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Meaning in the Media : Discourse, Controversy and Debate
Alan Durant
Hardcover - $129.10
Addresses the issue of what we should make of competing claims about meaning when debated in highly charged circumstances.
Word Sense Disambiguation : Algorithms and Applications
Philip Edmonds
Paperback - $70.70
This is the first book to cover the entire topic of word sense disambiguation (WSD) including: all the major algorithms, techniques, performance measures, results, philosophical issues, and applications. Leading researchers in the field have contributed...
Situations and Individuals
Paul D. Elbourne
Hardcover - $101.80
In "Situations and Individuals," Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals--pronouns, proper names, and definite descriptions--have a common syntax and semantics, roughly that of definite...
Situations and Individuals
Paul D. Elbourne
Paperback - $43.40
In "Situations and Individuals," Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals--pronouns, proper names, and definite descriptions--have a common syntax and semantics, roughly that of definite...
Truth and Meaning : Essays in Semantics
Gareth Evans
Paperback - $64.50
Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since. The contributors include leading figures...
Studies in Language Variation : Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, Pragmatics, Social Situations, Ethnographic Approaches
Ralph W. Fasold
Paperback - $42.20
Mental Spaces : Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language
Gilles Fauconnier
Paperback - $53.40
This book is a major advance in the study of reference, descriptions, and coreference-topics that have long been at the center of research in linguistics and the philosophy of language.
Semantic Battles
Ekkehard Felder
Hardcover - $209.70
Dominance and power are also exercised through semantics. When viewing language as a means for asserting certain views on controversial topics in intellectual domains (e.g. medicine, economics, architecture, natural science, history, law, etc.), quasi...
The German Perfect : Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials
Maryann P. Feldman
Hardcover - $255.70
This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense system...