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  • Redefining Indefinites

    by Claire Beyssade, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    by Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Semantics of Colour

    A Historical Approach

    by C. P. Biggam ...
    Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Language Maven Strikes Again

    by William Safire ...
    Good news! America’s master wordsmith strikes again with a new collection of erudite, witty, provocative, sometimes barbed, frequently hilarious “On Language” columns. Published in The New York Times and syndicated in more than three hundred other newspapers, these opinions from the “Supreme Court of Current English Usage” cover everything from the bottom line on tycoonese and the accesses* of ... Read more

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  • Critical Semiotics

    Theory, from Information to Affect

    by Gary Genosko ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Parameters

    Edited by Luis Eguren, Olga Fernandez-Soriano, Amaya Mendikoetxea ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
    Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism. This book collects a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Test Your Personality

    Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.These quizzes were designed primarily to enable you to:learn some useful English vocabulary (of the type that is often not taught in a language course)have fun doing something in English that you might equally well have done in your own ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Pragmatics and Law

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Alessandro Capone, Francesca Poggi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice. It hosts an interdisciplinary discussion between cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law, in which an international group of authors aims to promote, enrich and refine this new debate.Philosophers of law have always shown a keen interest in cognitive science and ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Language of Brexit

    How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union

    by Dr Steve Buckledee ...
    Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts. Drawing parallels with effective political discourse used worldwide, this book highlights the linguistic features of an increasingly popular style of political campaigning.Concentrating on the highly successful ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of 'Ought'

    Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics

    by Matthew Chrisman ...
    Series series Oxford Moral Theory
    The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. In this book Matthew Chrisman develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator, and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. This is a metanormative account that agrees with traditional descriptivist theories in metaethics ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics

    Edited by Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

    Edited by Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series Book 30 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD