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Transcending CSS

The Fine Art of Web Design

by Molly E. Holzschlag, Andy Clarke

As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers offer new possibilities for creative design, the art of creating Web sites is also changing. Few Web designers are experiences programmers, and as a result, working with semantic markup and CSS can create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting exceptional... (more)

Metaphors We Live By

by Mark Johnson

"An engaging, accessible discussion, replete with examples, of the varieties of metaphor and how they work."--Mary Sirridge, Teaching Philosophy

Semantics (Introducing Linguistics, 2)

by John I. Saeed

This second edition of Semantics provides an engaging introduction to semantics for students new to the field. This second edition provides an engaging introduction to semantics for students new to the field. Covers the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of research. Contains exercises that familiarize the student with the practice of... (more)

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

by David Weinberger

“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about <the> second-generation Web.”— Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: • Information is now a... (more)

Semantics: A Reader

Semantics: A Reader contains a broad selection of classic articles on semantics and the semantics/pragmatics interface. Comprehensive in the variety and breadth of theoretical frameworks and topics that it covers, it includes articles representative of the major theoretical frameworks within semantics, including: discourse representation theory, dynamic predicate logic, truth theoretic semantics, event semantics,... (more)

Language, Proof and Logic

by Jon Barwise

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for first and second courses in logic. The unique on-line grading services instantly grades solutions to hundred of computer exercises. It is specially devised to be used by philosophy instructors in a way that is useful to undergraduates of philosophy, computer science, mathematics, and linguistics. The book is a completely... (more)

Even Monkeys Fall from Trees: And Other Japanese Proverbs

Even Monkeys Fall from Trees: And Other Japanese Proverbs

by David Galef, Jun HashiPoto

With 100 pithy translations of insightful Japanese proverbs, each accompanied by a humorous illustrations, this collection is both instructional and fun.

Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 2: Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar

Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 2: Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar

by L. T. F. Gamut

Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.

The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: An Introduction (Foundations of Computing)

The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: An Introduction (Foundations of Computing)

by G. Winskel

The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages. These techniques will allow students to invent, formalize, and justify rules with which to reason about a variety of programming languages. Although the treatment is elementary, several of the topics covered are drawn from... (more)

An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, Fourth Edition

An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, Fourth Edition

by John Hospers

I cited the original title in English but my version is published in Spanish by Alianza Editorial (Madrid, Spain, 1980), First Volume, Second Edition, 432 pages. It refers to Philosophy of Language, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy of Logics, Epistemology of Empirical Sciences, and Relations Among Causality, Determinism and Freedom. Translator: Julio César Armero San José. The Spanish version was revised by Néstor... (more)

Relevant Linguistics: An Introduction to the Structure and Use of English for Teachers (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Relevant Linguistics: An Introduction to the Structure and Use of English for Teachers (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

by Paul W. Justice

This revised and expanded edition of Paul W. Justice's popular text provides a straightforward, accessible introduction to the basics of linguistics for education students and all non-linguistics majors, covering the essentials of phonetics, phonology, morphology, morpho-phonology, and syntax. While this overview is accessible to any student, Justice's text will be of particular use in teacher training programs,... (more)

Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon

Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon

by Jean Aitchison

Words in the Mind deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. It discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or ‘mental lexicon, with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers. Discusses the structure and content of the human word-store, or 'mental lexicon'. Features a highly informative and accessible... (more)

Meaning and Grammar - 2nd Edition: An Introduction to Semantics

Meaning and Grammar - 2nd Edition: An Introduction to Semantics

by Gennaro Chierchia

This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification and binding, intensionality and tense, and so on. To set their... (more)

Lexical Semantics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Lexical Semantics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

by D. A. Cruse

Lexical Semantics is about the meaning of words. Although obviously a central concern of linguistics, the semantic behaviour of words has been unduly neglected in the current literature, which has tended to emphasize sentential semantics and its relation to formal systems of logic. In this textbook D. A. Cruse establishes in a principled and disciplined way the descriptive and generalizable facts about lexical... (more)

Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

by Irene Heim

Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the "Government-Binding" model. It covers the fundamental constructions thoroughly with analyses, but goes well beyond that core, providing extensive discussion of quantification, binding and anaphora, and ellipsis. With exercises and guides to further reading,... (more)

Understanding Semantics (Understanding Language Series)

Understanding Semantics (Understanding Language Series)

by Sebastian Lo?bner

Understanding Semantics offers an up-to-date, broad and thorough introduction to linguistic semantics, the field of linguistic meaning central to the understanding of language. The book takes a step-by-step approach, starting with the basic concepts and moving through central questions to an examination of the methods and results of the science of linguistic meaning.

Situations and Individuals (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Situations and Individuals (Current Studies in Linguistics)

by Paul D. Elbourne

In Situations and Individuals , Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals—pronouns, proper names, and definite descriptions—have a common syntax and semantics, roughly that of definite descriptions as construed in the tradition of Frege. In the course of his argument, Elbourne shows that proper names have previously undetected donkey anaphoric... (more)

Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry (Bradford Books)

Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry (Bradford Books)

John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, is one of a handful of contemporary analytic philosophers to combine the focused approach of most current work in analytic philosophy with the more expansive systems-building of earlier analytic philosophers and contemporary philosophers in other disciplines. Perry, like W. V. O. Quine, Donald Davison, David Lewis, and Hilary... (more)

Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures

Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures

by Ruth Garrett Millikan

Many different things are said to have meaning: people mean to do various things; tools and other artifacts are meant for various things; people mean various things by using words and sentences; natural signs mean things; representations in people's minds also presumably mean things. In Varieties of Meaning , Ruth Garrett Millikan argues that these different kinds of meaning can be understood only in relation to... (more)

Studies in the Way of Words

by H. P. Grice

This volume, Grice's first hook, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account... (more)

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