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The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: Experimental Perspectives

The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure:...

Author: Elena Castroviejo ,  Louise McNally
ISBN: 9783030085414
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure...  Read More >>

Konsult: Theopraxesis

Konsult: Theopraxesis

Author: Gregory L Ulmer
ISBN: 9781643170688
Format: Hardback
$126.79

"""Ulmer adapts literate education to digital media by analogy with Plato's invention of the first concept-Justice,...  Read More >>

Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication

Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication...

Author: M. Jimmie Killingsworth ,  Michael Gilbertson
ISBN: 9780415784689
Format: Paperback
$83.99

"Looks at technical communication philosophically, asks fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate?...  Read More >>

Rhyme over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English

Rhyme over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English...

Author: Réka Benczes
ISBN: 9781108491877
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940-1945

Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Resistance...

Author: Kelly Jakes
ISBN: 9781611863055
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Strains of Dissent recovers the significance of music as a rhetorical means of survival, subversion, and national...  Read More >>

John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

Author: John M. Murphy
ISBN: 9781611863048
Format: Paperback
$68.20

The first serious study of his discourse in nearly a quarter century, this book examines the major speeches of Kennedy’s...  Read More >>

Understanding Argument in a Post-Truth World

Understanding Argument in a Post-Truth World

Author: Heather Walters ,  Kristen Stout
ISBN: 9781516523825
Format: Paperback
$157.30

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Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching...

Author: John Duffy
ISBN: 9781607328261
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Provocations of Virtue explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized,...  Read More >>

Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles

Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private...

Author: Harry C. Denny ,  Robert Mundy
ISBN: 9781607327820
Format: Paperback
$97.55

These essays address how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, faith, multilingualism, and learning differences,...  Read More >>

Theories of Rhetoric: An Anthology

Theories of Rhetoric: An Anthology

Author: Mary E. Triece
ISBN: 9781516539925
Format: Paperback
$189.20

Offers students a critical/cultural lens through which to view the history and definition of rhetoric and how it...  Read More >>

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Author: Nina Maria Lozano
ISBN: 9780814213896
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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The Interruption That We Are: The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument

The Interruption That We Are: The Health of the Lived...

Author: Michael J. Hyde
ISBN: 9781611177077
Format: Hardback
$139.89

In this provocative work, Michael Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of rhetoric...  Read More >>

Political Narrations: Antigone, the Melian Dialogue, Michael Kohlhaas, the Grand Inquisitor and Ragtime

Political Narrations: Antigone, the Melian Dialogue,...

Author: Ingo Juchler
ISBN: 9783030099886
Format: Paperback
$186.30

This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of...  Read More >>

Bridging the Semantic Gap in Image and Video Analysis

Bridging the Semantic Gap in Image and Video Analysis...

Author: Halina Kwaśnicka ,  Lakhmi C. Jain
ISBN: 9783030088798
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book presents cutting-edge research on various ways to bridge the semantic gap in image and video analysis....  Read More >>

The Limits of Expression: Language, Literature, Mind

The Limits of Expression: Language, Literature, Mind...

Author: Patricia Kolaiti
ISBN: 9781108418669
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Exploring 'the prison house of language', this book radically alters our view of the interplay between language,...  Read More >>

Perception Metaphors

Perception Metaphors

Author: Laura J. Speed (University of York and Radboud University) ,  Carolyn O'Meara (National Autonomous University of Mexico and Radboud University)
ISBN: 9789027202000
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This volume presents critical new data on perception metaphors from over 40 languages, including many which are...  Read More >>

La reciprocidad entre lengua y cultura en las sociedades andinas: Estudios de romanística, lingueística y antropología americana

La reciprocidad entre lengua y cultura en las sociedades...

Author: Störl Kerstin ,  Kerstin Störl
ISBN: 9783631765982
Format: Hardback
$169.09

El libro reúne estudios de distintos enfoques bajo el concepto «cultural turn» en los que se intenta comprender,...  Read More >>

Faultless Disagreement: A Defense of Contextualism in the Realm of Personal Taste

Faultless Disagreement: A Defense of Contextualism in...

Author: Julia Zakkou
ISBN: 9783465043478
Format: Paperback
$176.88

People fight a lot. Both about objective and about subjective matters. But while at least one party to a dispute...  Read More >>

Cicero's Orations: In the Original Latin

Cicero's Orations: In the Original Latin

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN: 9781797497709
Format: Paperback
$15.71

Cicero's Orations by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the original Latin  Read More >>

A Reflection of Man and Culture in Language and Literature

A Reflection of Man and Culture in Language and Literature...

Author: Mária Matiová ,  Martin Navrátil
ISBN: 9783631745502
Format: Hardback
$143.87

The book consists of scientifically and philologically oriented chapters. Their main purpose is research of anthropocentrism,...  Read More >>

Narrative of Chinese and Western Popular Fiction: Comparison and Interpretation

Narrative of Chinese and Western Popular Fiction: Comparison...

Author: Yonglin Huang ,  Bing Xiong
ISBN: 9783662586037
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese...  Read More >>

Petite Grammaire Alphabetique Du Dialogisme

Petite Grammaire Alphabetique Du Dialogisme

Author: Jacques Bres ,  Aleksandra Nowakowska
ISBN: 9782406081500
Format: Paperback
$171.60

This work analyses dialogism in the linguistic detail of its functioning. Dialogism is defined as the orientation...  Read More >>

Linguistic Decision Making: Numerical Scale Model and Consistency-Driven Methodology

Linguistic Decision Making: Numerical Scale Model and...

Author: Yucheng Dong ,  Jiuping Xu
ISBN: 9789811329159
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on...  Read More >>

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