Semantics books

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On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour

On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model...

Author: Paul Simpson (Queen's University Belfast)
ISBN: 9789027233332
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This work advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks...  Read More >>

From Naming to Saying: The Unity of the Proposition

From Naming to Saying: The Unity of the Proposition...

Author: Martha I. Gibson
ISBN: 9780631226567
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Answers questions about how language represents the world. This work examines three key theories: Frege's doctrine...  Read More >>

Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect

Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical...

Author: Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
ISBN: 9781405106689
Format: Paperback
$106.95

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb...  Read More >>

From Naming to Saying: The Unity of the Proposition

From Naming to Saying: The Unity of the Proposition...

Author: Martha I. Gibson
ISBN: 9780631226550
Format: Hardback
$324.59

Presents compelling and sophisticated answers to questions about how language represents the world. This book examines...  Read More >>

Indefinites and the Type of Sets

Indefinites and the Type of Sets

Author: Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9781405116305
Format: Hardback
$239.95

Explores a theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. This book provides an introduction...  Read More >>

Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect

Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical...

Author: Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
ISBN: 9781405106672
Format: Hardback
$269.95

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb...  Read More >>

Strategisches Controlling mit System Dynamics

Strategisches Controlling mit System Dynamics

Author: Frank Schöneborn ,  Frank Schaneborn
ISBN: 9783790801057
Format: Paperback
$314.16

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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese: System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese: System...

Author: Daniel Hole
ISBN: 9780415315968
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Supply Chain Management erfolgreich umsetzen: Grundlagen, Realisierung und Fallstudien

Supply Chain Management erfolgreich umsetzen: Grundlagen,...

Author: Daniel Corsten ,  Christoph Gabriel
ISBN: 9783540005865
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Die Realisierung ist jedoch mit vielfältigen Barrieren verbunden: Neben der Gestaltung unternehmensübergreifender...  Read More >>

Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence

Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions...

Author: Shonna L. Trinch (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9789027218551
Format: Hardback
$250.99

IMPACT publishes monographs, collective volumes, and text books on topics in sociolinguistics.  Read More >>

Spaces, Domains, and Meaning: Essays in Cognitive Semiotics

Spaces, Domains, and Meaning: Essays in Cognitive Semiotics...

Author: Per Aage Brandt (Director, Centre of Semiotic Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780820470061
Format: Paperback
$147.71

The essays in this book and develop a semiotic elaboration of the theory of mental spaces, a grounding hypothesis...  Read More >>

Creative Writing and the New Humanities

Creative Writing and the New Humanities

Author: Lecturer in English Paul Dawson
ISBN: 9781280096327
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

This book examines the institutional history and disciplinary future of creative writing in the contemporary academy,...  Read More >>

The Systematic Theory of Argumentation, A: Pragma-Dialectical Approach

The Systematic Theory of Argumentation, A: Pragma-Dialectical...

Author: Frans H Eemeren (University of Amsterdam) ,  Rob Grootendorst (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781280437274
Format: Undefined
$514.80

In this book two of the leading figures in argumentation theory present a view of argumentation as a means of resolving...  Read More >>

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition

Author: Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition Janice M Lauer
ISBN: 9781281079602
Format: Electronic book text
$165.53

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories...  Read More >>

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir

Author: Professor Emily Grosholz ,  Department of Philosophy Emily R Grosholz (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781280753749
Format: Electronic book text
$105.94

The legacy of Simone de Beauvoir has yet to be properly assessed and explored. The 50th anniversary of the publication...  Read More >>

When Congress Makes a Joke

When Congress Makes a Joke

Author: Dean L Yarwood
ISBN: 9781283617222
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

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Writing Clearly

Writing Clearly

Author: Dawn Sova (MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY)
ISBN: 9781283916486
Format: Electronic book text
$47.39

Improve your writing skills at your own pace How do you target a specific audience in writing? What makes up a strong...  Read More >>

Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy: Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs

Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy:...

Author: Mark Waldo
ISBN: 9781306787949
Format: Electronic book text
$184.80

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Bilingual Games

Bilingual Games

Author: Doris Sommer
ISBN: 9781403960115
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Sommer asserts that many people normally live in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship...  Read More >>

Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied...

Author: J.Marshall Unger
ISBN: 9780824826567
Format: Hardback
$153.12

This work exposes the historical, scientific, cultural and practical flaws accompanying the widespread belief that...  Read More >>

Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Cognition

Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Cognition

Author: Kieran O'Halloran
ISBN: 9780748618286
Format: Paperback
$59.00

An interdisciplinary study of issues of language manipulation, this book explores the interpretation stage of critical...  Read More >>

Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: A Study of Sematology

Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: A Study of Sematology...

Author: Jürgen Trabant ,  Sean Ward
ISBN: 9780415309875
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Jurgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's ""sematology"" as both a spirited...  Read More >>

Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value

Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives...

Author: J.R. Martin (University of Sydney) ,  Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9789027226983
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This volume is concerned with the discourse of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse...  Read More >>

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression...

Author: Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)
ISBN: 9789027230775
Format: Hardback
$261.34

This volume aims at describing the meaning, meaning extensions and patterns of polysemy displayed by Ancient Greek...  Read More >>

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