Semantics books

This work contributes to the discussion on the relationship between space and time in language and cognition and...  Read More >>

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A curriculum written to teach students the skills they need to collect data, analyse data, search for facts, and...  Read More >>

The characterization of the article reveals six functional stages. Perspectivization devices in English-language...  Read More >>

The monograph presents a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification. By exploring the...  Read More >>

This book includes twelve articles on the Finnic and Baltic languages spanning the topics of morphosyntax, typology...  Read More >>

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative...  Read More >>

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research...  Read More >>

This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical...  Read More >>

Try This explores interdisciplinary research methods employed in research in writing studies but rarely drawn upon...  Read More >>

This second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics has been updated and revised throughout,...  Read More >>

Bodies of Knowledge challenges homogenizing (mis)understandings of knowledge construction and provides a complex...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem tackles the question of literary relationship between the New Testament synoptic...  Read More >>

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Examining spaces where leisure activities are offered on sites of industrial waste, this book argues that such heterotopic...  Read More >>

This book explores the usage patterns and functions of medially-placed linking adverbials in written academic English....  Read More >>

A new analysis of how speakers and writers use referring expressions in discourse, and how hearers and readers interpret...  Read More >>

A collection of original studies that explore how grammatical rules interact with other language-related areas,...  Read More >>

A collection of new case studies by world-renowned and emerging scholars in the field, which explores English syntactic...  Read More >>

Presents new research from leading scholars employing the relevance-theoretic (RT) pragmatics framework, demonstrating...  Read More >>

Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics....  Read More >>

This volume highlights the dynamic nature of the field of the linguistics of contemporary English. The contributions...  Read More >>

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Medieval German narratives often link the problems associated with sovereignty and social order to the demonstration...  Read More >>

Intensification in English and Spanish Communication provides a broad account of how speakers and writers escalate...  Read More >>