Figures of Speech exemplifies, analyses and describes different types of figurative meanings, or tropes, and rhythmical schemes in natural verbal language. It should be of interest to anyone who looks for linguistically oriented information about these questions. The book focuses on figurative langu[...]
This book gives an outline of central concepts and questions in semantics - that is the study of language meaning - for university students and other interested readers with some basic knowledge of linguistics. The communication of meaning through most complex verbal language is a unique characteris[...]