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Place of the Sacred: "The Rhetoric of the ""Satanic Verses"" Affair"

Place of the Sacred: "The Rhetoric of the ""Satanic...

Author: Joel Kuortti
ISBN: 9783631319956
Format: Paperback
$113.85

There has been a heated international debate over Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses ever since its publication...  Read More >>

Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its 'Breakdown': Minimalist feature checking

Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its 'Breakdown':...

Author: Elly van Gelderen
ISBN: 9783484303645
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) trägt wesentlich zur aktuellen linguistischen Theoriebildung im Bereich...  Read More >>

The Art of Comedy Writing

The Art of Comedy Writing

Author: Arthur Asa Berger
ISBN: 9781560003243
Format: Hardback
$92.27

An analysis of the techniques used to craft comedy writing arguing that there is a limited number of such techniques,...  Read More >>

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction...

Author: Marjolijn H. Verspoor (University of Groningen) ,  Kee Dong Lee (Yonsei University)
ISBN: 9789027236548
Format: Hardback
$282.04

This collection of papers comprise the proceedings from the bi-annual meeting of the ICLA in Albuquerque in July...  Read More >>

Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse

Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse

Author: Anna Duszak
ISBN: 9783110152494
Format: Hardback
$491.62

This volume present articles exploring communication patterns in research and academic settings in various linguistic...  Read More >>

Great Personal Letters for Busy People: 300 Ready-to-Use Letters for Every Occasion

Great Personal Letters for Busy People: 300 Ready-to-Use...

Author: Dianna Booher
ISBN: 9780070066564
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Contains 300 model letters, e-mail messages, and notes for many personal, social, and business situations. Organized...  Read More >>

Basic Debate, Student Edition

Basic Debate, Student Edition

Author: McGraw Hill ,  William S Hicks
ISBN: 9780844259819
Format: Hardback
$142.14

Suitable for beginning debaters, this text teaches the fundamentals - from the skills of analysis, research, logical...  Read More >>

Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes

Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes...

Author: Wolfgang Künne (Universität Hamburg) ,  Albert Newen (Seminar für Logik und Grundlagenforschung, Germany)
ISBN: 9781575860701
Format: Paperback
$71.28

This volume is a revised version of papers presented at a conference held in spring 1994 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Communicating Gender in Context

Communicating Gender in Context

Author: Helga Kotthoff (University of Konstanz) ,  Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9781556198045
Format: Hardback
$543.84

The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also...  Read More >>

Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings

Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings

Author: Brian Paltridge (University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9789027250582
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognize a communicative...  Read More >>

Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling

Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling...

Author: Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King's College London)
ISBN: 9789027250599
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This volume covers such topics as: narrative in discourse analysis; stories in everyday conversations; the story's...  Read More >>

Managing Language: The discourse of corporate meetings

Managing Language: The discourse of corporate meetings...

Author: Francesca Bargiela (The Nottingham Trent University) ,  Sandra J. Harris (The Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9789027250575
Format: Hardback
$250.99

The aim of this text is to answer the question: what do managers in multinational companies really do during meetings?...  Read More >>

Communicating Gender in Context

Communicating Gender in Context

Author: Helga Kotthoff (University of Konstanz) ,  Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9789027250551
Format: Hardback
$594.00

Contributions to this work deal not only with grammatical gender but also with discursive procedures for constructing...  Read More >>

The Biomedical Discussion Section in Context

The Biomedical Discussion Section in Context

Author: Letty Lou DuBois
ISBN: 9781567503098
Format: Paperback
$99.99

This volume focuses on the study of the biomedical discussion session. It is part of a series of works which seek...  Read More >>

The Biomedical Discussion Section in Context

The Biomedical Discussion Section in Context

Author: Betty Lou DuBois ,  Unknown
ISBN: 9780893918118
Format: Hardback
$110.00

This volume focuses on the study of biomedical discussion session. It is part of a series of works which seek to...  Read More >>

Sub-Versionen: Weiblichkeitsentwürfe in den Erzähltexten Lou Andreas-Salomés

Sub-Versionen: Weiblichkeitsentwürfe in den Erzähltexten...

Author: Birgit Wernz
ISBN: 9783825501525
Format: Paperback
$95.71

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Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy

Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy...

Author: Robert Connors
ISBN: 9780822956303
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A story of the people who have studied and taught composition in American colleges. It shows where many of the practices...  Read More >>

Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes

Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes...

Author: Wolfgang Künne (Universität Hamburg) ,  Albert Newen (Seminar für Logik und Grundlagenforschung, Germany)
ISBN: 9781575860718
Format: Hardback
$184.80

This volume is a revised version of papers presented at a conference held in spring 1994 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew,

The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from...

Author: Galia Hatav
ISBN: 9786613280398
Format: Electronic book text
$500.54

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Samatimerisch Phonetik Grammatik Lexikographie: Geschichte der Mundart der Deutschen Gemeinde Sanktmartin am Noerdlichen Rand des Rumaenischen Banats

Samatimerisch Phonetik Grammatik Lexikographie: Geschichte...

Author: Joseph Mileck
ISBN: 9780820436555
Format: Hardback
$203.15

Die von der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung in Rumaenien vernachlaessigten und im Ausland fast unbeachtet gebliebenen...  Read More >>

Fact Proposition Event

Fact Proposition Event

Author: P.L. Peterson
ISBN: 9780792345688
Format: Hardback
$551.76

Constitutes the state of the art regarding gerundive entities.  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A Reader

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A Reader

Author: Walter Jost ,  Michael J. Hyde
ISBN: 9780300068368
Format: Hardback
$111.95

Twenty thinkers explore the ways these two disciplines inform each other and influence a variety of intellectual...  Read More >>

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction...

Author: Marjolijn H. Verspoor (University of Groningen) ,  Kee Dong Lee (Yonsei University)
ISBN: 9781556198656
Format: Hardback
$514.80

This collection of papers comprise the proceedings from the bi-annual meeting of the ICLA in Albuquerque in July...  Read More >>

Words and the Grammar of Context

Words and the Grammar of Context

Author: Paul Kay (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781881526186
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A discussion of the views on semantic compositionality.  Read More >>

The Language of Metaphors

The Language of Metaphors

Author: Andrew Goatly (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415128773
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This textbook explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics,...  Read More >>

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