Semantics books

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Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven Investigation

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven...

Author: Alessia Cogo ,  Martin Dewey
ISBN: 9781441137258
Format: Hardback
$210.00

There have been considerable demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. The sociolinguistic reality of...  Read More >>

Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective

Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective...

Author: Anetta Kopecka (Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, UMR 5569 CNRS and University of Lyon) ,  Bhuvana Narasimhan (University of Colorado, Boulder)
ISBN: 9789027206817
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience....  Read More >>

Media Intertextualities

Media Intertextualities

Author: Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9789027202567
Format: Hardback
$173.36

A collection of essays that discusses how normative biases that shape our relation to the world are constructed...  Read More >>

The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity

The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity...

Author: Dr. Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781441183668
Format: Paperback
$76.99

An analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television....  Read More >>

The Structure of Modern Irish: A Functional Account

The Structure of Modern Irish: A Functional Account...

Author: Brian Nolan
ISBN: 9781845534226
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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

Expression and Interpretation of Negation: An OT Typology

Expression and Interpretation of Negation: An OT Typology...

Author: Henriëtte de Swart
ISBN: 9789400731189
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This study in cross-linguistic semantics deploys the framework of bi-directional Optimality Theory to develop a...  Read More >>

Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Author: Jason Merchant (, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago) ,  Andrew Simpson (, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780199645763
Format: Hardback
$284.95

This book of new research by leading experts expands our current understanding of the ways in which languages allow...  Read More >>

Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren

Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren...

Author: Michael Meeuwis (Ghent University) ,  Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9789027211927
Format: Paperback
$72.45

The ideas that mark modern-day pragmatics are old, but did not start to get more systematically developed until...  Read More >>

La Rhétorique Et Son Histoire (Éd.1888)

La Rhétorique Et Son Histoire (Éd.1888)

Author: Antelme-Édouard Chaignet ,  Chaignet a E
ISBN: 9782012683785
Format: Paperback
$92.27

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary...

Author: Isabelle Buchstaller (Leipzig University) ,  Ingrid van Alphen (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027239051
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Presents a collection that gives a platform to research conducted within different linguistic sub-disciplines and...  Read More >>

Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren

Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren...

Author: Michael Meeuwis (Ghent University) ,  Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9789027211910
Format: Hardback
$214.76

The ideas that mark modern-day pragmatics are old, but did not start to get more systematically developed until...  Read More >>

Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel

Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern...

Author: Bronwen Thomas
ISBN: 9780803244511
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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Feminist Rhetorical Resilience

Feminist Rhetorical Resilience

Author: Professor Elizabeth A Flynn ,  Patricia Sotirin
ISBN: 9786613935236
Format: Electronic book text
$76.03

<p>Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of resilience has not been addressed explicitly by feminist...  Read More >>

Redefining Indefinites

Redefining Indefinites

Author: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin ,  Claire Beyssade
ISBN: 9789400730014
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Focusing on key issues in syntax and semantics, such as the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite...  Read More >>

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory: Twenty Exploratory Studies

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory: Twenty Exploratory...

Author: Frans H. van Eemeren ,  Bart Garssen
ISBN: 9789400740402
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research...  Read More >>

Formulaic Language and Second Language Speech Fluency: Background, Evidence and Classroom Applications

Formulaic Language and Second Language Speech Fluency:...

Author: David Wood (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781441142405
Format: Paperback
$76.99

The only comprehensive survey of research on formulaic language and L2 speech and the teaching implications of the...  Read More >>

Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web

Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language...

Author: Dr Michele Zappavigna (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781441141866
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Social media such as microblogging services and social network sites are changing the way people interact online...  Read More >>

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in Europaischem Kontext (Dwee): Band 1: Der Mensch Und Sein Korper

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in Europaischem Kontext...

Author: Bettina Bock ,  Susanne Zeilfelder
ISBN: 9783895007934
Format: Hardback
$388.08

English Summary: Since 2007, the project Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europaischem Kontext - Der Mensch in Natur...  Read More >>

Composition Studies 40.1 (Spring 2012)

Composition Studies 40.1 (Spring 2012)

Author: Jennifer Clary-Lemon
ISBN: 9781602353244
Format: Paperback
$41.40

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The Promise of Reason Studies in the New Rhetoric

The Promise of Reason Studies in the New Rhetoric

Author: Professor John T Gage (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781280696886
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning and their...  Read More >>

The World's Best Orations Volume 3; From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

The World's Best Orations Volume 3; From the Earliest...

Author: David Josiah Brewer
ISBN: 9781236372031
Format: Paperback
$63.18

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

Author: Ruth Page
ISBN: 9780415516563
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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The Elements of Style: 18 Essential Rules for Good Writing in English

The Elements of Style: 18 Essential Rules for Good Writing...

Author: William Strunk, Jr
ISBN: 9781936583362
Format: Paperback
$17.98

"""Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It is as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility."" - The New York Times...  Read More >>

Little, Brown Compact Handbook and New Mycomplab

Little, Brown Compact Handbook and New Mycomplab

Author: Jane E Aaron (New York University)
ISBN: 9780321853639
Format: Mixed media product
$257.85

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