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Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse

Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics...

Author: David A. Evans
ISBN: 9781138224704
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward,...  Read More >>

Styles of Discourse

Styles of Discourse

Author: Nikolas Coupland
ISBN: 9781138224360
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Focus, Coherence and Emphasis

Focus, Coherence and Emphasis

Author: Paul Werth
ISBN: 9781138224650
Format: Paperback
$52.99

First published in 1984, this book examines a number of questions on the boundary of competence and performance...  Read More >>

Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb: The Evidence from Romance

Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb: The Evidence from...

Author: Suzanne Fleischman ,  LINDA WAUGH
ISBN: 9781138223905
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are...  Read More >>

Authorial Presence in English Academic Texts: A Comparative Study of Student Writing across Cultures and Disciplines

Authorial Presence in English Academic Texts: A Comparative...

Author: Iga Lehman
ISBN: 9783631749401
Format: Paperback
$124.98

The book outlines the influences on academic, authorial self-representation in English as a second language. It...  Read More >>

Composition Studies 46.1 (Spring 2018)

Composition Studies 46.1 (Spring 2018)

Author: Laura R Micciche
ISBN: 9781643170121
Format: Paperback
$41.40

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Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics: Issues in Theory and Practice

Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics: Issues in Theory...

Author: Gbenga Ibileye
ISBN: 9789789597239
Format: Paperback
$62.10

The book seeks to provide a cross-sectional view of scholarship in these areas, specifically from the perspective...  Read More >>

The Cours de Linguistique Générale Revisited: 1916-2016: The Third Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference

The Cours de Linguistique Générale Revisited: 1916-2016:...

Author: Christophe Rico ,  Pablo Kirtchuk
ISBN: 9789657698112
Format: Hardback
$137.14

One hundred years after the publication of Cours de linguistique générale, specialists from various disciplines...  Read More >>

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical...

Author: Laura A. Janda
ISBN: 9789004363502
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science details the relationship between form and meaning...  Read More >>

The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument

The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9781721113248
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, and of disputing in such a way as to hold one's own, whether one...  Read More >>

Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture

Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual...

Author: Douglass Merrell
ISBN: 9783319854823
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally...  Read More >>

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Author: Päivi Juvonen ,  Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
ISBN: 9783110610673
Format: Paperback
$84.09

The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological...  Read More >>

Language Learning and Use in English-Medium Higher Education

Language Learning and Use in English-Medium Higher Education...

Author: Lia Blaj-Ward
ISBN: 9783319875057
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book critically refines and adds depth to current understandings and practices in EAP (English for Academic...  Read More >>

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

Author: Makoto Hayashi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ,  Geoffrey Raymond (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781108460156
Format: Paperback
$95.71

Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction....  Read More >>

Manual de Oratoria

Manual de Oratoria

Author: Christian Alejandro Venegas Barria
ISBN: 9781983136122
Format: Paperback
$52.77

La oratoria es una habilidad esencial en el mundo contemporáneo, formando la base para enfrentar una sociedad que...  Read More >>

Zero Given: Cute Fox Journal Beautifully lined pages Notebook, Funny Birthday Gift - Humorous gag gift for friends

Zero Given: Cute Fox Journal Beautifully lined pages...

Author: Firefly Journals
ISBN: 9781720871897
Format: Paperback
$21.04

This Journal with the cute and funny cover will make a perfect gift all year round and for any occasion that you're...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination

Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination...

Author: Beth Savickey
ISBN: 9783319832654
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This book is a study of Wittgenstein’s descriptive, improvisational, and performative art of philosophical investigation....  Read More >>

Defining ‘Eastern Europe’: A Semantic Inquiry into Political Terminology

Defining ‘Eastern Europe’: A Semantic Inquiry into Political...

Author: Piotr Twardzisz
ISBN: 9783319773735
Format: Hardback
$204.41

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression ‘Eastern Europe’ in international English-language...  Read More >>

Understanding Metaphor through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing

Understanding Metaphor through Corpora: A Case Study...

Author: Katie Patterson
ISBN: 9780815374978
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece

Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece

Author: Nathan Crick
ISBN: 9781611179811
Format: Paperback
$110.85

Explores the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece, beginning with the...  Read More >>

The Art of Rhetoric

The Art of Rhetoric

Author: Aristotle ,  Robin Waterfield (Freelance writer and translator)
ISBN: 9780198724254
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is a treatise concerning the theory and practice of the most dynamic form of discourse...  Read More >>

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