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  • Semiotics of Drink and Drinking

    Series series Continuum Advances in Semiotics
    Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place.As an explicitly comparative semiotic ... Leer más

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  • The Korean Language

    Structure, Use and Context

    de Jae Jung Song ...
    Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details to a minimum. By examining the Korean language in its geographical, historical, social and cultural context the reader is able to gain a good understanding of its speakers and the environment in which it is used. The book ... Leer más

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  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Edición de Ruth Page ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and ... Leer más

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  • Hyperbole in English

    A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration

    Series series Studies in English Language
    Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary works from Chaucer to Monty Python. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, it uses ... Leer más

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  • Semiotics of International Law

    Trade and Translation

    Series Libro 91 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.The diversity of languages and legal systems ... Leer más

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  • Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

    Edición de Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
    How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging ... Leer más

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  • Nominalizations

    Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features. It focuses on action nominal constructions, and in particular, the comparison of their syntactic structure with that of finite clauses and of other noun phrases, a problem ... Leer más

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  • Historical Corpus Stylistics

    Media, Technology and Change

    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions. Using data from a newspaper corpus, it offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. In this analysis, media style ... Leer más

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  • Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language

    A Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful sub-parts). Sullivan shows that the notion of structure, properly excavated, underlies and grounds various important points in the theory of reference. As such ... Leer más

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  • Mind, Values, and Metaphysics

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    This book addresses five main topics of metaphysics in its first section: formal objects and truth-makers; tropes; properties and predicates; varieties of relations; and the notion of explanation in metaphysics. The second part of this volume focuses on the history of philosophy with an emphasis on Austrian philosophy: the ideas of Bolzano, Wittgenstein, Locke and Bergson, amongst others, are ... Leer más

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  • Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish

    A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish. The author examines cross-linguistic differences between English and Spanish, focusing on the verbal patterns of motion events, to explore how learners overcome an entrenched first-language preference to move toward the lexicalization pattern of the additional language. His findings ... Leer más

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  • Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English

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    Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and closed, where time is conceptualised as real or figurative. Aristotle’s epistemology builds on the ... Leer más

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