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Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology

Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology

Author: Ann Fehn ,  Ingeborg Hoesterey
ISBN: 9780691633244
Format: Hardback
$185.00

In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative structures that convey...  Read More >>

Figural Language in the Novel

Figural Language in the Novel

Author: Ramon Saldivar
ISBN: 9780691640617
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Novels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths...  Read More >>

History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece

History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion...

Author: George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780691651781
Format: Hardback
$230.00

"A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual...  Read More >>

Christian Discourses, etc: The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air and Three Discourses At the Communion on Fridays

Christian Discourses, etc: The Lilies of the Field and...

Author: Søren Kierkegaard ,  Walter Lowrie
ISBN: 9780691647302
Format: Hardback
$250.00

"The edition includes ""Christian Discourses,"" ""The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air"" and ""Three...  Read More >>

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

Author: Alex Preminger ,  O. B. Hardison
ISBN: 9780691638300
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of...  Read More >>

Principles of Pragmatics

Principles of Pragmatics

Author: Geoffrey N. Leech
ISBN: 9781138142251
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics...  Read More >>

Language, Discourse and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics

Language, Discourse and Literature: An Introductory...

Author: Ronald Carter ,  Paul Simpson
ISBN: 9781138140950
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Democracy's Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention

Democracy's Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of...

Author: Candice Rai
ISBN: 9780817319007
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Offers an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts...  Read More >>

The Art of Controversy

The Art of Controversy

Author: T Bailey Saunders ,  Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9781533215789
Format: Paperback
$16.47

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

Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements

Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global...

Author: Luisa Martín Rojo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
ISBN: 9789027242716
Format: Hardback
$196.65

The attempt to account for on-going social phenomena from the moment they first happen, and with an international...  Read More >>

Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German

Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation,...

Author: Svenja Kranich (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
ISBN: 9789027256669
Format: Hardback
$196.65

This book provides the first comprehensive account of English-German pragmatic contrasts in written discourse and...  Read More >>

Kohaerenz und indirekte Anaphorik

Kohaerenz und indirekte Anaphorik

Author: András Kertész ,  Zsófia Haase
ISBN: 9783631673508
Format: Hardback
$110.36

Die Autorin untersucht indirekte pronominale Anaphern als Kohärenzmittel. Hierfür führte sie eine Sprecherbefragung...  Read More >>

Context

Context

Author: Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780198776871
Format: Paperback
$67.95

Robert Stalnaker explores the contexts in which speech takes place, the ways we represent them, and the roles they...  Read More >>

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction...

Author: William Zinsser
ISBN: 9780060891541
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A beloved classic, this definitive volume on the art of nonfiction writing celebrates its 30th anniversary. Revised...  Read More >>

Deconstruction and Translation

Deconstruction and Translation

Author: Kathleen Davis ,  ANTHONY PYM
ISBN: 9781138142114
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Deconstruction and Translation explains ways in which many practical and theoretical problems of translation can...  Read More >>

Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to Play Games with Words

Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to Play Games...

Author: Professor Roy Harris ,  Roy Harris, Jr.
ISBN: 9781138142879
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Saussure and Wittgenstein are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic...  Read More >>

Translation and Language

Translation and Language

Author: Peter Fawcett ,  ANTHONY PYM
ISBN: 9781138173484
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Translation Studies and linguistics have been going through a love­-hate relationship since the 1950s  Read More >>

Feminist Stylistics

Feminist Stylistics

Author: Sara Mills
ISBN: 9781138141711
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public

Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public

Author: Kristin Roeschenthaler Wolfe
ISBN: 9780739198049
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Public versus private is an ongoing concern in communication. This book examines this phenomenon through self-representational...  Read More >>

Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy

Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy...

Author: Keith Harvey ,  Celia Shalom
ISBN: 9781138142701
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An original and intriguing exploration into the way we talk about and express romantic and sexual desire.  Read More >>

Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis

Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis

Author: Malcolm Coulthard
ISBN: 9781138173781
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing for the first time, a developmental...  Read More >>

Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits

Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits

Author: Waitong Liu ,  Desmond Sham
ISBN: 9781938890031
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Hong Kong Atlas is the first series developed by a Western press to present contemporary writing from Hong Kong...  Read More >>

A Study of «Attributive Ethnonyms» in the History of English with Special Reference to «Foodsemy»

A Study of «Attributive Ethnonyms» in the History of...

Author: Marcin Kudła
ISBN: 9783631665633
Format: Hardback
$163.79

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