Language Arts & Disciplines : Semantics

Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured. more...

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Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.:.; Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories.; Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.; Written accessibly by one of the world’s most prominent formal semanticists.; Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language. more...

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This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. more...

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Gila Schauer's study of interlanguage pragmatic development in English is situated in the context of studying abroad. It is the first book-length study of a common occurrence worldwide, but one that has not received the focus it deserves. Schauer examines the interlanguage pragmatic development of German learners of English at a British University over the course of a year. The focus is not only on the learners' productive pragmatic development, but also on their pragmatic awareness, which is compared with their grammatical awareness. The analysis undertaken is both qualitative and quantitative, and the book draws some important conclusions relevant to the whole field of interlanguage pragmatics. It will be engaging reading for researchers and for those doing postgraduate studies in applied linguistics, especially those working on interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, multilingualism and second language acquisition. more...

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Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, this collection presents material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture more...

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