Semiotics / semiology

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 edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars.

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 pioneering book presents a reconstitution of Charles Sanders Peirce philosophical system as a coherent architecture of concepts that form a unified theory of reality.

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 analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia.

This book focuses on the game-theoretical semantics and epistemic logic of Jaakko Hintikka.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.

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

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

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.

How does knowledge of phenomena and events we have no direct experiences of emerge?

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

This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect.

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

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

The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis.

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

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints.

This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh's scholarly work.

This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens.

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

This book offers a cultural studies approach to marketing and advertising and shows readers how scholars from different academic disciplines make sense of marketing's role in American culture and society.

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 groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies.

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

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences.

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles.

This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference.

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach.

The research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis.

This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology.

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion.

This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice.

This book examines the concept of "e; Neurosemantics"e;, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its classical sense, as the meaning of language, explained in terms of neural processes.

This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others.

This book examines the concept of meaning and ourgeneral understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context.

This volume presents a knowledge-based approach to concept-level sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing, information extraction, and common-sense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better interpret and process information on the Web.

The elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data.

This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports.

The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics.

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This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience.

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 volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation.

The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics.

This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science.

This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks.