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Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture,...

Author: Xin Liu Gale ,  Fredric G. Gale
ISBN: 9780791441220
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World

Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property...

Author: Lise Buranen ,  Alice M. Roy
ISBN: 9780791440797
Format: Hardback
$191.40

Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism...  Read More >>

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture,...

Author: Xin Liu Gale ,  Fredric G. Gale
ISBN: 9780791441213
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Explores the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing...  Read More >>

How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

Author: Edward Hirsch
ISBN: 9780151004195
Format: Undefined
$79.20

In a reading of world poetry, including verse by Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, William Wordsworth,...  Read More >>

The Wolfhound Guide to the Shamrock

The Wolfhound Guide to the Shamrock

Author: Bob Curran
ISBN: 9780863277269
Format: Paperback
$20.99

In this history of the shamrock the author looks at the origins of the link, the use of the symbol throughout Irish...  Read More >>

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar:...

Author: Mary Dalrymple (Oxford University)
ISBN: 9780262041713
Format: Hardback
$153.12

"This introduction to and overview of the ""glue"" approach is the first book to bring together the research of...  Read More >>

Conflict, Action and Suspense

Conflict, Action and Suspense

Author: William Noble
ISBN: 9780898799071
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Using this work, writers will learn how to create stories full of drama, tension and surprise. Noble walks writers...  Read More >>

Beginnings, Middles and Ends

Beginnings, Middles and Ends

Author: Nancy Kress
ISBN: 9780898799057
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"By demonstrating effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of story writing, Nancy Kress helps novice...  Read More >>

Characters and Viewpoint

Characters and Viewpoint

Author: Orson Scott Card
ISBN: 9780898799279
Format: Paperback
$39.57

For more than 10 years, this successful series has helped writers improve their work -- one element at a time. Featuring...  Read More >>

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Author: Jens Allwood (University of Gothenburg) ,  Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University)
ISBN: 9789027250698
Format: Paperback
$72.45

These contributions represent Scandinavian work in cognitive semantics. They present extensions of, and critical...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness...

Author: Marjorie Perloff
ISBN: 9780226660608
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a...  Read More >>

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

Author: Jack Bickham
ISBN: 9780898799064
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller,...  Read More >>

Form Miming Meaning

Form Miming Meaning

Author: Max Nänny (University of Zürich) ,  Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027221797
Format: Hardback
$313.09

The studies presented here explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of authors brings into focus...  Read More >>

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Author: Jens Allwood (University of Gothenburg) ,  Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University)
ISBN: 9789027250681
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of context sensitive cognitive operations....  Read More >>

Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno

Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno

Author: Akio Kamio (Dokkyo University) ,  Ken-ichi Takami (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9789027250735
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Susumu Kumo's work is characterized by his belief that language has complicated functions in human communication...  Read More >>

Lexical Relations

Lexical Relations

Author: Jean-Pierre Koenig (State University of New York, Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781575861760
Format: Paperback
$41.95

A model of lexical relations which reconciles the lexicon's idiosyncratic and productive aspects.  Read More >>

Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects

Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse...

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
ISBN: 9780812691788
Format: Paperback
$60.59

"Arguing that the syntactical and ""ordinary language"" approaches have not satisfactorily treated fundamental questions...  Read More >>

French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Post-Structuralism

French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Post-Structuralism...

Author: Glyn Williams
ISBN: 9780415189408
Format: Hardback
$266.00

In this book, Glyn Williams presents an account of the emergence and development of French Discourse Analysis and...  Read More >>

Lexical Relations

Lexical Relations

Author: Jean-Pierre Koenig (State University of New York, Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781575861777
Format: Hardback
$107.95

A model of lexical relations which reconciles the lexicon's idiosyncratic and productive aspects.  Read More >>

Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

Author: Shalom Lappin (Professor of Linguistics, University of London) ,  Elabbas Benmamoun (Lecturer in Liguistics, University of London; Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)
ISBN: 9780195123029
Format: Hardback
$266.95

This volume contains essays on ellipsis - the omission of understood words or grammatical items from a sentence...  Read More >>

Writing Fiction Step by Step

Writing Fiction Step by Step

Author: Josip Novakovich
ISBN: 9781884910357
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Suggests more than two hundred exercises to improve one's writing skills, and covers the areas of character, plot,...  Read More >>

Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom v. 1; The Spoken Language

Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom v. 1; The...

Author: Heidi Riggenbach
ISBN: 9780472085415
Format: Paperback
$75.24

Current methodological research has found that in order for learners to acquire language that is both linguistically...  Read More >>

Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric

Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox...

Author: Patricia Roberts-Miller
ISBN: 9780817309398
Format: Hardback
$92.27

This analysis of Puritan public discourse and its social consequences offers ideas about the influence of Puritan...  Read More >>

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