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Language and Linguistics in Context : Readings and Applications for Teachers
Luria
Paperback - $110.95
This textbook, designed for courses in first-and-second language education, provides a "big picture" view of basic linguistics through readings organized in 3 thematic units-"What is Language and How is it Acquired?"; "How Does Language Change?"; and ...
Meaning and Use
Avishai Margalit
Paperback - $60.95
This book contains a collection of papers presented at the Second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter and is dedicated to the late Yehoshua Bar-Hillel. The topic of the symposium was Meaning and Use. For Bar-Hillel the question "meaning or use?" was of ...
Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English
Arthur Mettinger
Hardcover - $383.95
Antonymy is recognized as an important type of meaning relation in natural language, yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of forty-three contemporary English-language novels, Mettinger isolat ...
Discourse
Sara Mills
Hardcover - $184.95
This volume provides a broad analysis of the term "discourse" and a thorough examination of the many theoretical assumptions surrounding it. In the revised edition of this invaluable guidebook, Sara Mills:
*examines the historical definitions and ...
Parts and Wholes in Semantics
Friederike Moltmann
Hardcover - $184.95
This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole" in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann presents a range of new empirical generalizations with data from ...
The German Perfect : Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials
Renate Musan
Paperback - $133.95
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 syst ...
Language Matters : A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language
Donna Jo Napoli
Paperback - $41.95
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every ...
Ontological Semantics
Sergei Nirenburg
Hardcover - $95.95
In "Ontological Semantics, Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin introduce a comprehensive approach to the treatment of text meaning by computer. Arguing that being able to use meaning is crucial to the success of natural language processing (NLP) appli ...
The Alternative Mathematical Model of Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics
Vilem Novak
Hardcover - $328.95
In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, Nov?k's highly original monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets. This new approach is firmly grounded in semantics and pragmatics, and accounts for the vagueness inh ...
Signs & Symbols : What They Mean & How We Use Them
Mark OConnell
Paperback - $26.95
Contains a visual directory of more than 1000 icons, graphic motifs, ideograms and symbols and 150 stunning colour photographs and fine art paintings.