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A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

Author: Kathleen S. Lamp
ISBN: 9781611172775
Format: Hardback
$139.89

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The Story of Muhammad Hanafiyyah: A Medieval Muslim Romance

The Story of Muhammad Hanafiyyah: A Medieval Muslim...

Author: L. F. Brakel ,  L F Brakel
ISBN: 9789401576284
Format: Paperback
$197.94

This book may be considered to be Volume II of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah, the text edition which appeared...  Read More >>

Discourse and Defiance under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940-1945

Discourse and Defiance under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey,...

Author: Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp
ISBN: 9781611860825
Format: Hardback
$93.50

Captured by German forces shortly after Dunkirk, and not relinquished until May of 1945, nearly a year after the...  Read More >>

Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916

Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free...

Author: Matthew S. May
ISBN: 9780817318062
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications

Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary...

Author: Francisco Gonzálvez-García (University of Almeria) ,  María Sandra Peña-Cervel (University of La Rioja)
ISBN: 9789027202741
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Focuses on the crucial role played by metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction at a discourse/textual level....  Read More >>

The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood

The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood

Author: William J. Bennett
ISBN: 9781595555397
Format: Paperback
$29.99

In The Book of Man, Bennett charts a clearer course, offering a positive, encouraging, uplifting, realizable idea...  Read More >>

Alternatives in Semantics

Alternatives in Semantics

Author: A. Falaus ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9780230314344
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches...  Read More >>

Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistical Argument

Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of...

Author: Christopher W Tindale (Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781283611275
Format: Electronic book text
$263.74

A complex and complete picture of the theory, practice, and reception of Sophistic argument  Read More >>

Religious Conversion and Identity: The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

Religious Conversion and Identity: The Semiotic Analysis...

Author: Massimo Leone
ISBN: 9780415859936
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language...  Read More >>

A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism

A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism

Author: Joseph Priestley
ISBN: 9781108066075
Format: Paperback
$87.95

The polymath Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) delivered this lecture series in 1762, arguing that the purpose of rhetoric...  Read More >>

The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education, politics and everyday life

The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education,...

Author: Johann Wolfgang Unger (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9789027206428
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A book about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from 'above' and from 'below' (in focus group...  Read More >>

Units of Talk – Units of Action

Units of Talk – Units of Action

Author: Beatrice Szczepek Reed (University of York) ,  Geoffrey Raymond (University of California at Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9789027226358
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Considers the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. This book includes chapters that present...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion

The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate...

Author: Kimberly Harrison
ISBN: 9781299906594
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

During the American Civil War, southern white women found themselves speaking and acting in unfamiliar and tumultuous...  Read More >>

Mother Zion in Deutero-Isaiah: A Metaphor for Zion Theology

Mother Zion in Deutero-Isaiah: A Metaphor for Zion Theology...

Author: Hemchand Gossai ,  Maggie Low
ISBN: 9781433121579
Format: Hardback
$309.28

Mother Zion in Deutero-Isaiah is an invaluable resource in courses that deal with issues in Isaiah, biblical interpretation,...  Read More >>

Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization: A study of the syntactic realizations of the directive, commissive and expressive speech acts in English

Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation...

Author: Nuria Del Campo Martínez
ISBN: 9783034312998
Format: Paperback
$181.90

The inferential path based on the instantiation of the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model determines the activation of...  Read More >>

Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation: Selected Papers of Hans Kamp

Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation: Selected...

Author: Hans Kamp ,  Klaus von Heusinger
ISBN: 9789004251915
Format: Hardback
$757.68

A selection of research papers written by Hans Kamp that presents the core of his scientific research on natural...  Read More >>

Argue With Me

Argue With Me

Author: Deanna Kuhn (Teachers College Columbia University New York NY) ,  Laura Hemberger (Teachers College Columbia University USA)
ISBN: 9780988290235
Format: Paperback
$91.61

"""First edition published by Wessex, Inc., 2013""--T.p. verso."  Read More >>

Über Die Grenze: Metalepse in Text- Und Bildmedien Des Altertums

Über Die Grenze: Metalepse in Text- Und Bildmedien Des...

Author: Ute E Eisen ,  Peter Von Möllendorff
ISBN: 9783110331561
Format: Hardback
$382.77

There has been little previous research in ancient studies on the narratological notion of metalepses. The essays...  Read More >>

The Write Way: Becoming a Successful Writer

The Write Way: Becoming a Successful Writer

Author: Susan Crossman ,  Michael B Davie
ISBN: 9781897453407
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Solid, expert advice from a professional writer and author of several critically acclaimed books. From tips on overcoming...  Read More >>

Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Author: Marta Dynel (University of Lodz)
ISBN: 9789027202284
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Presents developments in the linguistics of humour. This volume depicts theoretical proposals for capturing different...  Read More >>

A Rhetorical Analysis of Three Messages to America by Osama bin Laden

A Rhetorical Analysis of Three Messages to America by...

Author: Meredith Taylor
ISBN: 9783659457449
Format: Paperback
$124.20

Osama bin Laden was the founder and leader of the Anti-West extremist organization al Qaeda. He believed that the...  Read More >>

5,000 Sidesplitting Jokes and One-Liners

5,000 Sidesplitting Jokes and One-Liners

Author: Grant Tucker
ISBN: 9781616088545
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Grant Tucker has harvested the world s best [one-liners] an Olympiad of linguistic play. Roger Lewis, Daily...  Read More >>

Writing the Gettysburg Address

Writing the Gettysburg Address

Author: Martin P. Johnson
ISBN: 9780700619337
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address, this book solves the central mysteries...  Read More >>

Zutot 2003

Zutot 2003

Author: Shlomo Berger ,  M. Brocke
ISBN: 9789401743242
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth...  Read More >>

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