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  • Premodifiers in English

    Their Structure and Significance

    by Jim Feist ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation in sentences; for example we can say both 'German and English speakers' and 'English and German ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Significance in Language

    A Theory of Semantics

    by Jim Feist ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistics
    This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches.The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad ... Read more

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    What Categories Reveal about the Mind

    by George Lakoff ...
    A critique of the assumptions the mind makes, of how humans tend to categorize objects and ideas, and of the implications of these modes of thought." Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning that I have ever read. It . . . has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences. ... Read more

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  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

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  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

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  • Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication

    by Tim Wharton ...
    The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • LOT 2 : The Language of Thought Revisited

    The Language of Thought Revisited

    by Jerry A. Fodor ...
    Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain. This idea is central to the representational theory of mind which Fodor has established as a key ... Read more

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  • The Natural Origin of Language

    The Structural Inter-Relation of Language, Visual Perception and Action

    by Robin Allott ...
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  • Vocabulary

    Applied Linguistic Perspectives

    by Ronald Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives includes an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Meaning and Relevance

    by Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber ...
    When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts ... Read more

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