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Saying and Silence

Saying and Silence

Author: Frank Farmer
ISBN: 9781283266833
Format: Electronic book text
$44.75

In composition studies for the last two or three decades, Bakhtin has been especially influential through his theories...  Read More >>

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

Author: Angela Crow ,  Larry W Burton
ISBN: 9781283266901
Format: Electronic book text
$60.59

One of the first collections to focus on independent writing programs, A Field of Dreams offers a complex picture...  Read More >>

Center Will Hold

Center Will Hold

Author: Michael A Pemberton ,  Joyce Kinkead
ISBN: 9781283267076
Format: Electronic book text
$50.03

In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of...  Read More >>

Writing with Elbow

Writing with Elbow

Author: Professor Pat Belanoff, B.A., M.A., PH.D. ,  Marcia Dickson
ISBN: 9781283266864
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

Writing with Elbow is a volume written by leading scholars now working in the field of composition who trace their...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Rhetoric

New Approaches to Rhetoric

Author: Patricia A Sullivan ,  Steven R Goldzwig (Marquette University)
ISBN: 9781322418094
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

New Approaches to Rhetoric provides fresh perspectives on the study of rhetoric and its ability to affect change...  Read More >>

Communion of Friendship

Communion of Friendship

Author: Beth Daniell
ISBN: 9781336153561
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

Drawing on interviews and an array of scholarly work, Beth Daniell maps out the relations of literacy and spirituality...  Read More >>

Language Diversity in the Classroom

Language Diversity in the Classroom

Author: Geneva Smitherman Victor Villanueva ,  Suresh Canagarajah (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781336153707
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

It s no secret that, in most American classrooms, students are expected to master standardized American English...  Read More >>

Embodied Literacies

Embodied Literacies

Author: S Fleckenstein Kristie ,  Professor Kristie S Fleckenstein
ISBN: 9781336153660
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy...  Read More >>

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises...

Author: Ronald F. Hock (Professor of Religion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) ,  Edward N. O'Neil (Professor of Classics Emeritus, , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9789004126565
Format: Hardback
$551.76

This work incorporates 36 texts that illustrate the use of the chreia at three curricular levels - primary, secondary,...  Read More >>

Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2

Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2

Author: Istvan Kecskes
ISBN: 9783110173581
Format: Hardback
$377.52

This book focuses on formulaic expressions called Situation-Bound Utterances (SBU). The unique feature of the book...  Read More >>

La Notion de Gradation: Applications Aux Adjectifs

La Notion de Gradation: Applications Aux Adjectifs

Author: Sunniva Whittaker
ISBN: 9783906768175
Format: Paperback
$157.32

Revised thesis (doctoral)--Universiteat Bergen, 1998.  Read More >>

The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse

The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Rebecca Messbarger
ISBN: 9780802036520
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Groundbreaking and original, this study is the first to examine the contribution of women to the Republic of Letters...  Read More >>

Philosophical Relativity

Philosophical Relativity

Author: Peter Unger (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, New York University)
ISBN: 9780195155532
Format: Paperback
$123.95

In this short volume, Peter Unger questions the objectives answers that have been given to traditional problems...  Read More >>

Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference

Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference...

Author: Frank Brisard
ISBN: 9783110173697
Format: Hardback
$401.28

This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists,...  Read More >>

Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War

Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New...

Author: John Collins ,  Ross Glover
ISBN: 9780814716281
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts...  Read More >>

At the Syntax-pragmatics Interface

At the Syntax-pragmatics Interface

Author: Lutz Marten
ISBN: 9780199250639
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This title explores the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and semantics in the behaviour of verb phrases, incluing...  Read More >>

Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo

Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac,...

Author: Catherine Hobbs
ISBN: 9780809324699
Format: Paperback
$77.88

This text focuses primarily on the Neapolitan Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), the Frenchman Etienne de Condillac...  Read More >>

Dissension and Face-work Strategies in German Dialogues

Dissension and Face-work Strategies in German Dialogues...

Author: Selma Martins Meireles
ISBN: 9783484304574
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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

Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse

Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political...

Author: Paul Chilton (University of East Anglia) ,  Christina Schäffner (Aston University)
ISBN: 9789027226945
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This work...  Read More >>

We Want Our Freedom: Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement

We Want Our Freedom: Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement...

Author: W. Stuart Towns
ISBN: 9780275970048
Format: Hardback
$110.00

In the decades following the Civil War, white southerners throughout the region created a system of racial segregation...  Read More >>

Language Function, Structure, and Change: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Tomasz P. Krzeszowski

Language Function, Structure, and Change: Essays in...

Author: Wieslaw Oleksy (University of Lodz)
ISBN: 9780820459936
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Language Function, Structure, and Change brings together sixteen contributions by leading Polish linguists on cognitive...  Read More >>

Investigations Into Narrative Structures

Investigations Into Narrative Structures

Author: Christian Todenhagen ,  Wolfgang Thiele
ISBN: 9780820459547
Format: Hardback
$116.03

The contributors to this volume approach narrative structures in an broad sense and from differnt theoretical and...  Read More >>

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Author: Marianne W Jorgensen ,  Louise Phillips
ISBN: 9780761971122
Format: Paperback
$112.80

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method offers the first systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body...  Read More >>

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