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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: 9781556198205
Format: Hardback
$475.20

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

Margaret Chase Smith: Model Public Servant

Margaret Chase Smith: Model Public Servant

Author: Marlene B. Vallin ,  Halford R. Ryan
ISBN: 9780313291630
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The selected speeches of Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine made throughout her 32 year career in the U.S. Congress...  Read More >>

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice...

Author: Susan U. Philips (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780195113419
Format: Paperback
$84.95

A study of the languages of judges in the courtroom which demonstrates the diversity in the way that they interract...  Read More >>

The Sport of Debating: Winning Skills and Strategies

The Sport of Debating: Winning Skills and Strategies...

Author: Jeremy Philips ,  James Hooke
ISBN: 9780868406640
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This guide to debating at all levels begins with the basics: manner, matter, method. It then discusses the elements...  Read More >>

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese

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

Author: Ning Yu
ISBN: 9786613222107
Format: Electronic book text
$871.20

This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the...  Read More >>

Contemporary Theory of Metaphor, The: A Perspective from Chinese

Contemporary Theory of Metaphor, The: A Perspective...

Author: Ning Yu
ISBN: 9781283222105
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing...  Read More >>

The Full-knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in Western Literary Tradition

The Full-knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the...

Author: Joseph Pucci
ISBN: 9780300071528
Format: Hardback
$132.00

In this book Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of the...  Read More >>

Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics

Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments...

Author: Stephen Crain ,  Rosalind Thornton
ISBN: 9780262032506
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Introductory guide to language acquisition research presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory...  Read More >>

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words: Art of Mathematics in the Science of Storytelling

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words: Art of Mathematics in the...

Author: Barbara M. Fisher
ISBN: 9780838637401
Format: Hardback
$83.16

This book investigates the use of number, geometry, and mathematical abstraction in the service of a literary text....  Read More >>

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice...

Author: Susan U. Philips (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780195113402
Format: Hardback
$266.95

Philips looks at the languages of judges in the courtroom to show that, while judges see themselves as impartial...  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: 9781556198212
Format: Hardback
$275.22

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

Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction

Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction

Author: Cliff Goddard
ISBN: 9780198700166
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Semantic Analysis is an introduction to the study of meaning in language, and to the language--culture connection....  Read More >>

Glossary of Semiotics

Glossary of Semiotics

Author: Vincent Colapietro
ISBN: 9781557785022
Format: Paperback
$23.63

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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax

Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition...

Author: Pilar Barbosa ,  Daniel Fox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262522496
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the architecture of...  Read More >>

Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic

Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions:...

Author: Veerle van Geenhoven (Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781575861326
Format: Paperback
$71.28

This volume presents an intriguing approach to 'semantic incorporation'.  Read More >>

Composition Studies As A Creative Art

Composition Studies As A Creative Art

Author: Lynn Bloom
ISBN: 9780874212464
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic

Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions:...

Author: Veerle van Geenhoven (Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781575861333
Format: Hardback
$171.47

This volume presents an intriguing approach to 'semantic incorporation'.  Read More >>

Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of A Small University Building

Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of A Small...

Author: John M. Swales
ISBN: 9780805820881
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The author describes this volume as a textography because it combines elements of text analysis and elements of...  Read More >>

Tropes of Politics: Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action

Tropes of Politics: Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action...

Author: John S. Nelson
ISBN: 9780299158347
Format: Paperback
$60.59

In this volume, the author aims to apply rhetorical analysis first to political theory, and then to politics in...  Read More >>

The English Department: A Personal and Institutional History

The English Department: A Personal and Institutional...

Author: W.Ross Winterowd
ISBN: 9780809321704
Format: Paperback
$77.88

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The Rhetoric of Economics

The Rhetoric of Economics

Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
ISBN: 9780299158149
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This revised second edition demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry and other...  Read More >>

The English Department: A Personal and Institutional History

The English Department: A Personal and Institutional...

Author: W.Ross Winterowd
ISBN: 9780809321698
Format: Hardback
$132.00

"The author of this study asserts that, to understand the history of """"English"""", one must understand how literary...  Read More >>

Saddam's Word: The Political Discourse in Iraq

Saddam's Word: The Political Discourse in Iraq

Author: Ofra Bengio (Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9780195114393
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Saddam's Word is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through an examination of the political discourse...  Read More >>

The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture

The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture...

Author: George Bornstein ,  Theresa Lynn Tinkle
ISBN: 9780472108657
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Crystallizes advanced research on the """"meanings"""" that are created by a work's physical construction  Read More >>

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