Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.

Language is like a slingshot, stretching for various communicative targets.

An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.

Addresses central questions concerning conditionals by combining the methods of formal epistemology with those of cognitive psychology.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

This work explores the lexical richness of over 100 world languages and proposes solutions for instances of imperfect equivalence between them.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

This work explores the lexical richness of over 100 world languages and proposes solutions for instances of imperfect equivalence between them.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

A comprehensive account of face-to-face interactions in commercial and non-commercial service encounter settings.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

A comprehensive account of face-to-face interactions in commercial and non-commercial service encounter settings.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other''s actions.

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other''s actions.

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

The first book-length treatment of signalling nouns in academic English that combines discourse and corpus-based approaches.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, Evans presents an alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work.

The first book-length treatment of signalling nouns in academic English that combines discourse and corpus-based approaches.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, Evans presents an alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work.

The first comprehensive introduction to Auslan, exploring key aspects of its structure and use.

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies.

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies.

Provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms a student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics.

Provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms a student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics.

New compilation of Russian synonyms - essential reference for undergraduates, teachers and language professionals.

This major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics investigates the ''information structure'' of sentences.

This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction?

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction?

First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English.

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the 'cultural semiotics' of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris.