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This pioneering new work combines insights from philosophy and linguistics to provide an innovative framework for theorizing about linguistic meaning and the role of... Læs mere
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Combining ideas from cognitive semantics and pragmatics, this book shows how social cognition is expressed linguistically at... Læs mere
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A revealing insight into journalism, showing news writers to be skilled 'word-weavers' whose work should in no way be regarded as inferior to that of literary... Læs mere
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Discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. The book provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language.
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This book proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. This model does not reject rules in favour of language use, or... Læs mere
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This book develops a corpus-based, constructional model of speech acts, and shows how it can be implemented in teaching... Læs mere
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Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of... Læs mere
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A pioneering study of quantity implicatures, a type of pragmatic inference which has been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It argues that the Gricean... Læs mere
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Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational... Læs mere
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Ideal for scholars and students of linguistics, discourse, stylistics and language play, this book explores the role of phonological motivation -... Læs mere
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A new analysis of how speakers and writers use referring expressions in discourse, and how hearers and readers interpret them. Using the... Læs mere
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In the online world, people argue about anything and everything - religion is no exception. This book explains how and... Læs mere