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Resources for Teaching Creative Writing

Resources for Teaching Creative Writing

Author: Johnnie Young
ISBN: 9781283271868
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

A guide to teaching creative writing and thinking at KS4 and KS5. It takes the teacher through a series of creative...  Read More >>

A Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation

A Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation

Author: Professor Michael Fortescue
ISBN: 9781441111432
Format: Hardback
$210.00

A study of the mental lexicon - the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific...  Read More >>

Metaphors of the Web 2.0: With Special Emphasis on Social Networks and Folksonomies

Metaphors of the Web 2.0: With Special Emphasis on Social...

Author: Alexander Tokar
ISBN: 9783631586648
Format: Paperback
$116.03

This study is an attempt to semantically decompose the most popular metaphorical expressions associated with two...  Read More >>

Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective...

Author: Thao Le ,  Megan Short
ISBN: 9781607413202
Format: Paperback
$113.52

Emphasises the interdisciplinary nature of critical discourse analysis (CDA). This book covers some introductory...  Read More >>

Mythologies

Mythologies

Author: Roland Barthes ,  Dr Annette Lavers
ISBN: 9780099529750
Format: Paperback
$22.99

'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture'...  Read More >>

The Split Dark Rider

The Split Dark Rider

Author: Richard Sabolick
ISBN: 9783838313528
Format: Paperback
$232.32

Critical analyses of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men have traditionally portrayed the book as a morality tale depicting...  Read More >>

Language and Power: The Implications of Language for Peace and Development

Language and Power: The Implications of Language for...

Author: Birgit Brock-Utne ,  Gunnar Garbo
ISBN: 9789987080328
Format: Paperback
$92.27

"Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means...  Read More >>

The Pragmatics of Interaction

The Pragmatics of Interaction

Author: Sigurd D'Hondt (Ghent University) ,  Jan-Ola Ostman (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9789027207814
Format: Paperback
$155.76

Starting from Goffman's observation that interaction exhibits a structure in its own right that cannot be reduced...  Read More >>

Debating in the World Schools Style: A Guide

Debating in the World Schools Style: A Guide

Author: Simon Quinn
ISBN: 9781932716559
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Debating in the World Schools Style is a how-to guide to the most popular style of debating among school students...  Read More >>

Collective and Individual Responsibility: A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20

Collective and Individual Responsibility: A Description...

Author: Jurrien Mol ,  Jurrien Mol
ISBN: 9789004170438
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Following an extensive study of Ezekiel 18 and 20, this book offers a redefinition and a new theoretical basis for...  Read More >>

Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse...

Author: Maggie Charles ,  Diane Pecorari
ISBN: 9781441135803
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches:...  Read More >>

The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher

The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest...

Author: Donald Murray ,  Dr Lisa Miller
ISBN: 9780867096002
Format: Paperback
$82.50

"Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher Don Murray's mission was to demystify writing by revealing as...  Read More >>

Präpositionen und Präpositionalphrasen im Mittelhochdeutschen

Präpositionen und Präpositionalphrasen im Mittelhochdeutschen...

Author: Sandra Waldenberger
ISBN: 9783484770034
Format: Paperback
$295.68

Diese Arbeit stellt korpusbasierte Studien zum Phänomenbereich 'Präposition' vor: Auf Basis des Bochumer Mittelhochdeutschkorpus...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Discourse and Business Communication

New Approaches to Discourse and Business Communication...

Author: F. Ramallo ,  A. Lorenzo
ISBN: 9781403947369
Format: Hardback
$154.00

A collection of new studies of the role of discourse in communication in business and other professional fields,...  Read More >>

A Hybrid Theory of Metaphor: Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics

A Hybrid Theory of Metaphor: Relevance Theory and Cognitive...

Author: M. Tendahl
ISBN: 9781349309825
Format: Paperback
$84.99

A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by...  Read More >>

A Hybrid Theory of Metaphor: Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics

A Hybrid Theory of Metaphor: Relevance Theory and Cognitive...

Author: M. Tendahl
ISBN: 9780230227934
Format: Hardback
$168.00

A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by...  Read More >>

From Interaction to Symbol: A systems view of the evolution of signs and communication

From Interaction to Symbol: A systems view of the evolution...

Author: Piotr Sadowski
ISBN: 9789027243447
Format: Hardback
$417.12

Offers a comprehensive model of communication based on deductive formulations of systems theory supported by evolutionary...  Read More >>

The Power of Discourse in Ritual Performance: Rhetoric, Poetics, Transformations

The Power of Discourse in Ritual Performance: Rhetoric,...

Author: Ulrich Demmer ,  Martin Gaenszle
ISBN: 9783825883003
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This volume focuses on the ways discourse is used in ritual performances as an important medium of power, enabling...  Read More >>

Contested Homes

Contested Homes

Author: Tessa C Lee
ISBN: 9783838311524
Format: Paperback
$216.48

"The German Heimat, so profoundly evocative of serenity and a sense of intimate belonging, could be said to come...  Read More >>

Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Wording the War

Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict:...

Author: John Morley (University of Siena, Italy) ,  Paul Bayley (University of Bologna, Italy)
ISBN: 9780415871372
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This volume illustrates the role of language in political action by analyzing the discourse of various British and...  Read More >>

Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton 'Won' in 2008

Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton 'Won' in...

Author: Nichola D. Gutgold ,  Marie Cocco
ISBN: 9780739133729
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This book takes the reader on a rhetorical journey through Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, focusing...  Read More >>

Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton 'Won' in 2008

Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton 'Won' in...

Author: Nichola D. Gutgold ,  Marie Cocco
ISBN: 9780739133712
Format: Hardback
$129.95

This book takes the reader on a rhetorical journey through Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, focusing...  Read More >>

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