Semantics books

"A businessperson's guide to the language of business. The text draws from the writing and speeches of some of the...  Read More >>

This volume presents a systematic, reasonably exhaustive, and critical view of the existing scientific literature...  Read More >>

This text takes an in-depth look at the speech act of refusals as performed in English by native speakers of Japanese....  Read More >>

All good screenplays are unique, but all bad screenplays are the same. Flinn's book will teach the reader how to...  Read More >>

This study of Kenneth Burke's writings traces the critic's commitment and contribution to philosophy prior to 1945....  Read More >>

The author reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical...  Read More >>

This study of Kenneth Burke's writings traces the critic's commitment and contribution to philosophy prior to 1945....  Read More >>

This work examines the intersection between, and proposes pedagogical uses of, psychoanalytic technique for writing...  Read More >>

The author reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical...  Read More >>

Examines the special nature and power of speech in Puritan New England, where the twin desires to promote godly...  Read More >>

This volume examines the behavior of Italian dialects to show that clitics exhibit different properties.  Read More >>

This volume examines the behavior of Italian dialects to show that clitics exhibit different properties.  Read More >>

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This text develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them....  Read More >>

This book draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence to explore how readers construct...  Read More >>

Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is...  Read More >>

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Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher...  Read More >>

Ranging from Dilbert to Field of Dreams, from Sports Illustrated to The X-Files, Aden takes a look at how and why...  Read More >>

"Over the years, the phrase """"southern oratory"""" has become laden with myth; its mere invocation conjures up...  Read More >>

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Die Frage nach den Ursachen für das Phänomen der Phraseologisierung, also der Verschmelzung freier Wortgruppen zu...  Read More >>

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

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Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism...  Read More >>