Semantics books

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The Origins of Vowel Systems

The Origins of Vowel Systems

Author: Bart de Boer (Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780198299653
Format: Hardback
$178.95

This book addresses universal tendencies of human vowel systems from the point of view of self-organization. It...  Read More >>

A Paradigm for Program Semantics: Power Structures and Duality

A Paradigm for Program Semantics: Power Structures and...

Author: Chris Brink ,  Ingrid Rewitsky
ISBN: 9781575863443
Format: Paperback
$75.24

This text provides a synthesis of four versions of program semantics - relational semantics, predicate transformer...  Read More >>

Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture

Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture...

Author: James C. Wilson ,  Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
ISBN: 9780809323920
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Featuring 13 essays, this collection unites the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections...  Read More >>

Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in narratives at work

Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in...

Author: Carl Rhodes (University of Technology Sydney)
ISBN: 9789027233042
Format: Paperback
$119.03

This series includes cutting-edge work in comparative management and intercultural comparison, studies of organizational...  Read More >>

Princeton Review: Writing Smart 2nd

Princeton Review: Writing Smart 2nd

Author: Marcia Lerner
ISBN: 9780375762178
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"New in the successful ""Smart"" series is a user-friendly guide to help both students and adults improve their...  Read More >>

Beyond Alternations

Beyond Alternations

Author: Laura A. Michaelis ,  Josef Ruppenhofer
ISBN: 9781575863290
Format: Hardback
$166.32

This text provides a unified account of the semantic effects of the German applicative (""be-"") construction. Using...  Read More >>

The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis

The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory...

Author: Jason Merchant (, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780199243723
Format: Paperback
$97.95

"This work focuses on the form of ellipsis known as sluicing, a feature of interrogative clauses, such as in ""Sally's...  Read More >>

The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis

The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory...

Author: Jason Merchant (, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780199243730
Format: Hardback
$220.95

This is a book-length treatment of elliptical wh-questions, known as sluices. Drawing on data from thirty languages,...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Author: Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown University) ,  Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780631205951
Format: Hardback
$359.95

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Lexical Functional Grammar

Lexical Functional Grammar

Author: Mary Dalrymple ,  Brian D. Joseph
ISBN: 9780126135343
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Presents an overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation...  Read More >>

The Art of Screenwriting

The Art of Screenwriting

Author: William Packard
ISBN: 9781560253228
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Explains how to write an original screenplay, adapt a novel or play for a movie, and sell a screenplay.  Read More >>

Moral Discourse in a Pluralistic World

Moral Discourse in a Pluralistic World

Author: Daniel Vokey
ISBN: 9780268034665
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention

In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern...

Author: Carl L. Kell ,  L.Raymond Camp
ISBN: 9780809324125
Format: Paperback
$85.26

An investigation of the rhetorical shift from moderate to ultra-conservative in the Southern Baptist Convention....  Read More >>

Writing the Romantic Comedy

Writing the Romantic Comedy

Author: Bill Mernit
ISBN: 9780060935030
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level

Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare...

Author: Larry Weinstein
ISBN: 9780814159132
Format: Paperback
$42.90

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Mirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in Early Modern England

Mirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in...

Author: Chris Holcomb
ISBN: 9781570033971
Format: Hardback
$92.27

This work examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which writers of rhetoric and courtesy manuals during...  Read More >>

Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law and the Double Binds of Infertility

Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law and the Double Binds...

Author: Elizabeth C. Britt
ISBN: 9780817310981
Format: Hardback
$92.27

This rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment, and the cultural context...  Read More >>

Grenzen der Metropole: New York in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur

Grenzen der Metropole: New York in der deutschsprachigen...

Author: Christof Hamann ,  Christof Hamann
ISBN: 9783824444571
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universit'at Essen, 2001.  Read More >>

Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction

Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction

Author: Michael J Toolan (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780415231756
Format: Paperback
$70.00

This classic text has been substantially rewritten. It explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary...  Read More >>

Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology

Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology

Author: Niall Lucy
ISBN: 9780826449337
Format: Paperback
$78.00

This title provides an approach to three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show...  Read More >>

Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology

Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology

Author: Niall Lucy
ISBN: 9780826449320
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This title provides an approach to three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show...  Read More >>

The Problem of the Essential Indexical

The Problem of the Essential Indexical

Author: John Perry (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781575862460
Format: Hardback
$115.95

This book includes papers on situation semantics and the structure of belief.  Read More >>

Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s)

Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s)...

Author: Joy S. Ritchie ,  Kate Ronald
ISBN: 9780822941521
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies of Discourse

Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist...

Author: Marsha Houston ,  Olga Idriss Davis
ISBN: 9781572733503
Format: Hardback
$145.20

This work suggests an approach to the study of black women as communicators that centres on the knowledge and wisdom...  Read More >>

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