Linguistics

Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons. It not only brings together the theory of reasons and natural langua...

Truth is one of the oldest and most central topics in philosophy. Formal theories explore the connections between truth and logic, and they address...

The Italian diaspora throughout the world navigate and negotiate various complex and multidirectional language dynamics. In order to account for th...

This book is a selection of the papers presented at the International Symposium on the History of the Hebrew Language on 1617 October 2012. The sel...

The papers collected in this volume discuss applied, pedagogical and ideological issues related to language use in selected countries in post-colon...

This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexica...

Translating Across Cultures is a collection of nine papers given at the 21st BAS/British and American Studies conference, held in Timioara in May 2...

The spread and globalisation of English has proved to be of interest in the study of diverse linguistic phenomena. From a methodological perspectiv...

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do wit...

Do we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They q...

This book is a philosophical guide on metaphor use. Previous research concerning metaphors has focused on either the theoretical-linguistic problem...

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinke...

`E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true'; `J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies'; `M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't' . . . Enter th...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...