Language Arts & Disciplines : Semantics

Arie Verhagen develops a new understanding of linguistic communication focussed on cognition. He treats pragmatics, semantics, and syntax in parallel and integrates insights from linguistics, psychology, and animal communication. He shows the continuity between language and animal communication and reveals the nature of human linguistic specialization. His powerfully argued and original explanation of the nature and operation of communication will interest a wide range of scholars. and advanced students in linguistics, cognitive science, and human evolution. - ;Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other peoples' points of view than with describing the world. Treating pragmatics, semantics, and syntax in parallel and integrating insights from linguistics, psychology, and animal communication, Arie Verhagen develops a new understanding of linguistic communication. In doing so he shows the continuity between language. and animal communication and reveals the nature of human linguistic specialization. Professor Verhagen uses Dutch and English data from a wide variety of sources and considers the contributions of grammar to the coherence of discourse. He argues that important problems in semantics and syntax may be resolved if language is understood as an instrument for exerting influence and coordinating different perspectives. The grammatical phenomena he discusses include negative expressions, the let alone construction, complementation constructions, and discourse connectives. This powerfully argued and original explanation of the nature and operation of communication will interest a wide range of scholars and advanced students in linguistics, cognitive science, and human evolution. - ;An important book on a fascinating topic in the field of pragmatics and cognition - Pragmatics and Cognition;An important contribution to the study of language. It pr more...

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Shows how the methods and findings of conversation and discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social science students on courses which require them to undertake practical or empirical exercises. more...

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This volume illustrates the role of language in political action by analyzing the discourse of various British and US institutions on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus in order to identify regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, and qualitative context-based discourse analysis. more...

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Integrating issues in linguistics and language acquisition, this book showcases for studying the role of argument structure in language acquisition. It is useful to linguists and language acquisition specialists, as well as to upper-level students in linguistics and psychology in the United States and abroad. more...

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The contributors to this e-book are distinguished and well-known members of academia or business. The purpose of this e-book series is to document and share parts of their accumulated lifetime knowledge and to provide a unique source of their thoughts of the past, the present and their beliefs about the future. Their insights and reflections will be valuable to the research community worldwide and should also be of great importance to business. The contributing authors to this issue are; Professor Christian Grönroos of Hanken Swedish School of Economics, Finland; Professor Evert Gummesson of Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden; Professor Ian F. Wilkinson of University of New South Wales, Australia and Mr Roy Crossfield, UK; and Professor Stephen Brown of University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. more...

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