Search results for ‘Stephen C. Levinson’

Filter & Refine

      Cover image for The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Dark Matter of Pragmatics

      Stephen C. Levinson

      This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. It thus offers a brief review of some central areas of…

      $158.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Dark Matter of Pragmatics

      Stephen C. Levinson

      This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. It thus offers a brief review of some central areas of…

      $53.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for A Grammar of Yeli Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      A Grammar of Yeli Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island

      Stephen C. Levinson

      This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea, remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language…

      $371.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for Pragmatics
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Pragmatics

      Stephen C. Levinson

      This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. The exposition is always clear and supported…

      $101.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature

      Stephen C. Levinson

      This discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding integrates research in linguistic pragmatics from the 1980s-1990s. The text outlines a theory of presumptive meanings governing the use of language, building…

      $242.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      A Grammar of Yeli Dnye

      Stephen C. Levinson

      84104105115321051153297329911110911211410110410111011510511810132100101115991141051121161051111103211110232973210897110103117971031013211511211110710111032111102102115104111114101321021141111093280971121179732781011193271117105110101974432114101109

      $60.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

      Stephen C. Levinson (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands)

      Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought.

      $92.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

      Stephen C. Levinson (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands)

      Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought.

      $224.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Rethinking Linguistic Relativity
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

      Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic…

      $106.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

      In this collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they…

      $91.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction

      This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom.

      $283.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction

      This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom.

      $79.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

      In this collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they…

      $261.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

      Penelope Brown (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands),Stephen C. Levinson (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands)

      This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in…

      $88.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

      Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in…

      $214.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

      Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in…

      $71.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order