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, and presents the author's new research including in-depth case studies of a number of typologically unrelated languages.
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretic...
Ideal for advanced students and individual researchers in semantics and pragmatics, as well as related fields such as philosophy. It provides a non-specialized audience with the understanding of what irony is and its numerous manifestations. To specialized readers, its analysis of irony offers a deeper understanding and clarification of this form of human communication.
Ideal for advanced students and individual researchers in semantics and pragmatics, as well as related fields such as philosophy. It provides a non-sp...
The book is an investigation of the semantics of counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective.
The book is an investigation of the semantics of counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and cross...
An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communication.
An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic ...
Explains the phenomena, theoretical debates, experiments and historical development of experimental pragmatics, which investigates how utterances communicate a speaker's intended meaning.
Explains the phenomena, theoretical debates, experiments and historical development of experimental pragmatics, which investigates how utterances comm...
