Semiotics / semiology

Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them.

This collection of essays brings together a selection of some of the most important studies of Professor Ivo Assad Ibri about the work of Charles Sanders Peirce.

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

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective.

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.

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

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

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.

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction.

Public Service Interpreting is a hugely complex activity, encompassing human, ethical, commercial and political dimensions.

This book develops Gregory Bateson's ideas regarding "e;communication about relationship"e; in animals and human beings, and even nations.

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

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

This book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to Bourbaki's notion of structures meres.

This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis.

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

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.

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The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning.

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.

Focusing on the electronic media-television, radio, and the Internet-Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.

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 attempts to solve the question whether semiotics is a methodology as is generally held and if the studies of meaning and the mind can shed light on a series of metaphysical issues, so that the edifice of semiotics could be erected on a philosophical ground.

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

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.

This book offers new perspectives on the study of Chinese lexical semantics, as well as discourse analysis and cognitive pragmatics based on lexical semantics.

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction.

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

This book attempts to solve the question whether semiotics is a methodology as is generally held and if the studies of meaning and the mind can shed light on a series of metaphysical issues, so that the edifice of semiotics could be erected on a philosophical ground.

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction.

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times.

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

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.