Hakutulokset: Sarja Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
yhteensä 97 hakutulosta
Pragmatics
Dr Levinson provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A …
Stylistics
Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way …
Linguistic Anthropology
In this innovative textbook, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a …
Construction Grammar
What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they 'figure out' on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the …
Evolutionary Linguistics
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened …
Mood and Modality
Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.
Lexical Meaning
The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into …
Psycholinguistics
This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It deals with the central area of this field, the language abilities of the …
The Lexicon
What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role …
Evolutionary Linguistics
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened …
Semantic Theory
Deals with standard linguistic topics like componential analysis, semantic universals and the syntax-semantics controversy. It also offers students with no training in philosophy …
Theories of Case
Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the …