Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the stud...Loe edasi...
Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197763339)
This book offers a dictionary of fuck and its many permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. Like the Oxford English Dictionary, it is a historical dictionary. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the ear...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034346443)
This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite clauses on the one hand and between clauses and noun phrases on the other hand. The book combines text...Loe edasi...
The concept of politeness permeates all aspects of modern life and society. However, to what extent has this phenomenon changed over time? This book traces the elusive concept of politeness from its beginnings in the Middle Ages up to the present day...Loe edasi...
This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of materia...Loe edasi...
This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of materia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262551090)
A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics.A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their mea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Thomas Nelson Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781400337972)
Why are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does putting your best foot forward mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and what does it have to do with the rarity...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512825558)
What does the keyword continence in Loves Labors Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the quince with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Nigh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027214119)
The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes - ate, - en, - ify and - ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descr...Loe edasi...
An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis. There a...Loe edasi...
This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well as formal linguists have generally restricted clefts to constructions with an identifying matrix (it-clefts) and have claimed that they only code inf...Loe edasi...
From Mental Floss, the premier destination for curious minds, comes a deep dive into the the world of words! You’ll discover the surprising (and sometimes very dark) origins of common terms, a guide to quirky old-timey words, a timeline of popular...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399504607)
This clear and accessible textbook introduces the crucial concepts essential to your study of the semantics and pragmatics of English. Coverage is wide-ranging, taking you from word meaning to the level of discourse, and explaining how these topic...Loe edasi...
An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). This clear and accessible textbook introduces the crucial concepts e...Loe edasi...
This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geogra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jul-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192866325)
This book investigates moral metaphors in English and Chinese, applying conceptual metaphor theory to a comparative study of the linguistic manifestation of the moral metaphor system rooted in the domains of bodily and physical experience. Ning Yu sh...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631875544)
This monograph presents a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification. It takes as a case study the verb reward and its various forms in Polish and in English, as prototypical of the semantics of gratification. The...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: West Margin Press, ISBN-13: 9781513132464)
The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and hu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Feb-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027210609)
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn...Loe edasi...
This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Mint Editions, ISBN-13: 9781513282770)
The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and hu...Loe edasi...
Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation presents a multilingual examination of the translation of metaphors. Mark Shuttleworth explores this facet of translation and develops a theoretically nuanced description of the procedures that...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers properties of focus association with only by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or “evaluative”) gradable terms. Its empirical building blocks are paradigms involving upward-scalar terms like few and r...Loe edasi...
Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Sari: Studies in Language and Social Interaction
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027208156)
OKAY has been termed a spectacular expression and Americas greatest invention. This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigate...Loe edasi...
