Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives.

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse.

Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words.

Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

The Boundary Stones of Thought seeks to defend classical logic from a number of attacks of a broadly anti-realist character.

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar.

This book studies the properties of imperative clauses in the context of a theory of Universal Grammar.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent.

This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia.

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field.

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field.

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world.

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day.

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological.

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language.

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition.

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use.

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender.

This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of 'meaning as use' with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions.

This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective.

This book brings together, in a novel way, an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time.

An extraordinary amount of recent work by philosophers of language, meta-ethicists, and semanticists has focused on the meaning and function of language expressing concepts having to do with what is allowed, forbidden, required, or obligatory, in view of the requirements of morality, the law, one's preferences or goals, or what an authority has commanded: in short, deontic modality.

How do hearers manage to understand speakers?

This volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as more than, a bit, and much - from the standpoint of the interface between semantics and pragmatics.

This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that object, long a source of debate in the philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science.

Unity and Plurality presents novel ways of thinking about plurality while casting new light on the interconnections among the logical, philosophical, and linguistic aspects of plurals.

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content.

Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse.

Most of the times we open our mouth to communicate, we talk about things.

Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics.

This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek.

This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form.

This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form.

This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility' for communication in social life.

This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences across constructions.

This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

With the growing influence of discursive and narrative perspectives on organizing, organizational scholars are focusing increasing attention on the constitutive role that language and communication play in organizational processes.

This book builds on R.

This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use.

This volume surveys the current debate on the morphome, bringing together experts from different linguistic fields--morphology, phonology, semantics, typology, historical linguistics--and from different theoretical backgrounds, including both proponents and critics of autonomous morphology.

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics.

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages.

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure.

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure.

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese.