Semantics books

Superb instruction for writing in this popular genre, encompassing everythingfrom sentence structure to submissions....  Read More >>

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to...  Read More >>

This monograph is devoted to a study of cross-linguistic variation and accord in controlled conditions, and to a...  Read More >>

The papers presented here consider issues central to historical pragmatics and dialogue analysis. Theoretical questions...  Read More >>

In this provocative new book, Edward Schiappa argues that rhetorical theory did not originate with the Sophists...  Read More >>

"Inhalt: Tabula Gratulatoria - Vorwort Klaus Nickau: Peripateticorum consuetudo. Zu Cic. Tusc. 2,9 Otta Wenskus:...  Read More >>

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This text presents four Platonic dialogues on rhetoric and language and contemporary translations. Reflecting...  Read More >>

A resource that guides writers through the pitfalls and successes of a Hollywood writing career. The author explains...  Read More >>

This volume of select conference papers respresents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines...  Read More >>

Featuring strategies for overcoming fear and talking persuasively before a crowd, this second edition text has been...  Read More >>

A call to move beyond polemics and renew the application of literature and rhetoric to public debates and cultural...  Read More >>

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This study analyses the book of Ezekiel as a tool of communication, arguing that the book was designed to shape...  Read More >>

This book provides a new approach to central problems concerning generic sentences. It proposes that the meanings...  Read More >>

Using clear language, this book provides a theory of metaphor in terms of reconceptualization that is compatible...  Read More >>

A key component of social life, discourse mediates the processes of class formation and social conflict. Drawing...  Read More >>

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This guide provides advice for writers, agents, attorneys, and film students on all legal issues involved in the...  Read More >>

This volume examines explicitly the question of how the semantics and pragmatics of a number of expressions might...  Read More >>

This book provides a new approach to central problems concerning generic sentences. It proposes that the meanings...  Read More >>

Using clear language, this book provides a theory of metaphor in terms of reconceptualization that is compatible...  Read More >>

"This work examines Asad's cult acts as a disciplinary device, generating a politics of public dissimulation in...  Read More >>