Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics.

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6-10 1981.

Rene Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology.

This volume contains a facsimile reprint of the 1883 Boston edition of Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University, edited by Charles S.

In "e;What is Meaning"e; (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term 'significs'.

This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics.

The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English.

Looking at the 'semiotic landscape' - the panorama of constituted semiotics - two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration.

The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks.

Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins' (1708).

This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization.

In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members.

This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute.

La sémiotique plastique refuse la confusion du visible et du dicible.

La semiotique a-t-elle quelque chose a dire sure la litterature en tant que sA ur des 'beaux-arts'?

La reflexion sur le droit et la morale a conduit Georges Kalinowski a la logique et a la philosophie.

This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby's very last publication Significs and Language.

This monograph is about the semiotics of lexical signs, and is of particular interest for historical linguists, in particular those interested in etymology.

The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines.

The volume presents perspectives in the theory of drama and theatre that are new for the following reasons: 1) the contributions reflect the international cooperation in developing drama and theatre as well as its theories; 2) this collection is the first attempt of presenting papers within the context of (Analytical) Theory of Science; 3) it is the first consistent set of papers starting from semiotics a s a meta-theory.

"e;For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him"e; (Frantz Fanon).

This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montreal in 1983.

Le present volume reunit les contributions d'un colloque sur la pensee semiotique et linguistique des Ideologues qui s'est tenu a Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983.

The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall's 60th birthday.

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China.

Une analyse systematique et detaillee des fines strategies du secret et du desir de savoir a l'A vre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite a la lumiere de la theorie semiotique, et qui devoile, a travers le texte de Proust, la presence implicite d'une theorie et d'une esthetique de la connaissance.

Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and language?

Le present ouvrage est la premiere introduction francaise a une lecture systematique de Peirce.

Although Richard Gätschenberger can be regarded as one of the important sign theorists in the first third of the 20^th century, nothing much about the man and his works is currently known.

This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication.

Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T.

Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied.

Une phenomenologie de la quotidiennete revele des moments de fracture esthetique.

The purpose of this book is to provide a general introduction to Systemic Linguistics in the form of essays written by leading figures in the field.

Translated by Paul PerronMaupassant's short story, “Two Friends”, is examined in order to test methodological tools and to hone them for their application in the analysis of narrative discourse, starting from the oral tale (Propp) and ending with the written tale instituted as literary genre.

Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena.

Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence.

Ekstein's book brings together papers on a number of themes which have occupied his thinking during the last 40 years.

This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference 'Semiotique et pragmatique' that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983.

A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts.

This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of systems' revolving around the notion of signs used by human beings to communicate.

Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century.

It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification.

It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification.

This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication.

La classification des signes de C.

Karl Buhler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century.

Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis.

The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences.

The International Courtly Literature Society aims to promote the study of courtly literature, primarily, but not exclusively, of medieval Europe.