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The Contextualization of Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 188.00This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood,... more...
Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 173.00Semantic and Lexical Universals
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 233.00This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages. In fact the word 'collection' is not fully appropriate in this case, since the papers report research undertaken specifically for... more...
The Semantics of Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988; US$ 224.00“The semantics of grammar” presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither “autonomous” nor “arbitrary”, but that it follows from “semantics”. It is shown that every grammatical... more...
Vagueness and Language Use
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox. more...
Contexts
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 38.99Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional 'formal' approach to natural-language semantics, arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its foremost defenders. In Contexts he offers a fundamental reappraisal, with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality and other forms of contextual... more...
Meaning in Context
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 150.00Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies ‘intelligently’, in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues... more...
Process, Image, and Meaning
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 165.00The general topic of this book is the development of a “realistic” model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of “scientific realism”, i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern science: dynamical systems theory.... more...
English Collocation Studies
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 140.00This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as... more...
Construing Experience Through Meaning
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 170.00The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning;... more...









