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Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach

Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach

Author: Eun-Ju Noh (University College London)
ISBN: 9789027250841
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"An exploration of the role of metarepresentation in verbal communication from a relevance-theoretic point of view....  Read More >>

Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation

Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation...

Author: S.I. Salamensky
ISBN: 9780415921701
Format: Hardback
$184.00

This is a collection of essays by thinkers and talkers of our time that look at talk from an exhilarating range...  Read More >>

Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation

Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation...

Author: S.I. Salamensky
ISBN: 9780415921718
Format: Paperback
$56.00

This is a collection of essays by thinkers and talkers of our time that look at talk from an exhilarating range...  Read More >>

Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies

Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive...

Author: Rosina Márquez Reiter (The University of Surrey)
ISBN: 9789027251022
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This text presents the results of a contrastive analysis of the realization patterns of requests and apologies in...  Read More >>

Logic, Form and Grammar

Logic, Form and Grammar

Author: Peter Long
ISBN: 9780415242240
Format: Hardback
$196.00

Three important essays concerned with logical form as it applies to hypotheticals and to propositions. Provides...  Read More >>

Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia

Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia...

Author: Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech)
ISBN: 9780195102772
Format: Hardback
$222.95

Puckett takes a look at the relationship between language, society, and economics, by examining how people talk...  Read More >>

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse

Author: Esam N. Khalil (University of Nijmegen)
ISBN: 9789027251015
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This title examines the field of text linguistics in the shape of news media and ways in which news is disseminated...  Read More >>

Life Studies: An Analytic Reader

Life Studies: An Analytic Reader

Author: David Cavitch (Tufts University)
ISBN: 9780312258184
Format: Paperback
$181.90

This classic thematic reader helps students move from personal to analytical writing by engaging them with essays...  Read More >>

On Second Language Writing

On Second Language Writing

Author: Tony Silva ,  Paul Kei Matsuda
ISBN: 9780805835168
Format: Paperback
$67.00

Brings together internationally recognized experts in a collection of original articles that present various issues...  Read More >>

Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy

Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics...

Author: Gordon R. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780870135583
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In this work, the author examines the technical and political dimensions of the recurrent ballistic missile defense...  Read More >>

On Second Language Writing

On Second Language Writing

Author: Tony Silva ,  Paul Kei Matsuda
ISBN: 9780805835151
Format: Hardback
$152.00

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Beyond Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology

Beyond Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology...

Author: A.L. Becker
ISBN: 9780472087525
Format: Paperback
$99.00

A bold, new approach to language that addresses the subtleties of cultural identity  Read More >>

Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis

Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis...

Author: George H. Jensen
ISBN: 9780809323302
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, this volume calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze storytelling...  Read More >>

Predicates and Their Subjects

Predicates and Their Subjects

Author: Susan Rothstein
ISBN: 9780792364092
Format: Hardback
$604.56

Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication...  Read More >>

Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing

Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional...

Author: Jim Henry
ISBN: 9780809323203
Format: Hardback
$92.40

In this study, Jim Henry analyzes 83 workplace writing ethnographies composed over seven years in a variety of organizations....  Read More >>

L. Annaeus Seneca Troades: Introduction, Text and Commentary

L. Annaeus Seneca Troades: Introduction, Text and Commentary...

Author: Atze J. Keulen, PhD
ISBN: 9789004120044
Format: Hardback
$723.36

New extensive philological commentary on Seneca’s play Troades. Meaning, history and usage of Seneca’s vocabulary...  Read More >>

Words: Structure, Meaning, Function: A Festschrift for Dieter Kastovsky

Words: Structure, Meaning, Function: A Festschrift for...

Author: Christiane Dalton-Puffer ,  Nikolaus Ritt
ISBN: 9783110167931
Format: Hardback
$376.48

The thematic connections between the articles assembled in this volume mirror the central role of the word . With...  Read More >>

Semantica, Oracion y Enunciacion

Semantica, Oracion y Enunciacion

Author: Josefina Garcia Fajardo
ISBN: 9789681210281
Format: Paperback
$36.30

Papers from symposiums held Oct.-Nov. 2000 by the Centro de Estudios Ling'uisticos y Literarios, Colegio de Mexico....  Read More >>

How to Write Better Essays. Palgrave Study Guides.

How to Write Better Essays. Palgrave Study Guides.

Author: Bryan Greetham
ISBN: 9781280860263
Format: Electronic book text
$66.00

This book takes the reader carefully through each stage of essay writing from interpretation of the question, to...  Read More >>

A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia

A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia

Author: Laurence M Porter ,  Laurence M Porter
ISBN: 9781280637322
Format: Electronic book text
$459.84

Gustave Flaubert is probably the most famous novelist of nineteenth-century France, and his best known work, Madame...  Read More >>

Modern Invention of Information

Modern Invention of Information

Author: Ronald E Day
ISBN: 9781299454736
Format: Electronic book text
$84.48

In The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, Ronald E. Day provides a historically informed...  Read More >>

Writing Center Research: Extending the Conversation

Writing Center Research: Extending the Conversation...

Author: Paula Gillespie ,  Alice Gillam
ISBN: 9781306788007
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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