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Formal Models in the Study of Language: Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts

Formal Models in the Study of Language: Applications...

Author: Joanna Blochowiak ,  Cristina Grisot
ISBN: 9783319840253
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety...  Read More >>

Researching Learning and Learners in Genre-based Academic Writing Instruction

Researching Learning and Learners in Genre-based Academic...

Author: Wei Wang ,  Maurizio Gotti
ISBN: 9783034332972
Format: Hardback
$170.90

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A Day in the News: A Stylistic Analysis of Newsspeak

A Day in the News: A Stylistic Analysis of Newsspeak...

Author: Massimiliano Morini
ISBN: 9783034335072
Format: Hardback
$134.81

A Day in the News is the linguistic description of a single day in the life of the British press – Wednesday, 19...  Read More >>

Word Days Volume II: The Language and Literature Lover's Almanac

Word Days Volume II: The Language and Literature Lover's...

Author: Brian Michael Backman
ISBN: 9781724982032
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Word Days Volume II - July to December is a brave new almanac that equips readers and word lovers with specific...  Read More >>

Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition

Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition...

Author: Melissa Bowerman ,  Clarissa van Schuur
ISBN: 9789004353022
Format: Hardback
$327.36

Melissa Bowerman’s lectures present a lucid detailed account of her research on how children build up a semantics...  Read More >>

Corpora and Lexis

Corpora and Lexis

Author: Sebastian Hoffmann ,  Andrea Sand
ISBN: 9789004361140
Format: Mixed media product
$406.56

This collection of research articles provides state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexico-grammar,...  Read More >>

Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives

Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives...

Author: Kate Beeching (University of the West of England) ,  Chiara Ghezzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
ISBN: 9789027201126
Format: Hardback
$214.76

This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code switching/choice and orthography, the indexicalities...  Read More >>

Middle English Names of Medical Preparations: Towards a Standard Medical Terminology

Middle English Names of Medical Preparations: Towards...

Author: Marta Sylwanowicz
ISBN: 9783631747797
Format: Hardback
$124.98

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Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics

Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a Naturalistic...

Author: Antonino Pennisi ,  Alessandra Falzone
ISBN: 9783319837970
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic...  Read More >>

Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological...

Author: Timo Maran
ISBN: 9783319843735
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative...  Read More >>

Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets

Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets

Author: M. F. K. Fisher ,  Betty Fussell
ISBN: 9781640090835
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives

The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional...

Author: Anthony Gierzynski
ISBN: 9781498573986
Format: Hardback
$253.00

This book provides theory and empirical research on entertainment media’s effects on political perspectives. Included...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation

The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation

Author: Jean Boase-Beier ,  Lina Fisher
ISBN: 9783319757520
Format: Hardback
$646.85

This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research...  Read More >>

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

Author: Keith Allan ,  Alessandro Capone
ISBN: 9783319828381
Format: Paperback
$388.10

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important...  Read More >>

Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

Author: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis ,  Zhaohui Luo
ISBN: 9783319843971
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Themes that are covered include modern developments of type theories in formal semantics, foundational issues in...  Read More >>

Alternative Sets in Language Processing: How Focus Alternatives are Represented in the Mind

Alternative Sets in Language Processing: How Focus Alternatives...

Author: Nicole Gotzner
ISBN: 9783319849799
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives....  Read More >>

American Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language: The Speech Act of Refusal in Egyptian Arabic

American Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language: The...

Author: Nader Morkus
ISBN: 9781433155574
Format: Hardback
$335.15

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781724824943
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials,...  Read More >>

Puzzles of Reference

Puzzles of Reference

Author: Herman Cappelen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo/University of St Andrews) ,  Josh Dever (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)
ISBN: 9780198799849
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Reference is a central topic in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, and related areas of philosophy...  Read More >>

Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use

Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic...

Author: Peter Mickan ,  Elise Lopez
ISBN: 9781349955879
Format: Paperback
$226.95

This book will be of interest to anyone researching in the fields of language learning and teaching, functional...  Read More >>

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives...

Author: Chungmin Lee ,  Ferenc Kiefer
ISBN: 9783319791685
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This volume contributes to a major area of research in linguistics of the last decade, and provides novel, state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema...

Author: Christopher Carter
ISBN: 9780814254813
Format: Paperback
$86.99

""A rhetorical analysis of the films of Michael Haneke, Atom Egoyan, Icâiar Bollaâin, Paul Thomas Anderson, and...  Read More >>

Language and Literature in a Glocal World

Language and Literature in a Glocal World

Author: Sandhya Rao Mehta
ISBN: 9789811084676
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This collection of critical essays investigates the intersections of the global and local in literature and language....  Read More >>

Puzzles of Reference

Puzzles of Reference

Author: Herman Cappelen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo/University of St Andrews) ,  Josh Dever (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)
ISBN: 9780198799832
Format: Hardback
$145.95

Reference is a central topic in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, and related areas of philosophy...  Read More >>

Pragmatics and Law: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

Pragmatics and Law: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives...

Author: Francesca Poggi ,  Alessandro Capone
ISBN: 9783319830919
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among...  Read More >>

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