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本期持续推荐的语义学书单如下：
1.Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming
2.Semantics of Complex Words
3.Translation as Metaphor
4.The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
5.Typology, Diachrony and Processing (Mouton Reader)
6.Sentence and Information Structure
7.Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases and Adjectives (Mouton Reader)
8.An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach
9.Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach
10.Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Semantic Rhetoric
1.Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming
书名：
Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming
作者：Alberto Amato, Vincenzo Di Lecce, Vincenzo Piuri
ISBN :978-1461454854
出版时间：2012年9月
出版社： Springer
图书简介：
Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behaviour in Video Streaming investigates the semantic analysis of the human behaviour captured by video streaming, and introduces both theoretical and technological points of view. Video analysis based on the semantic content is in fact still an open issue for the computer vision research community, especially when real-time analysis of complex scenes is concerned. This book explores an innovative, original approach to human behaviour analysis and understanding by using the syntactical symbolic analysis of images and video streaming described by means of strings of symbols. A symbol is associated to each area of the analyzed scene. When a moving object enters an area, the corresponding symbol is appended to the string describing the motion. This approach allows for characterizing the motion of a moving object with a word composed by symbols. By studying and classifying these words we can categorize and understand the various behaviours. The main advantage of this approach lies in the simplicity of the scene and motion descriptions so that the behaviour analysis will have limited computational complexity due to the intrinsic nature both of the representations and the related operations used to manipulate them. Besides, the structure of the representations is well suited for possible parallel processing, thus allowing for speeding up the analysis when appropriate hardware architectures are used. A new methodology for design systems for hierarchical high semantic level analysis of video streaming in narrow domains is also proposed. Guidelines to design your own system are provided in this book. Designed for practitioners, computer scientists and engineers working within the fields of human computer interaction, surveillance, image processing and computer vision, this book can also be used as secondary text book for advanced-level students in computer science and engineering.
2.Semantics of Complex Words
书名：
Semantics of Complex Words
作者：Laurie Bauer, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer
ISBN : 978-3319141015
出版时间：2015年3月
出版社：Springer
图书简介：This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.
3.Translation as Metaphor
书名：
Translation as Metaphor
作者：Mona Baker, Gabriela Saldanha
ISBN : 978-1138593701
出版时间：2018年3月
出版社：Routledge
图书简介：
In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many cross-disciplinary movements they imply. In five chapters, this book examines:
· The main metaphor theories developed in the West.
· The way the notion of metaphor relates to the concept of translation.
· Different theoretical perspectives on metaphors of translation in translation studies.
· The main metaphors developed to describe translation in the West and in the East.
· Spatial metaphors within translation studies, cultural studies and postcolonial theory
· The use of the metaphor of translation across psychoanalysis, anthropology and ethnography, postcolonial theory, history and literature, sociology, media and communication theory, and medicine and genetics.
Comprehensive analysis of key metaphor theories, revealing examples from a wide range of sources and a look towards future directions make this is a must-have book for students, researchers and translators working in the areas of translation and translation theory.
4.The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
书名：
The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
作者： Shalom Lappin , Chris Fox
ISBN : 978-1119046820
出版时间：2018年12月
出版社：Wiley-Blackwell
图书简介：
The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics.
Features completely new content from the first edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
Features contributions by leading semanticists, who introduce core areas of contemporary semantic research, while discussing current research
Suitable for graduate students for courses in semantic theory and for advanced researchers as an introduction to current theoretical work
5.Typology, Diachrony and Processing (Mouton Reader)
书名：
Typology, Diachrony and Processing (Mouton Reader)
作者：Klaus Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn , Paul Portner
ISBN : 3110587246
出版时间：2019年 2月
出版社：Mouton De Gruyter
图书简介：Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language.
6.Sentence and Information Structure
书名：
Sentence and Information Structure
作者：Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Von Heusinger
ISBN : 3110587246
出版时间：2019年2月
出版社：Mouton De Gruyter
图书简介：
Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.
作者简介：
Claudia Maienborn, Tübingen, Germany; Klaus von Heusinger, Köln, Germany; Paul Portner, Washington D.C., USA.
7.Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases and Adjectives (Mouton Reader)
书名：
Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases and Adjectives (Mouton Reader)
作者：Paul Portner Klaus Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn
ISBN : 3110587211
出版时间：2019年2月
出版社：Mouton De Gruyter
图书简介：
Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.
作者简介：
Claudia Maienborn, Tübingen, Germany; Klaus von Heusinger, Köln, Germany; Paul Portner, Washington D.C., USA.
8.An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach
书名：
An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach
作者：Igor Mel'čuk , Jasmina Milićević
ISBN : 978-1108481625
出版时间：2020年3月
出版社： Cambridge University Press
图书简介：
This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as an organized set of rules that connect a representation of meaning (Semantic Representation) to a representation of the sentence (Deep-Syntactic Representation). The approach is particularly interesting for computer assisted language learning, natural language processing and computational lexicography, as our linguistic rules easily lend themselves to formalization and computer applications. The model combines abstract theoretical constructions with numerous linguistic descriptions, as well as multiple practice exercises that provide a solid hands-on approach to learning how to describe natural language semantics.9.Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach
书名：
Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach
作者：Egbert Fortuin, Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren
ISBN : 978-1108476805
出版时间：2022年10月
出版社： Cambridge University Press
Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features.
10.Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Semantic Rhetoric
书名：
Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Semantic Rhetoric
作者：Qiaoyun Liao , Lijun Meng
ISBN :978-1032360843
出版时间：2022年10月
出版社： Routledge
图书简介：This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough in the study of the relationship between the source domain and target domain involved in the construction of semantic rhetorical discourse.
The study focuses on rhetorical expressions constructed by means of semantic variation or deviation of concepts. Based on the holistic cognitive pragmatic model and the framework of impartment and inheritance of connotation and denotation, this book constructs a new framework, the Annotation-Denotation Relevance-Inheritance Model (ADRIM) to explain the construing of semantic rhetoric. Besides, rooted in the Index Hypothesis Theory and the research paradigm of affordance derivation in language comprehension, three ERP experiments on metaphor, irony, and pun, are conducted to demonstrate the psychological reality that people activate possible feature extraction in the process of understanding semantic rhetoric. With those sample analyses and experiments, the feasibility and operability of ADRIM are proved. The book unfolds a combined approach of speculative research and empirical research, and can provide a new methodological alternative for semantic rhetorical studies in different languages.
This title will be an essential read to students and scholars of Linguistics, East Asian Studies, and social workers who are interested in Language Studies in general.