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Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the... more...
La structure sémantique
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1976; US$ 9.00Le présent ouvrage met en évidence les caractéristiques spécifiques de cette structure linguistique particulière quest le lexème. more...
Key Terms in Semantics
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 110.00Key Terms in Semantics explains the all the terms and concepts in semantics which students on linguistics and language studies course are likely to encounter during their undergraduate study. The book is organized alphabetically, and fully cross-referenced. The book includes a section on key thinkers in semantics, from Aristotle to Noam Chomsky... more...
Emotions in Multiple Languages
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00A large-scale investigation on how multilinguals feel about their languages and use them to communicate emotion. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the author looks at the factors that affect multilinguals' self-perceived competence, attitudes, communicative anxiety, language choice and code-switching. more...
Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 180.00Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing... more...
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka?s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives . The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated... more...
Studies in Evidentiality
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 195.00In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else. This grammatical category, referring to information source, is called ?evidentiality?. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish just two terms (eyewitness... more...
Text and Context in Functional Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 188.00The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by providing clear definitions and examples... more...
Aspects of Meaning Construction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive principles. The contributions collected in the volume focus... more...
Bridging and Relevance
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of bridging. The book demonstrates that when encountering... more...









