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Technical Presentation Skills: A Practical Guide for Better Speaking

Technical Presentation Skills: A Practical Guide for...

Author: Steve Mandel ,  Michael G. Crisp
ISBN: 9781560522638
Format: Paperback
$31.02

Written specifically for technical presenters who want to enhance their basic speaking skills, this book is useful...  Read More >>

Scared Speechless: Public Speaking Step by Step

Scared Speechless: Public Speaking Step by Step

Author: Rebecca McDaniel
ISBN: 9780803951747
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Step-by-step advice on successful speech making, with examples and skill-building exercises. A cased edition will...  Read More >>

Patriarchal Representations: Gender and Discourse in Pirandello's Theatre

Patriarchal Representations: Gender and Discourse in...

Author: Maggie Günsberg
ISBN: 9780854963409
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Examines the representation of gender relations in Pirandello's writing, and assesses his status as an avant garde...  Read More >>

Essay Writing Made Easy: Presenting Ideas in all Subject Areas

Essay Writing Made Easy: Presenting Ideas in all Subject...

Author: Ann Birch
ISBN: 9781551380162
Format: Paperback
$31.68

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The Art of Rhetoric: (1560) Thomas Wilson

The Art of Rhetoric: (1560) Thomas Wilson

Author: Peter E. Medine ,  Peter E. Medine
ISBN: 9780271009414
Format: Hardback
$179.39

First published in 1553, this modern edition of the first rhetoric in the vernacular comprehends the full range...  Read More >>

A Handbook of Persuasive Tactics: A Practical Language Guide

A Handbook of Persuasive Tactics: A Practical Language...

Author: Joan Mulholland
ISBN: 9780415089302
Format: Hardback
$277.00

This is a work of reference for courses which deal with the management of interaction, pragmatics, discourse analysis...  Read More >>

Writing Poetry

Writing Poetry

Author: Barbara Drake (Linfield College)
ISBN: 9780155001541
Format: Paperback
$298.19

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Alfred Andersch: Perspektiven zu Leben und Werk

Alfred Andersch: Perspektiven zu Leben und Werk

Author: Irene Heidelberger-Leonard ,  Volker Wehdeking
ISBN: 9783531123813
Format: Paperback
$121.59

"""Kolloquium zum achtzigsten Geburtstag des Autors in der Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg v.d.H."""  Read More >>

Sprachproduktion: Zur Generierung komplexer Nominalphrasen

Sprachproduktion: Zur Generierung komplexer Nominalphrasen...

Author: Thomas Pechmann
ISBN: 9783531125268
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The author's slightly revised Habilitationsschrift--Universit'at des Saarlandes, 1992.  Read More >>

Wandel der Interpretation: Kafkas, Vor dem Gesetz‘ im Spiegel der Literaturwissenschaft

Wandel der Interpretation: Kafkas, Vor dem Gesetz‘ im...

Author: Els Andringa
ISBN: 9783531125930
Format: Paperback
$129.35

"Theorie der Interpretation . Ermittlung von Bedeutung und Sinn im Verstehensprozeß . Formen der Bezugnahme . Wechsel...  Read More >>

Typological Studies in Negation

Typological Studies in Negation

Author: Peter Kahrel ,  René van den Berg
ISBN: 9789027229205
Format: Paperback
$103.50

A collection of articles offering descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. This volume includes pragmatic...  Read More >>

End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of the Former Soviet Union

End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of...

Author: Roger Rosen ,  Roger Rosen
ISBN: 9780823918034
Format: Hardback
$31.55

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The Making of an Avant-Garde: Tel Quel

The Making of an Avant-Garde: Tel Quel

Author: Niilo Kauppi
ISBN: 9783110139525
Format: Hardback
$399.77

"No detailed description available for ""The Making of an Avant-Garde""."  Read More >>

Typological Studies in Negation

Typological Studies in Negation

Author: Peter Kahrel ,  René van den Berg
ISBN: 9789027229199
Format: Hardback
$282.04

A collection of articles offering descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. This volume includes pragmatic...  Read More >>

Naturalistic Text Comprehension

Naturalistic Text Comprehension

Author: Herre van Oostendorp ,  Rolf A. Zwaan
ISBN: 9781567500998
Format: Hardback
$140.00

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Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition

Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition...

Author: Miriam Brody
ISBN: 9780809316915
Format: Hardback
$110.88

"In this critical history of the gendered politics of rhetoric and the rise of composition, Miriam Brody argues...  Read More >>

Framing in Discourse

Framing in Discourse

Author: Deborah Tannen (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780195079968
Format: Paperback
$84.95

In this book, the discourse analysis of frames is applied to a range of social contexts as diverse as medical examinations,...  Read More >>

The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis

The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis

Author: Denise M. Bostdorff
ISBN: 9780872499683
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Concluding with an evaluation of Bush and Panama, Bostdorff identifies the recurring themes that defined crisis...  Read More >>

The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its French Antecedents

The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and...

Author: Barbara Warnick
ISBN: 9780872498921
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Warnick concludes by arguing that the much-studied texts of Bernard Lamy, François Fénelon, Charles Rollin, Hugh...  Read More >>

The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory

The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Jay Clayton
ISBN: 9786610526932
Format: Electronic book text
$137.23

Offering an explication of the often stormy relationship between contemporary American literature and criticism,...  Read More >>

Framing in Discourse

Framing in Discourse

Author: Deborah Tannen (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780195079951
Format: Hardback
$203.95

Framing is currently a principal concern within the field of discourse analysis. The essays in this book not only...  Read More >>

Studies in Functional Stylistics

Studies in Functional Stylistics

Author: Jan Chloupek (Masaryk University, Brno and Charles University, Prague) ,  Jiří Nekvapil (Masaryk University, Brno and Charles University, Prague)
ISBN: 9789027215451
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This collection of essays on functional stylistics takes as its general frame of reference the Czech language and...  Read More >>

The Reach of Dialogue

The Reach of Dialogue

Author: Rob Anderson ,  Ken Cissna (University of South Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781881303008
Format: Hardback
$110.00

This volume attempts to define the concept of dialogue and to indicate basic sources - philosophical, theoretical,...  Read More >>

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Author: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780674810501
Format: Hardback
$50.03

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Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol, and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era

Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol, and Ritual in the...

Author: Donovan J. Ochs
ISBN: 9780872498853
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Consolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rituals to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically...  Read More >>

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