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The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures

The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations...

Author: Anita Fetzer (University of Augsburg)
ISBN: 9789027256331
Format: Hardback
$196.65

Promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. In this...  Read More >>

A Companion to Creative Writing

A Companion to Creative Writing

Author: Professor Graeme Harper
ISBN: 9781118325766
Format: Electronic book text
$422.37

<p> A Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture...  Read More >>

Of Mottos and Morals: Simple Words for Complex Virtues

Of Mottos and Morals: Simple Words for Complex Virtues...

Author: Professor of Philosophy Mike W Martin (Chapman University Chapman University, California Chapman University, California Chapman University, California Chapman University, California)
ISBN: 9781299252394
Format: Electronic book text
$174.21

Whether in slogans, catchphrases, adages or proverbs, we encounter mottos every day, but we rarely take time to...  Read More >>

Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Japanese and Chinese

Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: The Syntax,...

Author: Maurizio Gotti ,  Teruhiro Ishiguro
ISBN: 9783039114450
Format: Paperback
$204.15

The papers in this volume are devoted to new in-depth treatments of distinctive aspects of Chinese and Japanese...  Read More >>

Faktizitätsherstellung in Diskursen: Die Macht des Deklarativen

Faktizitätsherstellung in Diskursen: Die Macht des Deklarativen...

Author: Ekkehard Felder
ISBN: 9783110289732
Format: Hardback
$291.63

The greater part of our knowledge is bound up in discursive contexts. That which incontrovertibly exists is presented...  Read More >>

Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

Author: Susan Herring ,  Dieter Stein
ISBN: 9783110214451
Format: Hardback
$234.93

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Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic

Author: Aristotle ,  Frederick Davidson
ISBN: 9781441745101
Format: Audio
$86.99

"Aristotle's influence on modern culture has become more and more important in recent years. His contribution to...  Read More >>

Tempussemantik: Das Franzosische Tempussystem Eine Integrative Analyse

Tempussemantik: Das Franzosische Tempussystem Eine Integrative...

Author: Marie-H L Ne Viguier
ISBN: 9783110266566
Format: Mixed media product
$884.40

The nature and semantic role of tenses remains controversial in current research despite important new insights....  Read More >>

Key Issues in Creative Writing

Key Issues in Creative Writing

Author: Dianne Donnelly ,  Professor Graeme Harper
ISBN: 9781283833806
Format: Electronic book text
$506.75

Key Issues in Creative Writing explores the teaching, learning and researching of creative writing. It outlines...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis

The Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis

Author: Professor Ken Hyland (University of East Anglia, UK) ,  Brian Paltridge (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781441167866
Format: Paperback
$79.99

"""First published 2011 by Continuum""--Title page verso."  Read More >>

Four by Four: Practical Methods for Writing Persuasively

Four by Four: Practical Methods for Writing Persuasively...

Author: Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Ed.D,, Ed.D. ,  Edward E Wilson
ISBN: 9781280677250
Format: Electronic book text
$132.00

Geared toward English and social studies teachers as well as school librarians, this book provides a clear and concise...  Read More >>

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

Author: Makoto Hayashi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ,  Geoffrey Raymond (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781107002791
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction....  Read More >>

Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure

Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology,...

Author: Paul Kockelman (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780199926985
Format: Hardback
$285.00

This books offers a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world.  Read More >>

The Elements of Style

The Elements of Style

Author: William Strunk, Jr
ISBN: 9781781393635
Format: Paperback
$12.91

"The Elements of Style is the definitive text and classic manual on the principles of English language read by millions...  Read More >>

(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations

(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis...

Author: Jenny Arendholz (University of Augsburg)
ISBN: 9789027256348
Format: Hardback
$207.00

How interpersonal relations are established and negotiated in online message boards by giving an overview of panoply...  Read More >>

Semantic Styles in Newspaper Journalism: A Systemic Functional Study

Semantic Styles in Newspaper Journalism: A Systemic...

Author: Silvia Samiolo
ISBN: 9781441167057
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Uses Bernstein and Hasan's concepts of coding orientations and semantic styles to elucidate differences in language...  Read More >>

Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics

Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics

Author: Jacek Fisiak ,  Jacek Fisiak
ISBN: 9783631634158
Format: Hardback
$173.62

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Metaphor

Metaphor

Author: L. David Ritchie (Portland State University)
ISBN: 9781107606661
Format: Paperback
$100.89

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Metaphor

Metaphor

Author: L. David Ritchie (Portland State University)
ISBN: 9781107022546
Format: Hardback
$186.30

A summary, critique and comparison of the most important theories on how metaphors are used and understood, drawing...  Read More >>

Semitic Languages: Features, Structures, Relations, Processes

Semitic Languages: Features, Structures, Relations,...

Author: Gideon Goldenberg (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Semitic Languages, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9780199644919
Format: Hardback
$268.00

This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew,...  Read More >>

Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases: 5th International Workshop SDKB 2011, Zürich, Switzerland, July 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases: 5th International...

Author: Klaus-Dieter Schewe ,  Bernhard Thalheim
ISBN: 9783642360077
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantics...  Read More >>

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