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The New York Times Book of Language and Linguistics
Nicholas Wade
Paperback - $29.95
The best journalism on language and linguistics from the Tuesday section of "The New York Times."
What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. (1903)
Victoria L. Welby
Hardcover - $411.95
The Structure of Metaphor : The Way the Language of Metaphor Works
Roger White
Hardcover - $149.95
This volume provides a philosophical introduction to, and analysis of, the study of metaphor. By proceeding from the concrete analysis of complex metaphors, White is able to identify a range of features which are incompatible with standard accounts o ...
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition : Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations
Anna Wierzbicka
Paperback - $145.95
Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects a ...