Esta serie profundiza en los temas fundamentales de la teoría semántica y pragmática. Cada volumen ofrece exploraciones accesibles pero desafiantes sobre cuestiones clave en la comprensión de las lenguas naturales. Expertos líderes reexaminan conceptos establecidos a la luz de avances recientes e introducen áreas emergentes de estudio. Los libros son recursos ideales para estudiantes y académicos que buscan una comprensión más profunda del significado lingüístico y su aplicación contextual.
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.