Semantics books

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Complex Predicates in Japanese: A Syntactic and Semantic Study of the Notion 'Word'

Complex Predicates in Japanese: A Syntactic and Semantic...

Author: Yo Matsumoto
ISBN: 9781575860657
Format: Hardback
$184.67

In this revised version of a 1992 Stanford University dissertation, the author presents a discussion of Japanese...  Read More >>

Ars Poetriae: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy

Ars Poetriae: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at...

Author: William Michael Purcell
ISBN: 9781570030598
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Purcell comments on both their collective and individual significance and on their value for the contemporary rhetor....  Read More >>

Discourse and Cognition

Discourse and Cognition

Author: Derek Edwards
ISBN: 9780803976962
Format: Hardback
$460.00

The central project of this volume is a reappraisal of some of the great debates in psychology in the light of recent...  Read More >>

Writing Worth Reading: The Critical Process

Writing Worth Reading: The Critical Process

Author: Nancy Huddleston Packer (Stanford University) ,  John Timpane (Poet Journalist and Academic)
ISBN: 9780312061012
Format: Paperback
$142.56

An unusually practical rhetoric and handbook, Writing Worth Reading helps students develop the critical thinking,...  Read More >>

Historical, Indo-European, and Lexicographical Studies: A Festschrift for Ladislav Zgusta on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Historical, Indo-European, and Lexicographical Studies:...

Author: Hans H. Hock
ISBN: 9783110128840
Format: Hardback
$423.06

This volume presents Indo-European and general historical studies, running the gamut from phonology to morphology...  Read More >>

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose...

Author: Francis-Noël Thomas ,  Mark Turner
ISBN: 9780691029177
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Considers style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. This book introduces a range...  Read More >>

Lexical Semantics: The Problem of Polysemy

Lexical Semantics: The Problem of Polysemy

Author: J Pustejovsky ,  Bran Boguraev
ISBN: 9786610807161
Format: Electronic book text
$280.24

Lexical ambiguity is one of the most intractable problems facing language processing studies and is at the core...  Read More >>

Discourse and Cognition

Discourse and Cognition

Author: Derek Edwards
ISBN: 9780803976979
Format: Paperback
$156.00

The central project of this volume is a reappraisal of some of the great debates in psychology in the light of recent...  Read More >>

Semiotik / Semiotics. 1. Teilband

Semiotik / Semiotics. 1. Teilband

Author: Roland Posner ,  Klaus Robering
ISBN: 9783110095845
Format: Hardback
$1440.95

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes...  Read More >>

Modality in Germanic Languages: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Modality in Germanic Languages: Historical and Comparative...

Author: Toril Swan ,  Olaf J. Westvik
ISBN: 9783110143348
Format: Hardback
$376.48

This volume contains papers from the 1993 International Symposium of Linguistics, held in Tromso. The papers represent...  Read More >>

Plato: Apology of Socrates

Plato: Apology of Socrates

Author: Michael C. Stokes ,  Michael C. Stokes
ISBN: 9780856683725
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The Apology is a masterpiece of rhetoric, illustrating Plato’s version of Socrates’ dialectical method. This edition...  Read More >>

Le Contexte En Semantique

Le Contexte En Semantique

Author: Morteza Mahmoudian ,  M Mahmoudian
ISBN: 9789068319156
Format: Paperback
$58.08

le present ouvrage examine le role que joue - dans la production et la perception de la signification linguistique...  Read More >>

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Author: Gilles Fauconnier ,  Eve Sweetser
ISBN: 9780226239248
Format: Paperback
$75.95

These 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier and demonstrate its utility...  Read More >>

Modeling Discourse Topic: Sequential Relations and Strategies in Expository Text

Modeling Discourse Topic: Sequential Relations and Strategies...

Author: Dionysis Goutsos
ISBN: 9781567502183
Format: Paperback
$90.00

This book is a study of techniques used to introduce, continue and change the discourse topic in expository writing....  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of the Elements

The Aesthetics of the Elements

Author: Hans-Erik Larsen
ISBN: 9788772885438
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Introduces a semiotic and phenomenological understanding of the four elements: earth, air, fire, water, as they...  Read More >>

Modeling Discourse Topic: Sequential Relations and Strategies in Expository Text

Modeling Discourse Topic: Sequential Relations and Strategies...

Author: Dionysis Goutsos
ISBN: 9781567502176
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book is a study of techniques used to introduce, continue and change the discourse topic in expository writing....  Read More >>

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Author: Gilles Fauconnier ,  Eve Sweetser
ISBN: 9780226239231
Format: Hardback
$210.95

These twelve original papers extend the Fauconnier mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving...  Read More >>

Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practice

Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practice...

Author: Peter L. Shillingsburg ,  D.C. Greetham
ISBN: 9780472096008
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A practical introduction to the aims, controversies, and procedures of scholarly editing  Read More >>

Vers L'invention De La Rhetorique: Une Perspective Ethno-logique Sur La Communication En Grece Ancienne

Vers L'invention De La Rhetorique: Une Perspective Ethno-logique...

Author: L. De Meyer ,  L De Meyer
ISBN: 9789068319422
Format: Paperback
$108.24

Towards the Invention of Rhetoric  Read More >>

World Tapestries Se Softcover 97c.

World Tapestries Se Softcover 97c.

Author: Globe
ISBN: 9780835918138
Format: Paperback
$76.43

This collection of unadapted classic and contemporary literature features the work of authors from various world...  Read More >>

On Writing Qualitative Research

On Writing Qualitative Research

Author: Margot Ely ,  Ruth Vinz
ISBN: 9781280175466
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

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Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory

Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture,...

Author: Michael Macovski
ISBN: 9781280525865
Format: Electronic book text
$74.84

This interdisciplinary volume of collected, unpublished essays demonstrates the importance of the influential Russian...  Read More >>

Editing Historical Documents

Editing Historical Documents

Author: Michael E Stevens, Ed ,  Steven B Burg
ISBN: 9781299762756
Format: Electronic book text
$95.01

This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction,...  Read More >>

Composition-Rhetoric

Composition-Rhetoric

Author: Robert Connors
ISBN: 9781306555876
Format: Undefined
$68.51

Connors provides a history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows...  Read More >>

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