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New Approaches to Rhetoric

New Approaches to Rhetoric

Author: Patricia A. Sullivan ,  Steven R. Goldzwig
ISBN: 9780761929130
Format: Paperback
$268.00

Demonstrating and showcasing theory into action, this book provides perspectives on the study of rhetoric and rhetoric's...  Read More >>

Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

Author: Jonathan Charteris-Black
ISBN: 9781403932921
Format: Hardback
$168.00

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically...  Read More >>

Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis...

Author: Philip LeVine ,  Ron Scollon
ISBN: 9781589011014
Format: Paperback
$97.99

Opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact...  Read More >>

Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance...

Author: Madhavi Menon
ISBN: 9780802088376
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing...  Read More >>

How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript

How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-step...

Author: James N Frey
ISBN: 9780312304461
Format: Hardback
$43.95

Offers advice to aspiring mystery authors on how to create worthwhile characters, effectively structure a plot,...  Read More >>

Medium und Reflexiv

Medium und Reflexiv

Author: Ingrid Kaufmann
ISBN: 9783484304895
Format: Paperback
$554.40

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues...  Read More >>

Historische Semantik in den romanischen Sprachen

Historische Semantik in den romanischen Sprachen

Author: Franz Lebsanft ,  Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen
ISBN: 9783484304833
Format: Hardback
$406.56

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues...  Read More >>

The Complete Wedding Speech Guide

The Complete Wedding Speech Guide

Author: Andrew Byrne
ISBN: 9781741101119
Format: Paperback
$12.99

This guide will lead you through the planning, writing and delivering of your speech on the big day, whether you...  Read More >>

Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies

Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies...

Author: Andrea Lunsford ,  Lahoucine Ouzgane
ISBN: 9780822942221
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar...  Read More >>

Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman

Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical...

Author: Robert Alexander Kraig
ISBN: 9781585442751
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This study of academician Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy of the oratorical statesman traces the classical...  Read More >>

You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric

You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential...

Author: Vanessa B. Beasley
ISBN: 9781585442775
Format: Hardback
$105.47

As we ask anew in these troubled times what it means to be an American, You, the People provides perspective by...  Read More >>

(Mis)Representing Islam: The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers

(Mis)Representing Islam: The racism and rhetoric of...

Author: John Richardson (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9789027226990
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Suitable for researchers and students of racism, Islam, Journalism and Communication studies, Rhetoric, and (Critical)...  Read More >>

The Crafty Art of Playmaking

The Crafty Art of Playmaking

Author: Alan Ayckbourn
ISBN: 9780571215102
Format: Paperback
$24.99

With over 60 plays written and staged, many playing in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, Alan Ayckbourn's...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education

An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education...

Author: Rebecca Rogers (University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA)
ISBN: 9780805848182
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Offers an introduction to concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis for educational researchers. This book...  Read More >>

Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline

Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration:...

Author: Barbara Leplattenier ,  Lisa Mastrangelo
ISBN: 9786611079635
Format: Electronic book text
$320.02

Collecting essays that shed light on the early history of writing program administration, this book presents the...  Read More >>

TECHNE

TECHNE

Author: LONG ET AL ,  Joyce Spivey
ISBN: 9780757508127
Format: Paperback
$160.91

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Textual Metonymy: A Semiotic Approach

Textual Metonymy: A Semiotic Approach

Author: A. Al-Sharafi
ISBN: 9781403913326
Format: Hardback
$196.00

Textual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the...  Read More >>

Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and...

Author: Alan Cruse
ISBN: 9780199263066
Format: Paperback
$145.20

In this introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language, Alan Cruse covers semantic matters, but...  Read More >>

Auxiliation: An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization

Auxiliation: An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization...

Author: Tania Kuteva (, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Dusseldorf)
ISBN: 9780199265053
Format: Paperback
$121.95

Auxiliation describes the process by which auxiliary verbs - such as do, may, must, will, and have - develop from...  Read More >>

The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon...

Author: Artemis Alexiadou (, University of Potsdam) ,  Elena Anagnostopoulou (, University of Crete)
ISBN: 9780199257645
Format: Hardback
$360.00

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This...  Read More >>

Cicero's Topica: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Cicero's Topica: Edited with an Introduction, Translation,...

Author: Tobias Reinhardt (, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199263462
Format: Hardback
$151.95

Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary...  Read More >>

Reference and the Rational Mind

Reference and the Rational Mind

Author: Kenneth A. Taylor
ISBN: 9781575864327
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the ways in which mind, language, and...  Read More >>

Sign, Meaning, Knowledge: An Essay in the Cognitive Philosophy of Language

Sign, Meaning, Knowledge: An Essay in the Cognitive...

Author: A. V Kravchenko
ISBN: 9780820460550
Format: Paperback
$97.55

During the course of his research, Kravchenko (English, Baikal National U. of Economics and Law, Irkutsk, Russia)...  Read More >>

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