The way in which an event is packaged linguistically can be informative about the number of participants in the event and the nature of their participation. At times, however, a sentence is ambiguous, ...

The ‘question under discussion’ (or ‘QUD’) framework is a pragmatic framework that draws on work in the semantics of questions to provide an appealing account of a range of pragmatic phenomena, ...

The Department of Linguistics at Stanford University may have a position available for a visiting faculty member to teach graduate and undergraduate courses and advise students in the field of ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Cognitive Linguistics" book to their offering. In the past few decades, cognitive linguistics has developed into one of ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

I joined DMU in 2015 and am a VC2020 senior lecturer in English Language. My research interests are pragmatics and philosophy of language, specifically the nature of word meanings and concepts, and ...

The Early Circles program at CU Boulder offers information and coaching to families with children with Down syndrome. During the summer of 2016, I participated in the Early Circles internship through ...