Semiotics & semiology books

1248 books were found.

Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological...

Author: Timo Maran
ISBN: 9783319843735
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative...  Read More >>

Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics

Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a Naturalistic...

Author: Antonino Pennisi ,  Alessandra Falzone
ISBN: 9783319837970
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic...  Read More >>

Sounds, Societies, Significations: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Sounds, Societies, Significations: Numanistic Approaches...

Author: Rima Povilionienė
ISBN: 9783319836522
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that...  Read More >>

Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

Author: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis ,  Zhaohui Luo
ISBN: 9783319843971
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Themes that are covered include modern developments of type theories in formal semantics, foundational issues in...  Read More >>

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

Author: Keith Allan ,  Alessandro Capone
ISBN: 9783319828381
Format: Paperback
$388.10

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important...  Read More >>

Alternative Sets in Language Processing: How Focus Alternatives are Represented in the Mind

Alternative Sets in Language Processing: How Focus Alternatives...

Author: Nicole Gotzner
ISBN: 9783319849799
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives....  Read More >>

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives...

Author: Chungmin Lee ,  Ferenc Kiefer
ISBN: 9783319791685
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This volume contributes to a major area of research in linguistics of the last decade, and provides novel, state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Semiotics and Verbal Texts: How the News Media Construct a Crisis

Semiotics and Verbal Texts: How the News Media Construct...

Author: Jane Gravells
ISBN: 9781349954568
Format: Paperback
$226.95

Using a wealth of examples from the BP story to illustrate her practical research approach, Gravells draws ‘language...  Read More >>

Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use

Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic...

Author: Peter Mickan ,  Elise Lopez
ISBN: 9781349955879
Format: Paperback
$226.95

This book will be of interest to anyone researching in the fields of language learning and teaching, functional...  Read More >>

Pragmatics and Law: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

Pragmatics and Law: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives...

Author: Francesca Poggi ,  Alessandro Capone
ISBN: 9783319830919
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among...  Read More >>

Objects of Inquiry in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Objects of Inquiry in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics...

Author: Piotr Stalmaszczyk
ISBN: 9783631748602
Format: Hardback
$124.98

This book investigates the possible common objects of inquiry in philosophy of language and literature. Topics discussed...  Read More >>

Instructional Process and Concepts in Theory and Practice: Improving the Teaching Process

Instructional Process and Concepts in Theory and Practice:...

Author: Celal Akdeniz
ISBN: 9789811096389
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book offers an accessible, practical and engaging guide that provides sample instructional activities supported...  Read More >>

Text Linguistics and Classical Studies: Dressler and De Beaugrande’s Procedural Approach

Text Linguistics and Classical Studies: Dressler and...

Author: Mauro Giuffrè
ISBN: 9783319838625
Format: Paperback
$194.04

The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. It...  Read More >>

Embodiment in Language (II): Food, Emotion and Beyond

Embodiment in Language (II): Food, Emotion and Beyond...

Author: Shelley Ching-yu Depner
ISBN: 9789811094491
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors...  Read More >>

Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English: Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large Corpora

Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English: Studies on...

Author: Juhani Rudanko
ISBN: 9783319834887
Format: Paperback
$129.35

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Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice: The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics

Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice: The Theory...

Author: T. Price Caldwell ,  Oliver Cresswell
ISBN: 9783319754406
Format: Hardback
$204.41

The remaining four papers connect Caldwell’s theoretical insights to his life-long interests in fiction and pedagogy.The...  Read More >>

Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation: Rhetoric, Interpretation and Hexadic Semiosis

Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy...

Author: Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France)
ISBN: 9781350074392
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The...  Read More >>

Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion

Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion

Author: Prakash Mondal
ISBN: 9783319815749
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account...  Read More >>

Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish: A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish:...

Author: Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
ISBN: 9783319841281
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish....  Read More >>

Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words

Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication...

Author: Cliff Goddard
ISBN: 9783319873329
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the...  Read More >>

Metamorphoses of the Absolute

Metamorphoses of the Absolute

Author: Otto Neumaier ,  Daina Teters
ISBN: 9781527513204
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion...  Read More >>

Iconicity and Abduction

Iconicity and Abduction

Author: Gianluca Caterina ,  Rocco Gangle
ISBN: 9783319830193
Format: Paperback
$206.97

Peirce's concept of iconic signs is treated in depth, and it is shown how Peirce's diagrammatic logical notation...  Read More >>

Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics

Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics

Author: Paul Cobley
ISBN: 9789402414196
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. It shows...  Read More >>

Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics

Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism,...

Author: Johannes Beetz
ISBN: 9781349955848
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Every materialist theory of the subject depends on a conception of materiality, which can delineate the character...  Read More >>

Conversations Around Semiotic Engineering

Conversations Around Semiotic Engineering

Author: Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa ,  Karin Breitman
ISBN: 9783319858784
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Demonstrating the influence of Semiotic Engineering in Human-Computer Interaction, this book focuses on the work...  Read More >>

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