Semantics books

The Writer's Loop, presents a refreshing, practical approach to writing, based on the habits of strong writers,...  Read More >>

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties...  Read More >>

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Die Festschrift zu Ehren von Hans Bickes vereint aktuelle Forschungen, die thematisch an die Schwerpunkte seines...  Read More >>

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean....  Read More >>

Translation and the Rediscovery of Rhetoric presents a diachronic case study of how translation is the means by...  Read More >>

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances our understanding of mind style: the experience of other minds, or worldviews,...  Read More >>

This book builds on cognitive stylistics, humour studies and psychological approaches to literature and film to...  Read More >>

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle...  Read More >>

A biography of two troublesome words. Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood...  Read More >>

Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly--I hate to be a cynic,...  Read More >>

A biography of two troublesome words. Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood...  Read More >>

Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly--I hate to be a cynic,...  Read More >>

A biography of two troublesome words. Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood...  Read More >>

From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche , a compelling introduction...  Read More >>

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This work is located in the field of contrastive media linguistics. Its goal is to examine the origin and nature...  Read More >>

This book is about the author as guided and supported by his caring mother and as conjoined with his caressing wife....  Read More >>

Analyzes the words """"infringe"""" and """"abridge"""" to boost an accurate understanding of the Second Amendment....  Read More >>

Tiere fressen, Menschen essen: Eine lexikalische Trennung zwischen Mensch und Tier ist im Deutschen heute selbstverstandlich....  Read More >>

If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing...  Read More >>

If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing...  Read More >>

The second Red Scare was a charade orchestrated by a tyrant with the express goal of undermining the New Deal, so...  Read More >>