Language Arts & Disciplines : Semantics

Providing a throrough reveiw of rhetorical theory and practices found in ancient Greece and Rome, this volume places it in its historical context. Each chapter consists of a systematic essay reviewing the historical developments and rhetorical works of specific periods. more...

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Time in Natural Language investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the domain of tense. Assuming that tenses are semantically composed of three distinct times, Thompson proposes that these times m more...

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Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? The answer to this question has very important consequences for both theoretical and applied concerns in linguistics and education. This book is distinctive in giving an historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the rule- based and experience-based debate and in supporting an integrated account. In the study reported here, variation was found to be due to differences in syntactic competence and the author argues that sentence comprehension is a learned skill, displaying many of the general characteristics of cognitive skills. The book will be stimulating reading for psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, applied linguists and educators. more...

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Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. more...

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Integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, and attempts to design and corroborate an account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. This reference is useful for scholars and students interested in the vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics. more...

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