Semantikk

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by …

This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, the content of universal …

This volume examines the area of second language vocabulary studies from three broad perspectives: description, acquisition and pedagogical context. The book’s fifteen chapters are …

The five essays presented here-Rhetoric, Style, Language, Conversation, and Greek Literature-were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De …

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals, clinics and schools. This …

Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist "Red Emma" on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.Finalist for the 2016 …

Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is …

A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by relevance theorists and cognitive linguists. The resulting hybrid …

This book explores discursive psychological empirical research in the context of political communication. Drawing together a well-established field of study and a variety of …

Entre les modeles de la phrase produits par la syntaxe, et les modeles du discours inspires par la pragmatique, il y a eu longtemps - et il y a encore - une solution de continuite, …