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The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the Wehrmacht's War of Annihilation

The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering...

Author: Ruth Wodak ,  Steven Fligelstone
ISBN: 9780230013230
Format: Hardback
$168.00

How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? This interdisciplinary volume...  Read More >>

The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy: New Sources of Evidence for Theories of Word Meaning

The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy: New Sources of Evidence...

Author: Professor Marina Rakova, Dr (State University of St Petersburg) ,  Gergely Petho
ISBN: 9780820477404
Format: Paperback
$145.07

The volume aims to explore the relationship between the theoretical modelling and the mental representation of the...  Read More >>

Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication

Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of...

Author: Carol David ,  Anne R Richards
ISBN: 9781602350465
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Symbol & Sense: Writing Instruction for Middle School

Symbol & Sense: Writing Instruction for Middle School...

Author: Stephen R. Hawley
ISBN: 9780981502502
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Get back to the basics and see improvement in writing skills. You'll find hundreds of exercises in this text, as...  Read More >>

Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication

Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of...

Author: Carol David ,  Anne R Richards
ISBN: 9781602350472
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This edition offers a variety of creative and theoretically based approaches to the development of visual literacy....  Read More >>

Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a time of Globalization

Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication...

Author: Samir Dayal ,  Margueritte Murphy
ISBN: 9781847183811
Format: Hardback
$103.47

Globalization as we know it today would be unimaginable without the revolution in information and communication...  Read More >>

Communicating Conflict: Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media

Communicating Conflict: Multilingual Case Studies of...

Author: Elizabeth A Thomson ,  P R R White
ISBN: 9786613207968
Format: Electronic book text
$792.00

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Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

Author: Laila Dybkjær ,  Wolfgang Minker
ISBN: 9781402068201
Format: Hardback
$578.16

Issues discussed include, for example, discourse and dialogue modelling in research versus industrial spoken dialogue...  Read More >>

Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis

Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis

Author: Dr Ian Bruce (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780826498441
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual...  Read More >>

Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem–Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach

Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem–Solution Pattern:...

Author: Lynne Flowerdew (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
ISBN: 9789027223036
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention...  Read More >>

Reconciliation Discourse: The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Reconciliation Discourse: The case of the Truth and...

Author: Annelies Verdoolaege (Ghent University)
ISBN: 9789027227188
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an...  Read More >>

Successful Writing at Work

Successful Writing at Work

Author: Philip C Kolin (University of Southern Mississippi USA)
ISBN: 9780618948642
Format: Paperback
$211.07

This user-friendly, compact text presents the most necessary, useful skills and strategies for successful workplace...  Read More >>

Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy

Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy...

Author: Barbara Spackman
ISBN: 9780816627875
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Exploring different conceptions of virility - as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce - in a selection...  Read More >>

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton: A Defining Political Debate

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton: A Defining...

Author: K Anthony Scott
ISBN: 9781581129854
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The founding of American jurisprudence can be traced to the debates that occurred between Alexander Hamilton and...  Read More >>

Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High...

Author: Penny Kittle
ISBN: 9780325010977
Format: Paperback
$107.26

Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them! This book...  Read More >>

The Image of a Second Sun: Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric, And the Techne of Mimesis

The Image of a Second Sun: Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric,...

Author: Jeff Mitscherling
ISBN: 9781591024316
Format: Hardback
$147.79

Offers an interpretation based upon central features of both the pre-Platonic conception of poetry and features...  Read More >>

The Grammar of Names

The Grammar of Names

Author: John M. Anderson
ISBN: 9780199533954
Format: Paperback
$122.95

The first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Draws on work in philosophy and linguistics,...  Read More >>

Teaching Life Writing Texts

Teaching Life Writing Texts

Author: Miriam Fuchs ,  Associate Professor Craig Howes
ISBN: 9780873528207
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically

Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically...

Author: Susan Schultz Huxman ,  Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
ISBN: 9780495091721
Format: Paperback
$356.27

THE RHETORICAL ACT: THINKING, SPEAKING AND WRITING CRITICALLY, Fourth Edition, teaches you how to craft and critique...  Read More >>

Teaching Life Writing Texts

Teaching Life Writing Texts

Author: Miriam Fuchs ,  Craig Howes
ISBN: 9780873528191
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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The Instruction Writer's Guide: How to Explain How to Do Anything!

The Instruction Writer's Guide: How to Explain How to...

Author: Marilyn Haight
ISBN: 9780980039023
Format: Paperback
$31.68

Write instructions like a pro! This easy-to-read, easy-to-follow book is the How-To of How-To's. A step-by-step...  Read More >>

Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community

Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community

Author: Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415960953
Format: Hardback
$213.00

The study represents the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse, focusing on the changing notions...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction

Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction

Author: A. Kingston
ISBN: 9780230600232
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his...  Read More >>

The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration

The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration...

Author: Professor Theresa Enos, PH D (University of Arizona) ,  Shane Borrowman (Gonzaga University)
ISBN: 9781602350502
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, this edition represents multiple voices...  Read More >>

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