Semiotics / semiology

This book takes Korean as a basis to provide a detailed universal Determiner Phrase (DP) structure.

This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities.

This book explores the practical aspects of intersemiotic translation, examining how different signs and sign sets can be transposed into different kinds of semiotic forms of reference.

This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today.

This book offers an introduction to the language of law from the perspective of logical semantics.

This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics.

This unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation.

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies.

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish.

This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way.

This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective.

This volume presents eight papers and a draft monograph by T.

This book discusses a significant area of mathematics education research in the last two decades and presents the types of semiotic theories that are employed in mathematics education.

Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years.

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

This book is a thorough analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and of its multiple connections with the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's eponymous play.

This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift.

This book is a study of Wittgenstein's descriptive, improvisational, and performative art of philosophical investigation.

This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research.

This book reveals the core features of digital culture, examined by means of semiotic models and theories.

This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society.

Demonstrating the influence of Semiotic Engineering in Human-Computer Interaction, this book focuses on the work of one of the pioneers of the field - Clarisse de Souza  - and her influence on this broad and wide-ranging area of research.

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting.

This book presents cutting-edge research on various ways to bridge the semantic gap in image and video analysis.

This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative linguistics, a valuable "e;one-stop shopping"e; opportunity for readers interested in the ways in which the various modules of linguistic analysis intersect and interact.

This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to' infinitives involving control in English.

In each connection with new cultural contexts a new hybrid state of cultural adaptation is constructed enabling people to adjust to new conditions by creating innovative solutions for the self.

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature.

This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy.

This book presents a summary of the multimodal analysis of user-generated multimedia content (UGC).

A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts.

This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives.

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise.

This edited book revisits the concept of social 'activities' from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters.

This book provides an overview of a range of quantitative methods, presenting a thorough analytical toolbox which will be of practical use to researchers across the social sciences as they face the challenges raised by new technology-driven language practices.

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years.

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin's seminal book on the uses of argument.

This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "e;future-directed opining verbs"e;, a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities.

This book studies Chinese opposites.

Discourses of Southeast Asia presents the latest Southeast Asian research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).

This book introduces researchers, students and the general public to an intriguing phenomenon at the intersection of diverse fields: national branding.

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives.

This book mainly focuses on the roles of engraved symbols and ornamentation in Liangzhu culture.

This is the first book of its kind that explains the basic concepts, theoretical foundations and systematic research of linguistic semiotics, so as to establish a well-founded framework for linguistic semiotics as an independent discipline.

This book challenges the framing of comedic acts as apolitical and it adopts a multimodal critical discourse approach to interrogate the performance of comedy as a form of power.

Este volumen colectivo se enmarca en el campo glotopolítico, que indaga tanto en la dimensión semiótica de los procesos políticos como en la dimensión política de las intervenciones en el espacio del lenguaje.

Im Rahmen dieses Buches soll der Begriff des Wissens folgendermaßen definiert sein: Eine Person hat Wissen über das Vorliegen eines bestimmten Sachverhalts, wenn sie die wahre und epistemisch gerechtfertigte Überzeugung hat, dass dieser Sachverhalt tatsächlich vorliegt.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich aus synchroner und diachroner Perspektive mit Reanalyse-Prozessen, die unter dem Schlagwort sprachliche Remotivierung zusammengefasst werden können.

Both legal scholars and computer scientists will be curious to know how the gap between law and computing can be bridged.