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Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often... Læs mere
This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure.
The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
Peirce's concept of iconic signs is treated in depth, and it is shown how Peirce's diagrammatic logical notation of Existential Graphs makes use of iconicity and how important features of this iconicity are representable within category theory.
This book offers a cultural studies approach to marketing and advertising and shows readers how scholars from different academic... Læs mere
The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion of the... Læs mere
Within these imaginative scenarios (consisting of overt, and then covert self dialogue) children construct their own worldviews, through linguistic role-taking, as they legitimize conflicting viewpoints within imagined spatial frameworks.
This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. They illuminate the interplay of Chinese theories of language and Dao as Chinese wisdom and worldview.