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Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material...

Author: Jennifer Clary-Lemon ,  David M Grant
ISBN: 9780814258446
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Brings together new materialist and decolonial rhetorics to respond to frustrations of erasure, otherness, and marginalization...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

Author: Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ,  Yen-Hwei Lin (Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9781108420075
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Written by a team of experts, this handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the key issues in Chinese linguistics,...  Read More >>

Elasticity in Healthcare Communication: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Elasticity in Healthcare Communication: A Cross-Cultural...

Author: Grace Qiao Zhang (Curtin University, Perth) ,  Ming-Yu Tseng
ISBN: 9781108842396
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses the use of elastic language in health communication...  Read More >>

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material...

Author: Jennifer Clary-Lemon ,  David M Grant
ISBN: 9780814214923
Format: Hardback
$343.07

Brings together new materialist and decolonial rhetorics to respond to frustrations of erasure, otherness, and marginalization...  Read More >>

Our Body of Work: Embodied Administration and Teaching

Our Body of Work: Embodied Administration and Teaching...

Author: Melissa Nicolas ,  Anna Sicari
ISBN: 9781646422333
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Our Body of Workinvites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor...  Read More >>

Racing Translingualism in Composition: Toward a Race-Conscious Translingualism

Racing Translingualism in Composition: Toward a Race-Conscious...

Author: Tom Do ,  Dr. Karen Rowan
ISBN: 9781646422098
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Racing Translingualism provides both theoretical and pedagogical reconsiderations of the translingual approach to...  Read More >>

Words and Meaning in Metasemantics: Grounds for an Interactive Theory

Words and Meaning in Metasemantics: Grounds for an Interactive...

Author: Juan José Colomina-Almiñana
ISBN: 9781793609465
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana argues that language meaning determination requires...  Read More >>

Mediations between Nature and Culture

Mediations between Nature and Culture

Author: Aaron K. Kerr
ISBN: 9781793640307
Format: Hardback
$163.00

This book explores the mediatory competence of human communication. By analyzing and enacting rhetorical strategies,...  Read More >>

The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh

The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh

Author: Jonathan Silvertown
ISBN: 9781950354283
Format: Paperback
$42.24

What is humor? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes,...  Read More >>

Well Composed: A Guide to Effective Composition and Transformational Leadership

Well Composed: A Guide to Effective Composition and...

Author: Lr Griffin
ISBN: 9798823302722
Format: Hardback
$255.95

...provides students with an innovative approach to English composition and rhetoric. The book uniquely challenges...  Read More >>

A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics: Volume 100 of Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics:...

Author: Louise McNally ,  Zoltán Gendler Szabó
ISBN: 9783030853075
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished...  Read More >>

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and...

Author: Michael J. Faris ,  Steve Holmes
ISBN: 9781646422579
Format: Paperback
$94.91

"""Reprogrammable Rhetoric offers theoretical perspectives on material and cultural rhetorics alongside tutorials...  Read More >>

Loanwords in the Chinese Language

Loanwords in the Chinese Language

Author: Shi Youwei ,  Xiaolu An
ISBN: 9780367674601
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Approaching the topic from a diachronic perspective, this volume is the first book-length work to chart the developmental...  Read More >>

Multimodal Approaches to Chinese-English Translation and Interpreting

Multimodal Approaches to Chinese-English Translation...

Author: Meifang Zhang (University of Macau, Macau) ,  Dezheng (William) Feng
ISBN: 9780367647643
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Multimodal Approaches to Chinese-English Translation and Interpreting is among the first attempts to apply multimodal...  Read More >>

The Indexical Point of View: On Cognitive Significance and Cognitive Dynamics

The Indexical Point of View: On Cognitive Significance...

Author: Vojislav Bozickovic
ISBN: 9780367556013
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book argues that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their...  Read More >>

Fresh Perspectives on Major Issues in Pragmatics

Fresh Perspectives on Major Issues in Pragmatics

Author: Monika Kirner-Ludwig (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
ISBN: 9780367683757
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book showcases new and innovative developments and approaches in pragmatics, spotlighting perspectives from...  Read More >>

Approaches to Specialized Genres

Approaches to Specialized Genres

Author: Kathy Ling LIN (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) ,  Isaac N. Mwinlaaru (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
ISBN: 9780367644062
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Approaches to Specialized Genres provides a timely update of the field of genre studies, with contributions focusing...  Read More >>

Du Temps Et de l'Aspect Dans Les Langues: Approches Linguistiques de la Temporalit�

Du Temps Et de l'Aspect Dans Les Langues: Approches...

Author: Thomas Szende ,  Hélène de Penanros
ISBN: 9782807608047
Format: Paperback
$106.09

Le livre fournit un �clairage sur ce que les linguistes appellent � le temps �. Son originalit� r�side dans le fait...  Read More >>

Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education in East Asia

Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education...

Author: Cynthia Lee (The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780367627553
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education...  Read More >>

Six Plays By Black and Asian Women Writers

Six Plays By Black and Asian Women Writers

Author: Kadija George ,  Rukshana Ahmad
ISBN: 9780951587720
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A collection of plays for stage, screen and radio showing the vitality of Black and Asian writing in Britain.  Read More >>

Rhetoric, Independence, and Nationhood, 1760-1800

Rhetoric, Independence, and Nationhood, 1760-1800

Author: Steven Lucas
ISBN: 9781611864199
Format: Hardback
$313.50

Presents eleven essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars who bring to bear a variety of methods, backgrounds,...  Read More >>

Native Speakerism: Discriminatory Employment Practices in Polish Language Schools

Native Speakerism: Discriminatory Employment Practices...

Author: Robert Kiełtyka ,  Tomasz Paciorkowski
ISBN: 9783631874646
Format: Hardback
$98.32

The main purpose of the book is to explore whether native speakerism has an influence on Polish language schools,...  Read More >>

Constructing the Welfare State in the British Press: Boundaries and Metaphors in Political Discourse

Constructing the Welfare State in the British Press:...

Author: Dr Malgorzata Paprota (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350202528
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how...  Read More >>

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