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Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure

Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring...

Author: Anton Benz (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin) ,  Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)
ISBN: 9789027256287
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The analysis of discourse is probably one of the complex problems of linguistics. This title unites psycholinguistic...  Read More >>

Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication

Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication...

Author: Fiona MacArthur (University of Extremadura) ,  José Luis Oncins-Martínez (University of Extremadura)
ISBN: 9789027223920
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers...  Read More >>

German Images of the Self and the Other: Nationalist, Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1918

German Images of the Self and the Other: Nationalist,...

Author: F. Rash
ISBN: 9780230282650
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which...  Read More >>

First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange

First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange

Author: Douglas Robinson
ISBN: 9781612891095
Format: Paperback
$72.32

The Affective Turn in writing studies, the author argues, has actually gone through two phases, or three, if one...  Read More >>

Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean Model

Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean...

Author: Charles Marsh
ISBN: 9780415626002
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents the value of Isocratean rhetoric as an instructive antecedent of modern public relations, showing...  Read More >>

Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian: A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case

Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian: A Study of...

Author: Olga Kagan
ISBN: 9789400752245
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive...  Read More >>

Language, Ideology, and the Human

Language, Ideology, and the Human

Author: Sanja Bahun ,  Duan Radunovi?
ISBN: 9786613941848
Format: Electronic book text
$364.16

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

The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician

The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician

Author: Andre Weil ,  Jennifer Gage
ISBN: 9783034897075
Format: Paperback
$123.95

Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells...  Read More >>

Logic, Language and Computation

Logic, Language and Computation

Author: S. Akama
ISBN: 9789401063777
Format: Paperback
$206.97

The editors of the Applied Logic Series are happy to present to the reader the fifth volume in the series, a collection...  Read More >>

Quantification in Natural Languages: Volume I

Quantification in Natural Languages: Volume I

Author: Elke Bach ,  E. Jelinek
ISBN: 9789401041423
Format: Paperback
$465.72

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Bad Ol’ Boy

Bad Ol’ Boy

Author: Harold Miles
ISBN: 9781461266969
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Harold Miles' picaresque new novel, Bad Ol' Boy, records the fantastic saga of Will Cotton's many outlandish adventures-how...  Read More >>

Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes: Cognitive and Instructional Processes

Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes: Cognitive...

Author: Linda Allal ,  L. Chanquoy
ISBN: 9789401037761
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France...  Read More >>

The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky: The Fundamentals of Defectology (Abnormal Psychology and Learning Disabilities)

The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky: The Fundamentals...

Author: L.S. Vygotsky ,  Robert W. Rieber
ISBN: 9781461362128
Format: Paperback
$871.17

The Plenum translations ofVygotsky' s texts are appearing at a moment when authentic and authoritative English versions...  Read More >>

Why Americans Should Re-Elect President Barack Obama: Highlights of the 2012 Democratic Convention

Why Americans Should Re-Elect President Barack Obama:...

Author: President Barack Hussein Obama
ISBN: 9781936583409
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Why Americans Should Re-elect President Barack Obama has no connection to any political group or organization,...  Read More >>

Neurorhetorics

Neurorhetorics

Author: Jordynn Jack (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
ISBN: 9780415521871
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing on the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of rhetorical study, Neurorhetorics questions how discourses...  Read More >>

Structure of Modern Irish: A Functional Account

Structure of Modern Irish: A Functional Account

Author: Brian Nolan
ISBN: 9781845534219
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book provides a characterisation of the nominal, verb, clause and information structure of the Irish language...  Read More >>

Slang: The People's Poetry

Slang: The People's Poetry

Author: Michael Adams (, Indiana University)
ISBN: 9780199913770
Format: Paperback
$46.95

In Slang: The People's Poetry, Michael Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly...  Read More >>

Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research

Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and...

Author: Katrina M. Powell ,  Pamela Takayoshi
ISBN: 9781612890890
Format: Paperback
$100.78

As writing researchers have begun untangling the complexities of ethical research practice, new practices have developed...  Read More >>

Purpose Clauses: Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions

Purpose Clauses: Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of...

Author: C. Jones
ISBN: 9789401055376
Format: Paperback
$181.10

The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. John came [to play with the children]...  Read More >>

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