Semiotics / semiology

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research.

In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind.

This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Programme.

As European business ties develop, how are they reflected in the way companies promote themselves?

Die Darstellung des Islam in der deutschen Presse ist seit vielen Jahren problematisch: Die Mehrheit der Artikel und Beiträge über die islamische Welt sind von Negativthemen, Elitenzentrierung sowie von Stereotypen, Vorurteilen und Feindbildern verzerrt.

Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective.

This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies.

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

This book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems.

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.

George Bush's 1988 campaign pledge, "e;Read my lips: no new taxes,"e; has become a mantra for those who distrust politicians and bureaucrats.

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

This book is a collection of studies applying game-theoretical concepts and ideas to analysing the semantics of natural language and some formal languages.

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

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

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research.

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

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system.

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

This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists.

Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "e;other"e;-yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality.

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

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns.

This book considers the work and influence of Charles Sanders Peirce, showing how the concepts and ideas he developed continue to impact and shape contemporary research issues.

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

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

Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods.

This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human - and non-human - experience, woven together (the 'texture of time') in the one narrative.

Time, Space, Matter in Translation considers time, space, and materiality as legitimate habitats of translation.

Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media.

Through theoretical and methodological frameworks, researchers from writing studies, communication disorders, communication studies, applied linguistics, anthropology, and education, argue for a new dialogic approach to multimodality as a question of semiotic practices as well as multimodal artifacts.

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice.

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.

Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition.

This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of students entering an English-medium university, so that those with significant needs can have access to opportunities to enhance their language skills.

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

Can words do damage?

This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine.

Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product.