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Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax

Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax

Author: W. Detmar Meurers ,  Tibor Kiss
ISBN: 9781575863047
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Employing various constraint-based theoretical perspectives, this volume investigates the linguistic phenomena found...  Read More >>

Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics, Logical Semantics and Syntax

Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives...

Author: Carol Tenny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781575862064
Format: Paperback
$44.95

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the role of event structure in grammar.  Read More >>

I-writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-person Writing

I-writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-person...

Author: Karen Surman Paley
ISBN: 9780809323517
Format: Paperback
$77.88

"An ethnographic study of the teaching of writing. It reveals the social significance of first-person writing and...  Read More >>

Argument Realization

Argument Realization

Author: Miriam Butt ,  Tracy Holloway King
ISBN: 9781575862651
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Seven essays that survey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broad range of languages....  Read More >>

Sequential Dynamics Of Narrative: Energies at the Margins of Fiction

Sequential Dynamics Of Narrative: Energies at the Margins...

Author: Ken Ireland
ISBN: 9780838638637
Format: Hardback
$258.06

Building on critical theories of narrative, this study analyses temporal and continuity relations in fiction  Read More >>

I-writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-person Writing

I-writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-person...

Author: Karen Surman Paley
ISBN: 9780809323500
Format: Hardback
$132.00

"An ethnographic study of the teaching of writing. It reveals the social significance of first-person writing and...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies

Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies

Author: Jim A. Kuypers ,  Andrew King
ISBN: 9780275964207
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Kuypers, King, and their contributors explore the conception of rhetoric of eleven key American rhetoricians through...  Read More >>

Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader

Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader

Author: Margaret Wetherell ,  Stephanie J. A. Taylor
ISBN: 9780761971566
Format: Paperback
$128.00

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Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives

Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and...

Author: Jonathan Ginzburg ,  Ivan A. Sag
ISBN: 9781575862781
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance

Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance

Author: Jon McKenzie
ISBN: 9780415247696
Format: Paperback
$62.00

"This text examines the meaning of the word ""performance"" in the 21st century. The author asserts that there...  Read More >>

Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax

Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax

Author: W. Detmar Meurers ,  Tibor Kiss
ISBN: 9781575863030
Format: Hardback
$178.20

Employing various constraint-based theoretical perspectives, this volume investigates the linguistic phenomena found...  Read More >>

Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics, Logical Semantics and Syntax

Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives...

Author: Carol Tenny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781575862057
Format: Hardback
$171.47

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the role of event structure in grammar.  Read More >>

Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture

Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture

Author: Yuri Lotman (c/o I.B. Tauris & Co.) ,  Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780253214058
Format: Paperback
$45.95

This is Yuri Lotman's seminal text in cultural semiotics, laying out the theoretical structure on which all his...  Read More >>

Working with Spoken Discourse

Working with Spoken Discourse

Author: Deborah Cameron
ISBN: 9780761957737
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse...  Read More >>

Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives

Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and...

Author: Jonathan Ginzburg ,  Ivan A. Sag
ISBN: 9781575862774
Format: Hardback
$115.95

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Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance

Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance

Author: Jon McKenzie
ISBN: 9780415247689
Format: Hardback
$196.00

"This text examines the meaning of the word ""performance"" in the 21st century. The author asserts that there...  Read More >>

Working with Spoken Discourse

Working with Spoken Discourse

Author: Deborah Cameron
ISBN: 9780761957720
Format: Hardback
$255.35

Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse...  Read More >>

Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis

Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis

Author: Margaret Wetherell ,  Stephanie J. A. Taylor
ISBN: 9780761971573
Format: Hardback
$327.00

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Sprache, Raum und Aufmerksamkeit

Sprache, Raum und Aufmerksamkeit

Author: Kai-Uwe Carstensen
ISBN: 9783484304321
Format: Hardback
$406.56

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

Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning

Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading...

Author: Larry Wright
ISBN: 9780195130331
Format: Paperback
$158.27

This is an introduction to critical reading intended for courses variously called critical thinking, critical reasoning,...  Read More >>

Memorable Addresses

Memorable Addresses

Author: John Clark Ridpath
ISBN: 9781589632059
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe

Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe

Author: Victoria Kahn ,  Lorna Hutson
ISBN: 9780300084856
Format: Hardback
$132.00

An interdisciplinary study of the relation of law and rhetoric in the early modern period in Europe. It provides...  Read More >>

Contexts of Metaphor

Contexts of Metaphor

Author: Michiel Leezenberg
ISBN: 9780080438818
Format: Hardback
$201.70

This study presents an approach to metaphor that takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors...  Read More >>

Handbook of Terminology Management: Volume 2: Application-Oriented Terminology Management

Handbook of Terminology Management: Volume 2: Application-Oriented...

Author: Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University) ,  Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9789027221551
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This is the second of two volumes designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers,...  Read More >>

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