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Shmiot Fugue

Shmiot Fugue

Author: Catherine Caufield
ISBN: 9783639795295
Format: Paperback
$68.28

SHMIOT FUGUE: NEOMYSTICISM IN THE VOICES OF THREE JEWISH-MEXICAN WOMEN WRITERS integrates extensive research, teaching...  Read More >>

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities

Author: Massih Zekavat (Yazd University)
ISBN: 9789027202338
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects' identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical...  Read More >>

A Minimalist View on the Syntax–Semantics Relationship: Turning the Mind into a Snowflake

A Minimalist View on the Syntax–Semantics Relationship:...

Author: Jaroslaw Jakielaszek
ISBN: 9783631659663
Format: Hardback
$96.90

This book provides a discussion of consequences of label-theoretic developments of the Minimalist Program for the...  Read More >>

Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics...

Author: Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University)
ISBN: 9780271078489
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A collection of essays on the methodology of rhetorical hermeneutics. Takes a historically and theoretically informed...  Read More >>

Language.

Language.

Author: Alexander P.M. van den Bosch
ISBN: 9780244907952
Format: Paperback
$94.25

This 'bundel' (part Dutch, most Engl.) about Syntax, Sem. (both semiotics. semantics. more), prosody, many examples,...  Read More >>

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese: System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese: System...

Author: Daniel Hole
ISBN: 9781138974425
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese.  Read More >>

Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination

Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination...

Author: Beth Savickey
ISBN: 9783319453088
Format: Hardback
$194.04

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

Energiediskurs: Perspektiven auf Sprache und Kommunikation im Kontext der Energiewende

Energiediskurs: Perspektiven auf Sprache und Kommunikation...

Author: Nicole Rosenberger ,  Ulla Kleinberger
ISBN: 9783034325806
Format: Paperback
$170.90

Für die Umsetzung der Energiewende braucht es die Zusammenarbeit verschiedenster Akteure und deren Austausch über...  Read More >>

Events and Narratives in Language

Events and Narratives in Language

Author: Janusz Badio
ISBN: 9783631674222
Format: Hardback
$160.43

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Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Author: Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) ,  Stavros Assimakopoulos (University of Malta)
ISBN: 9789027256799
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The present volume is a collection of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics...  Read More >>

Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions

Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures...

Author: Salvatore Pistoia-Reda ,  Filippo Domaneschi
ISBN: 9783319506951
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion...  Read More >>

Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative

Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative...

Author: Jennifer Riddle Harding (Washington and Jefferson College, USA) ,  Christiana Gregoriou
ISBN: 9781138928138
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this study, Jennifer Riddle Harding presents a cognitive analysis of three figures of speech that have readily...  Read More >>

Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda

Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda

Author: Tommaso M. Milani (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
ISBN: 9789027242792
Format: Hardback
$183.71

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical...  Read More >>

Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names

Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names

Author: Terhi Ainiala (University of Helsinki) ,  Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9789027256805
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics,...  Read More >>

Negotiating Boundaries at Work: Talking and Transitions

Negotiating Boundaries at Work: Talking and Transitions...

Author: Jo Angouri ,  Meredith Marra
ISBN: 9781474403139
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges...  Read More >>

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing, 2016 MLA Update Edition: A Brief Rhetoric

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing, 2016 MLA Update...

Author: Miller-Cochran ,  Stamper
ISBN: 9781319111526
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric Adapted for Use in Colleges and Academies, and Also for Private Study

The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric Adapted for...

Author: Henry N Day
ISBN: 9781548107345
Format: Paperback
$36.93

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The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach

The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic...

Author: Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
ISBN: 9781137470270
Format: Hardback
$174.95

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis...  Read More >>

Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language

Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language...

Author: Michele Prandi
ISBN: 9781138631335
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating...  Read More >>

The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy

The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy

Author: Julia Cooper
ISBN: 9781552453414
Format: Paperback
$36.83

A lively examination of why the modern eulogy should rest in peace.  Read More >>

The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works

The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9780300226409
Format: Paperback
$24.95

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable...  Read More >>

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