This is the first text on language in communication written from
a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their
broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts.
500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the
English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade
of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not
alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known
year that each word was printed or written down. If Shakespeare were
alive today, he would buy this book.
From antiquity, the phenomenon of speech has been an object of both general curiosity and scientific inquiry. Over the centuries, much effort has been devoted to the study of this remarkable process whereby our eating and breathing apparatus is used to transform thoughts in the mind of a speaker into vibrations in the air and back into congruent thoughts in the mind of a listener. Although we still do not have satisfactory answers to many of the questions about speech and language that the ancients pondered, we do have substantial scientific knowledge of the subject and an evolving technology based on it.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
the positions of adjectives and
adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained
semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are
to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant
structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and
adverbs, to
highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal
the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and
compositional semantics.
The editors open the book with an
overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the
remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students
of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also
appeal to researchers in philosophy,
psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.
Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell gives readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English.
Consists
of a series of original essays written by prominent specialists in the
field in honour of the eminent Oxford scholar, Bruce Mitchell
(co-author of the best-selling textbook A Guide to Old English, 6th edition, Blackwell, 2001).
Encourages readers to engage with the literary, cultural, intellectual, religious and historical contexts of Old English texts.
Explores the problems scholars face in interpreting and editing Old English texts.
Highlights the essential secondary literature for each topic.
Each
of the contributors writes in a straightforward and authoritative
style, drawing out connections between different contexts and pointing
readers towards the essential secondary literature for each topic.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
