Semantics & Pragmatics
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Introducing Semantics
Nick RiemerCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to the subject for undergraduate stud...
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How Gender Shapes the World
Alexandra Y. AikhenvaldCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution...
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Japanese Politeness: An Enquiry
Yasuko ObanaCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Although the Japanese language is one of the most quoted examples in politeness research, extant publications focus on particular areas of politene...
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Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington
Oxford University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written ch...
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English Historical Pragmatics
Andreas H. JuckerCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students...
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Pragmatics for Latin: From Syntax to Information Structure
A. M. DevineCurrent price €82.64Original price €86.99Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, e...
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Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation
Nigel G. WardCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in...
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Implicatures
Anne ReboulCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various typ...
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Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by ...
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Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by ...
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Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics: Grammaticalization of a Catalan Motion Verb Construction
Katalin Nagy CCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provi...
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Political Discourses at the Extremes: Expressions of Populism in Romance-Speaking Countries
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Irony and Sarcasm
Roger KreuzCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99A biography of two troublesome words. Isn''t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I''m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of...
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Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan''s Thinking: An Aristotelian Perspective
Laura Trujillo LinanCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Current price €16.10Original price €18.50Save 13% -
Understanding Pragmatic Markers: A Variational Pragmatic Approach
Karin AijmerCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99This is a study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English. Pragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describ...
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The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes f...
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Semantics - Interfaces
De GruyterCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to e...
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Definite Descriptions
Paul ElbourneCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently sim...
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The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €78.29Original price €89.99The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the disci...
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Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II: Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Pli...
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Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €50.83Original price €61.99Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchro...
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Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting
John CollinsCurrent price €77.89Original price €81.99Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this b...
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Semantics for Reasons
Bryan R. WeaverCurrent price €68.39Original price €75.99Semantics 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...
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Understanding Pragmatic Markers: A Variational Pragmatic Approach
Karin AijmerCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99This is a study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English. Pragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describ...
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics: From Uni- to Bidirectional Optimization
Oxford University PressCurrent price €50.59Original price €54.99This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective...
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Arab and Arabic Linguistics: Traditional and New Theoretical Approaches
Oxford University PressCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50This volume brings together the eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics organized on the occasion of the 14th Italian Meeting of Af...
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The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts
Adrian TienCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in ...
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The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing
Johan BrandtlerCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates p...
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €84.39Original price €102.92This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone inter...
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Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €88.73Original price €101.99Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the sy...
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Fifty Shades of Grammar: Scintillating and Saucy Sentences, Syntax, and Semantics from The Grammar Diva
Arlene MillerCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
Understanding Meaning and World: A Relook on Semantic Externalism
Sanjit ChakrabortyCurrent price €51.32Original price €58.99This book explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the point of view of phenomenology. The debate centre...
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The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy
Broadview Press LtdCurrent price €73.14Original price €76.99The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become...
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Current Formal Aspects of Spanish Syntax and Semantics
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99This book is a compilation of articles on different aspects of Spanish grammar in the areas of current theoretical syntax and semantics. The issue ...
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Cynicism
Ansgar AllenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone''s a cynic, yet few...
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Studies in Comparative Pragmatics
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €65.24Original price €74.99In the current discourse in pragmatics, multi-perspective methods are seen as the best way to understand language use in context. Within this discu...
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Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Oxford University PressCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspec...
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It''s not all about you: New perspectives on address research
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €89.48Original price €109.12The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives...
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The Roots of Verbal Meaning
Andrew Koontz-GarbodenCurrent price €101.64Original price €106.99This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...
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Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and a...
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Visual Experience: A Semantic Approach
Wylie BreckenridgeCurrent price €78.84Original price €82.99Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory o...
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Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living: Revised Second Edition
Martin H LevinsonCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Current price €14.78Original price €16.99Save 13% -
Eliminating The Universe: Logical Properties Of Natural Language
Edward L. KeenanCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99This book synthesizes the author's work (1980s-2015) on the logical expressive power of natural language. It extends the tools and concepts of mode...
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Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and perspectives
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €87.86Original price €100.99Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psycholo...
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Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception: 2015
Equinox Publishing LtdCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99The brain is a complicated and intricately woven structure relative to other body tissues. It is the ultimate parallel processing system, but never...
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Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interf...
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Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas
John PollackCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13%