Language and Linguistics

Product Description This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes "big picture" questions to highlight central themes in morphology as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction...

Book Description Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages...

Book Description 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...

Book Description This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts...

Description This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. This practical volume provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for commentary and analysis. There are further...

DESCRIPTION What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology, which has been revised and expanded to include additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, experimental and computational methods, and new teaching material. Introduces...

What Logics Mean From Proof Theory to Model-Theoretic Semantics $8 AUTHOR: James W. Garson , University of Houston DATE PUBLISHED: December 2013 AVAILABILITY: Available FORMAT: E-Book ISBN: 9781107039100 Description What do the rules of logic say about the meanings of the symbols they govern? In this...

Description Product Description The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics...

Product Description The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors...

Book Description Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing...

Words and Meanings Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka Description In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract,...