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Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends

Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends

Author: Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo (University of Alicante)
ISBN: 9789027240200
Format: Hardback
$214.76

This volume contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. It...  Read More >>

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2016 Installment

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2016 Installment

Author: Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki) ,  Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp)
ISBN: 9789027233301
Format: Loose-leaf
$435.60

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Discourse Topics

Discourse Topics

Author: Richard Watson Todd (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
ISBN: 9789027256744
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts, this book examines and...  Read More >>

Handbuch Medienrhetorik

Handbuch Medienrhetorik

Author: No Contributor ,  Francesca Vidal
ISBN: 9783110318128
Format: Hardback
$470.93

How does rhetoric theory incorporate the media, and how is rhetoric used by media representatives? This handbook,...  Read More >>

The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr.

The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr.

Author: Paula Benitez ,  William Strunk, Jr
ISBN: 9781541171183
Format: Paperback
$40.26

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Designing Speech for a Recipient: The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'

Designing Speech for a Recipient: The roles of partner...

Author: Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9789027256751
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive...  Read More >>

Composition Studies 44.2 (Fall 2016)

Composition Studies 44.2 (Fall 2016)

Author: Laura R Micciche
ISBN: 9781602359109
Format: Paperback
$41.40

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Embodiment in Language (II): Food, Emotion and Beyond

Embodiment in Language (II): Food, Emotion and Beyond...

Author: Shelley Ching-yu Depner
ISBN: 9789811017971
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors...  Read More >>

Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority

Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority

Author: Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, Bristol)
ISBN: 9781472532541
Format: Hardback
$260.00

This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse....  Read More >>

The Elements of Style

The Elements of Style

Author: William Strunk, Jr.
ISBN: 9781541063686
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Reprint of the edition published in 1918.  Read More >>

Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook 10e & Launchpad (Six Month Access) 10e & Documenting Sources in MLA Style: 2016 Update

Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research...

Author: X J Kennedy ,  Dorothy M Kennedy
ISBN: 9781319130930
Format: Mixed media product
$291.72

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Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism

Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism

Author: James Zeigler
ISBN: 9781496809711
Format: Paperback
$92.40

A history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the Black freedom struggle in America  Read More >>

Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English: Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large Corpora

Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English: Studies on...

Author: Juhani Rudanko
ISBN: 9783319463124
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface...  Read More >>

The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance

The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from...

Author: Andrew Hsiao ,  Audrea Lim
ISBN: 9781784786175
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Aboutness

Aboutness

Author: Stephen Yablo
ISBN: 9780691173658
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists...  Read More >>

Focus, Coherence and Emphasis

Focus, Coherence and Emphasis

Author: Paul Werth
ISBN: 9781138224612
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts

The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts

Author: Evelyn T. Y. Chan ,  Michael O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9789811022654
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars on contemporary issues relevant to the...  Read More >>

Language, Text and Context: Essays in stylistics

Language, Text and Context: Essays in stylistics

Author: Michael Toolan
ISBN: 9781138224421
Format: Hardback
$305.00

First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as...  Read More >>

Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse

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

Author: David A. Evans
ISBN: 9781138224674
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

The Trivium: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric

The Trivium: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric

Author: Professor Jane Smith ,  Alison Smith
ISBN: 9780802717757
Format: Hardback
$31.68

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