Semantics books

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Managing Vulnerability

Managing Vulnerability

Author: Richard C Marback
ISBN: 9786613915962
Format: Electronic book text
$126.56

In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to...  Read More >>

Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing

Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing

Author: Bruce Saddler, PhD
ISBN: 9786613910738
Format: Electronic book text
$158.40

This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties...  Read More >>

Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter

Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter

Author: Ellen Schendel ,  William J. Macauley
ISBN: 9780874218169
Format: Paperback
$81.71

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Semantic Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical Functions

Semantic Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical...

Author: Alexander Gelbukh ,  Olga Kolesnikova
ISBN: 9783642287701
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The book shows how collocations can be annotated with lexical functions in a computer readable dictionary - allowing...  Read More >>

The Elements of Expression: Putting Thoughts Into Words

The Elements of Expression: Putting Thoughts Into Words...

Author: Arthur Plotnik ,  Jessica Page Morrell
ISBN: 9781620641774
Format: Audio
$79.07

"A funny and useful grammar book! There are many grammar and usage books that give advice on correct English. This...  Read More >>

The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question of Style

The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question...

Author: Susan Mandala
ISBN: 9781441145482
Format: Paperback
$76.99

The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: The Intonation of Increments

A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: The Intonation...

Author: Dr Gerard O'Grady (Cardiff University, Cardiff)
ISBN: 9781441148483
Format: Paperback
$76.99

"David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at ""A Grammar Of Speech"" (1995) due to...  Read More >>

Talking Fat

Talking Fat

Author: Ph.D. Lonie McMichael ,  Ph D Lonie McMichael
ISBN: 9781597190633
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"Considering empirical studies and statistics as well as the actual experience of fat people, Dr. Lonie McMichael...  Read More >>

Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time

Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time

Author: Martin Jay
ISBN: 9781558491168
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that...  Read More >>

The Nature of Truth: An updated approach to the meaning of truth ascriptions

The Nature of Truth: An updated approach to the meaning...

Author: Maria Jose Frapolli
ISBN: 9789400744639
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation...  Read More >>

Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places

Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing...

Author: Chris Thaiss ,  Gerd Br Uer
ISBN: 9781602353435
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Emerging from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project, this resource is meant to inform decision-making by teachers,...  Read More >>

People-As-Garbage: A Metaphor We Live By

People-As-Garbage: A Metaphor We Live By

Author: Cecily F Brown
ISBN: 9783659190315
Format: Paperback
$169.66

This work examines rhetoric that uses garbage and waste as a metaphor for people. This rhetoric took its modern...  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: 9781441185525
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Within the historical literary genre, stylistics is widely applicable but as yet under deployed. This book acts...  Read More >>

Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis

Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising...

Author: Tom Bartlett (Cardiff University, Wales, UK Cardiff University, Wales, UK Cardiff University, Wales, UK University of Wales, Cardiff, UK) ,  Michelle Lazar
ISBN: 9780415893381
Format: Hardback
$347.00

This book frames an in-depth analysis of institutional discourse between indigenous communities and government and...  Read More >>

Researching the Writing Center: Towards an Evidence-Based Practice

Researching the Writing Center: Towards an Evidence-Based...

Author: Rebecca Day Babcock ,  Terese Thonus
ISBN: 9781433119248
Format: Hardback
$474.41

Suitable for writing center professionals, researchers, graduate students in English, composition studies, and education,...  Read More >>

Writing Studies Research in Practice

Writing Studies Research in Practice

Author: Lee Nickoson ,  Mary P Sheridan (Rutgers, The State University of NJ)
ISBN: 9786613884466
Format: Electronic book text
$126.56

<p>An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research....  Read More >>

Connect 2.0 Access Card for Composition

Connect 2.0 Access Card for Composition

Author: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780077606237
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Designed specifically as an advanced digital solution, Connect Composition offers comprehensive, reliable writing...  Read More >>

Discourse of Text Messaging: Analysis of SMS Communication

Discourse of Text Messaging: Analysis of SMS Communication...

Author: Dr Caroline Tagg
ISBN: 9781441173768
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Reveals the complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources...  Read More >>

Conversations in Story(ality)

Conversations in Story(ality)

Author: Amanda Morris
ISBN: 9783659185786
Format: Paperback
$172.69

"Story(ality) requires refocused attention on the truths available through nonfiction stories told, written, and...  Read More >>

Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic...

Author: Heiko Narrog (GSICS, Tohoku University)
ISBN: 9780199694372
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. With a focus on...  Read More >>

Discourse of Text Messaging: Analysis of SMS Communication

Discourse of Text Messaging: Analysis of SMS Communication...

Author: Dr Caroline Tagg
ISBN: 9781441174093
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Reveals the complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources...  Read More >>

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts for Holidays: Festive Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts for Holidays: Festive...

Author: Bryan Cohen
ISBN: 9781479134458
Format: Paperback
$21.09

There's no worse feeling for a writer than running smack into a case of writer's block. One of the best ways to...  Read More >>

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