Semantics books

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

"Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006 This book explores effective written communication...  Read More >>

Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-olds use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds...  Read More >>

Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-olds use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds...  Read More >>

Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game - and decision - theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations...  Read More >>

unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as...  Read More >>

unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as...  Read More >>

Variations in speech melody (intonation) can be used to express different meanings (e.g. question vs. statement,...  Read More >>

Top 50 Writing Skills for GED Success is a fast course for the GED Writing Test. Each skill is targeted in a single...  Read More >>

Using non-religious, non-political arguments, Guerrilla Apologetics for Life Issues teaches readers how to use targeted...  Read More >>

As we wrote the first edition of The McGraw-Hill Handbook, our students were in our minds, acting as our chief consultants....  Read More >>

Proposes a different model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in...  Read More >>

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Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout...  Read More >>

Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological...  Read More >>

This book for advanced composition courses focuses on the theories of Kenneth Burke (rhetoric as “equipment for...  Read More >>

This collection of essays by leading functional linguists presents the latest perspectives on language and discourse...  Read More >>

Examines how natural language rules and knowledge of the world work together to produce correct understandings of...  Read More >>

Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become...  Read More >>

'The balance struck in this volume between discussion of theory and reports on and suggestions for practice make...  Read More >>

Examining the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science, this volume reveals how they converge...  Read More >>

Helps you learn how to start writing crime; how to layer your novel with clues; how to find a market for your work;...  Read More >>

Analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction...  Read More >>

Examines how natural language rules and knowledge of the world work together to produce correct understandings of...  Read More >>