Semantics books

This book is concerned with an attempt to use language to capture/convey a sense of the delicate interplay of aliveness...  Read More >>

This work aims to provide an understanding of Grimke's purposeful engagement of the rhetoric of confrontation, her...  Read More >>

Detailed description of the structure of Turvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia.  Read More >>

Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure debated the nature, goals, and value of rhetoric....  Read More >>

Wayne A. Rebhorn enables modern-day readers to follow Renaissance thinkers as they struggle with these and other...  Read More >>

A contribution to our understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on...  Read More >>

Exploring the relevance of principles of optimization to the interface between syntax and semantics.  Read More >>

A contribution to our understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on...  Read More >>

This work brings together conversation analysis and reader-response theories in order to understand how readers...  Read More >>

Covers selected Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Transport Research.  Read More >>

Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic...  Read More >>

McComiskey argues for teaching writing as situated in discourse itself, in the constant flow of texts produced within...  Read More >>

Semantics is an introduction to formal semantics, the study of linguistic meaning, for students studying language...  Read More >>

A study which explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings...  Read More >>

This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing ccommunication between...  Read More >>

"There are great differences between the oral use of figurative language and its written use. Nevertheless, the...  Read More >>

"A reference to terms and models used in semiotics. Based on the theory evolved by the Paris School of Semiotics,...  Read More >>

This work goes back to the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time....  Read More >>

Andrew M. Riggsby thoroughly investigates the types of cases heard by the public courts to offer a provocative new...  Read More >>

Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, this work explores the complex linkage between...  Read More >>

This volume brings together fifteen original research articles on the representation and interpretation of indefinite...  Read More >>

Computational semantics is concerned with computing the meanings of linguistic objects such as sentences, text fragments,...  Read More >>

A study of emancipatory composition. The author argues that composition would do well to articulate it in theory...  Read More >>

With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical...  Read More >>

This book is about beliefs, language, communication and cognition. It deals with the fundamental issue of the interpretation...  Read More >>