M Tamariz - Physics of Life Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Humans are fundamentally defined by our socially transmitted, often long-lived, sophisticated cultural traits. The nature of cultural transmission is the subject of ongoing …
Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction …
Revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments in the field, Semantics, 4th Edition, presents an engaging and accessible introduction to the study of meaning in …
D Wilson, D Sperber - The handbook of pragmatics, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …
Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …
A cognitive linguistics view of terminology and specialized language A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language Page 2 Applications of Cognitive …
Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the …
Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field …
Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of …