Semantics books

13867 books were found.

Interpreting Imperatives

Interpreting Imperatives

Author: Magdalena Kaufmann
ISBN: 9789400722682
Format: Hardback
$366.96

The author shows how these two elements can help explain the varied effects imperatives have, depending on their...  Read More >>

Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor...

Author: J. Charteris-Black
ISBN: 9780230251656
Format: Paperback
$179.00

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created...  Read More >>

Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts

Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into...

Author: Baudouin Dupret (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
ISBN: 9789027256171
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Tells us that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a member phenomenon. This title...  Read More >>

Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures

Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of...

Author: Danijela Majstorović (University of Banja Luka) ,  Inger Lassen (Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9789027206367
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. This book challenges...  Read More >>

The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge

The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production...

Author: Louise Phillips (Roskilde University)
ISBN: 9789027210296
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Presents a theoretical framework for analysing the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge...  Read More >>

Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor...

Author: J. Charteris-Black
ISBN: 9780230251649
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Cinema Studies

Postcolonial Cinema Studies

Author: Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) ,  Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside, USA)
ISBN: 9780415782296
Format: Paperback
$95.71

This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions,...  Read More >>

Composition Studies 39.2 (Fall 2011)

Composition Studies 39.2 (Fall 2011)

Author: Jennifer Clary-Lemon
ISBN: 9781602352728
Format: Paperback
$41.40

 Read More >>

Crossroads of Language, Interaction and Culture 8

Crossroads of Language, Interaction and Culture 8

Author: Gail Fox Adams ,  Laura Amador
ISBN: 9780982835401
Format: Paperback
$39.47

 Read More >>

Wegbereiter der Urologie: 10 Biographien

Wegbereiter der Urologie: 10 Biographien

Author: D. Schultheiss ,  R.M. Engel
ISBN: 9783642639548
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Die Entwicklung der Urologie vom Ende des 19. bis in die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts im gesellschaftlichen,...  Read More >>

Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles: Volume One: Categories

Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles:...

Author: F. Heny ,  B. Richards
ISBN: 9789400969919
Format: Paperback
$258.72

VIrtually all the papers in these volumes originated in presentations at the Fourth Groningen Round Table, held...  Read More >>

Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline

Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic...

Author: Dianne Donnelly
ISBN: 9781283333429
Format: Undefined
$380.00

This book advances creative writing studies as a developing field of inquiry, scholarship, and research. It discusses...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Cinema Studies

Postcolonial Cinema Studies

Author: Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) ,  Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside, USA)
ISBN: 9780415782289
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Case

The Oxford Handbook of Case

Author: Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig/ Institute of Linguistic Studies, St-Petersburg) ,  Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9780199695713
Format: Paperback
$81.95

This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on case and the morphological and syntactic...  Read More >>

Literature and Science as Modes of Expression

Literature and Science as Modes of Expression

Author: F.R. Amrine
ISBN: 9789401075312
Format: Paperback
$336.35

On the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote...  Read More >>

Teaching Students to Write: Argument

Teaching Students to Write: Argument

Author: Peter Smagorinsky (Department of Language and Literacy Education University of Georgia Athens) ,  Larry R Johannessen (Northern Illinois University)
ISBN: 9780325034003
Format: Paperback
$47.86

"""These books will support teachers in their understanding of designing process-based instruction and give them...  Read More >>

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language...

Author: Steven Pinker ,  Arthur Morey
ISBN: 9781455839681
Format: Audio
$79.17

In this extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers...  Read More >>

Pathways: Scenarios for Sentence and Paragraph Writing

Pathways: Scenarios for Sentence and Paragraph Writing...

Author: University Kathleen T McWhorter (Niagara County Community College)
ISBN: 9780205112487
Format: Mixed media product
$212.97

The a la carte edition features the exact same content as the traditional textbook, but in a convenient notebook-ready,...  Read More >>

Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies

Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies...

Author: Anis Shivani
ISBN: 9781933896724
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Provides the first sustained critique of twenty-first century literary production in America under the MFA/creative...  Read More >>

Language, Body, and Health

Language, Body, and Health

Author: Paul McPherron ,  Vaidehi Ramanathan
ISBN: 9781934078198
Format: Hardback
$216.48

 Read More >>

They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings

They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing...

Author: University Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago) ,  Cathy Birkenstein (University of Illinois at Chicago)
ISBN: 9780393912753
Format: Paperback
$146.26

An instant bestseller when it first appeared as a college textbook, this lively guide gives writers precisely what...  Read More >>

The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse

The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse...

Author: Mark Norris Lance (Georgetown University, Washington DC) ,  John O'Leary-Hawthorne (Syracuse University, New York)
ISBN: 9780511895838
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This study investigates the question of the nature of the normative, as well as a range of topics specific to the...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List