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Interfaces eBook Series

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  • Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English

    by Maciej Litwin ...
    Series Book 6 - Interfaces
    Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and closed, where time is conceptualised as real or figurative. Aristotle’s epistemology builds on the ... Read more

    $79.96 AUD

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  • Philosophy of Language

    by Scott Soames ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... Read more

    $42.23 AUD

  • Write to the Point

    How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page

    by Sam Leith ...
    Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved may aim to convey feelings of tenderness but end up making the recipient laugh rather than melt.In this complete guide to persuasive writing, Sam ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Grammar, Philosophy, and Logic

    by Bruce Silver ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers can fail to notice; concentrating on subtle missteps and errors that can make the difference between good and excellent prose. Each chapter ... Read more

    $143.10 AUD

  • Critical Semiotics

    Theory, from Information to Affect

    by Gary Genosko ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD

  • Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

    Edited by Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jérôme Jacquin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the ... Read more

    $125.17 AUD

  • The Theory of Descriptions

    Russell and the Philosophy of Language

    by G. Stevens ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project. ... Read more

    $143.10 AUD

  • Learning from Words

    Testimony as a Source of Knowledge

    by Jennifer Lackey ...
    Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the epistemology of testimony. Despite the multitude of views offered, a single thesis is nearly universally accepted: testimonial knowledge is acquired ... Read more

    $48.61 AUD

  • Logic and Lexicon

    The Semantics of the Indefinite

    Translated by Geoffrey Simmons ...
    by Manfred Pinkal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness, which have been proposed in linguistics, philosophy and computer science. It argues for a view of indefiniteness as the potential for ... Read more

    $215.15 AUD

  • Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language

    Edited by Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno ...
    Series Book 90 - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
    Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The ... Read more

    $521.17 AUD

  • Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

    Edited by Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity*,* focusing onhow negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation**. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various ... Read more

    $143.10 AUD

  • Parody and Palimpsest

    Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint

    by Sarah L. Glasco ...
    Series Book 218 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi. Sarah L. Glasco links Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s novels to cross-disciplinary texts that include not only ... Read more

    $156.41 AUD