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Evaluative Semanticsby Jean-Pierre Malrieu
Routledge 1999; US$ 173.00This is the first comprehensive study of evaluative phenomena, from connotations to judgement of value, in language and discourse. It explores the cognitive foundations of evaluation, and emphasises its social dimension. more...
Semanticsby Howard Gregory
Routledge 1999; US$ 33.95Semantics is an accessible and practical introduction to formal semantics, the study of linguistic meaning, for students studying language and linguistics. more...
Antonymyby Steven Jones
Routledge 2002; US$ 163.00Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the phenomenon. more...
Negative Contextsby Ton van der Wouden
Routledge 1997; US$ 193.00Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones. more...
Semantic Primingby Timothy P. McNamara
Psychology Press 2004; US$ 54.95The book thus provides a succinct and indepth overview of this important phenomenon that will be of interest to students and researchers from a range of subdisciplines within the cognitive sciences and neurosciences. more...
Semantic Relations and the Lexiconby M. Lynne Murphy
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 35.00This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, as opposites or synonyms, for example, and what these say about the mental organization of our vocabularies. The author argues for a new pragmatic approach to lexical relations, as opposed to the traditional 'lexical' approach. more...
Literal Meaningby François Recanati
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 25.00Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is 'literal meaning'? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? François Recanati defends 'contextualism' and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface. more...
Regularity in Semantic Changeby Elizabeth Closs Traugott; Richard B. Dasher; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. J. Ewen; R. Huddleston
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. more...
Insensitive Semanticsby Herman Cappelen; Ernest Lepore
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005; US$ 41.95Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics,... more...
Parts and Wholes in Semanticsby Friederike Moltmann
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 50.00This 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 structures which differs from traditional mereological theories in that the notion of an integrated whole plays a central role and in that the part structure of an entity is allowed to vary across different... more...









