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Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory

Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory...

Author: James S. Baumlin ,  Tita French Baumlin
ISBN: 9780870743450
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Features 16 original essays by prominent rhetoricians, critical theorists, and composition specialists, many of...  Read More >>

Renaissances of Rhetoric

Renaissances of Rhetoric

Author: S. Ijsseling ,  G. Vervaecke
ISBN: 9789061866343
Format: Book
$85.27

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Names and Naming in Joyce

Names and Naming in Joyce

Author: Claire Culleton
ISBN: 9780299143800
Format: Hardback
$104.79

"By examining names and naming patterns from """"Stephen Hero"""" and """"Finnegans Wake"""", this text discusses...  Read More >>

Dynamiques du Sens: Etudes de Semiotique Modale

Dynamiques du Sens: Etudes de Semiotique Modale

Author: Per Aage Brandt
ISBN: 9788772885131
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Contains text in French.  Read More >>

Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony

Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony

Author: Linda Hutcheon
ISBN: 9780415054539
Format: Paperback
$62.00

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Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony

Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony

Author: Linda Hutcheon
ISBN: 9780415054522
Format: Hardback
$224.00

A readable study of the myriad forms and effects of the ironic. Linda Hutcheon sets out for the first time a clear...  Read More >>

Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the meaning of sentences and narrative texts

Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the...

Author: Wolfgang Wildgen (University of Bremen)
ISBN: 9789027250438
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This volume explores the meaning of sentences (such as process and image schemata in the lexicon and in basic syntax;...  Read More >>

Continuity in Linguistic Semantics

Continuity in Linguistic Semantics

Author: Catherine Fuchs ,  Bernard Victorri
ISBN: 9789027231284
Format: Hardback
$238.05

This text presents essays on linguistic issues that include: continuity and modality; definitions of polysemous...  Read More >>

Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake

Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language...

Author: Angela Esterhammer
ISBN: 9781442614949
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the...  Read More >>

Writing Students: Composition Testimonials and Representations of Students

Writing Students: Composition Testimonials and Representations...

Author: Marguerite H. Helmers
ISBN: 9780791421635
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This is a book about the usual teacher-student relationship in composition courses. It disrupts and rewrites the...  Read More >>

Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics

Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law,...

Author: James Boyd White
ISBN: 9780226895109
Format: Hardback
$163.95

This work argues that texts by important thinkers teach us how to read and judge claims of authority made by others...  Read More >>

Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse theory and the Convention refugee hearing

Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse theory and...

Author: Robert F. Barsky (IGRC, Montreal, Canada)
ISBN: 9789027250414
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"This text is a description of the process of constructing a ""productive other"" for the purpose of being admitted...  Read More >>

Christian Plain Style: The Evolution of a Spiritual Ideal

Christian Plain Style: The Evolution of a Spiritual...

Author: Peter Auski
ISBN: 9781282857070
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Discourse Studies in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Scripta Humanistica, Volume 51.

Discourse Studies in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Scripta...

Author: Rosalind J Gabin
ISBN: 9781281206954
Format: Electronic book text
$171.60

Fifteen new essays on the history and theory of rhetoric, the art of composition, discourse education over history,...  Read More >>

Style

Style

Author: John Haynes
ISBN: 9781280517679
Format: Electronic book text
$174.11

This work is an introduction to the study of expression in relation to meaning, encouraging an interest in and sensitivity...  Read More >>

Born Naked

Born Naked

Author: Farley Mowat
ISBN: 9781299880788
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

Before the events of his classic Never Cry Wolf, the young Farley Mowat honed his naturalist skills through all...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Rhetorica

Reclaiming Rhetorica

Author: University Andrea A Lunsford (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781306555500
Format: Undefined
$68.51

Women s contribution to rhetoric throughout Western history, like so many other aspects of women s experience, has...  Read More >>

Discourse and Pragmatic Constraints on Grammatical Choices

Discourse and Pragmatic Constraints on Grammatical Choices...

Author: Maria Manoliu-Manea
ISBN: 9780444820433
Format: Hardback
$572.75

Constitutes a quest for discourse and pragmatic features responsible for so-called optional grammatical choices....  Read More >>

Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and discursive formation

Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and...

Author: Gail Stygall (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9789027250384
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This text explores the language of trials, covering such aspects as: preliminary instructions and opening statements;...  Read More >>

Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France

Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Arlette Farge
ISBN: 9780745613789
Format: Paperback
$39.95

This important and original book addresses the nature of public opinion, the relation between rulers and ruled,...  Read More >>

A New History of Classical Rhetoric

A New History of Classical Rhetoric

Author: George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780691000596
Format: Paperback
$99.99

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Imitatio et tractatio

Imitatio et tractatio

Author: Alexandru Cizek
ISBN: 9783484680074
Format: Hardback
$517.44

Originally presented as the author's postdoctoral lecturing qualification--Universit'at M'unster, 1987.  Read More >>

Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies: A Theory of Image Restoration Strategies

Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies: A Theory of Image...

Author: William L. Benoit
ISBN: 9780791421864
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Because responding to complaints is such an important part of human relations, this type of discourse has been studied...  Read More >>

Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives

Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and...

Author: S.L. Tsohatzidis
ISBN: 9780415095242
Format: Hardback
$355.00

Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics...  Read More >>

Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Articles

Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected...

Author: John Monfasani
ISBN: 9780860784036
Format: Hardback
$71.99

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