Cette série explore les thèmes fondamentaux de la théorie sémantique et pragmatique. Chaque volume propose des analyses accessibles mais stimulantes des questions clés pour comprendre les langues naturelles. Des experts renommés réexaminent des concepts établis à la lumière des avancées récentes et introduisent des domaines d'étude émergents. Ces ouvrages constituent des ressources idéales pour les étudiants et les chercheurs souhaitant approfondir leur compréhension du sens linguistique et de son application contextuelle.
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics, and presents the author's new research including in- depth case studies of a number of typologically unrelated languages.
Ideal for advanced students and individual researchers in semantics and pragmatics, as well as related fields such as philosophy. It provides a non- specialized audience with the understanding of what irony is and its numerous manifestations. To specialized readers, its analysis of irony offers a deeper understanding and clarification of this form of human communication.