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Disability Discourse

Disability Discourse

Author: Mairian Corker ,  Sally French
ISBN: 9780335202225
Format: Paperback
$78.95

Drawing upon personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography...  Read More >>

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Author: Jens Allwood (University of Gothenburg) ,  Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University)
ISBN: 9781556198182
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Author: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) ,  Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
ISBN: 9789027236784
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"This collection of papers represents generative research in South Slavic syntax and formal grammar. Many of the...  Read More >>

Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively

Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively...

Author: Rebecca McClanahan
ISBN: 9781599634517
Format: Electronic book text
$62.67

Let Rebecca McClanahan guide you through an inspiring examination of description in its many forms. With her thoughtful...  Read More >>

Anaphora, Discourse and Understanding

Anaphora, Discourse and Understanding

Author: Francis Cornish
ISBN: 9780198700289
Format: Paperback
$97.50

Anaphora and deixis are a major research focus in syntactic theory. Understanding them in communicative contexts...  Read More >>

Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding: Evidence from English and French

Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding: Evidence from...

Author: Francis Cornish (Professor of English Linguistics, Studies of the Anglophone World department, Universite de Toulouse le Mirail)
ISBN: 9780198236481
Format: Hardback
$258.95

Anaphora and deixis are a major research focus in syntactic theory. Understanding them in communicative contexts...  Read More >>

Energy Policies of Iea Countries: Japan - 1999 Review

Energy Policies of Iea Countries: Japan - 1999 Review...

Author: OECD and the International Energy Agency
ISBN: 9781280035333
Format: Electronic book text
$496.58

This IEA report provides a comprehensive in-depth assessment of the energy policies of Japan, including recommendations...  Read More >>

Cinema-(to)-graphy: Film and Writing in Contemporary Composition Courses

Cinema-(to)-graphy: Film and Writing in Contemporary...

Author: Ellen Bishop
ISBN: 9780867094589
Format: Paperback
$82.50

Film is already a staple in many composition classrooms. This guide offers ideas on integrating film and other visual...  Read More >>

Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism

Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism

Author: David Depew ,  Robert Hollinger
ISBN: 9780275965242
Format: Paperback
$62.00

The emphasis in this volume is on the interrelations between the philosophical or foundational issues raised by...  Read More >>

Vico and Literary Mannerism: A Study in the Early Vico and His Idea of Rhetoric and Ingenuity

Vico and Literary Mannerism: A Study in the Early Vico...

Author: Leo Catana
ISBN: 9780820439631
Format: Hardback
$145.07

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Drifting on a Read: Jazz as a Model for Writing

Drifting on a Read: Jazz as a Model for Writing

Author: Michael Jarrett
ISBN: 9780791440971
Format: Hardback
$138.60

"For almost a century, writers such as Ralph Ellison, Michael Ondaatje, and Ishmael Reed have expressed an affinity...  Read More >>

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics.

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics.

Author: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova ,  Lars Hellan
ISBN: 9786613174734
Format: Electronic book text
$871.20

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Vagueness: A Reader

Vagueness: A Reader

Author: Rosanna Kenney ,  Peter Smith
ISBN: 9780262611459
Format: Paperback
$130.00

The phenomenon of vagueness poses a fundamental challenge to classical logic and semantics, which assumes that propositions...  Read More >>

Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-research in Developing A Writing Program

Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-research...

Author: Katherine L. Weese ,  Stephen L. Fox
ISBN: 9780805828023
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This text provides an outlook on a first-year writing programme's evolution by bringing together a group of related...  Read More >>

Figures of Thought for College Writers

Figures of Thought for College Writers

Author: Dona J. Hickey
ISBN: 9781559346528
Format: Paperback
$143.56

Based on the idea that metaphor is basic to our cognitive processes and is a reliable way of structuring and understanding...  Read More >>

The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings

The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Author: Donn Welton (Professor Emeritus, State University of New York - Stony Brook)
ISBN: 9780631211853
Format: Paperback
$81.95

This volume brings together foundational twentieth century texts on the concept of the body.  Read More >>

The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings

The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Author: Donn Welton (Professor Emeritus, State University of New York - Stony Brook)
ISBN: 9780631211846
Format: Hardback
$267.95

This volume brings together foundational twentieth century texts on the concept of the body.  Read More >>

Schaum's Quick Guide to Great Presentations

Schaum's Quick Guide to Great Presentations

Author: Melody Templeton ,  Suzanne Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780070220614
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Win over audiences with the sure-fire, self-confidence-building, showmanship techniques used by top speakers.  Read More >>

The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present

The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to...

Author: Charles Paine
ISBN: 9780791440506
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding...  Read More >>

The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present

The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to...

Author: Charles Paine
ISBN: 9780791440490
Format: Hardback
$261.36

A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding...  Read More >>

The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words

The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words...

Author: Deborah Tannen
ISBN: 9780345407511
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The war on drugs, the battle of the sexes, political turf combat--in the argument culture, war metaphors pervade...  Read More >>

Chinese Language, Thought and Culture: Nivison and His Critics

Chinese Language, Thought and Culture: Nivison and His...

Author: Phillip J. Ivanhoe ,  Patrick Suppes
ISBN: 9780812693188
Format: Paperback
$113.52

This collection of essays by sinologists, historians and philosophers both challenges and extends the work of David...  Read More >>

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