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Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997

Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected...

Author: Karen Van Hoek (University of Michigan) ,  Andrej A. Kibrik (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
ISBN: 9789027236821
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This text presents selected papers from an international conference on cognitive linguistics. Focusing on discourse...  Read More >>

Text and Context in Functional Linguistics

Text and Context in Functional Linguistics

Author: Mohsen Ghadessy (University of Brunei Darussalam)
ISBN: 9789027236746
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This text aims to examine the nature of text and context, using theoretical models based in the framework of Systemic...  Read More >>

Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it. Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997

Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create...

Author: Wolfram Bublitz (Universität Augsburg) ,  Uta Lenk (Martin-Luther-Universität)
ISBN: 9789027250773
Format: Hardback
$250.99

The aim of this collection of papers is to demystify coherence and present it as a key concept in discourse and...  Read More >>

The Discourse Reader: second edition

The Discourse Reader: second edition

Author: Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff University) ,  Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780415197335
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The first comprehensive collection of important, original writings on discourse analysis, designed as a structured...  Read More >>

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols...

Author: Lisa Wedeen
ISBN: 9780226877877
Format: Hardback
$155.76

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

The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics

The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics

Author: Giorgio Agamben ,  Daniel Heller-Roazen
ISBN: 9780804730228
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This book rethinks the nature of poetic language and rearticulates relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy...  Read More >>

Visual Culture: The Reader

Visual Culture: The Reader

Author: Jessica Evans ,  Stuart Hall
ISBN: 9780761962472
Format: Hardback
$397.00

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Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results

Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches...

Author: Stanley E. Porter (McMaster Divinity College, Canada) ,  Jeffrey Reed
ISBN: 9781850759966
Format: Hardback
$210.95

The volume contains contributions by many of the major discourse analysts of the New Testament, including E.A. Nida,...  Read More >>

The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics

The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics

Author: Giorgio Agamben ,  Daniel Heller-Roazen
ISBN: 9780804730211
Format: Hardback
$71.99

This book rethinks the nature of poetic language and rearticulates relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy...  Read More >>

After Rhetoric: The Study of Discourse Beyond Language and Culture

After Rhetoric: The Study of Discourse Beyond Language...

Author: Stephen A. Yarborough
ISBN: 9780809322398
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Aware that categorical thinking imposes restrictions on the ways we communicate, the author proposes discourse studies...  Read More >>

Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft: Konturen und Profile im Pluralismus

Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft: Konturen und Profile...

Author: Carsten Zelle
ISBN: 9783531129334
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution...

Author: Brent Berlin (University of Georgia) ,  Paul Kay (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781575861623
Format: Paperback
$49.95

The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Much has...  Read More >>

Classical Rhetorical Theory

Classical Rhetorical Theory

Author: John Poulakos ,  Takis Poulakos
ISBN: 9780395849958
Format: Paperback
$273.50

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Civic Discourse: Volume Two, Intercultural, International, and Global Media

Civic Discourse: Volume Two, Intercultural, International,...

Author: Michael Prosser ,  K. S. Sitaram
ISBN: 9781567504170
Format: Paperback
$99.99

Presents thought provoking chapters on subjects of vital importance in our intercultural and international arena....  Read More >>

Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator

Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator...

Author: Francesco Casetti ,  Nell Andrew
ISBN: 9780253212320
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Interpretation as Pragmatics

Interpretation as Pragmatics

Author: J. Lecercle
ISBN: 9780333686942
Format: Paperback
$92.00

Lecercle proposes a new theory of literary, but also of face-to-face, dialogue that charts the interaction between...  Read More >>

Visual Culture: The Reader

Visual Culture: The Reader

Author: Jessica Evans ,  Stuart Hall
ISBN: 9780761962489
Format: Paperback
$133.00

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Interpretation as Pragmatics

Interpretation as Pragmatics

Author: J. Lecercle
ISBN: 9780333685228
Format: Hardback
$238.00

Lecercle draws on the resources of pragmatics, literary theory and the philosophy of language to propose a new theory...  Read More >>

Spoken and Written Discourse: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Spoken and Written Discourse: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective...

Author: Khosrow Jahandarie
ISBN: 9781567504279
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume presents a systematic, reasonably exhaustive, and critical view of the existing scientific literature...  Read More >>

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications

Author: Teresa Cabré (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ,  Juan C. Sager
ISBN: 9789027216342
Format: Paperback
$87.98

Beginning with an overview of terminology, this work goes on to discuss the interdisciplinary nature of the field,...  Read More >>

Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions

Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct...

Author: Claudia Felser (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9789027227461
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This text aims to provide an analysis of direct perception complements within Noam Chomsky's minimalist framework,...  Read More >>

Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax

Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax

Author: Esthela Treviño (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Itzapalapa) ,  José Lema (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Itzapalapa)
ISBN: 9789027236791
Format: Hardback
$261.34

"This volume contains a collection of articles on semantic issues directly dealt within the syntactic component...  Read More >>

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications

Author: Teresa Cabré (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ,  Juan C. Sager
ISBN: 9789027216335
Format: Hardback
$285.12

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications deals among other things with concepts; Methodology, especially with...  Read More >>

Preformulating the News: An analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases

Preformulating the News: An analysis of the metapragmatics...

Author: Geert Jacobs (University of Antwerp)
ISBN: 9789027250742
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This text explores the peculiar audience-directedness of press releases as a type of indirectly targeted, projected...  Read More >>

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers from the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected...

Author:
ISBN: 9781282324589
Format: Electronic book text
$218.43

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines,...  Read More >>

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