An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential
(semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). As well as …

Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural language, which has been studied from a range
of perspectives. This review focuses on recent empirical insights into vagueness that have …

In analyzing oppressive systems like racism, social theorists have articulated accounts of the
dynamic interaction and mutual dependence between psychological components, such as …

Among semanticists and philosophers of language, there has been a recent outburst of
interest in predicates such as delicious and tasty, called predicates of personal taste …

Relative adjectives in the positive form exhibit vagueness and context-sensitivity. We
suggest that these phenomena can be explained by the interaction of a free threshold …

This paper investigates core semantic properties that distinguish between different types of
gradable adjectives and the effect of context on their interpretation. We contend that all …

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity,
gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is …

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated,
comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range …

The paper presents both new data and a new analysis of the semantic and pragmatic
properties of the class of absolute scalar adjectives (ex. dry, wet, straight, bent, flat, empty …

The structural approach to alternatives (Katzir in Linguist Philos 30 (6): 669–690, 2007; Fox
and Katzir in Nat Lang Semant 19 (1): 87–107, 2011; Katzir in Semantics, pragmatics and …