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Ethics and Dialogue: In the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan

Ethics and Dialogue: In the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin,...

Author: Michael Eskin (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198159926
Format: Hardback
$350.95

In this methodologically innovative study, Eskin construes Levinas's ethical philosophy in conjunction with Bakhtin's...  Read More >>

The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization

The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization...

Author: Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780262133722
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This book documents the first serious attempt to construct automatically and use nonsemantic computational structures...  Read More >>

Metaphor in Context

Metaphor in Context

Author: Josef Stern
ISBN: 9780262194396
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Visual Regime: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and the Gaze

Shakespeare’s Visual Regime: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis...

Author: P. Armstrong
ISBN: 9780333779354
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Shakespeare's Visual Regime examines the tragedies, histories, and Roman plays for an emergent early modern spectatorial...  Read More >>

The Story Performance Handbook

The Story Performance Handbook

Author: R. Craig Roney (Wayne State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780805836288
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Provides adults with a straight forward sequence of progressive learning experiences, designed to enable them to...  Read More >>

Isocrates I

Isocrates I

Author: David C. Mirhady ,  Yun Lee Too
ISBN: 9780292752382
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and a Theory of Social Change

Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and...

Author: Barbara A. Biesecker
ISBN: 9780817310639
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This text examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change, and how people transform social relations...  Read More >>

Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefined

Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefined

Author: Clayann Gilliam Panetta
ISBN: 9780805836349
Format: Hardback
$88.00

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MediaSpeak: Three American Voices

MediaSpeak: Three American Voices

Author: Roy F. Fox
ISBN: 9780275961930
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Fox suggests specific strategies for recognizing and understanding these coded messages. This lively and informative...  Read More >>

Playwriting Master Class: The Personality of Process and the Art of Rewriting

Playwriting Master Class: The Personality of Process...

Author: Michael Wright
ISBN: 9780325001692
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Guidelines for Grades 7-12

Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Guidelines...

Author: Charles R Duke ,  Rebecca Sanchez
ISBN: 9780890897409
Format: Undefined
$85.80

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Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish

Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic...

Author: Montserrat Sanz (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
ISBN: 9789027237149
Format: Hardback
$227.70

"This title offers an exploration of the syntactic issues of event theory in relation to a theory of how interpretable...  Read More >>

Structuring Paragraphs and Essays: A Guide to Effective Writing

Structuring Paragraphs and Essays: A Guide to Effective...

Author: University A Franklin Parks (Frostburg State University) ,  University James A Levernier (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
ISBN: 9780312195588
Format: Paperback
$187.44

This developmental textbook teaches students to write effective college-level paragraphs and essays through a practical...  Read More >>

What Counts: Focus and Quantification

What Counts: Focus and Quantification

Author: Elena Herburger (Georgetown Univ)
ISBN: 9780262581851
Format: Paperback
$58.08

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects...  Read More >>

What Counts: Focus and Quantification

What Counts: Focus and Quantification

Author: Elena Herburger (Georgetown Univ)
ISBN: 9780262082877
Format: Hardback
$145.20

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects...  Read More >>

Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism

Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and...

Author: Martin Reisigl ,  Ruth Wodak
ISBN: 9780415231503
Format: Paperback
$78.00

Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. drawing...  Read More >>

A Composition of Consciousness: Roads of Reflection from Freire and Elbow

A Composition of Consciousness: Roads of Reflection...

Author: Patricia H. Perry
ISBN: 9780820441672
Format: Paperback
$116.16

The premise of this book is that teachers of writing will never make any significant strides in the teaching and...  Read More >>

Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism

Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and...

Author: Martin Reisigl ,  Ruth Wodak
ISBN: 9780415231497
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. Drawing...  Read More >>

Aristotle on Meaning and Essence

Aristotle on Meaning and Essence

Author: David Charles (Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Oriel College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198250708
Format: Hardback
$209.95

David Charles presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. These interconnected...  Read More >>

Writing the Second Act: Building Conflict and Tension in Your Film Script

Writing the Second Act: Building Conflict and Tension...

Author: Michael Halperin
ISBN: 9780941188296
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The second act is at the heart of your story, where the action happens and your characters evolve. It's also where...  Read More >>

Interacting With Audiences: Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing

Interacting With Audiences: Social Influences on the...

Author: Ann M. Blakeslee
ISBN: 9780805822991
Format: Hardback
$80.00

This volume examines how scientists learn about and then address their audiences, studying scientific rhetoric in...  Read More >>

A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade: The Rhetorical Constitution of Metaphor

A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade: The Rhetorical...

Author: Philip Eubanks
ISBN: 9780809323340
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"This study challenges traditional accounts of metaphor and significantly expands theories of """"conceptual""""...  Read More >>

Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History

Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric...

Author: Martin J. Medhurst (Professor of Speech Communication, Texas A&M University, USA) ,  H. W. Brands
ISBN: 9780890969434
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Rhetoric and history intersected dramatically during the Cold War, which was, above all else, a war of words. This...  Read More >>

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