Alibris UK: Semantics

AUDIOBOOKS | NEW BOOKS OF NOTE | BARGAIN BOOKS | Find a seller

» advanced search

Save on a few of their favourite things: Give bargain books

Get your gifts by December 24: Learn how

browse BOOKS

Page 1 of 20

sort by

1	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language more books like this by Professor David Crystal add to wishlist Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal answers these and other questions about language. From hieroglyphics to trucker talk, from Shakespeare in pidgin to sneezing in Tongan, this is a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.97! \| first editions
2	Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition more books like this by Samuel I Hayakawa, Robert MacNeil (Illustrator), Alan R Hayakawa add to wishlist In this thoroughly revised, updated edition of his classic "Language in Thought and Action, " S.I. Hayakawa discusses the role of language in human life, the many functions of language, and how language - sometimes without our knowing - shapes our thinking. The author writes provocatively about the relationship between language and racial and ... see all copies from £5.62! new only from £6.72! \| first editions
3	Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G E M Anscombe add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the center of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ever since. This revised German-English edition is ... see all copies from £16.92! new only from £18.36! \| first editions
4	Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings more books like this by Charles Earle Funk add to wishlist Whether it's like "a bump on a log" or "a bat out of hell, " these expressions have been around forever. Dr. Funk explains over 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings have an ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
5	Elements of semiology more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist "In his "Course in General Linguistics," first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £7.39! \| first editions
6	Language in thought and action more books like this by Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa add to wishlist An introduction to the study of semantics, which examines human interaction through communication, toward a more sophisticated understanding of the role of language in life, the complex functions language performs and the way language, sometimes without knowing, shapes our thinking. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £13.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Language: Introductory Readings more books like this by Virginia P Clark add to wishlist Language: Introductory Readings offers forty-four thematically arranged readings on crucial topics in linguistics. This new edition offers fourteen new selections and five commissioned selections have been specially updated. Substantial apparatus incudes part introductions, head- notes for each selection, and selected bibliographies and projects ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £12.46! \| first editions
8	Devil's Dictionary more books like this by Ambrose Bierce add to wishlist Originally titled "The Cynic's Word Book", this classic of satire was written by a man who defined a cynic as "a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they might be." see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	A rhetoric of motives more books like this by Kenneth Burke add to wishlist As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely aesthetic and literary; but after "Counter-Statement" (1931), he began to discriminate a 'rhetorical' or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct. In "A Grammar of Motives" (1945) and "A Rhetoric of Motives" (1950), ... see all copies from £12.46! new only from £19.31! \| first editions
10	The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World more books like this by Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Stephen Matthews add to wishlist The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture. Today, scientists and scholars are rendering these origins less obscure with clues from linguistic and archaeological evidence. Written by a panel of eminent linguists, this book guides the general reader through the mysterious and exciting world of languages and ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £20.15! \| first editions
11	Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1: Introduction to Logic more books like this by L T F Gamut, Babette Greiner (Translator), Michael Morreau (Translator) add to wishlist The Dutch not only have what must be the greatest number of linguists per capita in the world, they also have a very long and rich tradition of combining linguistics, logic, and philosophy of language. So it should not be a surprise that it is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Dutch scholars that has produced the first comprehensive ... see all copies from £7.83! new only from £19.00! \| first editions
12 view cover	Words Words Words more books like this by Professor David Crystal add to wishlist "Words, Words, Words" is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life f its own: it only exists in the mouths and ears, hands, eyes and brains of its users. As we are guided expertly and ... see all copies from £1.96! new only from £3.70!
13 view cover	A Grammar of Motives more books like this by Kenneth Burke add to wishlist Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are ... see all copies from £11.22! new only from £17.81! \| first editions
14 view cover	An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method more books like this by James Paul Gee add to wishlist James Paul Gee presents here his unique integrated approach to discourse analysis: the analysis of spoken and written language as it is used to enact social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, James Paul Gee presents both a theory of language-in-use, as well as a method of research. This method is ... see all copies from £11.31! new only from £11.31! \| first editions
15 view cover	Tractatus Logico Philosophicus more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist In his proposal of the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis, Wittgenstein sets the stage for the development of logical positivism. Introduction by Bertrand Russell. see all copies from £4.83! new only from £6.86! \| first editions
16 view cover	Philosophical investigations more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy. The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe's ... see all copies from £9.86! new only from £17.97! \| first editions
17 view cover	Syntactic Structures more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a ... see all copies from £10.14! new only from £16.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics more books like this by Alfred Korzybski add to wishlist see all copies from £29.29! new only from £66.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. see all copies from £13.46! new only from £20.18! \| first editions
20 view cover	Studies in Words more books like this by C. S. Lewis add to wishlist Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and ... see all copies from £3.87! new only from £14.33! \| first editions
21 view cover	Language: The Social Mirror more books like this by Elaine Chaika add to wishlist Discusses the ways people use language in society with chapters on kinesics, dialect, and bilingualism. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
22	Story of Language more books like this by Mario Pei add to wishlist see all copies from £1.57! new only from £53.33! \| first editions
23 view cover	Buckley: The Right Word more books like this by William F Buckley, Jr., Samuel S Vaughan (Editor) add to wishlist Aside from his considerable political persona, William F. Buckley is remarkably skilled in his understanding and usage of the English language. Here, for the first time and in one volume, is the complete Buckley on words: a collection of his provocative thoughts on the uses and abuses of language; ideas on usage, style, and speaking; on diction ... see all copies from £7.06! new only from £16.90! \| first editions
24 view cover	Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times more books like this by Geoffrey Nunberg add to wishlist The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd. He pronounces that "Blog is a syllable whose time has come" and that "You don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right", ... see all copies from £1.94! new only from £3.74! \| first editions
25	The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this title, MIT Professor Steven Pinker explains the origins of language and its evolution, the instinctive way we use language, and the relationships between 'proper' languages and slang, pidgins, and other 'improper' versions. see all copies from £2.48! new only from £16.80! \| signed copies \| first editions

Page 1 of 20: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by Professor David Crystal see all from £5.61! new only from £20.53!
	Blue & Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein see all from £6.09! new only from £10.04!
	Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins by Charles E Funk see all from £4.98! new only from £5.61!
	Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Professor Noam Chomsky see all from £5.48! new only from £15.86!
	Symbol, Status, and Personality by Samuel I Hayakawa see all from £4.98! new only from £11.83!
	The discarded image; an introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature by C. S. Lewis see all from £8.10! new only from £8.10!