Semantics books

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Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language

Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative...

Author: Gill Philip (University of Macerata)
ISBN: 9789027223197
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, this book describes how the meanings of established phrases...  Read More >>

Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical framework and applications

Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical...

Author: Farzad Sharifian (Monash University)
ISBN: 9789027204042
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language which draws on analytical...  Read More >>

Arabic Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis

Arabic Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis

Author: Hussein Abdul-Raof
ISBN: 9780415663793
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This up-to-date and in-depth study of Arabic rhetoric bridges the learning and research gap, whilst also being a...  Read More >>

Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning

Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims...

Author: Michael Smith ,  George Hillocks Jr
ISBN: 9780325013961
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"""In this book, George Hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should....  Read More >>

Journalism and the Political: Discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia

Journalism and the Political: Discursive tensions in...

Author: Felicitas Macgilchrist (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany)
ISBN: 9789027206312
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Journalism is often thought of as the 'fourth estate' of democracy. This book suggests that journalism plays a more...  Read More >>

The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond: Let Cinema Speak

The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond: Let Cinema...

Author: Roberta Piazza (University of Sussex, UK) ,  Beatrix Busse
ISBN: 9781441136978
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Includes a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics,...  Read More >>

Logica: Metodo Breve

Logica: Metodo Breve

Author: Daniele Mundici
ISBN: 9788847018839
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Senza richiedere prerequisiti il testo si propone di fornire una dimostrazione dei fondamentali teoremi della logica...  Read More >>

Analysing Media Discourses

Analysing Media Discourses

Author: John E. Richardson (Loughborough University, UK) ,  Joseph D. Burridge
ISBN: 9780415618588
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The continual growth in the significance of mass-mediated communication makes it essential that we are able to reflect...  Read More >>

The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures

The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic...

Author: Dr Richard North ,  Dr Joe Allard
ISBN: 9786613275776
Format: Electronic book text
$156.18

<p>This new anthology sits at the forefront of the discipline of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic literatures, brought...  Read More >>

Current Trends in Narratology

Current Trends in Narratology

Author: Greta Olson
ISBN: 9786613166814
Format: Electronic book text
$792.00

Offers an overview of various approaches to theories of storytelling. This title describes the move to cognition,...  Read More >>

Semantic Erosion of Middle English Prepositions

Semantic Erosion of Middle English Prepositions

Author: Luis Iglesias-Rábade
ISBN: 9783631611258
Format: Hardback
$105.83

Offers a statistical study of Middle English prepositions. This book demonstrates how Middle English prepositions...  Read More >>

I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World

I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it...

Author: James Geary
ISBN: 9780061710285
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Although most people would assume that metaphor's only place of influence is in literature and song, this title...  Read More >>

Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Author: John Edwards
ISBN: 9780230500310
Format: Hardback
$169.00

The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do...  Read More >>

Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research

Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional...

Author: Sally Rice ,  John Newman
ISBN: 9781575866130
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference,...  Read More >>

Engaging Writing 2: Essential Skills for Academic Writing

Engaging Writing 2: Essential Skills for Academic Writing...

Author: Mary Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780132483544
Format: Paperback
$72.95

Level 2 is a completely new edition of Engaging Writing and has a strong emphasis on essay writing.  Read More >>

Prose

Prose

Author: Elizabeth Bishop ,  Professor Lloyd Schwartz
ISBN: 9780374532734
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose...  Read More >>

Researching Chinese Learners: Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

Researching Chinese Learners: Skills, Perceptions and...

Author: L. Jin ,  M. Cortazzi
ISBN: 9780230243880
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates...  Read More >>

Children's Literature Review: Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

Children's Literature Review: Excerts from Reviews,...

Author: Dana Ferguson
ISBN: 9781414449241
Format: Hardback
$826.32

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Clear and Simple as the Truth

Clear and Simple as the Truth

Author: Francis-Noel Thomas ,  Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University Professor of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, King's College London Case Western Reserve University)
ISBN: 9781283001380
Format: Electronic book text
$63.20

<p>For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant...  Read More >>

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing...

Author: Craig Dworkin ,  Kenneth Goldsmith
ISBN: 9780810127111
Format: Paperback
$118.80

"In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web,...  Read More >>

Compelled to Write: Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and Practice

Compelled to Write: Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and...

Author: David L Wallace
ISBN: 9780874218121
Format: Paperback
$71.15

"David Wallace argues that any understanding of writing studies must include the conception of discourse as an embodied...  Read More >>

California State University Writing Proficiency Exams

California State University Writing Proficiency Exams...

Author: Fred Obrecht
ISBN: 9780764145742
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Updated to reflect the most recent exams, this manual explains the structure of writing proficiency exams given...  Read More >>

Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts

Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts

Author: Cheryl Glenn ,  Krista Ratcliffe
ISBN: 9780809330171
Format: Paperback
$118.80

In Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts, editors Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe bring together seventeen...  Read More >>

The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement

The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and Civic...

Author: John M. Ackerman ,  David J. Coogan
ISBN: 9781570039317
Format: Hardback
$131.87

The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement...  Read More >>

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