Språkfilosofi

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics. SCA broad...

Läs mer »

This books delineates the seismic shifts of the twentieth century humanities by way of a close examination of the dynamic landscape of modern language, criticism and philosophy. In this manner, it argues that both philosophy and literary criticism...

Läs mer »

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr. Lvia Mathias Simo, senior professor at ...

Läs mer »

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr. Livia Mathias Simao, senior professor a...

Läs mer »

This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeologi...

Läs mer »

This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeologi...

Läs mer »

In diesem Buch geht es um die faszinierende Fhigkeit der menschlichen Sprache, mit Hilfe winziger (mikrosemantischer) Morpheme als Hilfsmittel komplizierte logische (mathematische) Bedeutungen auszudrcken. Sprachen markieren Bedeutungen mit identi...

Läs mer »

This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills. The author reveals that although the need for eye contact is an innate ...

Läs mer »

This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills. The author reveals that although the need for eye contact is an innate ...

Läs mer »

This successful textbook on the psychology of communication explains - here in English for the first time - how human communication works in a very understandable way. It begins with the explanation of central terms and the explanation of known co...

Läs mer »

This open access book is a superb collection of some fifteen chapters inspired by Schroeder-Heister's groundbreaking work, written by leading experts in the field, plus an extensive autobiography and comments on the various contributions by S...

Läs mer »

This open access book is a superb collection of some fifteen chapters inspired by Schroeder-Heister's groundbreaking work, written by leading experts in the field, plus an extensive autobiography and comments on the various contributions by S...

Läs mer »

This book honors the original and influential work by Gran Sundholm in the fields of the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics. Borne from two conferences held in Paris and Leiden on the occasion of Gran Sundholms retirement in 2019, the...

Läs mer »

This book provides a fully developed account of Frank Ramsey's theory of conditionals. No proper study of Ramsey's view of conditionals has been carried out so far. This work aims at filling this gap. The book is divided in two parts and...

Läs mer »

This book explores African philosophic sagacity, or wisdom philosophy, as proposed by Odera Oruka in his Four Trends in Current African Philosophy (1981), which he later expanded to six trends (1998). Oruka defines philosophic sagacity as wisdom p...

Läs mer »

William Lycan is an internationally renowned American philosopher whose work since the late 1960s has been not only extensive but also influential, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics,...

Läs mer »

This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition. There has been much discussion of metaphor in the past, but it was characterized by a certain fragmentation and lacked interdisciplinarity...

Läs mer »

Making a contribution to the still under-researched translation history of Vernes Extraordinary Journeys, this book examines the causes of a selection of renderings from French into English of the 1873 Jules Verne novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-...

Läs mer »

The French mathematician Ren Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic...

Läs mer »

The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The controversy between semantic minimalists and conte...

Läs mer »

This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It applies non-truth-conditional semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earl...

Läs mer »

This book embraces the epistemological and methodological issues of theoretical construction in the field of Translation Studies from a historical and global perspective. The theoretical stances are explained in detail through a systemic inquiry i...

Läs mer »

Language as reason represents the unifying theme of this multifaceted reflection on Eddo Rigottis scientific contribution offered by his students and colleagues on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Spanning argumentation theory, linguistics...

Läs mer »

All the chapters in this volume somehow and quite diversely, directly or indirectly, address the relation of Wittgensteins philosophy, or at least of Wittgenstein- inspired philosophical thought, with scepticism, here generally envisaged as a many...

Läs mer »

Language requires investigation within a broad framework, which can only be achieved if the elements studied belong to all realms of verbal (and to some extent non-verbal) communication. Grammar is merely the systematized aspect of language: by dr...

Läs mer »

English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction in European higher education not only in northern countries, but also in the European south. This volume is fruit of a project which was carried out in a public university based in the north-...

Läs mer »

English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction in European higher education not only in northern countries, but also in the European 'south'. This volume is fruit of a project which was carried out in a public university based in the nort...

Läs mer »

English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction in European higher education not only in northern countries, but also in the European 'south'. This volume is fruit of a project which was carried out in a public university based in the nort...

Läs mer »

Ce volume propose de mettre en regard divers modeles europeens discursifs et/ou textuels. La plupart des rencontres scientifiques de ces vingt dernieres annees jouent sur les contrastes, or une histoire contemporaine ou encore une geographie des i...

Läs mer »

Ce volume propose de mettre en regard divers modeles europeens discursifs et/ou textuels. La plupart des rencontres scientifiques de ces vingt dernieres annees jouent sur les contrastes, or une histoire contemporaine ou encore une geographie des i...

Läs mer »