Semantics books

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Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. Selected Papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997.

Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. Selected Papers from...

Author: Hubert Cuyckens ,  Britta E Zawada
ISBN: 9786613174574
Format: Electronic book text
$950.40

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What Comes First in Dynamic Semantics: A Critical Review of Linguistic Theories of Presupposition and a Dynamic Alternative

What Comes First in Dynamic Semantics: A Critical Review...

Author: David Beaver (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781575861203
Format: Paperback
$42.95

This book contains the most comprehensive overview and critical discussion of Linguistic Presupposition published...  Read More >>

Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language

Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language

Author: Christof Migone ,  Brandon LaBelle
ISBN: 9780965557030
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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What Comes First in Dynamic Semantics: A Critical Review of Linguistic Theories of Presupposition and a Dynamic Alternative

What Comes First in Dynamic Semantics: A Critical Review...

Author: David Beaver (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781575861210
Format: Hardback
$171.47

This book contains the most comprehensive overview and critical discussion of Linguistic Presupposition published...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items

Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items

Author: Jack Hoeksema (University of Groningen) ,  Hotze Rullmann (University of Groningen)
ISBN: 9789027227614
Format: Hardback
$282.04

This title contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behaviour of negation. Many...  Read More >>

Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics

Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics...

Author: J. A. Abu-Haidar
ISBN: 9780700710157
Format: Hardback
$280.00

In this work, the author offers a semantic study of Hispano-Arabic strophic poetry of the 11th and 12th centuries...  Read More >>

What Did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts

What Did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount...

Author: Anna Wierzbicka (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9780195137330
Format: Paperback
$98.95

"In this interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

Author: Thomas O. Sloane (Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780195125955
Format: Hardback
$222.95

This one-volume work covers the West's oldest critical and academic discipline--the elements, structure, principles...  Read More >>

Die Grammatik der Metapher

Die Grammatik der Metapher

Author: Susanne Beckmann
ISBN: 9783484304383
Format: Hardback
$406.56

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues...  Read More >>

What Did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts

What Did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount...

Author: Anna Wierzbicka (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9780195137323
Format: Hardback
$456.00

In this interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts light on the words of Jesus by taking her semantic...  Read More >>

The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas

The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse...

Author: Jeffrey Dudiak
ISBN: 9780823220939
Format: Paperback
$63.95

"""Fine-grained studies focused on specific passages of Levinas's texts move gradually to a persuasive interpretation...  Read More >>

The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas

The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse...

Author: Jeffrey Dudiak
ISBN: 9780823220922
Format: Hardback
$176.95

"""Fine-grained studies focused on specific passages of Levinas's texts move gradually to a persuasive interpretation...  Read More >>

Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration And Prop 187

Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration And Prop 187...

Author: Kent Ono ,  John Sloop
ISBN: 9781566399166
Format: Hardback
$191.40

Demonstrates how difficult it is to maintain a position outside the mainstream, but also how important it is for...  Read More >>

Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands: Selected Speeches and Critical Analyses

Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands: Selected...

Author: Barbara Alice Mann ,  Ward Churchill
ISBN: 9780313312571
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This collection of essays examines, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics...

Author: Paul Cobley (London Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Paul Cobley
ISBN: 9780415243148
Format: Paperback
$94.91

This text combines the complex and closely-related fields of semiotics and linguistics. It has ten introductory...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics...

Author: Paul Cobley (London Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Paul Cobley
ISBN: 9780415243131
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This text combines the complex and closely-related fields of semiotics and linguistics. It has ten introductory...  Read More >>

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment

Author: Jef Verschueren ,  Jan-Ola Östman
ISBN: 9789027225733
Format: Loose-leaf
$250.99

This handbook deals with three main areas in pragmatics: the major traditions or approaches in pragmatics, the major...  Read More >>

Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression

Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great...

Author: Davis W. Houck (Assistant Professor of Communication, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA)
ISBN: 9781585441099
Format: Hardback
$105.47

In this text, Davis W. Houck uses the historical context of the Great Depression in America to explore the relationship...  Read More >>

Where Lexicon and Syntax meet

Where Lexicon and Syntax meet

Author: Doris Schönefeld
ISBN: 9783110170481
Format: Hardback
$328.61

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Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance

Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance...

Author: Brian A. Krostenko
ISBN: 9780226454443
Format: Paperback
$122.95

Charm, wit and style were essential, but dangerous ingredients in the social repertoire of the Roman elite. This...  Read More >>

Argument Realization

Argument Realization

Author: Miriam Butt ,  Tracy Holloway King
ISBN: 9781575862668
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Seven essays that survey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broad range of languages....  Read More >>

Das Verb >Legen: Eine Untersuchung Seiner Räumlich-Konkreten Bedeutungsvarianten

Das Verb >Legen: Eine Untersuchung Seiner Räumlich-Konkreten...

Author: Heidrun Schindler
ISBN: 9783484304345
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Against the background of prototype theory the volume examines the meaning varieties of the German verb legen in...  Read More >>

Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis

Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis

Author: Margaret Wetherell ,  Stephanie J. A. Taylor
ISBN: 9780761971580
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader

Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader

Author: Margaret Wetherell ,  Stephanie J. A. Taylor
ISBN: 9780761971559
Format: Hardback
$327.00

A collection of key classic articles and papers in the field of discourse analysis. It intends to introduce students...  Read More >>

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