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Pragmatics: A Slim Guide

£14.99

Betty J. Birner

9780198828594
Paperback
04 January 2021

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context. Betty Birner explores how we understand the difference between the literal meaning of what is said and what was intended by the speaker, using a wide range of real-life examples.

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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

£16.49

Ray Jackendoff

9780198736455
Paperback
02 April 2015

A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, this is the author's most important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.

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Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics

£14.49

Paul Elbourne

9780199696628
Paperback
06 October 2011

Paul Elbourne explores the complex nature of meaning in crystal clear language. He draws on approaches developed in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology - assuming a knowledge of none of them - in a manner that will appeal to everyone interested in this essential element of human psychology and culture.

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