(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Feb-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108832991)
Illustrated with examples from a rich range of languages and genres, this book provides a cutting-edge yet accessible introduction to the meanings and functions of connectives, and the discourse relations they communicate. It includes chapters on tr...Loe edasi...
This book offers a uniquely accessible, comprehensive, and critical synthesis of theories of linguistic reference and meaning in the 20th century - from Frege and Kripke to the various forms of contemporary two-dimensional semantics - for advanced st...Loe edasi...
Indirect communication is a phenomenon pervasive in our daily lives. This book explores this fascinating topic, and provides insights into the psychological processes and the social dynamics underlying indirect communication. Adopting a truly interdi...Loe edasi...
Providing a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, questions and literature, this is an essential resource on propositional attitude reports, a central topic in natural language semantics. Synthesizing the facts, theories, and analytical problem...Loe edasi...
The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of case, semantics also has a crucial role to play in how case operates. This book investigates the relat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108428453)
How do words stand for things? Taking ideas from philosophical semantics and pragmatics, this book offers a unique, detailed, and critical survey of central debates concerning linguistic reference in the twentieth century. It then uses the survey to...Loe edasi...
An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in pragmatics. It will appeal to students and teachers in linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology and sociology, who are interested in how language is used for communication,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108483179)
To achieve successful communication, it is crucial to say clearly what we mean, but, at the same time, we need to pay attention to the form of our utterances, to avoid misunderstandings and the risk of offending our interlocutors. To avoid these pit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108423281)
An important idea in generative grammar is that form does not always follow function; that is, not all syntactic behavior is explainable by appeal to semantic considerations. But some syntactic behavior is so explainable, and surely it is no acciden...Loe edasi...
Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key work carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics, pragmatics, philosophy and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108416429)
The book brings together phenomena related to the interaction of case and meaning in a wide range of languages, and reviews different analyses of these phenomena. It is written in a way that makes it readable for researchers and students of linguisti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107125650)
An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various types of implicatures in Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, the book covers many important...Loe edasi...
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics,...Loe edasi...
Modification offers a thorough and accessible exploration of what adjectives and adverbs mean, how they interact with what they modify, and how language expresses the inherent gradience of the world. An invaluable addition to the field for students a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Mar-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107092631)
Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics focuses on the main topics of study in semantics and pragmatics today. It consists of accessible yet challenging accounts of the most important issues, concepts and phenomena to consider when examining meanin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Apr-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107001275)
The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages. Some languages grammaticalise a contrast between count nouns (three cats, three books) vs non-count or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this distinction in different ways....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107009752)
Modification offers a thorough and accessible exploration of what adjectives and adverbs mean, how they interact with what they modify, and how language expresses the inherent gradience of the world. An invaluable addition to the field for students a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107012349)
This book explores one of the most central and puzzling features of language: imperative sentences. It is the first systematic survey to employ data from a range of languages, including many outside the Indo-European family and it provides a compreh...Loe edasi...
Imperative sentences usually occur in speech acts such as orders, requests, and pleas. However, they are also used to give advice, and to grant permission, and are sometimes found in advertisements, good wishes and conditional constructions. Yet, th...Loe edasi...
