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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content

Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and...

Author: Eva Hajicová ,  Barbara B.H. Partee
ISBN: 9780792352891
Format: Hardback
$340.56

This text explores the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague...  Read More >>

Close to Home: Oral and Literate Practices in a Transnational Mexicano Community

Close to Home: Oral and Literate Practices in a Transnational...

Author: Juan C. Guerra ,  Celia Genishi
ISBN: 9780807737729
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Provides an insight into the oral and written discourse of an extended network of Mexicanos living in Chicago. This...  Read More >>

Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense

Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South:...

Author: W. Stuart Towns
ISBN: 9780275962234
Format: Hardback
$140.00

A modern collection of speeches by southerners on the themes that have shaped the history and culture of the region....  Read More >>

Speaking Through the Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java

Speaking Through the Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions,...

Author: Laine Berman (Lecturer, School of Australian and International Studies, Lecturer, School of Australian and International Studies, Deakin University)
ISBN: 9780195108880
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women use conversation to construct identity and meaning within the...  Read More >>

A Theory of Linguistic Signs

A Theory of Linguistic Signs

Author: Rudi Keller (Professor of German Linguistics, Professor of German Linguistics, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf) ,  Kimberley Duenwald
ISBN: 9780198237334
Format: Hardback
$248.95

Non-technical investigation of the history of language signs and of what philosophers, linguists, and others have...  Read More >>

Story

Story

Author: Harold Scheub
ISBN: 9780299159306
Format: Hardback
$171.60

A consideration of the role of emotion in the construction of stories. The author shows how an expert storyteller...  Read More >>

Networks of Meaning: A Bridge Between Mind and Matter

Networks of Meaning: A Bridge Between Mind and Matter...

Author: Christine Hardy
ISBN: 9780275960353
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Second, she addresses a highly dynamic connective process that underlies conscious thought and constantly gives...  Read More >>

Contrastive Lexical Semantics

Contrastive Lexical Semantics

Author: Edda Weigand
ISBN: 9786613312259
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

Contains most of the papers given at an international workshop at the University of Munster in May 1997. The text...  Read More >>

The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film

The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film

Author: Mikhail Iampolski ,  Harsha Ram
ISBN: 9780520085305
Format: Paperback
$60.95

The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature...  Read More >>

Integrational Linguistics

Integrational Linguistics

Author: Roy Harris, Jr. ,  George Wolf
ISBN: 9780080433660
Format: Paperback
$163.55

A collection of readings that brings together 24 key papers in integrational linguistics, which are arranged in...  Read More >>

Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties...

Author: Carol Myers-Scotton (Director, Linguistics Programs, Director, Linguistics Programs, University of South Carolina)
ISBN: 9780195115239
Format: Paperback
$98.95

This edited volume examines the implications of the phenomenon known as codeswitching, where, in given situations,...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Science in the Evolution of American Ornithological Discourse

The Rhetoric of Science in the Evolution of American...

Author: John T. Battalio
ISBN: 9781567503951
Format: Hardback
$131.00

An analysis of the rhetoric of science in the evolution of American ornithological discourse. It covers: the emergence...  Read More >>

Truth

Truth

Author: Paul Horwich (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198752240
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"What is truth? This text offers an exposition of the philosophical theory of ""minimalism"", which argues that...  Read More >>

Nomadische Bewegungen und die Symbolik der Krise: Flucht und Wanderung in der Weimarer Republik

Nomadische Bewegungen und die Symbolik der Krise: Flucht...

Author: Ute Gerhard
ISBN: 9783531133249
Format: Paperback
$111.24

luftigen< Entwurfen des Nomadischen, Transitorischen etc. - die im >Zeitalter der Globalisierung< auf prekare Weise...  Read More >>

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

Author: Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027227447
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"Presenting the author's theory of polarity sensitivity which she has developed over a number of years and which...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Science in the Evolution of American Ornithological Discourse

The Rhetoric of Science in the Evolution of American...

Author: John T. Battalio ,  John T. Battalio
ISBN: 9781567503968
Format: Paperback
$67.99

An analysis of the rhetoric of science in the evolution of American ornithological discourse. It covers: the emergence...  Read More >>

The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and Their Successors

The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and Their Successors...

Author: Robert Wardy (St Catherine's College, Cambridge University University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge, UK University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781280144042
Format: Electronic book text
$284.96

This study examines Gorgias' radical alternative to the philosophical view of the use and abuse of language. In...  Read More >>

Presupposition and Anaphora

Presupposition and Anaphora

Author: Emiel Krahmer (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781575861463
Format: Paperback
$41.95

In this book, two related phenomena are studied: presupposition and anaphora.  Read More >>

Presupposition and Anaphora

Presupposition and Anaphora

Author: Emiel Krahmer (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781575861470
Format: Hardback
$171.47

In this book, two related phenomena are studied: presupposition and anaphora.  Read More >>

That is to Say: Heidegger's Poetics

That is to Say: Heidegger's Poetics

Author: Marc Froment-Meurice ,  Jan Plug
ISBN: 9780804733755
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Communicating Gender

Communicating Gender

Author: Suzanne Romaine
ISBN: 9780805829266
Format: Paperback
$108.00

This book examines how language and the construction of gender in modern society interact, with implications for...  Read More >>

Under Construction

Under Construction

Author: Christine Farris ,  Chris M. Anson
ISBN: 9780874212563
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric

Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric...

Author: Stephen D. O'Leary (Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780195121254
Format: Paperback
$91.95

Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for...  Read More >>

The Writing Book: A Workbook for Fiction Writers

The Writing Book: A Workbook for Fiction Writers

Author: Kate Grenville
ISBN: 9781864489439
Format: Paperback
$34.19

This guide takes the reader step-by-step through the writing process. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect...  Read More >>

Communicating Gender

Communicating Gender

Author: Suzanne Romaine
ISBN: 9780805829259
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book examines how language and the construction of gender in modern society interact, with implications for...  Read More >>

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