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Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English

Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken...

Author: Antonia Sánchez-Macarro (Universitat de València) ,  Ronald Carter (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9789027236630
Format: Hardback
$261.34

This volume, based on papers delivered at the 7th International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995,...  Read More >>

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A perspective from Chinese

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A perspective from...

Author: Ning Yu (University of Oklahoma)
ISBN: 9789027223531
Format: Hardback
$238.05

In this comparative study of Chinese and English metaphors the author explores to what degree abstract reasoning...  Read More >>

Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency

Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment...

Author: Richard Young (University of Wisconsin-Madison) ,  Agnes Weiyun He (SUNY Stony Brook)
ISBN: 9789027241207
Format: Hardback
$271.69

A collection of papers that document various dimensions of the ways in which the language learner and the language...  Read More >>

Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory

Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory

Author: Andreas H. Jucker (Justus Liebig University, Giessen) ,  Yael Ziv (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9789027250711
Format: Hardback
$427.68

A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International...  Read More >>

The Rinehart Reader

The Rinehart Reader

Author: Beverly Slaughter (Brevard Community College) ,  Jean Wyrick (Professor Emerita, Colorado State University)
ISBN: 9780155055124
Format: Paperback
$269.15

A rhetorical reader for first-year composition courses. Part One of this text introduces and examines the relationships...  Read More >>

Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and Grammaticalization

Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality,...

Author: Mario Squartini
ISBN: 9783110161601
Format: Hardback
$423.06

A detailed synchronic and diachronic examination of the semantics of Romance verbal periphrases, including the range...  Read More >>

Wiring the Writing Center

Wiring the Writing Center

Author: Eric Hobson
ISBN: 9786613275196
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

As computers have brought important developments to composition studies, writing centers have found themselves creating...  Read More >>

How We Write: Writing as Creative Design

How We Write: Writing as Creative Design

Author: Mike Sharples
ISBN: 9786610539161
Format: Electronic book text
$765.60

An accessible guide to the entire writing process, from forming ideas to formatting text. Combining new explanations...  Read More >>

The New Dialectic: Conversational Contexts of Argument

The New Dialectic: Conversational Contexts of Argument...

Author: Douglas Walton
ISBN: 9780802079879
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Walton proposes a new and practical approach to argument analysis based on his theory that different standards for...  Read More >>

Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse: Methods, Practice, and Pedagogy

Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse: Methods,...

Author: John T. Battalio
ISBN: 9781567503852
Format: Paperback
$67.99

With contributions by sixteen scholars from such diverse fields as communication, linguistics, literary studies,...  Read More >>

Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics

Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American...

Author: Steven Mailloux
ISBN: 9780801485060
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining...  Read More >>

Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics

Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American...

Author: Steven Mailloux
ISBN: 9780801435058
Format: Hardback
$279.45

In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining...  Read More >>

Burning Brightly: New Light on Old Tales Told Today

Burning Brightly: New Light on Old Tales Told Today...

Author: Kay Stone
ISBN: 9781551111674
Format: Paperback
$114.18

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Summary Justice

Summary Justice

Author: Paul Robertshaw
ISBN: 9780304337019
Format: Hardback
$270.00

"A study of the practice of judicial summing-up to juries, and of the language of persuasion and rhetoric in the...  Read More >>

Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics

Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and...

Author: Cunningham ,  Pauline Allen
ISBN: 9789004106819
Format: Hardback
$512.16

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Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Author: Henriktte de Swart (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781575861395
Format: Hardback
$158.27

This introduction examines the semantics of natural languages.  Read More >>

Silent Word - Textual Meaning And The Unwritten, The

Silent Word - Textual Meaning And The Unwritten, The...

Author: Ban Kah Choon (Nus, S'pore) ,  Robbie B H Goh (Nus, S'pore)
ISBN: 9789971692117
Format: Hardback
$52.80

This book takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic...  Read More >>

'You're So Fat!': Exploring Ojibwe Discourse

'You're So Fat!': Exploring Ojibwe Discourse

Author: Roger Spielmann
ISBN: 9780802079589
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Spielmann shows how one might use the techniques of conversation analysis and discourse analysis to understand Native...  Read More >>

You're So Fat!: Exploring Ojibwe Discourse

You're So Fat!: Exploring Ojibwe Discourse

Author: Roger Spielmann
ISBN: 9780802041128
Format: Hardback
$163.68

Spielmann shows how one might use the techniques of conversation analysis and discourse analysis to understand Native...  Read More >>

Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Author: Henriktte de Swart (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781575861388
Format: Paperback
$45.95

This introduction examines the semantics of natural languages.  Read More >>

The Sense of Humor: Explorations of a Personality Characteristic

The Sense of Humor: Explorations of a Personality Characteristic...

Author: Willibald Ruch
ISBN: 9783110162073
Format: Hardback
$353.19

Brings together current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humour and its components,...  Read More >>

The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

Author: Hella Olbertz (University of Amsterdam) ,  Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027230461
Format: Hardback
$250.99

In functional grammar, developed by Simon C. Dik, the lexicon plays a central role. Lexical items form the basic...  Read More >>

Current Issues in Relevance Theory

Current Issues in Relevance Theory

Author: Villy Rouchota (University College London) ,  Andreas H. Jucker (Justus Liebig University, Giessen)
ISBN: 9789027250728
Format: Hardback
$261.34

Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented at the 5th International Pragmatics Conference held...  Read More >>

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