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Words and Things
ISBN: 9780029048108 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Synopsis coming soon.......
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105,58 zł |
Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them
ISBN: 9780064610445 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Do frequent mistakes in English usage cause you embarrassment, impede communication, and slow down your flow of thought? With the help of this book you can use these mistakes to solve most, or all, of the everyday problems that come up in your speaking and writing. Rather than merely laying out the sometimes formidable rules and terms of English language usage, this volume focuses on common errors in sentence structure, word usage, spelling, punctuation, and grammar. It enables you to make the leap from understanding the rules and parts of speech to actually correcting your writing flaws....
Do frequent mistakes in English usage cause you embarrassment, impede communication, and slow down your flow of thought? With the help of this book yo...
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64,38 zł |
Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription
ISBN: 9780080430607 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is about beliefs, language, communication and cognition. It deals with the fundamental issue of the interpretation of the speaker's utterance expressing a belief and reporting on beliefs of other people in the form of oratio obliqua. The main aim of the book is to present a new account of the problem of interpreting utterances expressing beliefs and belief reports in terms of an approach called Default Semantics.
This book is about beliefs, language, communication and cognition. It deals with the fundamental issue of the interpretation of the speaker's utteranc...
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717,97 zł |
Presuppositions and Pronouns
ISBN: 9780080435923 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this volume, Geurts takes discourse representation theory (DRT), and turns it into a unified account of anaphora and presupposition, which he applies not only to the standard problem cases but also to the interpretation of modal expressions, attitude reports, and proper names. The resulting theory, for all its simplicity, is without doubt the most comprehensive of its kind to date. The central idea underlying Geurts' 'binding theory' of presupposition is that anaphora is just a special case of presupposition projection. But this is only one of the ways in which the concept of...
In this volume, Geurts takes discourse representation theory (DRT), and turns it into a unified account of anaphora and presupposition, which he appli...
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653,48 zł |
Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue
ISBN: 9780080439433 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL), Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). They reflect the current move of formal semantics from short multisentential texts towards structured discourses and dialogues, accounting for more and more phenomena at the semantics-pragmatics interface (such as subtleties of...
This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on...
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571,80 zł |
Meaning: the Dynamic Turn
ISBN: 9780080441870 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings as crucially involving 'context-change potentials'. The theories, however, usually concentrate much more on the hows of the turn than on its whys; and as a result, the conceptual foundations of dynamic semantics are much less elaborated than its technical side. This book, based on a conference held in Prague in September 2001, is a contribution to filling this...
In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treati...
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533,11 zł |
Numerous Meanings
ISBN: 9780080445571 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Outlandish as it may seem to the uninitiated, the meaning of English cardinal numbers has been the object of many heated and fascinating debates. Notwithstanding the numerous important objections that have been formulated in the last three decades, the (neo-)Gricean, scalar account is still the standard semantic description of numerals. In this book, Bultinck writes the history of this implicature-driven approach and demonstrates that it suffers from methodological insecurity and postulates highly non-conventional meanings of numerals as their "literal meaning," while it confuses the level of...
Outlandish as it may seem to the uninitiated, the meaning of English cardinal numbers has been the object of many heated and fascinating debates. Notw...
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571,80 zł |
Shifting the Focus
ISBN: 9780080445779 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How direct is the mapping between linguistic constructions and their interpretations? Much less direct than we commonly assume, according to Daniel Wedgwood. Extending current ideas from frameworks like Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax, Wedgwood upholds a radical position on modelling linguistic competence: the idea of interfacing static syntactic and semantic representations must be abandoned in favour of models of the incremental construction of meaning during parsing - which may involve significant pragmatic enrichment. In illustration, Wedgwood presents a detailed study of a key...
How direct is the mapping between linguistic constructions and their interpretations? Much less direct than we commonly assume, according to Daniel We...
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571,80 zł |
Pragmatic Markers in Contrast
ISBN: 9780080446769 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Building on the first volume in the Studies in Pragmatics series which clearly set out the differences and similarities in approaches to discourse markers, Pragmatic Markers in Contrast continues the debate through offering a unique and thorough examination of the methods and theories for studying pragmatic markers cross-linguistically. As a result of internationalisation and new developments in linguistics there has been an increasing interest in cross-linguistic studies. Aijmer and Simon-Vandenbergen have assembled experts in this field to explore the comparison of pragmatic...
Building on the first volume in the Studies in Pragmatics series which clearly set out the differences and similarities in approaches to discou...
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477,21 zł |
The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories
ISBN: 9780126135329 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories...
To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what ...
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791,06 zł |
Symbol, Status, and Personality
ISBN: 9780156876117 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A discussion of the importance of language in contemporary society.
A discussion of the importance of language in contemporary society.
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71,20 zł |
Tyranny of Words
ISBN: 9780156923941 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A popular approach to semantics in which the author discussess how to clarify the meaning of words and achieve more exact communication. Index
A popular approach to semantics in which the author discussess how to clarify the meaning of words and achieve more exact communication. Index |
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81,55 zł |
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations
ISBN: 9780195073263 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most...
Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual unive...
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489,72 zł |
Parts and Wholes in Semantics
ISBN: 9780195095746 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole " in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann presents a range of new empirical generalizations with data from English and a variety of other languages involving plurals, mass nouns, adnominal and adverbial modifiers such as as a whole, together, and alone, nominal and adverbial quanitfiers ranging over parts, and expressions of completion such as completely and partly. She develops a new theory of part...
This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole " in which principles of the individuation of part stru...
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396,00 zł |
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
ISBN: 9780195115277 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. Cinques cutting-edge proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.
One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a n...
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445,33 zł |
Reflections on Language
ISBN: 9780195120448 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Reflections on Language brings together a collection of seventy-eight articles that examine language from many different perspectives. Its selections focus on language as a social form, demonstrating how it is an indispensable component of the world and how we interpret it. Organized thematically, the text addresses many topics, including the acquisition of language, the rhetoric of advertising, the language of politics, language between the sexes, and language across cultures. It also discusses areas not covered by similar books, such as the bodily basis of language, communication...
Reflections on Language brings together a collection of seventy-eight articles that examine language from many different perspectives. Its se...
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908,08 zł |
Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial
ISBN: 9780195123302 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology and social theory to show how language practices shape--and are shaped by--culture and the law, particularly in the social construction of rape as a legal fact. This analysis examines linguistic strategies from both defense and prosecutorial viewpoints, and how they relate to issues of gender,...
In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its ...
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307,21 zł |
Sentential Negation in French
ISBN: 9780195125917 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and personne. His conclusions have far-reaching implications, leading to the controversial hypothesis that, despite widespread belief, French is not a negative concord language.
This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective c...
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149,31 zł |
Speaking of Events
ISBN: 9780195128079 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with emphasis precisely on the interplay between linguistic applications and philosophical implications. Each chapter has been written expressly for this volume by leading authors in the field, including Nicholas Asher, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Johannes Brandl, Denis Delfitto, Regine Eckardt, James Higginbotham, Alessandro Lenci, Terence...
In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguis...
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494,66 zł |
Speaking of Events
ISBN: 9780195128116 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with emphasis precisely on the interplay between linguistic applications and philosophical implications. Each chapter has been written expressly for this volume by leading authors in the field, including Nicholas Asher, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Johannes Brandl, Denis Delfitto, Regine Eckardt, James Higginbotham, Alessandro Lenci, Terence...
In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguis...
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400,93 zł |