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Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism...

Author: James L. Kastely
ISBN: 9780300068382
Format: Hardback
$103.95

What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? This text considers this question by examining the work of writers...  Read More >>

The Semantics of Media

The Semantics of Media

Author: J. Ross
ISBN: 9780792343899
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Media are objects with content and character that we describe using in- phrases: in the story, in the picture,...  Read More >>

Alternatives to Grading Student Writing

Alternatives to Grading Student Writing

Author: Stephen Tchudi
ISBN: 9780814101308
Format: Paperback
$58.30

Evaluating a student's progress as a writer requires striking a delicate balance between the student's needs and...  Read More >>

Dialektik und Rhetorik im frühen und hohen Mittelalter

Dialektik und Rhetorik im frühen und hohen Mittelalter...

Author: Professor of Medieval History Johannes Fried
ISBN: 9783486560282
Format: Hardback
$512.13

Dialektik und Rhetorik waren im mittelalterlichen Alltag allgegenwärtig. Die klassischen Schuldisziplinen, Grundlage...  Read More >>

Wenn die Semantik arbeitet

Wenn die Semantik arbeitet

Author: Gisela Harras ,  Manfred Bierwisch
ISBN: 9783484730359
Format: Hardback
$517.44

Dieser Band zu Ehren von Klaus Baumgärtners 65. Geburtstag versammelt 15 Beiträge zu aktuellen Problemen der (lexikalischen)...  Read More >>

Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics

Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics...

Author: Maeve Cooke
ISBN: 9780262531450
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's...  Read More >>

The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy

The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy

Author: F. Waismann ,  R. Harri
ISBN: 9780333629963
Format: Hardback
$238.00

In this study Friedrich Waismann gives a presentation of insights into philosophical problems which can be achieved...  Read More >>

Len Cabral's Storytelling Book

Len Cabral's Storytelling Book

Author: Len Cabral ,  Mia Manduca
ISBN: 9781555702533
Format: Paperback
$145.07

Using a step-by-step approach, Cabral helps readers develop the basic knowledge and skills they need to tell stories...  Read More >>

Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

Author: Johndan Johnson-Eilola
ISBN: 9781567502817
Format: Paperback
$67.99

An examination of the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory,...  Read More >>

Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse

Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse

Author: Karen Tracy
ISBN: 9781567502244
Format: Paperback
$76.00

Colloquium speaks to these questions by analyzing tape recorded discussions of several academic groups, and interviews...  Read More >>

The Student's Guide to Writing Essays

The Student's Guide to Writing Essays

Author: David (Lecturer in English Roberts
ISBN: 9780749421922
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This text is divided into two sections: a core element focusing on basic skills which everyone needs to master in...  Read More >>

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies: Volume 11

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies:...

Author: Randy Allen Harris ,  Randy Allen Harris
ISBN: 9781880393116
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Rhetoric of science is the study of how scientists persuade and dissuade each other about nature. The studies in...  Read More >>

Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity: Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley 1994

Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity:...

Author: Irmengard Rauch ,  Gerald F. Carr
ISBN: 9783110122237
Format: Hardback
$705.09

This work contains 281 essays and 7 plenary papers from among 700 semiotists who convened at the University of Berkeley,...  Read More >>

The Motives for Creative Work: An Inquiry

The Motives for Creative Work: An Inquiry

Author: Jock Abra
ISBN: 9781881303923
Format: Hardback
$91.00

This study examines the motives for creative work. It assesses the sources and influences as well as summarising...  Read More >>

Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse

Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse

Author: Karen Tracy
ISBN: 9781567502237
Format: Hardback
$348.35

Colloquium speaks to these questions by analyzing tape recorded discussions of several academic groups, and interviews...  Read More >>

A Handbook of Estonian: Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs

A Handbook of Estonian: Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs...

Author: Harri Mürk
ISBN: 9780933070424
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition

Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition...

Author: Theresa Enos (Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9780809320417
Format: Hardback
$91.86

Using both personal anecdotes and statistics, this book provides data on gender and disciplinary bias in English...  Read More >>

Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

Author: Z. Radman
ISBN: 9780792343561
Format: Hardback
$538.56

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about...  Read More >>

Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis

Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness,...

Author: Edna Andrews (Duke University) ,  Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
ISBN: 9789027215529
Format: Hardback
$282.04

A collection of articles which represent a very specific way of defining and viewing language and linguistics. This...  Read More >>

The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading

The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading

Author: Donald Wesling
ISBN: 9780472107155
Format: Hardback
$211.20

How meaning in poetry is conveyed by the forces of grammar and meter  Read More >>

A Nurse's Guide to Public Speaking

A Nurse's Guide to Public Speaking

Author: Barry Jay Kaplan
ISBN: 9780826195906
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Designed especially for nurses, this guide helps to prepare to be an effective public speaker, outlining concrete...  Read More >>

Public Speaking

Public Speaking

Author: Michael Osborn ,  Suzanne Osborn
ISBN: 9780395808825
Format: Paperback
$221.63

This publication offers a complete teaching and learning system on the origins of public speaking, the responsibility...  Read More >>

The Motives for Creative Work: An Inquiry

The Motives for Creative Work: An Inquiry

Author: Jock Abra
ISBN: 9781881303930
Format: Paperback
$38.00

This study examines the motives for creative work. It assesses the sources and influences as well as summarising...  Read More >>

Language and Literacy: Studying Discourse in Communities and Classrooms

Language and Literacy: Studying Discourse in Communities...

Author: Eleanor Kutz
ISBN: 9780867093865
Format: Paperback
$108.90

This text offers an introduction to the study of language as discourse - language as it is used by speakers and...  Read More >>

Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

Author: Johndan Johnson-Eilola
ISBN: 9781567502800
Format: Hardback
$110.00

An examination of the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory,...  Read More >>

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