Semantics books

Topics covered in this wide-ranging work include the analysis of belief reports and talk about fiction, world shifting,...  Read More >>

A retrospective lexico-semantic study of symbiotic mainstream Jerusalem Arabic, spoken by mixed and contiguous communities,...  Read More >>

Based on a systematic analysis of a very large corpus, this book introduces a conceptual and terminological framework...  Read More >>

John Wood sees it with numbing regularity: the query letter that comes close to making a sale - until the writer...  Read More >>

Drawing inspiration from the works of those such as Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault and Jacques Lacan, the contributors...  Read More >>

This second edition provides an overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the new millennium, providing...  Read More >>

This is a collection of essays on definitions from Plato and Aristotle to the contemporary. They examine the subject...  Read More >>

This collection of writings offers a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion...  Read More >>

"Form the author of ""The Flowers of the Field"" this inspirational guide to writing a potential bestseller covers...  Read More >>

This work is the author's seminal text in cultural semiotics, laying out the theoretical structure on which all...  Read More >>

An exploration of the reasons for and meanings of poetry analyzes poems by Wordsworth, Plath, Neruda, and others...  Read More >>

This introductory textbook assumes no prior knowledge and covers a wide range of core topics in formal semantics....  Read More >>

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

This unique new thematic composition reader brings together six key texts from the past and multiple contemporary...  Read More >>

"This book provides an exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic...  Read More >>

Literacies provides students with engaging selections on complex issues that resist easy answers.  Read More >>

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This book provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for...  Read More >>

Beginning with an introduction to the historical background and emerging problems of pragmatics, this manual explores...  Read More >>

"This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional...  Read More >>

"This incredibly witty and insightful book is an indispensable guide for teachers looking for that voice of experience...  Read More >>

The Alphabet of the Trees is a superb collection of essays about teaching all aspects and forms of nature writing,...  Read More >>

This is a compendium of symbols and their meanings in individual human psychology and civilization. Tracing symbols...  Read More >>

Crossing the boundaries between science and the humanities, the author explores the volumes of discourse involved...  Read More >>

Introduces methods and ideas for writing fiction and non-fiction.  Read More >>