Books written by Brigitte Nerlich

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  Language, Action, and Context: The Early History of Pragmatics in Europe and America, 1780-1930

  ment of meaning, and of context and reference respectively, Stout and Ogden & Richards after him, used a specific example from Lloyd Morgan's (1852– 1936)Habit and Instinct(1896:41). Morgan was a well-established member of the Welby ...

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  Language, Action and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780–1930

  The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, when they were once more relegated to the philosophical and linguistic underground.

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  Language, Action, and Context: The Early History of Pragmatics in Europe and America, 1780-1930

  Language, Action, and Context: The Early History of Pragmatics in Europe and America, 1780-1930

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  Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830-1930: From Etymology to Contextuality

  This book aims to destroy some of these prejudices and to show that in Europe semantics was an important, although controversial, area at that time.

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  Science and the politics of openness: Here be monsters

  Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith.

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  Mixing Methods in Psychology: The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice

  This book looks in detail at the problems involved in attempting to reconcile qualitative and quantitative methods, providing both theoretical and methodological guidance as well as practical examples of how methods can be fruitfully ...

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  Mixing Methods in Psychology: The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice

  This groundbreaking text will be essential reading for students and researchers wishing to combine methods, or for anyone who simply wants to get a better understanding of the debate.

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  Climate Change Communication and the Internet

  This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Communication.

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  Tropical Truth(s): The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes

  ... side. Having taken effect, it of course serves to reinforce the target-side message, so that the first clause is indirectly having an effect. But the point is that there is no need to give the first clause its own metaphorical meaning ...

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  The Politics of Food

  Is shopping for food really a political act? Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry? Why did the French...

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  Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language

  Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints.