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Conditions on Phonological Government
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 46.00This book represents a major development in the analysis of phonological processes. more...
Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 46.00This book unites speech act theory and conversation analysis to advance a theory of conversational competence. more...
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00Jan Firbas discusses the key phenomenon of communicative dynamism. more...
The Pun Also Rises
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 22.50A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history. In The Pun Also Rises , John Pollack-a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton-explains why puns matter: They revolutionized language and played a pivotal role in... more...
Changing Valency
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 39.00Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world. more...
Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 74.00This book offers a rich and theoretically informed survey of verb structure in Athapaskan languages. more...
Explicit Communication
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension. more...
Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first known appearance in Ancient Egypt to the present day. more...
Quantity Implicatures
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 86.00Presents a theory of quantity implicatures, a type of pragmatic inference which is widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. more...
Quantification
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 36.00The most useful and rigorous overview of quantification to date. more...









