Semantics books

Second revised edition of a guide to outlining, organizing and delivering effective presentations.  Read More >>

Designed to provide a practical, definite program for a year's work in composition, rather than a theoretical discussion...  Read More >>

Whately, the Archbishop of Dublin, suggests that rhetoric is less concerned with investigation and discovery, than...  Read More >>

Whately, the Archbishop of Dublin, suggests that rhetoric is less concerned with investigation and discovery, than...  Read More >>

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This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the semantic particularities of the French language, covering five empirical themes: determiners,...  Read More >>

Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States argues...  Read More >>

This text was a primary vehicle for introducing many 18th and 19th century scholars to classic rhetoric and French...  Read More >>

Drawing on some 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual...  Read More >>

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This light-hearted and often quirky collection of approximately 200 original sayings explores many of the universals...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on the semantic particularities of the French language, covering five empirical themes: determiners,...  Read More >>

There were many social and cultural pressures put on Athenian men: to be a good husband, father and son, to be a...  Read More >>

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Die Arbeiten zu Goethe und Thomas Mann spüren der Ranghöhe ihrer Sprachkunst nach. Diese wird an der Wortverwendung...  Read More >>

The premise that writing is a socially-situated act of interaction between readers and writers is well established....  Read More >>

An inspiring template for any would-be author of fiction from one of the most successful writers of crime fiction...  Read More >>

Paul Grice (1913-1988) is best known for his psychological account of meaning, and for his theory of conversational...  Read More >>

This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated...  Read More >>

Japanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types...  Read More >>

This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated...  Read More >>

"The principal aim of this thesis is to discover the origin, formulation and effect of what is known as a ""strategic...  Read More >>

'Kinesthetic' speaking involves actively 'listening' to your audience with your whole body, and is the element of...  Read More >>