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An Introduction to Conversation Analysis: Second Edition

An Introduction to Conversation Analysis: Second Edition...

Author: Dr. Anthony J. Liddicoat (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781441117618
Format: Hardback
$343.20

An introduction to conversation analysis that looks at methodology, motivation and the specifics of transcription....  Read More >>

Projecting the Future through Political Discourse: The case of the Bush doctrine

Projecting the Future through Political Discourse: The...

Author: Patricia L. Dunmire (Kent State University)
ISBN: 9789027206329
Format: Hardback
$356.40

A monograph that examines the rhetorical nature and function of representations of the future in political discourse,...  Read More >>

Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary...

Author: Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg, Germany) ,  Michael Burke
ISBN: 9780415888288
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and...  Read More >>

Semiotics: Theory & Applications

Semiotics: Theory & Applications

Author: Steven C Hamel
ISBN: 9781617289927
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and...  Read More >>

Dog Is Cat

Dog Is Cat

Author: Mike Tyler ,  Amy Hills Halberda
ISBN: 9781599370101
Format: Hardback
$47.39

. . . pulses with the same euphoric heartbeat that made Rimbaud the proto punk-rock hero.-- The Village Voice.  Read More >>

L2 Learning as Social Practice: Conversation-Analytic Perspectives

L2 Learning as Social Practice: Conversation-Analytic...

Author: Professor Gabriele Pallotti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) ,  Johannes Wagner
ISBN: 9780980045970
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other...  Read More >>

Picture Yourself Writing Nonfiction: Using Photos to Inspire Writing

Picture Yourself Writing Nonfiction: Using Photos to...

Author: Jennifer Fandel
ISBN: 9781429661256
Format: Hardback
$68.61

Nonfiction is more than stating the facts. A piece of nonfiction is crafted by carefully researching details and...  Read More >>

Franzosische Ereignisnominalisierungen: Abstrakte Bedeutung Und Regelhafte Wortbildung

Franzosische Ereignisnominalisierungen: Abstrakte Bedeutung...

Author: Melanie Uth
ISBN: 9783119163446
Format: Mixed media product
$773.52

In word formation, the French suffixes -ment and -age have similar meanings (e.g. gonflement - swelling, gonflage...  Read More >>

Speaking Hermeneutically: Understanding the Conduct of a Life

Speaking Hermeneutically: Understanding the Conduct...

Author: John Arthos
ISBN: 9781570039683
Format: Hardback
$131.87

John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics...  Read More >>

From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader 2e & Compclass Solo

From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader...

Author: Stuart Greene ,  April Lidinsky
ISBN: 9781457611469
Format: Undefined
$223.74

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A Dictionary of Stylistics

A Dictionary of Stylistics

Author: Katie Wales
ISBN: 9781408231159
Format: Paperback
$116.87

Reviews of the first edition:'...a work of high seriousness  Read More >>

Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice: A Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles' The Magus

Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice: A Stylistic...

Author: Yufang Ho ,  Beatrix Busse
ISBN: 9780826426178
Format: Hardback
$350.00

"Demonstrates the corpus stylistic approach to the study of literary revision, comparing the difference two versions...  Read More >>

The Expression of Negation

The Expression of Negation

Author: Laurence R. Horn
ISBN: 9783110253160
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies....  Read More >>

Understanding Quotation

Understanding Quotation

Author: Elke Brendel ,  Jörg Meibauer
ISBN: 9783110240054
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Studies on the nature of quotation have become a topic of growing interest among linguists and philosophers of language....  Read More >>

For Arguments' Sake: Speaker Evaluation in Modern Political Discourse

For Arguments' Sake: Speaker Evaluation in Modern Political...

Author: Douglas Mark Penton
ISBN: 9781443829373
Format: Hardback
$103.47

The topic of this book is persuasive rhetoric in political discourse. It asks a familiar, though as yet only partially...  Read More >>

Political Languages in the Age of Extremes

Political Languages in the Age of Extremes

Author: Willibald Steinmetz (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Political History, University of Bielefeld)
ISBN: 9780199602964
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This volume explores the relationship between language and political power in the Age of Extremes. Topics include...  Read More >>

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of...

Author: Eveline T. Feteris (University of Amsterdam) ,  Bart Garssen (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027211811
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Makes comparisons between the pragma-dialectical approach and other approaches. This title deals with the aspects...  Read More >>

Semantics

Semantics

Author: Kate Kearns (Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780230232303
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This introductory textbook assumes no prior knowledge and covers a wide range of core topics in formal semantics....  Read More >>

Semantics

Semantics

Author: Kate Kearns (Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780230232297
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This introductory textbook assumes no prior knowledge and covers a wide range of core topics in formal semantics....  Read More >>

Pragmatics

Pragmatics

Author: Siobhan Chapman
ISBN: 9780230221833
Format: Paperback
$80.95

This student-friendly introduction to linguistic pragmatics explains all the major developments in core theoretical...  Read More >>

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Author: Vincent X. Wang (University of Macau)
ISBN: 9789027256119
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular...  Read More >>

Pragmatics

Pragmatics

Author: Siobhan Chapman
ISBN: 9780230221826
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This student-friendly introduction to linguistic pragmatics explains all the major developments in core theoretical...  Read More >>

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