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The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics

Author: Ruslan Mitkov (Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering, Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering, University of Wolverhampton)
ISBN: 9780199573691
Format: Hardback
$473.95

This second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics has been updated and revised throughout,...  Read More >>

Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia: Novel Encounters with Waste

Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia: Novel...

Author: Tom Bowers
ISBN: 9781793622976
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Examining spaces where leisure activities are offered on sites of industrial waste, this book argues that such heterotopic...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis

The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis

Author: Rachel Sussman Kaplan
ISBN: 9781793640543
Format: Hardback
$172.00

Rachel Sussman Kaplan investigates the rhetorical forces that are driving the opioid crisis in America.  Read More >>

Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style: Reference and Beyond

Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style: Reference...

Author: Kate Scott (Kingston University, London)
ISBN: 9781316628478
Format: Paperback
$59.49

A new analysis of how speakers and writers use referring expressions in discourse, and how hearers and readers interpret...  Read More >>

Exploring Interfaces

Exploring Interfaces

Author: Monica Cabrera (Loyola Marymount University, California) ,  Jose Camacho (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781108458115
Format: Paperback
$67.25

A collection of original studies that explore how grammatical rules interact with other language-related areas,...  Read More >>

Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax

Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax...

Author: Nuria Yanez-Bouza (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) ,  Emma Moore (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781108411424
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A collection of new case studies by world-renowned and emerging scholars in the field, which explores English syntactic...  Read More >>

Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation

Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation

Author: Kate Scott (Kingston University, London) ,  Billy Clark (Northumbria University, Newcastle)
ISBN: 9781108407618
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Presents new research from leading scholars employing the relevance-theoretic (RT) pragmatics framework, demonstrating...  Read More >>

English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective

English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective...

Author: Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany)
ISBN: 9781107503373
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics....  Read More >>

The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses

The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses...

Author: Henry Drummond
ISBN: 9789356311398
Format: Paperback
$21.04

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Erzählte Oratorik: Politische Rede in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Spätmittelalters

Erzählte Oratorik: Politische Rede in der deutschsprachigen...

Author: Malena Ratzke
ISBN: 9783110753240
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Medieval German narratives often link the problems associated with sovereignty and social order to the demonstration...  Read More >>

Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation

Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation...

Author: L. Ashley Squires
ISBN: 9781646422722
Format: Paperback
$94.91

In the early 2010s, Russian institutions of higher education began responding to the need to internationalize Russian...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem

Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem

Author: Mike Duncan
ISBN: 9781978713086
Format: Hardback
$199.00

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Intensification in English and Spanish Communication

Intensification in English and Spanish Communication...

Author: Nydia Flores-Ferrán
ISBN: 9781793639615
Format: Hardback
$172.00

Intensification in English and Spanish Communication provides a broad account of how speakers and writers escalate...  Read More >>

The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press

The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and...

Author: Hazel Price (University of Salford)
ISBN: 9781108994040
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how...  Read More >>

The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press

The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and...

Author: Hazel Price (University of Salford)
ISBN: 9781108845915
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how...  Read More >>

The Typology of Physical Qualities

The Typology of Physical Qualities

Author: Ekaterina Rakhilina (HSE University, Moscow / Vinogradov Russian language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) ,  Tatiana Reznikova (HSE University, Moscow)
ISBN: 9789027210920
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This volume presents a lexico-typological study of several domains of physical qualities: 'sharp'/'blunt', 'wet',...  Read More >>

Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication: Volume 1

Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication:...

Author: Piotr Stalmaszczyk ,  Piotr Stalmaszczyk
ISBN: 9783631868812
Format: Hardback
$98.32

This volume concentrates on fundamental theoretical topics. It considers vital questions about languages and how...  Read More >>

Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication: Volume 2

Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication:...

Author: Piotr Stalmaszczyk ,  Piotr Stalmaszczyk
ISBN: 9783631878392
Format: Hardback
$119.03

This volume presents analyses of several fundamental concepts and studies in which they are applied empirically....  Read More >>

Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse

Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse...

Author: Turo Hiltunen (University of Helsinki) ,  Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9789027211101
Format: Hardback
$214.76

The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries...  Read More >>

Offensive Language: Taboo, Offence and Social Control

Offensive Language: Taboo, Offence and Social Control...

Author: Dr Jim O’Driscoll (University of Huddersfield, UK)
ISBN: 9781350193321
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Why do people take offence at things that are said? What is it exactly about an offending utterance which causes...  Read More >>

Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms

Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms

Author: Brian McGrath
ISBN: 9780823299799
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing...  Read More >>

Unlimited Players: The Intersections of Writing Center and Game Studies

Unlimited Players: The Intersections of Writing Center...

Author: Holly Ryan ,  Stephanie Vie
ISBN: 9781646421930
Format: Paperback
$94.91

""Provides writing center scholars with new approaches to engaging with multimodality in the writing center through...  Read More >>

Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms

Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms

Author: Brian McGrath
ISBN: 9780823299805
Format: Hardback
$187.00

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing...  Read More >>

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