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  • Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

    Edited by Florian Schwarz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properties of presuppositions in various linguistic contexts; comparative perspectives relative to other ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

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  • 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

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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

    $44.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

    Edited by Yan Huang ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood

    Edited by Jan Nuyts, Johan van der Auwera ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Semantics of Complex Words

    Edited by Pavol Štekauer, Laurie Bauer, Lívia Körtvélyessy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Discourse Analytic Research

    Repertoires and readings of texts in action

    Edited by Erica Burman, Ian Parker ...
    Series series RLE: Discourse Analysis
    First published in 1993, this book provides clear illustrations of discourse analytic work and empirical critiques of the traditional psychological approaches. Drawing on a range of examples, the contributors argue that identity, deeply felt emotions, prejudice, and attitudes to social issues are created by the language that describes them rather than being intrinsic to the individual. In ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish

    A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

    by Samuel A. Navarro Ortega ...
    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 ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Spatial Language

    Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

    Edited by Kenny R. Coventry, P. Olivier ...
    People constantly talk to each other about experience or knowledge resulting from spatial perception; they describe the size, shape, orientation and position of objects using a wide range of spatial expressions. The semantic treatment of such expressions presents particular challenges for natural language processing. The meaning representation used must be capable of distinguishing between fine ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers

    A Neuropragmatic Perspective

    by Rafał Jończyk ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it presents a novel methodological approach that takes into account contextual information and hence goes beyond the reductionist approach to affective language that has dominated ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

    Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all ... Read more

    $123.29 USD