Semantics books

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Little Brown Compact Handbook

Little Brown Compact Handbook

Author: Jane E Aaron (New York University)
ISBN: 9780536681362
Format: Spiral bound
$73.92

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Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s

Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel...

Author: Bernard Schweizer (Assistant Professor of English, Long Island University, Brooklyn)
ISBN: 9780813920696
Format: Hardback
$157.08

In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered divergent and conflicting ideologies and travel writers of the time...  Read More >>

Simple & Direct

Simple & Direct

Author: Jacques Barzun
ISBN: 9780060937232
Format: Paperback
$39.57

A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve...  Read More >>

The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis

The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse...

Author: Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780195143225
Format: Paperback
$104.95

This volume addresses many of the critical limitations in traditional prosodic analysis.  Read More >>

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction

Author: Anne Thomson
ISBN: 9780415241199
Format: Hardback
$303.60

This text offers the opportunity to practice reasoning in a clear-headed and critical way, with the aims of developing...  Read More >>

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Linguistics: The Essential Readings.

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Linguistics:...

Author: Paul Portner ,  Barbara H Partee
ISBN: 9786611321284
Format: Electronic book text
$686.14

The formal semantics approach to the study of natural language semantics was developed through active dialogue between...  Read More >>

How to Write a Thesis

How to Write a Thesis

Author: Dr Rowena Murray ,  Murray
ISBN: 9786610947393
Format: Electronic book text
$211.09

This book introduces inspiring strategies, such as freewriting and generative writing, guaranteed to bust through...  Read More >>

Teacher Commentary on Student Papers: Conventions, Beliefs, and Practices

Teacher Commentary on Student Papers: Conventions, Beliefs,...

Author: Ode Ogede
ISBN: 9786610927968
Format: Electronic book text
$452.76

Ten concerned teachers share their perspectives on tested ways of commenting on student papers, examining prevailing...  Read More >>

Learning from Research

Learning from Research

Author: Bell, Chris ,  Judith Bell
ISBN: 9786611131609
Format: Electronic book text
$211.09

* How do I begin to plan my research? * How can I be sure that I am collecting useful data and analysing it appropriately?...  Read More >>

Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

Author: Zoltan Kovecses
ISBN: 9786610531769
Format: Electronic book text
$97.81

This accessible primer provides a comprehensive account of the many developments in the study of metaphor over the...  Read More >>

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

Author: Professor Alison Wray
ISBN: 9786612486623
Format: Electronic book text
$776.16

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is ,formulaic,. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems...  Read More >>

Student Writing

Student Writing

Author: Theresa M Lillis
ISBN: 9781280402258
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

Student Writing presents an accessible and thought-provoking study of academic writing practices. Informed by 'composition'...  Read More >>

How We Write: Writing as Creative Design

How We Write: Writing as Creative Design

Author: Mike Sharples
ISBN: 9781280539169
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

An accessible guide to the entire writing process, from forming ideas to formatting text. Combining new explanations...  Read More >>

Writing Essays: A Guide for Students in English and the Humanities

Writing Essays: A Guide for Students in English and...

Author: Richard Marggraf
ISBN: 9781280402265
Format: Electronic book text
$332.51

Essays are the major form of assessment in higher education today, a fact which causes poor writers a great deal...  Read More >>

Argumentation: Analysis, Evaluation, Presentation

Argumentation: Analysis, Evaluation, Presentation

Author:
ISBN: 9781282324275
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

This text offers an introduction to analyzing, evaluating, and presenting oral and written argumentation, based...  Read More >>

Crime and Justice in the Age of Court TV

Crime and Justice in the Age of Court TV

Author: Hedieh Nasheri (Kent State University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781280361265
Format: Electronic book text
$158.40

This book seeks to provide useful and relevant information to aid judges, lawyers, legal scholars, media groups...  Read More >>

de-Scribing Empire

de-Scribing Empire

Author: Professor Chris Tiffin (University of Queensland) ,  University Alan Lawson (Boston College)
ISBN: 9781280325779
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role...  Read More >>

On Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and the Rule of Law: Constitutional Interpretation at the Crossroads

On Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and the Rule of...

Author: Mark Strasser
ISBN: 9781282404557
Format: Electronic book text
$161.04

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English Essay Skills for Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced

English Essay Skills for Intermediate 2, Higher and...

Author: Mary M Firth ,  Andrew G Ralston
ISBN: 9781299981942
Format: Electronic book text
$54.83

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Imagining Rhetoric

Imagining Rhetoric

Author: Janet Carey Eldred ,  Peter Mortensen, Professor
ISBN: 9781306555661
Format: Undefined
$65.87

Imagining Rhetoric examines how women s writing developed in the decades between the American Revolution and the...  Read More >>

Rehearsing New Roles

Rehearsing New Roles

Author: Lee Ann Carroll
ISBN: 9781336153752
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

In Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers, Lee Ann Carroll argues for a developmental...  Read More >>

Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue

Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue...

Author: Myriam Bras ,  Laure Vieu
ISBN: 9780080439433
Format: Hardback
$191.35

This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected...  Read More >>

Academic Discourse

Academic Discourse

Author: John Flowerdew
ISBN: 9780582418875
Format: Paperback
$88.99

"Focusing on ""English for Academic Purposes"", this text demonstrates the scope, theoretical issues and pedagogical...  Read More >>

Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Author: Yael Ravin (Research staff member at the T. J. Watson Research Center of IBM, New York) ,  Claudia Leacock (Research Scientist, Division of Cognitive and Instructional Science, Educational Testing Service)
ISBN: 9780199250868
Format: Paperback
$89.95

Polysemy is a term used to describe a word with multiple meanings. The problem is to establish whether its the same...  Read More >>

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