Language evolves as cultural, technological, and societal forces redefine meaning over time. The analysis explains how metaphor, metonymy, and contact trigger semantic shifts, showcased through case studies of evolving words. Digital media and globalization further accelerate these shifts, intriguing scholars.

The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences.

This Element covers the interaction of two research areas: linguistic semantics and deep learning. It focuses on three phenomena central to natural language interpretation: reasoning and inference; compositionality; extralinguistic grounding.

This Element covers the interaction of two research areas: linguistic semantics and deep learning. It focuses on three phenomena central to natural language interpretation: reasoning and inference; compositionality; extralinguistic grounding.

This book describes economic value as a representational phenomenon and considers what is involved when people represent value to themselves and to others. It provides an original and thorough account of value from a pragmatic and interactionist perspective.

A comprehensive examination of the Zodiac as a semiotic code spanning various aspects of the meanings and functions of zodiacal systems.

This fifth edition of the bestselling textbook is a major new revision, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. A must-have guide for students of language, communication, media, and cultural studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

This fifth edition of the bestselling textbook is a major new revision, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. A must-have guide for students of language, communication, media, and cultural studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The book interprets Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, focusing on language, logic, and the sense of propositions, then examines its ethical and value-oriented themes. It analyzes the work's concluding remarks on ethics, situating them within its scientific worldview and highlighting parallels with authors Wittgenstein read and admired, presenting an enduring conception of the ethical.