Semiotics / semiology

This book provides an in-depth analysis of language and tourist mobility within an adventure tourism context.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the city image in the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to stylistics.

This volume serves as a reference on the field of cognitive semantics.

This book presents the transformation of Cassirer's transcendental point of view.

Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its Boolean part set, like an iceberg.

This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices.

This book introduces the concept of Inquiry Graphics, which positions graphics as significant and integrated tools of inquiry in higher education teaching and research.

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or "e;evaluative"e;) gradable terms.

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant.

In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy.

This book discusses the application of various statistical methods to texts, rather than numbers, in various fields in behavioral science.

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language.

This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings.

On behalf of Professor Hugh Brady, Director and Senior Fellow, The Flag Research Center at the University of Texas School of Law, "e;Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique (Springer 2021) has been selected as the recipient of our Gherardi Davis Prize is presented for a significant contribution to vexillological research for the year 2021.

This monograph  is about new perspective in animal studies methodology, by using concepts and tools from the field of semiotics.

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French.

The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s.

The aim of this book is to reflect on 'vernacularity' and culture.

This book introduces multimodality and technology as key concepts for understanding learning in the 21st century.

This edited book brings together research work in the field of constructive semantics with scholarship on the phenomenological foundations of logic and mathematics.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law's engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights.

"e;This book provides a significant contribution to the discursive analysis of service encounters.

This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking Grice's circle.

This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words "e;I"e; and "e;self"e; as suggestive of eight territories of meaning.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.

The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance.

This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism.

This book presents the original concept of the 'dispositif of age', combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life.

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 book draws on visual data, ranging from advertisements to postage stamps to digital personal photography, to offer a complex interpretation of the different social functions realised by these texts as semiotic artefacts.

This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space.

This book discusses the concept of indirect reporting in relation to sociopragmatic, philosophical, and cognitive factors.

This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form 'if p, q' and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using 'if'.

This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language.

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

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy - the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others.

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

This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect.

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk.

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk.

This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career.

This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science.

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.