Semiotics / semiology

The book presents a comprehensive study of Russian prepositions, with a focus on expressing spatial characteristics.

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

This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children's literature translation studies by applying the concept of transcreation, established in the creative industries of the globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative, transgressional and creative aspects of rewriting for children and young audiences.

This book interprets the close intimacy between poetry and painting from the perspective of intersemiotic translation, by providing a systematic examination of the bilingual and visual representation of landscape in the poetry of Wang Wei, a high Tang poet who won worldwide reputation.

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.

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

This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs.

This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on two new concepts: numerical scale and consistency-driven methodology.

This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = 'what', na geren = 'which person') in Mandarin Chinese.

This work argues that cause events, being the most tangible component of emotion, provide a rich dimension of how emotions should be classified.

This book studies Chinese opposites.

This book reflects the chronological changes in Chinese cultural values, social relations, economy and politics by critically analyzing the Chinese advertising discourse.

This book offers an accessible, practical and engaging guide that provides sample instructional activities supported by theoretical background information, with a focus on the nature of the instructional process in relation to several variables.

This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior.

La memoria urbana en la representacion cinematografica es una conjuncion de los intereses particulares de los autores, la cinematografia y los estudios semioticos del paisaje urbano; usa la arquitectura como amalgama que define el principal interes de la investigacion.

Este libro es el primero de una serie pensada para servir como mecanismo de divulgación de la reflexión teórica desarrollada por los docentes vinculados al Programa de Comunicación Social de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano en un esfuerzo por dar respuestas a las exigencias y a la promesa de generar espacios de encuentro del diálogo de saberes que en ella se sucede permanentemente.

Acerca al lector hacia el sentido esencial del arte desde una perspectiva filosófica, más exactamente la estético-semiótica.

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

This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics.

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 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.

The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or "e;metalinguistic"e;) negations.

This book introduces a number of selected ideas from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, viz.

There are in this volume sentences written as long ago/ as 1957.

From the point of view of non-classical logics, Heyting's implication is the smallest implication for which the deduction theorem holds.

This volume of papers grew out of a research project on "e;Cross-Linguistic Quantification"e; originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 871999.

The main aim of this book is to present recent ideas in logic centered around the notion of a consequence operation.

This volume is a selection of papers presented at a workshop entitled Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases organized in Toulouse in August 1996.

The papers in this volume address central issues in the study of Plurality and Quantification from three different perspectives: * Algebraic approaches to Plurals and Quantification * Distributivity and Collectivity: Theoretical Foundations * Distributivity and Collectivity: Empirical Investigations Algebraic approaches to the semantics of natural languages were in- dependently introduced for the study of generalized quantification, pred- ication, intensionality, mass terms and plurality.

Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals.

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities.

Various students of general linguistics and semantics quote and discuss Wittgenstein, among others, OGDEN and RICHARDS (1960), ULLMANN (1951, 1962), PAGLIARO (1952, 1957), WELLS (1960), REGNELL (1960) and 1 ZIFF (1960).

Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians alike.

Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective.

Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective.

As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field.

Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect.

Preface This book is about semantics and logic.

The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute Vienna Circle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred Tarski and his influence on and interchanges with the Vienna Circle, especially those on and with Rudolf Carnap and Kurt Godel.

A speech for the defence in a Paris murder trial, a road-safety slogan, Hobbes' political theory; each appeals to reason of a kind, but it remains an oblique and rhetoricalldnd.

This volume contains a collection of research papers centered around the concept of quantifier.

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation is the first concentrated effort to give a systematic presentation of the main research results on the subject, since the modern concept was formulated in the late '50s and early '60s.

On the occasion of bis sixtieth birthday, we dedicate this volume to Jan Wo- leriski-s-our teacher, our colleague, our friend.

EQ-5D from the EuroQol Group is a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health.

Concepts of Meaning includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists.

This collection originated at a conference organized by the Institute Vienna Circle and the University of Vienna on the Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism and was held in Vienna in July 2001.