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The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language

The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language...

Author: Paul Ricoeur ,  R. Czerny
ISBN: 9780415312806
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language

Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language...

Author: Brigitte Nerlich ,  Zazie Todd
ISBN: 9783110176162
Format: Hardback
$417.12

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on,...  Read More >>

Mind and Its Stories, The: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction.

Mind and Its Stories, The: Narrative Universals and...

Author: Assistant Patrick Colm Hogan
ISBN: 9781280431043
Format: Electronic book text
$345.31

There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature which are bound up with universals in emotion....  Read More >>

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

Author: Hubert Cuyckens ,  René Dirven
ISBN: 9783110177091
Format: Hardback
$522.72

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Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks

Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks

Author: Christopher Barnard
ISBN: 9780415297974
Format: Hardback
$294.00

There are frequent protests that a biased, nationalistic history is taught in Japanese schools. This study analyses...  Read More >>

Bedeutungswandel: Eine Einführung

Bedeutungswandel: Eine Einführung

Author: Rudi Keller ,  Ilja Kirschbaum
ISBN: 9783110176674
Format: Paperback
$39.38

Das vorliegende Studienbuch stellt die Frage, in welcher Weise sich Bedeutungen von Adjektiven in den letzten 200...  Read More >>

Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom v.2; Genres of Writing

Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom v.2; Genres...

Author: Ann Wennerstrom
ISBN: 9780472089192
Format: Paperback
$75.24

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Concepts of Meaning: Framing an Integrated Theory of Linguistic Behavior

Concepts of Meaning: Framing an Integrated Theory of...

Author: G. Preyer ,  G. Peter
ISBN: 9781402013294
Format: Hardback
$364.32

This work discusses new research in semantics, theory of truth, philosophy of language and theory of communication...  Read More >>

Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction

Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction

Author: Michael Carter ,  David Blakesley
ISBN: 9780809325207
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation

Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation...

Author: Laura Gray-Rosendale ,  Gil Harootunian
ISBN: 9780791458013
Format: Hardback
$165.00

Contends that it's important to better understand the ways in which feminist rhetorics both empower and constrain...  Read More >>

Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming...

Author: Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780195145298
Format: Paperback
$123.95

Scott Soames uses a new conception of how the meaning of a sentence relates to the information asserted and conveyed...  Read More >>

A Manual of Guidelines, Quotations, and Versatile Phrases for Basic Oral Communication

A Manual of Guidelines, Quotations, and Versatile Phrases...

Author: Xin-An Lu and Hong Wang
ISBN: 9780595296361
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Rather like the nerves in human body, communication forms the sinew and tendon of any social body. The quality of...  Read More >>

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Author: Rene Dirven ,  Ralf Poerings
ISBN: 9783110173741
Format: Paperback
$145.20

This title elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's brilliant ideas, his insight that the two cognitive strategies of...  Read More >>

Structuralism and Semiotics

Structuralism and Semiotics

Author: Terence Hawkes (Emeritus Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415321532
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This classic guide discusses the nature and development of structuralism and semiotics, calling for a new critical...  Read More >>

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Author: Klaus-Uwe Panther (University of Hamburg) ,  Linda L. Thornburg (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9789027253552
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This comprehensive examination of metonymy and pragmatic inferencing covers such topics as the place of metonymy...  Read More >>

From NP to DP: Volume 2: The expression of possession in noun phrases

From NP to DP: Volume 2: The expression of possession...

Author: Martine Coene (University of Antwerp) ,  Yves D’hulst (University of Leiden)
ISBN: 9789027227775
Format: Hardback
$514.80

This title focuses on issues such as: alienable and inalienable possession; internal and external syntax of possessors;...  Read More >>

Structuralism and Semiotics

Structuralism and Semiotics

Author: Terence Hawkes (Emeritus Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415321525
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This classic guide discusses the nature and development of structuralism and semiotics, calling for a new critical...  Read More >>

From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases

From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of...

Author: Martine Coene (University of Antwerp) ,  Yves D’hulst (University of Leiden)
ISBN: 9789027227768
Format: Hardback
$456.72

Topics covered in this volume include: determiner phrases in Old and Modern French; modification in the Balkan nominal...  Read More >>

Song of This Place

Song of This Place

Author: Joy Coghill
ISBN: 9780887546822
Format: Undefined
$42.11

<p> Song of This Place creates both a portrait of the artist Emily Carr and an investigation into the process of...  Read More >>

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol. 2 (1920)

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol. 2 (1920)

Author: Sir E. A. Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9780766176492
Format: Paperback
$137.15

Volume 2 of 2. These volumes are a comprehensive dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics translated into English for...  Read More >>

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol. 1 (1920)

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol. 1 (1920)

Author: Sir E. A. Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9780766176485
Format: Paperback
$137.15

Volume 1 of 2. These volumes are a comprehensive dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics translated into English for...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo

Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo

Author: Jean Dietz Moss ,  William A. Wallace
ISBN: 9780813213316
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Galileo was an ardent controversialist on behalf of his astronomical theories, yet many are unacquainted with the...  Read More >>

Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Y Filología Románica. Volume II: Sección 3: Sintaxis, Semántica Y Pragmática. Part 2

Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística...

Author: Fernando Sánchez Miret
ISBN: 9783484503960
Format: Hardback
$591.36

No detailed description available for ""ACTAS SALAMANCA 2001, VOL. II/2"".  Read More >>

Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Y Filología Románica. Volume II: Sección 3: Sintaxis, Semántica Y Pragmática. Part 1

Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística...

Author: Fernando Sánchez Miret
ISBN: 9783484503953
Format: Hardback
$591.36

No detailed description available for ""ACTAS SALAMANCA 2001, VOL. II/1"".  Read More >>

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