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Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics
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 Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics
Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism.
 
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Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide
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Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical GuideUsing Computers in Linguistics provides a non-technical introduction to recent developments in linguistic computing and offers specific guidance to the linguist or language professional who wishes to take advantage of them. Written by a team of expert contributors, each essay focuses on a different aspect of the interaction of computing and linguistics. The book features a glossary of technical terms, including acronyms, chapter appendices which list and review relevant resources such as books, software and URL's.
 
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Language Teaching: Integrational Linguistic Approaches
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Language Teaching: Integrational Linguistic Approacheslanguage Teaching demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology in which signs are the situated products of interactants interpretive behaviour, mean that it radically reconceptualizes language learning and language teaching.
 
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Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as Architecture for Function
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Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as Architecture for FunctionStudies in Discourse and Grammar is a monograph series providing a forum for research on grammar as it emerges from and is accounted for by discourse contexts.

 
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Economics and Language
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Economics and LanguageThis short book comprises five essays investigating both the economics of language and the language of economics. Ariel Rubinstein touches on the structure imposed on binary relations in daily language, the evolutionary development of the meaning of words, game-theoretical considerations of pragmatics, the language of economic agents and the rhetoric of game theory.

 
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