Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Reference is a major theme in the study of language and language use. Providing a relevance-theoretic account of reference resolution, this book de...

Meaning Is Everywhere sketches a theory of meaning from the ground upwith potentially profound consequences. In a sweeping narrative that arcs from...

Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Sc...

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic d...

Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and ph...

This volume contains Carnap's Studies in Semantics, a series of three interlocking books: Introduction to Semantics (1942), Formalization of Logic ...

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a pa...

This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the general theoretical and architectural issues that nom...

This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn ini...

This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double bind...

Senza richiedere prerequisiti il testo si propone di fornire una dimostrazione dei fondamentali teoremi della logica matematica (compattezza, compl...

Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication ...

This volume examines crucial moments in the rhetoric of the Cold War, beginning with an exploration of American neutrality and the debate over ente...

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. D...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examinati...

Due miliardi e mezzo di utenti internet, oltre un miliardo di account Facebook, 550 milioni di profili Twitter. Che parlano, discutono, si confront...

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a rel...