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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric,...

Author: Vernon K. Robbins
ISBN: 9780415139977
Format: Hardback
$196.00

In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing...  Read More >>

Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory

Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and...

Author: Christopher Lyle Johnstone
ISBN: 9780791431078
Format: Hardback
$133.32

Leading scholars of classical rhetoric address contemporary topics in Greek rhetoric and oratory.  Read More >>

Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With Bulimia

Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With...

Author: Wayne A. Beach
ISBN: 9780805817560
Format: Hardback
$88.00

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Divine Signs: Connecting Spirit to Community

Divine Signs: Connecting Spirit to Community

Author: H. Goodall
ISBN: 9780809320257
Format: Paperback
$77.88

This text studies signs, advertisements and other forms of public communication in and around Pickens and Oconee...  Read More >>

Opposing Poetries Pt. 1; Issues and Institutions

Opposing Poetries Pt. 1; Issues and Institutions

Author: Hank Lazer
ISBN: 9780810112650
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A collection of essays on the state of contemporary experimental poetry.  Read More >>

Opposing Poetries Pt. 2; Readings

Opposing Poetries Pt. 2; Readings

Author: Hank Lazer
ISBN: 9780810114142
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A collection of essays on the state of contemporary experimental poetry.  Read More >>

Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis

Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis

Author: Bruce Andrews
ISBN: 9780810113084
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"A collection of essays by the """"language poet"""" Bruce Andrews."  Read More >>

African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook...

Author: Richard Leeman
ISBN: 9780313290145
Format: Hardback
$114.00

This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th...  Read More >>

CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1994

CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1994

Author: Gail E. Hawisher ,  Cynthia L. Selfe
ISBN: 9780809320905
Format: Paperback
$42.90

This volume lists and annotates more than 2000 articles, books, dissertations and papers, that, with few exceptions,...  Read More >>

Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research

Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language...

Author: Alan Juffs (University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9789027224781
Format: Hardback
$374.88

Divided into seven sections, this work covers such topics as: linguistic theory; generative approaches to and acquiring...  Read More >>

Emeric Pressburger: Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Emeric Pressburger: Life and Death of a Screenwriter...

Author: Kevin Macdonald
ISBN: 9780571178292
Format: Paperback
$51.75

"A biography of one half of the partnership responsible for films such as ""The Red Shoes"", ""Colonel Blimp"" and...  Read More >>

Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations...

Author: Christopher D. Manning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781575860374
Format: Hardback
$171.47

This volume considers and examines some of the phenomena that have led languages to be considered 'ergative'.  Read More >>

Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition

Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension...

Author: David B. Kronenfeld (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside)
ISBN: 9780195094084
Format: Paperback
$314.00

A comprehensive analysis of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, which develops...  Read More >>

Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes

Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes

Author: Floyd Merrell
ISBN: 9780802071422
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Following Sebeok, Merrell reminds us that `any and all investigation of nature and of the nature of signs and life...  Read More >>

Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition

Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension...

Author: David B. Kronenfeld (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside)
ISBN: 9780195094077
Format: Hardback
$170.95

A comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and...  Read More >>

Roland Barthes: A Biography

Roland Barthes: A Biography

Author: Louis-Jean Calvet (University of Paris V, Sorbonne)
ISBN: 9780745617510
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Now available in paperback, this is the first biography of Roland Barthes - one of the most important European intellectuals...  Read More >>

Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis

Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis

Author: Bruce Andrews
ISBN: 9780810113077
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A collection of essays by the language poet Bruce Andrews.  Read More >>

College Thinking and Composing: A Textbook for College Writing

College Thinking and Composing: A Textbook for College...

Author: Sherry H Howie
ISBN: 9780787226831
Format: Paperback
$121.00

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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Author: Georgia M. Green
ISBN: 9780805821666
Format: Paperback
$59.95

This text is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech and discourse, accessible...  Read More >>

Sprachspiel Metapher: Denkweisen und kommunikative Funktion einer rhetorischen Figur

Sprachspiel Metapher: Denkweisen und kommunikative Funktion...

Author: Marie-Cécile Bertau ,  Marie-Cecile Bertau
ISBN: 9783531128221
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Aber auch weniger auf diesen Aspekt ausgerichtete Psychologien wie etwa die der Behavioristen bedie­ nen sich des...  Read More >>

Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With Bulimia

Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With...

Author: Wayne A. Beach
ISBN: 9780805817577
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Author: Georgia M. Green
ISBN: 9780805821659
Format: Hardback
$95.00

This text is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech and discourse, accessible...  Read More >>

Locality in WH Quantification: Questions and Relative Clauses in Hindi

Locality in WH Quantification: Questions and Relative...

Author: Veneeta Dayal
ISBN: 9780792340997
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is...  Read More >>

Bedeutung, Gebrauch und sprachliche Handlung

Bedeutung, Gebrauch und sprachliche Handlung

Author: Thomas Gloning (University of Giessen)
ISBN: 9783484311701
Format: Hardback
$554.40

Die Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke besteht in ihrem normalen Gebrauch in einer Sprachgemeinschaft. Wenn man prüfen...  Read More >>

Playwright Power: A Concise How-to-book for the Dramatist

Playwright Power: A Concise How-to-book for the Dramatist...

Author: Robert Friedman
ISBN: 9780761803621
Format: Paperback
$44.95

This is a handbook on how to write a play. Beginning with the definition of a play, this book goes on to explain...  Read More >>

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