Over 230 commonly used idioms are introduced in reading selections, dialogues, and activities. Their presentation helps learners incorporate common expressions …
Practice your way to a bigger vocabulary and better French skills If you want to expand your language skills, French …
This edited volume demonstrates how an educational linguistics approach to inquiry is well positioned to identify, examine, and theorize the …
The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in …
Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive …
"Introduces a number of easy-to-use, yet powerful, free analysis resources consisting of standalone programs and web interfaces for use with …
The notion of modularity, introduced by Noam Chomsky and developed with special emphasis on perceptual and linguistic processes by Jerry …
This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution. It makes visible the …
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to …
Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of the English Language looks at the dialects of England since 1776, the historical …
The “language-communication-society” triangle defies traditional scientific approaches. Rather, it is a phenomenon that calls for an integration of complex, transdisciplinary …
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that …
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016 — 273 p. — ISBN-10: 3631667809; ISBN-13: 978-3631667804.The author …
The problem of reference is central to the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and epistemology--yet it remains largely unresolved. Naming …
Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have …
In search of the origins of some of the most fundamental problems that have beset philosophers in English-speaking countries in …
A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is …
Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defense of …
This radical reading of Wittgenstein's third and last masterpiece, On Certainty , has major implications for philosophy. It elucidates Wittgenstein's …
Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In On Certainty he discusses central issues in …
This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal …
In this book Searle extends upon his argument in his essay "How to Derive Ought from Is", where he argued …
John Searle (1932-) is one of the most famous living American philosophers. A pupil of J. L. Austin at Oxford …
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, …
Heinz Pagels, an eminent physicist and science writer, discusses and explains the core concepts of physics without resorting to complicated …
This book addresses a growing concern as to why Psychology, now more than a hundred years after becoming an independent …
Rust in Action introduces the Rust programming language by exploring numerous systems programming concepts and techniques. You'll be learning Rust …
Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases …
The eagerly awaited Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) Volume 4 is about a pattern language for distributed computing. The authors will …
Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars …
