Semantics books

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Semiotic Grammar

Semiotic Grammar

Author: William B. McGregor
ISBN: 9780198236887
Format: Hardback
$258.95

The proposal and development of a theory of grammar based on the notion of linguistic sign, providing by this notion...  Read More >>

Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire: Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara

Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire:...

Author: Mervin Dilts ,  George Kennedy
ISBN: 9789004107281
Format: Hardback
$411.84

These works provide evidence of how rhetoric was taught in Greek in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and...  Read More >>

Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia

Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia

Author: Lisa Capps ,  Elinor Ochs
ISBN: 9780674165496
Format: Paperback
$68.95

Offering a novel analysis of a patient’s experience of agoraphobia, this collaboration between a clinical psychologist...  Read More >>

Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse

Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse...

Author: Alexandar Mihailovic
ISBN: 9780810114593
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Alexander Mihailovic discusses the elaborately wrought subtextual imagery, wordplay, and palpable orality of Bakhtin's...  Read More >>

Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices

Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research...

Author: Patricia Sullivan ,  James Porter
ISBN: 9781567503074
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This is an examination of writing technologies and critical research practices. It discusses topics such as: articulating...  Read More >>

Writing at Good Hope: A Study of Negotiated Composition in a Community of Nurses

Writing at Good Hope: A Study of Negotiated Composition...

Author: Jennie Dautermann
ISBN: 9781567503166
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Describes and analyzes the author's study of collaborative technical writing in an institutional setting - that...  Read More >>

Progress in Communication Sciences: Volume 13

Progress in Communication Sciences: Volume 13

Author: Franklin J. Boster ,  George Barnett
ISBN: 9781567502770
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together...  Read More >>

Investigating English Discourse: Language, Literacy, Literature

Investigating English Discourse: Language, Literacy,...

Author: Ronald Carter
ISBN: 9780415140669
Format: Paperback
$81.00

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Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices

Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research...

Author: Patricia Sullivan ,  James Porter
ISBN: 9781567503081
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This is an examination of writing technologies and critical research practices. It discusses topics such as: articulating...  Read More >>

Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western...

Author: Oyeronke Oyewumi
ISBN: 9780816624409
Format: Hardback
$174.11

The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender...  Read More >>

Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World

Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and...

Author: David A. Leeming ,  Marion Sader
ISBN: 9781573560252
Format: Hardback
$146.00

This reference work is a collection of over 700 articles containing descriptive information about the major types,...  Read More >>

Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song

Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song

Author: Suzanne P. Fitch ,  Roseann Mandziuk
ISBN: 9780313300684
Format: Hardback
$96.00

An analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context...  Read More >>

Progress in Communication Sciences: Volume 13

Progress in Communication Sciences: Volume 13

Author: Franklin J. Boster ,  George Barnett
ISBN: 9781567503609
Format: Paperback
$76.00

This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together...  Read More >>

Alte und neue Philologie

Alte und neue Philologie

Author: Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen ,  Franz Lebsanft
ISBN: 9783484295087
Format: Hardback
$351.09

Die Philologie, im engeren Sinn verstanden als Textkritik, ist in den neusprachlichen Fächern zu einer so hochspezialisierten...  Read More >>

Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch

Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch

Author: Peter Schlobinski
ISBN: 9783531130712
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Der Band enthalt zehn Beitrage zur Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch. Die Beitrage sind empirisch fundiert, wobei...  Read More >>

Intransitive Predication

Intransitive Predication

Author: Leon Stassen (Senior Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, Senior Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, The Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780198236931
Format: Hardback
$377.95

Leon Stassen makes a contribution to the study of language typology with Intransitive Predication. Basing his analysis...  Read More >>

Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative

Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative

Author: Ewa Dabrowska
ISBN: 9783110152180
Format: Hardback
$305.33

"Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of cognitive grammar, this text aims to bring order into the array of uses...  Read More >>

Linguistic Change in French

Linguistic Change in French

Author: Rebecca Posner (Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages, Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198240365
Format: Hardback
$377.95

Using material from the history of the French language, this book concentrates on changes in the use of the language....  Read More >>

Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness

Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness...

Author: Maxim I. Stamenov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
ISBN: 9789027251329
Format: Paperback
$155.25

This volume focuses on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility...  Read More >>

Translation and Language

Translation and Language

Author: Peter Fawcett ,  ANTHONY PYM
ISBN: 9781900650076
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Teaching Lives: Essays & Stories

Teaching Lives: Essays & Stories

Author: Wendy Bishop
ISBN: 9780874212242
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Wendy Bishop gathers twenty-three of her own critical essays from diverse sources, and sets them in the context...  Read More >>

The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the 1995 London Conference

The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the...

Author: Stanley E. Porter (McMaster Divinity College, Canada) ,  Professor Thomas H. Olbricht
ISBN: 9781850756712
Format: Hardback
$203.95

This is the third in a series of conference papers on rhetorical criticism. Held in July 1995 in London, the conference...  Read More >>

Representing Time in Natural Language: The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect

Representing Time in Natural Language: The Dynamic Interpretation...

Author: Alice G.B. ter Meulen
ISBN: 9780262700665
Format: Paperback
$52.80

A systematic and detailed account of how humans use temporal information contained in a text or in discourse to...  Read More >>

Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy

Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy...

Author: Keith Harvey ,  Celia Shalom
ISBN: 9780415136921
Format: Paperback
$81.00

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