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  • Pragmatic Markers in British English

    Meaning in Social Interaction

    by Kate Beeching ...
    Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well', 'I mean', 'just', 'sort of', 'like' and 'you know' in British English. Adopting a sociolinguistic and historical ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by Scott Soames ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Visual Language of Comics

    Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images.

    by Dr Neil Cohn ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now.This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Ideology in Language Use

    Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research

    by Jef Verschueren ...
    The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book, by one of the world's leading pragmatists, introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language, using the tools, methods and ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy

    Edited by Frank Polzenhagen, Zoltan Kövecses, Stefanie Vogelbacher, Sonja Kleinke ...
    This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by lecturers, PhD students and graduates from three universities – Heidelberg University, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The contributions illustrate the plurality of ... Read more

    $90.29 USD

  • Word Meaning and Belief

    by S.G. Pulman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
    First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Process Theories

    Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories

    Edited by Johanna Seibt ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality. Yet our philosophical and scientific theories of nature and experience have traditionally prioritized concepts for static objects and structures. The essays collected here call for a review of the role of dynamic categories in the language of theories. They present old and new descriptive tools for the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Parody and Palimpsest

    Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint

    by Sarah L. Glasco ...
    Series Book 218 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi. Sarah L. Glasco links Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s novels to cross-disciplinary texts that include not only ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

    Edited by Can Başkent, Lawrence S. Moss, Ramaswamy Ramanujam ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh’s scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh’s interest from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, it traces the academic trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose work opened up various new avenues in research.This volume is part of Springer’s book series ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Argument Evaluation and Evidence

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying recently developed computational models of argumentation made available in artificial intelligence. Each problem is posed in such a way that the solution is easily understood. The book progresses from confronting these problems and offering solutions to them, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition

    Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

    Edited by Tadeusz Czarnecki, Tomasz Placek, K. Kijania-Placek, Artur Rojszczak, Jaakko Hintikka ...
    Series Book 323 - Synthese Library
    On the occasion of bis sixtieth birthday, we dedicate this volume to Jan Wo leriski-s-our teacher, our colleague, our friend. Both of us are particularly indebted to Jan not only with regards to profes sional matters, but some private ones as well. Hence, we hope that he forgives us an occasional lapse into fondness and affection. That said, may the list of bis personalmerits remain shrouded in ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Language and Journalism

    Edited by John Richardson ...
    Series series Journalism Studies
    This book is an indispensable "cutting edge" book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism have attracted scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, too often this analysis has ... Read more

    $63.99 USD