Semantics books

Here, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of """"is""""...  Read More >>

A study of the folk-taxonomy for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo-European language families....  Read More >>

Each term's rhetoric is illustrated in an analysis of texts in popular culture: William Gibson's novels, the usenet...  Read More >>

Fear of Writing is for writers (including closet writers!) who experience a familiar thud in the pit of the stomach...  Read More >>

With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies,...  Read More >>

The Bedford Anthology of World Literature doesn't just surround an unsurpassed collection of western and world...  Read More >>

Making a case for comics as multi-modal texts, this title explores the semiotics of comics, from the interaction...  Read More >>

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This work investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in colloquial Japanese...  Read More >>

"In this volume, the editors single out two concepts as central to the concern of discourse analysis along these...  Read More >>

"Pragmatics can be briefly defined as ""the cognitive, social, and cultural study of language and communication""....  Read More >>

This collection of 83 rhetorically arranged essays offers strong guidance to student writers. Part I presents clear,...  Read More >>

Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that create powerful moments...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Writing for the spoken word is a special discipline; it requires that speechwriters' products be written primarily,...  Read More >>

Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? This book takes a linguistic...  Read More >>

This volume examines expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist theories within composition theory: and...  Read More >>

Written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing, this...  Read More >>

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"This text argues that we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos...  Read More >>

Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? This book takes a linguistic...  Read More >>

This study concerns a longitudinal study in which the development of the L2 pragmatic competence of a group of 32...  Read More >>

This title aims to present a number of new contributions towards a debate on Conversation Analysis, as developed...  Read More >>

Literary theory has seen a rethinking of narratology, the literary study of narrative structures. In part this is...  Read More >>