Semantics books

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars....  Read More >>

Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically...  Read More >>

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars....  Read More >>

A beautifully designed and illustrated guide to the art of rhetoric, the only pocket guide to the subject.  Read More >>

Frustration. Confusion. Anxiety. Despair. These are the symptoms of sensory overload, a state of mind in which we...  Read More >>

Frustration. Confusion. Anxiety. Despair. These are the symptoms of sensory overload, a state of mind in which we...  Read More >>

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health...  Read More >>

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This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence...  Read More >>

Resulting from a syntactic process, adjectivity refers to the adjectival use of a word. It partly comprises adjectivation,...  Read More >>

"The notion of �, of ""persuasion"" or ""credulousness,"" is only applicable to humans, as the sole life form capable...  Read More >>

"""Evidence"" is a traditional rhetorical category that has gained in importance in recent years because of new...  Read More >>

"Martin Luther was not just a great reformer and bible translator, but also an extremely pugnacious and, in his...  Read More >>

As the nation becomes increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian...  Read More >>

Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range...  Read More >>

This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised...  Read More >>

Exploring how critical thinking is expressed in writing, this book investigates the specific linguistic elements...  Read More >>

This book analyses diverse public discourses to investigate how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British...  Read More >>

Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns...  Read More >>

Nicht selten werden Stimmen laut, dass in der heutigen Zeit die Religion keine grosse Rolle mehr spielt und dadurch...  Read More >>

This book explores the idea that all of logic can be reduced to two very simple rules that are sensitive to logical...  Read More >>

The work offers an analysis of the imperative, the periphrastic imperative, and the directive infinitive in Polish,...  Read More >>

This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of...  Read More >>