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Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Author: Andrew Goatly (Lingnan University)
ISBN: 9789027227133
Format: Hardback
$261.34

Addresses the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this title, the author investigates how conceptual...  Read More >>

Information Structure: The Syntax-Discourse Interface

Information Structure: The Syntax-Discourse Interface...

Author: Nomi Erteschik-Shir (, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
ISBN: 9780199262595
Format: Paperback
$100.95

Provides an introduction to information structure and discusses a range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure...  Read More >>

Writing New Media: Theory and Appliications for Expanding the Teaching of Compostion

Writing New Media: Theory and Appliications for Expanding...

Author: Anne Wysocki
ISBN: 9786613267153
Format: Electronic book text
$116.16

<p>As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only...  Read More >>

Moore's Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person

Moore's Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality,...

Author: Mitchell S. Green (University of Virginia) ,  John N. Williams (Singapore Management University)
ISBN: 9780199282791
Format: Hardback
$224.00

G. E. Moore observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would...  Read More >>

Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics

Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics

Author: Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University, New Jersey) ,  Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida, Gainesville)
ISBN: 9780199290932
Format: Hardback
$195.95

The work of Donald Davidson (1917-2003) transformed the study of meaning. Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the...  Read More >>

Information Structure: The Syntax-Discourse Interface

Information Structure: The Syntax-Discourse Interface...

Author: Nomi Erteschik-Shir (, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
ISBN: 9780199262588
Format: Hardback
$251.00

Provides an introduction to information structure and discusses a range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure...  Read More >>

Semiotics: The Basics

Semiotics: The Basics

Author: Daniel Chandler (Aberystwyth University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415363754
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Provides an introduction to the key concepts of semiotics. This edition presents examples including computer and...  Read More >>

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Author: Patrick Saint-Dizier
ISBN: 9781402038990
Format: Paperback
$197.87

Finally, prepositions seem to reach a very deep level in the cognitive-semantic structure of the brain: cognitive...  Read More >>

Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec

Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec

Author: L. Oakes ,  J. Warren
ISBN: 9780230580107
Format: Paperback
$56.00

Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec,...  Read More >>

The Grammar of Names

The Grammar of Names

Author: John M. Anderson
ISBN: 9780199297412
Format: Hardback
$296.00

Presents an account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics,...  Read More >>

Etudes semantiques et pragmatiques sur le temps, l'aspect et la modalite

Etudes semantiques et pragmatiques sur le temps, l'aspect...

Author: Louis de Saussure ,  Jacques Moeschler
ISBN: 9789042023086
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Ce volume rassemble une serie d'articles qui accordent une attention particuliere a des phenomenes qui mettent specifiquement...  Read More >>

The Language of Sexual Crime

The Language of Sexual Crime

Author: J. Cotterill
ISBN: 9781349280063
Format: Paperback
$169.00

The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators...  Read More >>

Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners: Theory and Practice

Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners: Theory...

Author: G. Watson ,  S. Zyngier
ISBN: 9781349541836
Format: Paperback
$169.00

This volume presents the state of the art in terms of stylistic research and application, including EFL and ESL...  Read More >>

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics...

Author: U. Sauerland ,  P. Stateva
ISBN: 9781349282067
Format: Paperback
$169.00

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective...  Read More >>

English in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

English in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

Author: Daniel Long
ISBN: 9780822366713
Format: Hardback
$52.80

Many inhabitants of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean speak a mixture of English and...  Read More >>

Library Media Specialist in the Writing Process

Library Media Specialist in the Writing Process

Author: Marge Cox ,  Carl A Harvey
ISBN: 9786613193421
Format: Electronic book text
$211.20

Collaborate with classroom teachers on strategies to teach the writing process in the K 12 library and classroom....  Read More >>

Language and Literacy: Functional Approaches

Language and Literacy: Functional Approaches

Author: Anne McCabe ,  Rachel Whittaker (Universidad Aut??noma de Madrid Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
ISBN: 9781441119940
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

Examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. This book starts...  Read More >>

Keys to Great Writing

Keys to Great Writing

Author: Stephen Wilbers
ISBN: 9781599634425
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

A guide to improving writing skills and creating a distinct writing style discusses organization, flow, structure,...  Read More >>

Applicative Constructions

Applicative Constructions

Author: David A. Peterson (, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College)
ISBN: 9780199270927
Format: Hardback
$363.00

This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and...  Read More >>

Discourse of Opportunity: How Talk in Learning Situations Creates and Constrains

Discourse of Opportunity: How Talk in Learning Situations...

Author: Lesley A. Rex
ISBN: 9781572736450
Format: Paperback
$99.00

Focuses on the applications of interactive ethnography to the study of teaching and learning practices in various...  Read More >>

Prose Reader&Dict&Thes

Prose Reader&Dict&Thes

Author: Kim Flachmann ,  Michael Flachmann
ISBN: 9780131604612
Format: Paperback
$176.01

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Prose Reader&Naw Dict Pk

Prose Reader&Naw Dict Pk

Author: Kim Flachmann ,  Michael Flachmann
ISBN: 9780131604629
Format: Paperback
$172.47

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Mosaics: Essays&Thes&Dict

Mosaics: Essays&Thes&Dict

Author: Kim Flachmann
ISBN: 9780131603615
Format: Paperback
$200.11

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Mosaics&Florida Sg Pkg

Mosaics&Florida Sg Pkg

Author: Kim Flachmann
ISBN: 9780131472709
Format: Paperback
$200.11

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