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Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach

Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach...

Author: Mara Sophia Zanotto (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil) ,  Lynne Cameron (The Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9789027254177
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Offers snapshots of metaphor use in real language and in real lives across the different cultures of Europe and...  Read More >>

Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse

Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse...

Author: Louise McNally (, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ,  Christopher Kennedy (, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780199211616
Format: Hardback
$324.00

This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical...  Read More >>

Tag Teaming the Press: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Work Together to Handle the Media

Tag Teaming the Press: How Bill and Hillary Clinton...

Author: James Mueller
ISBN: 9780742555495
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Tag Teaming the Press follows Bill and Hillary Clinton's lifelong association with the media, showing how they have...  Read More >>

Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect

Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics...

Author: Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
ISBN: 9789027233745
Format: Hardback
$261.34

Investigates the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a range of...  Read More >>

Composing Feminisms: How Feminists Have Shaped Composition Theories and Practices

Composing Feminisms: How Feminists Have Shaped Composition...

Author: Kay Siebler ,  Michael Williamson
ISBN: 9781572737112
Format: Hardback
$117.73

Offers a comprehensive definition of feminist pedagogy culled from over three decades of scholarship. This book...  Read More >>

Discourse, Vision, and Cognition

Discourse, Vision, and Cognition

Author: Jana Holšánová (Lund University)
ISBN: 9789027223777
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Explores the relationship between language, eye movements and cognition, and brings together discourse analysis...  Read More >>

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics...

Author: Elenore Long
ISBN: 9781602350564
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Neo-Colonial Mentalities in Contemporary Europe? Language and Discourse in the Construction of Identities

Neo-Colonial Mentalities in Contemporary Europe? Language...

Author: Anne Ife ,  Guido Rings
ISBN: 9781847185129
Format: Hardback
$90.54

In the rapidly evolving context of contemporary Europe many citizens have previous experience of colonial, or neo-colonial,...  Read More >>

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics...

Author: Elenore Long
ISBN: 9781602350571
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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Phantom Sentences: Essays in linguistics and literature presented to Ann Banfield

Phantom Sentences: Essays in linguistics and literature...

Author: Gilles Philippe ,  Thelma Sowley
ISBN: 9783039112227
Format: Paperback
$269.10

Ann Banfield – professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley – is best known...  Read More >>

The Aims of Argument: A Brief Guide

The Aims of Argument: A Brief Guide

Author: Timothy Crusius ,  Carolyn Channell
ISBN: 9780073405834
Format: Undefined
$158.40

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Historical Corpus Stylistics: Media, Technology and Change

Historical Corpus Stylistics: Media, Technology and...

Author: Patrick Studer
ISBN: 9780826494306
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers an empirical study into the development of style in early mass...  Read More >>

Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives...

Author: Erich A. Berendt (Seisen University, Tokyo)
ISBN: 9789027223760
Format: Hardback
$417.12

In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT), research has predominantly focused on the English language with few studies...  Read More >>

Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and changing the world

Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and changing...

Author: Terrell Carver (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Jernej Pikalo
ISBN: 9780415417358
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyze the use of metaphor in...  Read More >>

A Synthesis of Research on Second Language Writing in English: 1985-2005: Synthesis of Research on Second Language Writing in English

A Synthesis of Research on Second Language Writing in...

Author: Ilona Leki (University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA) ,  Tony Silva (Purdue University, USA)
ISBN: 9781281457288
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Synthesizing twenty-five years of the most significant and influential findings of published research on second...  Read More >>

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

Author: Jonathon Hall ,  Jonathon Hall
ISBN: 9781280743580
Format: Electronic book text
$617.60

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture.A...  Read More >>

Truly Understood

Truly Understood

Author: Christopher Peacocke
ISBN: 9786611852863
Format: Electronic book text
$641.52

What is it to be able to think about the material world, about oneself, and about other people? Christopher Peacocke...  Read More >>

Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach

Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach

Author: Paolo Acquaviva (, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780199534227
Format: Paperback
$100.95

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. Using tools from formal semantics...  Read More >>

Il senso e la narrazione

Il senso e la narrazione

Author: Giuseppe O. Longo
ISBN: 9788847007789
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Viviamo tra una realtà soda e scabra, inconoscibile, una fornace enorme di perturbazioni e richiami e colori, e...  Read More >>

Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction

Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction

Author: Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University) ,  Anders Hougaard (University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9789027254146
Format: Hardback
$227.70

The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a cross-disciplinary enterprise that...  Read More >>

Rhetoric, Uncertainty, and the University as Text: How Students Construct the Academic Experience

Rhetoric, Uncertainty, and the University as Text: How...

Author: Andrew Stubbs
ISBN: 9780889772038
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Meaning in Context: Strategies for Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies

Meaning in Context: Strategies for Implementing Intelligent...

Author: Jonathan J Webster
ISBN: 9786613206459
Format: Electronic book text
$792.00

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