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The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse

The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and identity...

Author: Frank Austermühl (The University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9789027206442
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes...  Read More >>

Personalisation in Mass Media Communication: British online news between public and private

Personalisation in Mass Media Communication: British...

Author: Daniela Landert (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9789027256454
Format: Hardback
$207.00

It seems to be a truism that news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers...  Read More >>

Evaluation in Context

Evaluation in Context

Author: Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool) ,  Laura Alba-Juez (UNED, Madrid)
ISBN: 9789027256478
Format: Hardback
$214.76

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there...  Read More >>

Norman Mailer: Legacy and Literary Americana

Norman Mailer: Legacy and Literary Americana

Author: Donald L Kaufmann
ISBN: 9783639514339
Format: Paperback
$196.44

Drawing on fifty years of teaching and study, this work by Donald L. Kaufmann examines the legacy of the consummate...  Read More >>

The Gargantuan Book of Insult, Offense, and Effrontery: Sharp Retorts, Ripostes, Caustic Quips, and Impolite Put-Downs

The Gargantuan Book of Insult, Offense, and Effrontery:...

Author: Louis A Safian
ISBN: 9781628736533
Format: Hardback
$39.47

Carefully categorized according to targets, Gargantuan Book of Insult, Offense, and Affrontery can be referred...  Read More >>

Wortbildungssemantik zwischen Langue und Parole: Semantische Produktions- und Verarbeitungsprozesse komplexer Wörter

Wortbildungssemantik zwischen Langue und Parole: Semantische...

Author: Sascha Michel ,  Heiko Girnth
ISBN: 9783898219228
Format: Paperback
$206.74

Über lange Zeit dominierte sowohl eine strukturalistische Herangehensweise an die Bedeutungsexplikation komplexer...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Remediation

The Rhetoric of Remediation

Author: Jane Stanley
ISBN: 9780822962830
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America

Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Carolyn Skinner
ISBN: 9780809333004
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Using books, articles, and speeches by nineteenth-century American women physicians as evidence, this book explores...  Read More >>

Der «Am»-Progressiv Im Heutigen Deutsch: Neue Erkenntnisse Mit Besonderer Hinsicht Auf Die Sprachgeschichte, Die Aspektualitaet Und Den Kontrastiven Vergleich Mit Dem Ungarischen

Der «Am»-Progressiv Im Heutigen Deutsch: Neue Erkenntnisse...

Author: Péter Bassola ,  Gabriella Gárgyán
ISBN: 9783631644829
Format: Hardback
$105.83

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der syntaktischen, semantischen und sprachgeschichtlichen Beschreibung des am-Progressivs....  Read More >>

Raum und Zeit im Kontext der Metapher: Korpuslinguistische Studien zu franzoesischen und spanischen Raum-Zeit-Lexemen und Raum-Zeit-Lokutionen

Raum und Zeit im Kontext der Metapher: Korpuslinguistische...

Author: Gerda Hassler ,  Kathleen Plötner
ISBN: 9783631642450
Format: Hardback
$170.52

Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit modernen Metaphertheorien und klassifiziert verschiedene Metapherarten. Sie setzt...  Read More >>

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and...

Author: Thomas C Foster
ISBN: 9780606355094
Format: Hardback
$77.62

For use in schools and libraries only. Demonstrates how to make everyday reading more rewarding by helping readers...  Read More >>

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Author: Thomas C Foster
ISBN: 9781627654531
Format: Hardback
$93.46

Traditional Chinese edition of How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading...  Read More >>

Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice

Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice...

Author: Dana R Ferris (University of California, Davis, USA) ,  John Hedgcock (Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA)
ISBN: 9781280881367
Format: Electronic book text
$380.00

Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice, Second Edition presents pedagogical approaches to the...  Read More >>

Intersubjetividad y Gramática: Aspectos de una Gramática Fenomenológica

Intersubjetividad y Gramática: Aspectos de una Gramática...

Author: Enrique Huelva Unternbäumen
ISBN: 9783631648889
Format: Hardback
$73.36

Subjetividad significa, desde el primer momento, intersubjetividad. En esta obra partimos de esta premisa central...  Read More >>

A New History of Classical Rhetoric

A New History of Classical Rhetoric

Author: Former Paddison Professor of Classics (Emeritus) George A Kennedy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781283310376
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the...  Read More >>

Final Chapters: Writings About the End of Life

Final Chapters: Writings About the End of Life

Author: Roger Kirkpatrick ,  Jonathan Dimbleby
ISBN: 9781849054904
Format: Paperback
$33.99

A collection of short stories and poems about death and dying. These moving and heartfelt pieces offer insights...  Read More >>

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace

Author: Joseph Williams ,  Joseph Bizup
ISBN: 9780321953308
Format: Paperback
$175.96

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace reflects the wisdom and clear authorial voice of Joseph Williams The concise...  Read More >>

Style in the Renaissance: Language and Ideology in Early Modern England

Style in the Renaissance: Language and Ideology in Early...

Author: Dr Patricia Canning
ISBN: 9781472530059
Format: Paperback
$76.99

In a book which brings together language, text and context, Patricia Canning synthesizes models of contemporary...  Read More >>

Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader

Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader

Author: Gary Goshgarian ,  Kathleen Krueger
ISBN: 9780321925534
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Focuses on argument as meaningful dialogue - the exchange of opinions and ideas. This book represents argument as...  Read More >>

Language and Identity

Language and Identity

Author: Margolin Bruria
ISBN: 9783659519871
Format: Paperback
$62.44

Palestinian-Israeli literature is the literature of a minority that is in a state of political and cultural conflict...  Read More >>

Introducing English Semantics

Introducing English Semantics

Author: Charles Kreidler (formerly of Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415828048
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Introducing English Semantics explores the ways in which speakers of English communicate meanings.  Read More >>

Typology of Kinship Terms

Typology of Kinship Terms

Author: Larysa Nikolayeva
ISBN: 9783631648162
Format: Hardback
$113.85

This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging...  Read More >>

La dialectique

La dialectique

Author: Paul Foulquié ,  Giles Laurén
ISBN: 9781495468834
Format: Paperback
$18.48

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The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language...

Author: Natalie Goldberg
ISBN: 9781451641257
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The beloved teacher and author of the million-and-a-half copy bestseller ""Writing Down the Bones"" reveals new...  Read More >>

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