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Serial Verbs
Alexandra Y. AikhenvaldCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...
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The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis
Oxford University PressCurrent price €105.44Original price €110.99This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the pop...
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Online-Syntax: Eine Einführung in die Analyse gesprochener Sprache
Peter AuerCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Dieses Buch bietet eine praktische Anleitung zur Analyse der Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch, wie es in Alltagsgesprächen verwendet wird (talk-in-i...
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Key Terms in Semantics
Dr Anu KoskelaCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50This book covers the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in semantics that students in linguistics and language studies will encounter. Key Ter...
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Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts: Pragmatic Features and Referent Interpretation
Donghong LiuCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Ashers (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the the...
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A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity
Ilhan InanCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure.Most...
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Characterising Irony: A Systematic Approach to Literary and Linguistic Texts
Steven PattisonCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic texts, using an empirically rig...
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Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics: How Language Emerges from Use
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language e...
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Benjamin Franklin''s English: Form to Function Analyses
Yoko IyeiriCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation ...
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Adverbs and Adverbials: Categorial Issues
De GruyterCurrent price €116.84Original price €122.99Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this v...
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The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
Chris FoxCurrent price €189.99Original price €199.99The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary t...
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Semantic Structure in English
Jim FeistCurrent price €96.89Original price €101.99Syntax puts our meaning (semantics) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a str...
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Serial Verbs
Alexandra Y. AikhenvaldCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...
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Two Dimensions of Meaning: Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture, and Ecology
Andrew GoatlyCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It shows how they manifest in oral, ...
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The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and c...
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Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €89.29Original price €93.99Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding,...
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Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
Salvatore Pistoia RedaCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 ye...
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Assessing Second Language Pragmatics
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €97.84Original price €102.99The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical pe...
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The Exercise of Power in Communication: Devices, Reception and Reaction
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings togeth...
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Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches to the study of speech acts and pragmatic markers across different ...
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Truth without Predication: The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence
R. SzekelyCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim tha...
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Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures
Karen GraingerCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectne...
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Semantic Under-determinacy and Communication
D. BelleriCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matte...
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Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning
R. KortumCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs...
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Teenage Talk: From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective
A. StenströmCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of t...
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Thanking and Politeness in Japanese: Balancing Acts in Interaction
J. OhashiCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how...
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Alternatives in Semantics
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alter...
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Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics
Georges ReyCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, ho...
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Assessing Second Language Pragmatics
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €107.34Original price €112.99The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical pe...
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Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA
Lucy PickeringCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99A concise introduction to the field of theoretical pragmatics and its applications in second language acquisition and English-language instruction ...
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Introduction to Pragmatics
Betty J. BirnerCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive s...
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Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and de...
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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €89.29Original price €93.99The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech...
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €100.69Original price €105.99This 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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A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Theory, criticism, education. Selected papers 1985-2002
Roger D. SellCurrent price €92.14Original price €96.99In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. ...
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Pragmatics and Literature
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €92.14Original price €96.99Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and lit...
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Non-Ideal Foundations of Language
Jessica KeiserCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, ...
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Nothing Is Said: Utterance and Interpretation
Mark JaryCurrent price €85.49Original price €89.99In everyday talk about language, we distinguish between what someone said and what they implied, or otherwise conveyed. This distinction has been c...
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Collocation: Applications and Implications
G. BarnbrookCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and appl...
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Collocation: Applications and Implications
G. BarnbrookCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and appl...
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Guía práctica de pragmática del español
Taylor & Francis IncCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías...
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The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic
Youssef A. HaddadCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Current price €26.09Original price €29.99Save 13% -
English Historical Semantics
Christian KayCurrent price €103.52Original price €118.99This book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics and English Language an accessible overview of the structural...
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An Enigma in Language: Operational Semantics
Giulio BenedettiCurrent price €96.56Original price €110.99Current price €96.56Original price €110.99Save 13% -
The Linguistics of Humor: An Introduction
Salvatore AttardoCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic...
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Understanding Semantics
Sebastian LoebnerCurrent price €52.24Original price €54.99Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader ...
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What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything
Philippe SchlenkerCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99Current price €30.44Original price €34.99Save 13% -
The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
Oxford University PressCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the so...
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