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Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
Uli Sauerland
Hardcover - $161.95
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional s ...
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Deborah Schiffrin
Paperback - $119.95
The articles collected in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis comprise a foundational paradigm for discourse that is broad enough to support a variety of approaches, methods, and even definitions regarding discourse.The volume begins with an overview ...
Language Bananas and Bonobos
Neil Smith
Paperback - $65.95
How can people who are both blind and deaf communicate? What makes Woody Allen funny? Is it normal to hear colors and see sounds? If questions like these have puzzled you, this book of essays on the nature of language will quench your curiosity.Langu ...
Action and Reaction : The Life and Adventures of a Couple
Jean Starobinski
Hardcover - $56.95
A study of the word pair "action and reaction" embracing philosophy, semantics, literature, and science.
Words and Phrases
Michael Stubbs
Paperback - $118.95
This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases. It places lexis and phraseology at the center of semantics and pragmatics. The author starts from traditional ...
Historical Corpus Stylistics : Media, Technology and Change
Patrick Studer
Hardcover - $284.95
Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. The book analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news prod ...