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Understanding Language Bogserier

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  • Understanding Semantics

    af Sebastian Loebner ...
    Serier serie Understanding Language
    Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and sentence ... Læs mere

    536,34 kr.

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  • The Right Word!

    How to Say What You Really Mean

    af Jan Venolia ...
    Serier serie Right! Series
    Every writer needs help with words: choosing them, using them, spelling them correctly. When is optimal or optimum the better choice? Why use germane when relevant is, well, more relevant? Created for just such tortuous (torturous?) situations, this handy guide provides an A-to-Z listing of troublesome, confusing words, accompanied by clear examples and explanations to help avoid common mistakes. ... Læs mere

    41,74 kr.

  • Aitchison's Linguistics

    A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics

    af Jean Aitchison ...
    This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?' It outlines the scope of linguistics, explaining basic concepts and essential terminology with examples drawn mainly from English. Sound patterning, syntax and meaning - the inner core of linguistics - are discussed simply and ... Læs mere

    149,27 kr.

  • Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

    Surprising Origins of Everyday Expressions

    af Harry Oliver ...
    Let's "cut to the chase" and "make no bones about it"-this book will have you "pleased as punch."Sowing your wild oats, throwing in the towel, painting the town red...Harry Oliver reveals the fascinating stories behind these and other strange turns of phrase steeped in the weird and wonderful history and traditions of everyday life. From quirky terms to street and city names and more, this book ... Læs mere

    41,74 kr.

  • Language and Globalization

    af Norman Fairclough ...
    Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Læs mere

    536,34 kr.

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    af Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Læs mere

    416,60 kr.

  • Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics

    af Tony Jappy ...
    Serier serie Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce's theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are employed (visual rhetoric) in a variety of ... Læs mere

    375,36 kr.

  • Thinking Without Words

    af Jose Luis Bermudez ...
    Serier serie Philosophy of Mind
    Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to non-linguistic creatures. One ... Læs mere

    267,17 kr.

  • Tolerance is NOT a Virtue.

    af Richard Thomas ...
    Our Facebook and Twitter generation has spread all kinds of nonsense with its cod philosophies and meaningless 'likes'. It promotes a dangerous kind of sloppy thinking that needs to be challenged. And ideas about 'tolerance' are right at the top of the list.In this short book, the first in a series called 'Bloody Nonsense' designed to debunk some of these stupidities, the author sets out the truth ... Læs mere

    18,80 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Language Maven Strikes Again

    af William Safire ...
    Good news! America’s master wordsmith strikes again with a new collection of erudite, witty, provocative, sometimes barbed, frequently hilarious “On Language” columns. Published in The New York Times and syndicated in more than three hundred other newspapers, these opinions from the “Supreme Court of Current English Usage” cover everything from the bottom line on tycoonese and the accesses* of ... Læs mere

    41,74 kr.

  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry

    Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies

    af Nicholas Rescher ...
    Serier serie Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies.The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any ... Læs mere

    420,24 kr.

  • Evaluation and Stance in War News

    A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war

    Redigeret af Louann Haarman, Professor Linda Lombardo ...
    Serier serie Corpus and Discourse
    In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict.Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical ... Læs mere

    374,55 kr.