Studies in Words

Studies in Words
Title Studies in Words PDF eBook
Author C. S. Lewis
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 356
Release 1990-09-13
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521398312

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C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.

Studies in the Way of Words

Studies in the Way of Words
Title Studies in the Way of Words PDF eBook
Author Paul Grice
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 406
Release 1991-04-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0674254201

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This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His discussion of conversational implicatures has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers and linguists about presupposition. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. This is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.

Words and Phrases

Words and Phrases
Title Words and Phrases PDF eBook
Author Michael Stubbs
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 292
Release 2001-10-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0631208321

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This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.

Native Studies Keywords

Native Studies Keywords
Title Native Studies Keywords PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 369
Release 2015-05-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 081650170X

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Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge. Each section includes three or four essays and provides definitions, meanings, and significance to the concept, lending a historical, social, and political context. Take sovereignty, for example. The word has served as the battle cry for social justice in Indian Country. But what is the meaning of sovereignty? Native peoples with diverse political beliefs all might say they support sovereignty—without understanding fully the meaning and implications packed in the word. The field of Native studies is filled with many such words whose meanings are presumed, rather than articulated or debated. Consequently, the foundational terms within Native studies always have multiple and conflicting meanings. These terms carry the colonial baggage that has accrued from centuries of contested words. Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. It is the first book to examine the foundational concepts of Native American studies, offering multiple perspectives and opening a critical new conversation.

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies
Title The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies PDF eBook
Author Stuart Webb
Publisher Routledge
Pages 619
Release 2019-07-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1000005569

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The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this Handbook: • brings together a wide range of approaches to learning words to provide clarity on how best vocabulary might be taught and learned; • provides a comprehensive discussion of the key issues and challenges in vocabulary studies, with research taken from the past 40 years; • includes chapters on both formulaic language as well as single-word items; • features original contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research. The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies is an essential text for those interested in teaching, learning, and researching vocabulary.

Keywords in Composition Studies

Keywords in Composition Studies
Title Keywords in Composition Studies PDF eBook
Author Paul Heilker
Publisher Boynton/Cook
Pages 260
Release 1996
Genre Education
ISBN

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Keywords in Composition Studies is the first systematic inquiry into the vocabulary of writing teachers and theorists. In brief yet heavily researched essays, contributors explore the development of and interconnections among fifty-five of the most consequential words in the field. It is with these critical terms that the contemporary field of composition has been composed, and in this sense, Keywords in Composition Studies is an introduction to the principal ideas and ideals of compositionists. Yet this book is neither a dictionary nor an encyclopedia; it does not attempt to capture the established knowledge of a unified discipline through its vocabulary but rather explores the multiple layers of meaning inhabiting the words writing teachers and theorists have depended and continue to depend on most. Each essay begins with the assumption that its central term is important precisely because its meaning is open, overdetermined. The purpose of each essay is to foreground a range of meaning signified by its central term rather than to pinpoint a meaning. In this sense, Keywords in Composition Studies is a practical model for reading the texts of an expanding and unsettled field.

Semantics of Complex Words

Semantics of Complex Words
Title Semantics of Complex Words PDF eBook
Author Laurie Bauer
Publisher Springer
Pages 324
Release 2015-03-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3319141023

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This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.