Semantics books

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Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism Versus Irony 1700-1999

Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism Versus...

Author: Stephen Prickett (Baylor University, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781280419553
Format: Electronic book text
$357.98

An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority...  Read More >>

How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing and Publishing Erotica

How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing and Publishing...

Author: Susie Bright
ISBN: 9780743226233
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Here, erotica author Susie Bright show readers how to heat up sex scenes in all types of fiction. She guides aspiring...  Read More >>

Wave Forms: A Natural Syntax for Rhythmic Languages

Wave Forms: A Natural Syntax for Rhythmic Languages...

Author: James H. Bunn
ISBN: 9780804745079
Format: Paperback
$52.95

In this daring book, the author proposes that artistic and literary forms can be understood as modulations of wave...  Read More >>

Biblical Semantic Logic: A Preliminary Analysis

Biblical Semantic Logic: A Preliminary Analysis

Author: Arthur Gibson
ISBN: 9781841271736
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Biblical semantic logic states that the study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern languages and literatures can...  Read More >>

Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq

Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq

Author: Ofra Bengio (Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9780195151855
Format: Paperback
$123.95

Drawing from such resources as newspaper articles, official publications and Hussein's public statements, speeches...  Read More >>

Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language

Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation...

Author: Yoad Winter (Utrecht University)
ISBN: 9780262232180
Format: Hardback
$132.00

An investigation of the logical flexibility principles needed for a formal semantic account of coordination, plurality,...  Read More >>

Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration And Prop 187

Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration And Prop 187...

Author: Kent Ono ,  John Sloop
ISBN: 9781566399173
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Demonstrates how difficult it is to maintain a position outside the mainstream, but also how important it is for...  Read More >>

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

Author: Bruce McComiskey
ISBN: 9780809323975
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"In this text, the author aims to achieve three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical ""techne""...  Read More >>

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World...

Author: Verlyn Flieger
ISBN: 9780873387446
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition

Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition

Author: Duane Roen ,  Lauren Yena
ISBN: 9780814147498
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Whether the new instructor of first-year composition looks forward to that first class period with anticipation,...  Read More >>

Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming...

Author: Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780195145281
Format: Hardback
$323.00

In Beyond Rigidity, Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertion...  Read More >>

Raabe-Rapporte: Literaturwissenschaftliche und literaturdidaktische Zugänge zum Werk Wilhelm Raabes

Raabe-Rapporte: Literaturwissenschaftliche und literaturdidaktische...

Author: Sigrid Thielking
ISBN: 9783824444762
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Der Sammelband prasentiert Berichte und Skizzen zum Umgang mit Raabes Texten in Wissenschaft und Unterricht.  Read More >>

Against the Grain: A Volume in Honor of Maxine Hairston

Against the Grain: A Volume in Honor of Maxine Hairston...

Author: David Jolliffe ,  Michael Keene
ISBN: 9781572733862
Format: Paperback
$64.56

A volume in honour of American writing teacher, Maxine Hairston. The first part contains all her key writing, along...  Read More >>

Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

Author: Utpal Lahiri (, Visting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MIT)
ISBN: 9780199246526
Format: Paperback
$128.95

"Linguists have realised that predicates of the ""know"" and ""wonder"" classes behave differently in semantic terms...  Read More >>

Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

Author: Utpal Lahiri (, Visting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MIT)
ISBN: 9780198241331
Format: Hardback
$320.00

"Linguists have realised that predicates of the ""know"" and ""wonder"" classes behave differently in semantic terms...  Read More >>

The Languages of Edison's Light

The Languages of Edison's Light

Author: Charles Bazerman ,  Wiebe E. Bijker (Professor of Technology and Society, Maastricht University)
ISBN: 9780262523264
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication.  Read More >>

The Orator’s Education, Volume III: Books 6–8

The Orator’s Education, Volume III: Books 6–8

Author: Quintilian ,  Donald A. Russell
ISBN: 9780674995932
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s...  Read More >>

The Orator’s Education, Volume I: Books 1–2

The Orator’s Education, Volume I: Books 1–2

Author: Quintilian ,  Donald A. Russell
ISBN: 9780674995918
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s...  Read More >>

The Orator’s Education, Volume IV: Books 9–10

The Orator’s Education, Volume IV: Books 9–10

Author: Quintilian ,  Donald A. Russell
ISBN: 9780674995949
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s...  Read More >>

The Orator’s Education, Volume V: Books 11–12

The Orator’s Education, Volume V: Books 11–12

Author: Quintilian ,  Donald A. Russell
ISBN: 9780674995956
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s...  Read More >>

The Orator’s Education, Volume II: Books 3–5

The Orator’s Education, Volume II: Books 3–5

Author: Quintilian ,  Donald A. Russell
ISBN: 9780674995925
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s...  Read More >>

Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric

Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric

Author: Ronald G. Witt
ISBN: 9780860788751
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A View of Language

A View of Language

Author: Pieter A. M. Seuren (, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780199244812
Format: Hardback
$423.00

A synopsis of Seuren's work in linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, and Creole linguistics since the 1970s.  Read More >>

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