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Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages

Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages

Author: Cornelia Ebert ,  Stefan Hinterwimmer
ISBN: 9789400753099
Format: Hardback
$306.62

This book surveys specificity markers in natural languages, filling a gap in understanding of the semantics and...  Read More >>

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 8

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition...

Author: Liliane Haegeman (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Ghent)
ISBN: 9780199858767
Format: Paperback
$133.95

Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral...  Read More >>

Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond: Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Wełna on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and...

Author: Joanna Esquibel ,  Anna Wojtys
ISBN: 9783631633847
Format: Hardback
$146.45

The volume brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language....  Read More >>

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 8

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition...

Author: Liliane Haegeman (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Ghent)
ISBN: 9780199858774
Format: Hardback
$286.95

Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral...  Read More >>

Tacit Knowledge and Spoken Discourse

Tacit Knowledge and Spoken Discourse

Author: Dr Michele Zappavigna (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781441128409
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Offers an analysis of spoken discourse in the workplace, challenging Polyani's theory of Tacit Knowledge. This book...  Read More >>

Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse

Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse

Author: Matt Davies
ISBN: 9781441180605
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Investigates how binary oppositions are constructed discursively and how they are used in news reports in the British...  Read More >>

Summoning the Rains. Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers

Summoning the Rains. Third FEMRITE Regional Residency...

Author: Hilda Twongyeirwe ,  Ellen Banda-Aaku
ISBN: 9789970700257
Format: Paperback
$62.10

One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November...  Read More >>

Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures

Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational...

Author: Marcel Bax (University of Groningen) ,  Dániel Z. Kádár (University of Huddersfield)
ISBN: 9789027202604
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, this title offers in-depth...  Read More >>

Allegory Revisited: Ideals of Mankind

Allegory Revisited: Ideals of Mankind

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ISBN: 9789401043885
Format: Paperback
$336.35

With an investigation of the anthropologico-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling...  Read More >>

Yearbook of Morphology 1997

Yearbook of Morphology 1997

Author: G.E. Booij ,  Jaap van Marle
ISBN: 9789401060981
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Interest in morphology has revived in recent years and the Yearbook of Morphology has provided great support for...  Read More >>

Pioniere der Informatik: Ihre Lebensgeschichte im Interview

Pioniere der Informatik: Ihre Lebensgeschichte im Interview...

Author: Dirk Siefkes ,  W. Brauer
ISBN: 9783642636608
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Fünf Informatikpioniere aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, die die Entwicklung ihres Fachs durch Impulse...  Read More >>

Critical Conversations about Plagiarism

Critical Conversations about Plagiarism

Author: Mr Michael Donnelly ,  Rebecca Ingalls
ISBN: 9781602353480
Format: Paperback
$54.34

Rather than speak down to students about what they don't know or understand, these essays invite students to explore...  Read More >>

Goethe als Chemiker

Goethe als Chemiker

Author: Georg Schwedt
ISBN: 9783642637841
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, der deutsche Dichterfürst, ein Hobby-Chemiker? Nach seinem eigenen Selbstverständnis...  Read More >>

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Commentaries on Aphthonius's...

Author: Ronald F. Hock
ISBN: 9781589836440
Format: Paperback
$59.95

This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia...  Read More >>

Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions

Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions...

Author: Senior Lecturer Sanja Bahun (University of Essex University of Essex, UK University of Essex, UK University of Essex, UK)
ISBN: 9781283629393
Format: Electronic book text
$606.94

Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions redefines the critical picture of language as a system of signs...  Read More >>

Discourse Analysis: An Introduction

Discourse Analysis: An Introduction

Author: Brian Paltridge (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781441167620
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis - essential reading for students encountering the...  Read More >>

2012 Guide to Professional Services for Writers: Comprehensive Contact Information for Freelance Editors, Proofreaders, Self Publishers, and Other Service Providers Used by Writers

2012 Guide to Professional Services for Writers: Comprehensive...

Author: Robert Lee Brewer ,  Robert Lee Brewer
ISBN: 9781599636061
Format: Electronic book text
$15.81

From the editors at Writer's Digest, this fantastic resource for romance writers details hundreds of magazine and...  Read More >>

Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends

Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from...

Author: Peter Lauwers (Ghent University) ,  Gudrun Vanderbauwhede (University of Leuven)
ISBN: 9789027202635
Format: Hardback
$183.71

Offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on...  Read More >>

Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative

Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative...

Author: Christina Ljungberg (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9789027243478
Format: Hardback
$196.65

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play...  Read More >>

Knowledge and Language: Volume I From Orwell’s Problem to Plato’s Problem

Knowledge and Language: Volume I From Orwell’s Problem...

Author: E. Reuland ,  W. Abraham
ISBN: 9789401048125
Format: Paperback
$186.30

Studying the relation between knowledge and language, one may distin­ guish two different lines of inquiry, one...  Read More >>

Knowledge and Language: Volume III Metaphor and Knowledge

Knowledge and Language: Volume III Metaphor and Knowledge...

Author: F.R. Ankersmit ,  J.J.A. Mooij
ISBN: 9789401048149
Format: Paperback
$186.30

Metaphor lies at the heart of the contemporary debate in aesthetics, semantics and the philosophy of science. This...  Read More >>

Supply Chain Management erfolgreich umsetzen: Grundlagen, Realisierung und Fallstudien

Supply Chain Management erfolgreich umsetzen: Grundlagen,...

Author: Daniel Corsten ,  Christoph Gabriel
ISBN: 9783642623400
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Die Realisierung ist jedoch mit vielfältigen Barrieren verbunden: Neben der Gestaltung unternehmensübergreifender...  Read More >>

Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White

Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor...

Author: Norbert Elliot
ISBN: 9781612890869
Format: Hardback
$294.98

For over forty years, Edward M. White, author seminal works in instruction and evaluation, has led debates about...  Read More >>

The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in Antiquity

The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education...

Author: Professor of English Jeffrey Walker (University of Texas at Austin Emory University Emory University University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Austin Emory University)
ISBN: 9781283872348
Format: Undefined
$263.74

Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the techne, or handbook, traditionwhich it controversially suggests began...  Read More >>

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