Semantics books

This volume explains and illustrates key methodologies in how to approach the study of modality, including storyboards,...  Read More >>

"This volume explores the roles, experiences, and insights of language and communication scholars working in health...  Read More >>

This lively anthropological memoir captures a pivotal moment in the history of Ireland and the revitalization of...  Read More >>

Dans le présent livre ayant pour titre Pragmatique, Actes de langage indirects - Transmission du message, l'enfant...  Read More >>

By focusing on a range of international learners studying English as a target language, this volume expands current...  Read More >>

This work provides a new, integrated approach to analysing the meaning and use of complex nouns in the Hebrew Bible,...  Read More >>

The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture...  Read More >>

This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s...  Read More >>

The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It...  Read More >>

This book proposes a linguistic-competence-based account of referential intuitions. Using a series of novel experiments...  Read More >>

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Applies the tenets of posthumanism, compassionate conservation, and entangled empathy to wildlife stories to construct...  Read More >>

"Witherington and Myers provide a much-needed introduction to the ancient art of persuasion and its use within the...  Read More >>

Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative collection of new and published...  Read More >>

Language acquisition is the process of acquiring the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, and to produce...  Read More >>

Applies the tenets of posthumanism, compassionate conservation, and entangled empathy to wildlife stories to construct...  Read More >>

This monograph examines the distributional patterns of five adjectival near-synonyms from the domain of SMELL in...  Read More >>

This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who...  Read More >>

"""Presents translated primary sources, with scholarly commentary, on rhetorical instruction and rhetorical practices...  Read More >>

Focusing on overt and covert violence and bringing attention to the many ways violence inflects and infects the...  Read More >>

Semantics is a sub-discipline of linguistics which focuses on deconstructing words, signals and sentence structure...  Read More >>

The area of study which makes use of formal tools from logic and theoretical computer to study of grammatical meaning...  Read More >>

Text comprehension processes are the focus of this empirically based study. How do they take place, and which factors...  Read More >>

This book investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political thinking, theory,...  Read More >>

The book brings together phenomena related to the interaction of case and meaning in a wide range of languages,...  Read More >>