Semantics books

Are natural languages genuinely compositional? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination...  Read More >>

Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for many years, this book offers a novel approach...  Read More >>

PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate...  Read More >>

How to Read a Word is an entertaining read that shows you how you might delve into the origin and evolution of words....  Read More >>

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Harris, Miles and Paine ask: What happens when the texts that students write become the focus of a writing course?...  Read More >>

This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's...  Read More >>

Uses Bernstein and Hasan's concepts of coding orientations and semantic styles to elucidate differences in language...  Read More >>

Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western...  Read More >>

A collection of multilingual case studies drawn from the international media, which uses various methodologies to...  Read More >>

Proposes a fresh model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be...  Read More >>

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This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive...  Read More >>

Examines the relationship between political action and political oratory, with special attention to how these were...  Read More >>

A stylistic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic analysis of the language of sci-fi and fantasy. It challenges two widely...  Read More >>

It will appeal to clinicians, nurses, health services researchers, health economists, those responsible for audit...  Read More >>

Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in...  Read More >>

This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive...  Read More >>

Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in...  Read More >>

This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell...  Read More >>

"Diversity, despite what we say, disturbs us. In the U.S., we debate linguistic rights, the need for an official...  Read More >>

"The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth...  Read More >>

A collection of 11 of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax,...  Read More >>

In this passionate defense of the use of narrative work for progressive purposes, Goodall shows how to use stories...  Read More >>