaginary Syllabi

Author: Editor Jane Sprague ,  Jane Sprague
ISBN: 9780984309924
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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Studies in Greek Syntax

Studies in Greek Syntax

Author: A. Alexiadou ,  G.C. Horrocks
ISBN: 9789048151172
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Containing 13 studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, this text demonstrates how much the field of Greek syntax...  Read More >>

Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

Author: J. Peregrin
ISBN: 9789048152803
Format: Paperback
$345.84

This implied that truth (and consequently semantic concepts to which truth appeared to be reducible) proved itself...  Read More >>

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation: Volume Two: Contributions

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation: Volume...

Author: Michal Krynicki ,  M. Mostowski
ISBN: 9789048145409
Format: Paperback
$427.68

For a long time it has been belived that elementary logic also called first-order logic was an ade­ quate theory...  Read More >>

Applied Logic: How, What and Why: Logical Approaches to Natural Language

Applied Logic: How, What and Why: Logical Approaches...

Author: László Pólos ,  M. Masuch
ISBN: 9789048145362
Format: Paperback
$467.28

Includes a selection of papers presented at the international conference 'Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in...  Read More >>

Aspects of Metaphor

Aspects of Metaphor

Author: Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN: 9789048143856
Format: Paperback
$580.80

Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked and also a poorly understood concept in philosophy and literary theory....  Read More >>

Incomplete Category Fronting: A Derivational Approach to Remnant Movement in German

Incomplete Category Fronting: A Derivational Approach...

Author: Gereon Müller
ISBN: 9789048149414
Format: Paperback
$388.10

It is argued that these properties can be fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky's minimalist program, and...  Read More >>

Yearbook of Morphology 1998

Yearbook of Morphology 1998

Author: G.E. Booij ,  Jaap van Marle
ISBN: 9789048153466
Format: Paperback
$551.76

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology 1998 focuses...  Read More >>

Semantical Essays: Possible Worlds and their Rivals

Semantical Essays: Possible Worlds and their Rivals...

Author: M.J. Cresswell
ISBN: 9789048182411
Format: Paperback
$459.36

Over a longer period than I sometimes care to contemplate I have worked on possible-worlds semantics. The earliest...  Read More >>

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