Semantics books

Peter Wilson draws on a variety of examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and non-literary to...  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as...  Read More >>

This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and...  Read More >>

This volume presents recent and unpublished research by Chinese scholars from China and the US on ways in which...  Read More >>

This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and...  Read More >>

This volume presents recent and unpublished research by Chinese scholars from China and the US on ways in which...  Read More >>

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Twenty-six writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays. The contributors...  Read More >>

Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old...  Read More >>

This book makes a vital contribution to substantive and methodological debates in linguistic theory, and should...  Read More >>

Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers...  Read More >>

Arguing that in the first three years after birth, infants undergo a period of brain reorganization that is the...  Read More >>

This work originates from the need to develop an integrated dynamic model of negation in discourse that is adequate...  Read More >>

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A collection of essays investigating Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring. The contributors explore the book's...  Read More >>

This work originates from the need to develop an integrated dynamic model of negation in discourse that is adequate...  Read More >>

An examination of the history of the narrowness of goals, social structures, and methodologies associated with the...  Read More >>

Examines the 1994 floor debate on health care reform employing rhetorical and modified social science methods.  Read More >>

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of...  Read More >>

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"No detailed description available for ""Ars Rhetorica""."  Read More >>

Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers...  Read More >>

A cross linguistic investigation into the structure and interpretation of imperatives and related constructions....  Read More >>

This book opens by accounting for the felicity conditions on clausal disjunctions in terms of general principles...  Read More >>

"A collection of essays investigating Rachel Carson's 1962 book, ""Silent Spring"". The contributors explore the...  Read More >>