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Language Arts & Disciplines : Semantics

Semantics eBooks

You have selected the subject of Semantics. The eBooks in this subject are listed below.

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Addressing Postmodernity
By: Biesecker, Barbara
Published by: The University of Alabama Press

This text examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change, and how people transform social relations through the use of symbols. It focuses on the work of Kenneth Burke, to discern the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of people and rhetoric in it. more...

Price: $23.96


Conversational Style
By: Tannen, Deborah
Published by: OUP Oxford

Preface to the 2005 Edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Conversational Style: Theoretical Background. 3. The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner. 4. Linguistic Devices in Conversational Style. 5. Narrative Strategies. 6. Irony and Joking. 7. Summary of Style Features. 8. The Study of Coherence in Discourse. 9. Coda: Taking the Concepts into the Present. Appendix 1: Key to Transcription Conventions. Appendix 2: Steps in Analyzing Conversation. Appendix 3: Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner. Appendix 4: The Flow of Topics. References. Author Index. Subject Index more...

Price: $30.00


Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You
By: Grothe, Mardy
Published by: Penguin Books Australia

What do Mae West, John F. Kennedy, Victor Hugo, and H. L. Mencken have in common? They all indulged in chiasmus-a literary device in which word order is reversed to hilarious or poignant effect. When Mae West said, "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men," she was using chiasmus; when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he was doing the same. more...

Price: $13.00


Academic Writing in Context
By: Hewings, Martin (ed.)
Published by: Continuum

This volume explores a number of themes of current interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres: the social and cultural context of academic writing; differences between the academic and non-academic text; the analysis of particular text types; variation within and across disciplines; and applications of theory in the teaching of writing. The contributors include many of today's most influential scholars in the area of academic literacy, working in a wide variety of tertiary academic contexts in Britain, Finland, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Australia and the United States. The implications will be of relevance to all those engaged in teaching academic writing to both native and non-native English speaking students in tertiary education around the world. more...

Price: $140.00


Accentuation and Interpretation
By: Schmitz, H.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.

Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified. more...

Price: $85.00


Adjectives and Adverbs
By: McNally, Louise (ed.); Kennedy, Christopher (ed.)
Published by: OUP Oxford

This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above. - ;In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the relationship between meaning and the positions of adjectives and adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are to provide a. comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs, to highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and compositional semantics. The editors open the book with an overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs. - more...

Price: $45.00


The African Origins of Rhetoric
By: Blake, Cecil
Published by: Routledge

Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treaties, Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor" - the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. more...

Price: $95.00


Agency and Consciousness in Discourse
By: Thibault, Paul
Published by: Continuum

In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. However, questions of agency and how it relates to consciousness have received less attention. This book explores the ways in which agency and consciousness are created through transactions between self and other. The book argues that it is necessary to regard body-brain interactions in the context of the social and discursive practices which act upon human bodies. These issues of agency and individuation are explored in relation to infant semiosis, as well as in relation to children's symbolic play. Thibault looks at the importance of the self-referential moral conscience in relation to the interpersonal dimension of all acts of meaning-making. This conscience is also connected to the development of a self-referential viewpoint which the book argues is connected to the ecosocial semiotic systems of thinking about consciousness as a complex system operating on many different levels. The author discusses and evaluates the work of linguists, psychologists, biologists, semioticians, and sociologists such as Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, J. J. Gibson, M. A. K. Halliday, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget and Stanley Salthe, to develop a new theory of agency and consciousness. more...

Price: $170.00


The Anatomy of Meaning
By: Enfield, N. J.
Published by: Cambridge University Press

This study examines how words combine with hand gestures and other bodily movements to create unified 'composite utterances'. more...

Price: $92.00


Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology
By: Long, Fredrick J.
Published by: Cambridge University Press

Pauline Scholarship has typically interpreted 2 Corinthians as a later editorial composite of several letters. Fredrick Long presents the case for its unity, based on a comprehensive survey and rigorous genre analysis of ancient forensic discourse. His study will be of relevance to classicists and New Testament scholars alike. more...

Price: $68.00


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