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Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of... Læs mere
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the... Læs mere
Furthering the scholarship on writers and artists as diverse as Lord Byron, Edvard Munch, Sylvia Plath, and Jorge Luis Borges, Zeng probes the semiotics of exile.
This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature... Læs mere
A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by relevance theorists... Læs mere
How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they... Læs mere
Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun .... Læs mere
Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The... Læs mere
A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses... Læs mere
This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of students entering an English-medium university, so that those with significant needs can have access to opportunities to enhance their language skills.
An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages; discusses the role of culture; patterns of metaphor evolution; how many people use particular expressions.
Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical, linguistic and psychological... Læs mere