Reading Images
This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first...
EAN: 9780415672573
Signs In Law - A Source Book
Together, the materials in this book weave the fabric of semiotics and significs, two names for...
EAN: 9783319343181
Verb Sense Discovery in Mandarin Chinese—A Corpus based Knowledge-Intensive Approach
EAN: 9783662515549
Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China
This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language...
EAN: 9783662515181
Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis
EAN: 9781138245198
Semiotics and Verbal Texts
Using a wealth of examples from the BP story to illustrate her practical research approach,...
EAN: 9781137587480
Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film
Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland...
EAN: 9781349433759
Angel’s Corpse
With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed...
EAN: 9781349421558
Figurative Thinking and Foreign Language Learning
Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of...
EAN: 9781349544998
Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting...
EAN: 9781349516308
Perspectives on Complementation
This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and...
EAN: 9781349496914
Semantic Under-determinacy and Communication
Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past...
EAN: 9781349485345
Teaching and Learning Signed Languages
Teaching and Learning Signed Languages examines current practices, contexts, and the research...
EAN: 9781349457281
Varieties of Tone
In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines...
EAN: 9781349442591
Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology
This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of...
EAN: 9781349440764
Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics
Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving...
EAN: 9781349440092
Syntax of Imperatives in English and Germanic
This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a...
EAN: 9781349432059
Translating Popular Film
A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their...
EAN: 9781349364930
Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping
An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of...
EAN: 9781349338702
Assessing English Proficiency for University Study
This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of...
EAN: 9781349330287
Multimodal Texts from Around the World
A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by...
EAN: 9781349321407
Politeness Across Cultures
This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures....
EAN: 9781349314560
Alliteration in Culture
Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including...
EAN: 9781349313013
