Using Language

Herbert H. Clark
Paperback - $67.00

In this, his major work to date, Herbert Clark sets out the thesis that language use is really a form of joint action. A joint action is one thing that is carried out by an ensemble of people acting in coordination with each other.

Historical Discourse : The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation

Caroline Coffin
Paperback - $68.30

Analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. This book demonstrates through a study of historical texts, that writing...

Existence : Semantics and Syntax

Ileana Comorovski
Paperback - $114.20

This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness....

The Atlas of Languages : The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World

Bernard Comrie
Hardcover - $43.40

The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture. Today

The World's Major Languages

Bernard Comrie
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From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world's forty major languages. Written by acknowledged specialists in the field, the volume...

The World's Major Languages

Bernard Comrie
Hardcover - $285.40

This volume features over fifty of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is...

Foundations of Logico-Linguistics : A Unified Theory of Information, Language and Logic

William S. Cooper
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Semantic Leaps

Seana Coulson
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Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, Coulson identifies two related sets of processes: frame-shifting...

Semantic Leaps : Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction

Seana Coulson
Hardcover - $89.40

Language in the World : A Philosophical Enquiry

M. J. Cresswell
Hardcover - $121.60

What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining, for each sentence, which possible worlds would make the sentence true, and which would make it false....