Semantics books

"This book explores the possibility of a ""liberatory postmodern rhetoric"" or, alternatively, a ""postmodern liberation...  Read More >>

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How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen...  Read More >>

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This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience,...  Read More >>

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This text offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing. Illuminating...  Read More >>

This text offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing. Illuminating...  Read More >>

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Vor dem Hintergrund neuerer Tempustheorien, die auf der Basis des Paradigmas der Generativen Grammatik den Zusammenhang...  Read More >>

"No detailed description available for ""Origins of Semiosis""."  Read More >>

"This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward,...  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which time is reflected in natural language - considering tense, aspect, the inherent lexical...  Read More >>

Argues that men must interrogate their own sexuality in dialogue with women in order to revise phallocentric discourse....  Read More >>

Recent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic...  Read More >>

Considers case, semantic roles and grammatical relations across languages. The bibliography includes author, subject...  Read More >>

Argues that men must interrogate their own sexuality in dialogue with women in order to revise phallocentric discourse....  Read More >>

A collection that introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity,...  Read More >>

This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators...  Read More >>

"This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward,...  Read More >>

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How semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.  Read More >>

Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-century rhetorical theory and rhetoricians figured prominently in the development of contemporary composition...  Read More >>

This volume makes a powerful case for the analysis of the spoken word as a source of data to study writing. The...  Read More >>