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Aspect in English: A “Common-Sense” View of the Interplay between Verbal and Nominal Referents

Aspect in English: A “Common-Sense” View of the Interplay...

Author: K. Kabakciev
ISBN: 9780792365389
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Special attention is paid to the role nouns and noun phrases play in the explication of aspect in English (and similar...  Read More >>

Discourse on Gender/Gendered Discourse in the Middle East

Discourse on Gender/Gendered Discourse in the Middle...

Author: Boaz Shoshan
ISBN: 9780275964771
Format: Hardback
$131.00

In this book, Shoshan asserts that in contemporary Middle Eastern countries the field of struggle that cultures...  Read More >>

The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects

The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of...

Author: Kristen Brustad
ISBN: 9780878407897
Format: Paperback
$116.00

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Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface...

Author: Anna Papafragou
ISBN: 9780080436340
Format: Hardback
$191.35

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Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media

Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media

Author: Simone Chambers ,  Anne Costain
ISBN: 9780847698103
Format: Hardback
$253.44

Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political...  Read More >>

Family of the King: Dynamics of Metaphor in the Gospel According to John

Family of the King: Dynamics of Metaphor in the Gospel...

Author: Jan G. van der Watt
ISBN: 9789004116603
Format: Hardback
$762.96

This volume focuses on the use of figurative language in the Gospel according to John and demonstrates that the...  Read More >>

Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media

Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media

Author: Simone Chambers ,  Anne Costain
ISBN: 9780847698110
Format: Paperback
$63.95

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The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric

Author: Professor Shirley Sharon-Zisser
ISBN: 9780820445816
Format: Hardback
$312.84

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric is a groundbreaking study of the fascination with simile in Renaissance...  Read More >>

Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics

Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics

Author: Terence Parsons (Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780198250449
Format: Hardback
$185.95

Terence Parsons presents a lively and original study of philosophical questions about identity, such as: Is a person...  Read More >>

Fictions of India: Narrative and Power

Fictions of India: Narrative and Power

Author: Peter Morey
ISBN: 9780748611812
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers...  Read More >>

From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The Functional Polysemy of Discourse Particles

From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The...

Author: Kerstin Fischer
ISBN: 9783110168761
Format: Hardback
$305.33

This text presents a cognitive semantic model of the whole range of functions that English and German discourse...  Read More >>

Discourse and the Continuity of Reference: Representing Mental Categorization

Discourse and the Continuity of Reference: Representing...

Author: Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
ISBN: 9783110167658
Format: Hardback
$328.61

This text offers an interdisciplinary account of reference and categorization within the framework of cognitive...  Read More >>

Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis

Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse...

Author: Michael Hoey
ISBN: 9780415231695
Format: Paperback
$67.00

In this activity-based book, Hoey analyses a variety of narrative texts: fairytales, novels, poems, short stories,...  Read More >>

Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk

Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk...

Author: Neal R. Norrick (Saarland University)
ISBN: 9789027237101
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. Using transcriptions of stories from...  Read More >>

Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis

Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse...

Author: Michael Hoey
ISBN: 9780415231688
Format: Hardback
$224.00

In this activity-based book, Hoey analyses a variety of narrative texts: fairytales, novels, poems, short stories,...  Read More >>

Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring

Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in...

Author: Leonard Talmy (SUNY Buffalo)
ISBN: 9780262201216
Format: Hardback
$244.20

In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general...  Read More >>

Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Volume 1: Concept Structuring Systems and Volume 2: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring

Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Volume 1: Concept Structuring...

Author: Leonard Talmy (SUNY Buffalo)
ISBN: 9780262201223
Format: Hardback
$409.20

In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general...  Read More >>

Kant And The Platypus

Kant And The Platypus

Author: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780099276951
Format: Paperback
$29.99

How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources?...  Read More >>

Die Semantische Klassifikation Des Adjektivs Im Hinblick Auf Seine Morphologie Und Syntax: Eine Untersuchung Am Beispiel Der Deutschen Gegenwartssprache

Die Semantische Klassifikation Des Adjektivs Im Hinblick...

Author: Wenping Tang
ISBN: 9783631368633
Format: Paperback
$116.70

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Nation und Sprache: Die Diskussion ihres Verhältnisses in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Nation und Sprache: Die Diskussion ihres Verhältnisses...

Author: Andreas Gardt
ISBN: 9783110148411
Format: Hardback
$818.40

Using German as the main exemplar, but looking at other European languages as well, this book examines topics such...  Read More >>

Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefined

Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefined

Author: Clayann Gilliam Panetta
ISBN: 9780805836356
Format: Paperback
$48.00

This volume demonstrates the role of contrastive rhetoric in ESL courses, and offers suggestions for using CR toward...  Read More >>

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics and the First Atomic Bomb

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics and the First...

Author: John Canaday
ISBN: 9780299168544
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Crossing the boundaries between science and the humanities, the author explores the volumes of discourse involved...  Read More >>

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early...

Author: Sandra M. Gustafson
ISBN: 9780807848883
Format: Paperback
$71.15

This work examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic and political speech that flourished in British...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources

Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical...

Author: Michelle Ballif ,  Michael G. Moran
ISBN: 9780313303913
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This reference is a guide to major trends and developments in rhetoric and rhetorical theory during the last 100...  Read More >>

Law and Language

Law and Language

Author: Thomas Morawetz ,  Professor Tom D. Campbell
ISBN: 9781840147704
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The essays in this volume reflect several important and widely-discussed issues in legal theory. One set of issues...  Read More >>

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