Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “maria aloni”
Skip side bar filters

  • 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

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Philosophy of Language

    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

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Discourse of Twitter and Social Media

    How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web

    by Dr Michele Zappavigna ...
    Series series Continuum Discourse
    Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content

    by Eva Hajicová, P. Sgall, Barbara B.H. Partee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Quantitative Semiotic Analysis

    Edited by Dario Compagno ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This contributed volume gives access to semiotic researches adopting a quantitative stance. European semiotics is traditionally based on immanent methodologies: meaning is seen as an autonomous dimension of human existence, whose laws can be investigated via purely qualitative analytical and reflexive analysis. Today, researches crossing disciplinary boundaries reveal the limitations of such an ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives

    by Jakub Szymanik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition.Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry

    Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies

    by Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies.The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China

    by Zhenbin Sun ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the work explores how Chinese philosophers dealt with issues not only in language but also in ontology, epistemology, ethics, axiology, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language

    Edited by Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The ... Read more

    $448.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Montague Semantics

    by D. R. Dowty, S. Peters, R. Wall ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways the paper 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English' (commonly abbreviated PTQ) represents the culmination of ... Read more

    $307.99 CAD

  • Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

    Edited by Patrick Georg Grosz, Sarah Zobel, Pritty Patel-Grosz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD