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Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives

Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional...

Author: Juana I. Marín-Arrese (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ,  Gerda Haßler (Universität Potsdam)
ISBN: 9789027256768
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential...  Read More >>

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose...

Author: Francis-Noël Thomas ,  Mark Turner
ISBN: 9780691654744
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the...  Read More >>

An Argument on Rhetorical Style

An Argument on Rhetorical Style

Author: Marie Lund
ISBN: 9788771842203
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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Modality in Argumentation: A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

Modality in Argumentation: A Semantic Investigation...

Author: Andrea Rocci
ISBN: 9789402410617
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different...  Read More >>

Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language

Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language...

Author: Anne Reboul (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS and University UCBL-Lyon 1)
ISBN: 9780198747314
Format: Hardback
$242.95

This book shows that language, though now routinely used for communication, actually primarily evolved as a system...  Read More >>

Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing

Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing...

Author: Andrzej Zuczkowski (University of Macerata) ,  Ramona Bongelli (University of Macerata)
ISBN: 9789027210463
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions...  Read More >>

Course 3: Critical Thinking

Course 3: Critical Thinking

Author: Everett Sloan
ISBN: 9781524923921
Format: Paperback
$239.00

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Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

Author: Can Başkent ,  Lawrence S. Moss
ISBN: 9783319478425
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh’s scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh’s...  Read More >>

The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage: Second Edition

The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage:...

Author: Michael Shapiro
ISBN: 9783319516813
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change...  Read More >>

Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions

Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions

Author: Marianna Hudcovičová
ISBN: 9783631677421
Format: Hardback
$76.85

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Handbuch Rhetorik der Bildenden Künste

Handbuch Rhetorik der Bildenden Künste

Author: Wolfgang Brassat
ISBN: 9783110331295
Format: Hardback
$470.93

For the first time, this handbook explores the historical connections between rhetoric and the visual arts from...  Read More >>

Suasive Iterations: Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical Computing

Suasive Iterations: Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical...

Author: David M Rieder
ISBN: 9781602355682
Format: Paperback
$69.86

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Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs

Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs

Author: Todd Ruecker ,  Dawn Shepherd
ISBN: 9781607326014
Format: Paperback
$97.55

From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention,...  Read More >>

Character Focalization in Children’s Novels

Character Focalization in Children’s Novels

Author: Don K. Philpot
ISBN: 9781137558091
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels....  Read More >>

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives...

Author: Chungmin Lee ,  Ferenc Kiefer
ISBN: 9783319101057
Format: Hardback
$336.35

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

How to Speak and Write Correctly

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Author: Joseph Devlin
ISBN: 9781544630106
Format: Paperback
$20.83

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those...  Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992): On the Limits of Language and Literature

Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992): On the...

Author: Horst Ruthrof
ISBN: 9781138718883
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Sex in Language: Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet forums

Sex in Language: Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors...

Author: Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
ISBN: 9781350024267
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such...  Read More >>

Stylistics

Stylistics

Author: Michael Burke (University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138888890
Format: Hardback
$609.00

Stylistics is a multidisciplinary and stimulating field of scientific enquiry with an increasingly significant impact...  Read More >>

Stylistics

Stylistics

Author: Michael Burke (University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138888906
Format: Hardback
$609.00

Stylistics is a multidisciplinary and stimulating field of scientific enquiry with an increasingly significant impact...  Read More >>

Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies

Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies

Author: Derek Mueller ,  Andrea Williams
ISBN: 9781602359222
Format: Paperback
$62.10

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