Philosophy of language

This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

This book places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

The first book-length comparative study of Wittgenstein''s and Davidson''s philosophies, exploring their similarities and demonstrating their continuing relevance to modern debates.

Where is language?

Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

A radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

An in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of ''African languages'' and ''language in Africa'' as an autonomous academic discipline.

An in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of ''African languages'' and ''language in Africa'' as an autonomous academic discipline.

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor.

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor.

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

This book engages with the later arguments of this major philosopher to examine his significant impact on our understanding of language.

This book engages with the later arguments of this major philosopher to examine his significant impact on our understanding of language.

This book discusses how attention relates to the self, perception, knowledge, consciousness, action, and responsibility.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

This book explains how the meanings of the symbols of logic are determined by the rules that govern them.

This book explains how the meanings of the symbols of logic are determined by the rules that govern them.

Asay provides a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question ''What is truth?

Asay provides a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question ''What is truth?

This volume presents Price''s distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.

Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect.

This volume presents Price''s distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.

Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect.

This outstandingly clear and lively 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.

This outstandingly clear and lively 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.

A critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language.

This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction.

This book is the first systematic analysis of the emergence of, and the resolution strategies for, inconsistency in linguistic theorizing.

This book is the first systematic analysis of the emergence of, and the resolution strategies for, inconsistency in linguistic theorizing.

A concise, readable and up-to-date introduction to Bakhtin, which provides students with an accessible but sophisticated guide to his work.

A concise, readable and up-to-date introduction to Bakhtin, which provides students with an accessible but sophisticated guide to his work.

A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language.

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language.

Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad, which pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by determining the Covenants' historicity and textual accuracy.

Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad, which pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by determining the Covenants' historicity and textual accuracy.

Algebraic Structures in Natural Language addresses a central problem in cognitive science concerning the learning procedures through which humans acquire and represent natural language.