Semantics books

A definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students...  Read More >>

This text explores some of the ways of thinking about the traditional arts and human sciences, providing historical...  Read More >>

Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-Natives use talk about hunting, fishing, and processing to construct...  Read More >>

The garden as a metaphor for life. Includes genuine Cosmos seed pack.  Read More >>

Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-Natives use talk about hunting, fishing, and processing to construct...  Read More >>

This work focuses on current theoretical research concerning the uses of personality type in understanding human...  Read More >>

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic...  Read More >>

Whether you want to become a full time storyteller, expand your storytelling repertoire, or simply hire a storyteller,...  Read More >>

"""Image and Concept"" is Freidenberg's study of the origins of Greek tragedy. Freidenberg's work develops the notion...  Read More >>

The purpose of this book is to enable students to fully comprehend what is involved in the creation of a text; to...  Read More >>

This volume contains eight essays that are at the intersection of two areas within linguistics: conversational analysis,...  Read More >>

This volume contains eight essays that are at the intersection of two important areas within linguistics: conversational...  Read More >>

The topic refers on the one hand to the central problem of 'Dialogue Analysis' which is to discover a new, communicatively...  Read More >>

Whether in informal, everyday conversations or professional dialogues, people do many things while they are speaking...  Read More >>

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In this study Friedrich Waismann gives a presentation of insights into philosophical problems which can be achieved...  Read More >>

"The text draws upon social constructionist, dialogic, narrative and solution-focused approaches to argue that ""detachment""...  Read More >>

This work explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang,...  Read More >>

This introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore Scottish literature including: varieties of Scots...  Read More >>

For researchers and grad students in Argumentation Theory. Author's unique approach, drawing on theory from other...  Read More >>

A magnum opus in the now vast domain of discourse studies, whose history, methods, and subdomains mobody knows as...  Read More >>

Linguistic data on color names from speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages.  Read More >>

For researchers and grad students in Argumentation Theory. Author's unique approach, drawing on theory from other...  Read More >>

This study combines ethnographic, quantitative and qualitative discourse methodologies to provide an analysis of...  Read More >>

This compilation reflects the first interdisciplinary approach to Jewish humour. Among its topics are: humour as...  Read More >>