Forthcoming Semantics Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Structures and Strategies

   By Adriana Belletti

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax and the syntax of verb-related phenomena of agreement and...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Semantic Prosody

   A Critical Evaluation

   By Dominic Stewart

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Understanding Semantics, Second Edition

   By Sebastian Löbner

   Series: Understanding Language

   Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context,...

   To Be Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
4. On Shell Structure

   By Richard K. Larson

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light...

   To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics

   From the True to the Good

   By Samuel C Wheeler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world. Contemporary meta-ethics ignores questions...

   To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction

   By Tamar Sovran

   Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

   This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate words reveal the infrastructure of the...

   To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Introducing English Semantics

   2nd Edition

   By Charles Kreidler

   Introducing English Semantics, Second Edition is an accessible and practical introduction to understanding how meanings are expressed in the English language. Presenting the basic principles of the discipline of semantics, this newly revised edition explores the knowledge of language that speakers...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
8. Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

   By Sabine Maasen, Peter Weingart

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. Language and Philosophical Problems

   By Sören Stenlund

   Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. It deals in particular with problems which are connected with our tendency to be misled by certain prevailing views and preconceptions about language. Philosophical...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Film Discourse Interpretation

    Towards a New Paradigm for Multimodal Film Analysis

    By Janina Wildfeuer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    This book contributes to the analysis of film from a multimodal and textual perspective by extending formal semantics into the realm of multimodal discourse analysis. It accounts for both the inferential as well as intersemiotic meaning making processes in filmic discourse and therefore addresses...

    To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge