Semantics books

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The Typology of Semantic Alignment

The Typology of Semantic Alignment

Author: Mark Donohue (, Monash University) ,  Søren Wichmann (, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
ISBN: 9780199238385
Format: Hardback
$378.95

Leading scholars explore the characteristics of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure...  Read More >>

On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English

On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative...

Author: Barbara Arizti ,  Silvia Martinez-Falquina
ISBN: 9781847183583
Format: Hardback
$116.41

On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English is an attempt to listen to the various voices...  Read More >>

Accentuation and Interpretation

Accentuation and Interpretation

Author: H. Schmitz
ISBN: 9780230002531
Format: Hardback
$154.00

Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making...  Read More >>

On The Writing Of English

On The Writing Of English

Author: George Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9781933527253
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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

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

Author: Carol David ,  Anne R Richards
ISBN: 9786611800123
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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Impoliteness in Interaction

Impoliteness in Interaction

Author: Derek Bousfield (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9789027254115
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Focuses on the role that impoliteness has to play by drawing extracts from a range of discourse types (car parking...  Read More >>

Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive study of the realization and perception of refusals

Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive...

Author: J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University)
ISBN: 9789027254153
Format: Hardback
$393.36

This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico...  Read More >>

Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric

Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric...

Author: Ulla Connor (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) ,  Ed Nagelhout (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
ISBN: 9789027254139
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This volume explores contrastive rhetoric for audiences in both ESL contexts and international EFL contexts, exposing...  Read More >>

The Longman Guide to Style and Writing on the Internet

The Longman Guide to Style and Writing on the Internet...

Author: Martha C Sammons
ISBN: 9780205576296
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The Internet Writer's Handbook is an easily accessible, vital reference tool for those who want to write and format...  Read More >>

Discourse and Politeness: Ambivalent Face in Japanese

Discourse and Politeness: Ambivalent Face in Japanese...

Author: Dr Naomi Geyer
ISBN: 9780826497819
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework...  Read More >>

The Concise McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life

The Concise McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College,...

Author: Duane H Roen ,  Gregory Glau
ISBN: 9780077236021
Format: Paperback
$180.18

The Concise McGraw-Hill Guide is designed to help students learn to write more effectively not only in their college...  Read More >>

Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781599865669
Format: Paperback
$13.17

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials,...  Read More >>

Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World

Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized...

Author: Nancy Welch
ISBN: 9780867095845
Format: Paperback
$75.90

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Legal Discourse Across Cultures and Systems

Legal Discourse Across Cultures and Systems

Author: Vijay Bhatia ,  Christopher Candlin
ISBN: 9789622098527
Format: Paperback
$79.07

What is legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across linguistic, national, socio-political...  Read More >>

Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric

Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition...

Author: Paul Butler
ISBN: 9780874216790
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing...  Read More >>

Multimodality and Genre: A Foundation for the Systematic Analysis of Multimodal Documents

Multimodality and Genre: A Foundation for the Systematic...

Author: J. Bateman
ISBN: 9781349280797
Format: Paperback
$169.00

The first systematic, corpus-based and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and analysis of multimodal...  Read More >>

Accentuation and Interpretation

Accentuation and Interpretation

Author: H. Schmitz
ISBN: 9781349280735
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making...  Read More >>

Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach

Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach

Author: David Brodsky
ISBN: 9780292716681
Format: Paperback
$54.95

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Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction

Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment,...

Author: William Flesch
ISBN: 9780674026315
Format: Hardback
$114.84

Integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies and creates a theory of fiction in which form and content...  Read More >>

Legal Discourse Across Cultures and Systems

Legal Discourse Across Cultures and Systems

Author: Vijay Bhatia ,  Christopher Candlin
ISBN: 9789622098510
Format: Hardback
$183.48

What is legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across linguistic, national, socio-political...  Read More >>

Propaganda for Know-It-Alls

Propaganda for Know-It-Alls

Author: For Know-It-Alls
ISBN: 9781599862101
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Propaganda for Know-It-Alls is a reference guide to help readers understand the effort of sending messages which...  Read More >>

The Rhetorical Strategies Employed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to Promote Education

The Rhetorical Strategies Employed by President Lyndon...

Author: Jaime Thornton ,  Richard Leo Enos
ISBN: 9780773451247
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Through the lens of rhetorical criticism, this study offers an understanding of the arguments that Lyndon Johnson...  Read More >>

College Writing and Beyond

College Writing and Beyond

Author: Anne Beaufort
ISBN: 9786613267399
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

<p>Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines the majority of...  Read More >>

Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement

Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement

Author: Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415962544
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric

Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred...

Author: Professor Katie Geneva Cannon
ISBN: 9780826428974
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Explains the formal elements of preaching. This book is intended for ministers who struggle from Sunday to Sunday...  Read More >>

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