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At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability

At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of...

Author: Ira Progoff
ISBN: 9780874776386
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Teaches how to use a journal to gain insight on and overcome inhibitions and stumbling blocks to happiness.  Read More >>

Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics

Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics...

Author: Diane Blakemore
ISBN: 9780631158677
Format: Paperback
$70.95

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Phrases

Phrases

Author: Hugh Brown ,  Margaret Brown
ISBN: 9781870596343
Format: Paperback
$10.35

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Argument Structure

Argument Structure

Author: Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780262570909
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Argument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics....  Read More >>

Semantic Structures

Semantic Structures

Author: Ray S. Jackendoff (Philosophy - A&S)
ISBN: 9780262600200
Format: Paperback
$100.00

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Presentations Plus: David Peoples′ Proven Techniques

Presentations Plus: David Peoples′ Proven Techniques...

Author: David A. Peoples
ISBN: 9780471559566
Format: Paperback
$83.16

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Language and Species

Language and Species

Author: Derek Bickerton
ISBN: 9780226046112
Format: Paperback
$56.95

A detailed study of the origins of language. Drawing on living linguistic fossils such as ape talk, the two-word...  Read More >>

Word as Action: Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language

Word as Action: Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language...

Author: Michael Hawcroft (Fellow and Tutor in French, Fellow and Tutor in French, Keble College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198151852
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This book explores the theatrical qualities of Racine's language and takes as its analytical tool two neglected...  Read More >>

Rhetorical Questions: Studies of Public Discourse

Rhetorical Questions: Studies of Public Discourse

Author: Edwin Black
ISBN: 9780226055015
Format: Hardback
$97.95

From classical antiquity through the Renaissance, rhetoric was the prime vehicle of education in the West and the...  Read More >>

Guide to Technical Editing

Guide to Technical Editing

Author: Eisenberg
ISBN: 9780195063066
Format: Paperback
$99.95

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Discursive Psychology

Discursive Psychology

Author: Derek Edwards ,  Jonathan Potter
ISBN: 9780803984431
Format: Paperback
$143.00

Uses discourse analytic terms to examine some of psychology's most fundamental concepts. Focusing on memory and...  Read More >>

Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text

Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of...

Author: William C. Mann ,  Sandra A. Thompson
ISBN: 9789027250261
Format: Hardback
$307.91

Presents a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the...  Read More >>

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism...

Author: Robert Stam ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780415065955
Format: Paperback
$56.00

An indispensable lexicon for film theory, defining over 500 critical terms. It contains references to the work of...  Read More >>

Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel

Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the...

Author: A. D. Nuttall (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198117414
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne, and Dickens, A. D....  Read More >>

Language and the Distortion of Meaning

Language and the Distortion of Meaning

Author: Patrick Degramont
ISBN: 9780814718445
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Draws upon evidence from infant observation and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make...  Read More >>

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.: The Voice of Conscience

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.: The Voice of Conscience...

Author: Carl R. Burgchardt ,  Bernard K. Duffy
ISBN: 9780313258428
Format: Hardback
$100.00

This reference is the only book-length work to analyze all of the major speeches of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature

Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature...

Author: Thomas R. Whissen
ISBN: 9780313265501
Format: Hardback
$114.00

A cult book can appear within any type of literary genre--for instance, romance, mystery, science fiction--but will...  Read More >>

The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape

The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape...

Author: Professor or Dr. Tony Magistrale (Professor, University of Vermont, USA) ,  Joseph A. Citro
ISBN: 9780313272974
Format: Hardback
$103.00

The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual...  Read More >>

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism...

Author: Robert Stam ,  Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
ISBN: 9780415065948
Format: Hardback
$182.00

An indispensable lexicon for film theory, defining over 500 critical terms. It contains references to the work of...  Read More >>

Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality

Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology...

Author: Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9789027245465
Format: Hardback
$271.69

The 19th century was devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the emphasis on the discovery of sound-laws....  Read More >>

On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation

On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation

Author: David Wood
ISBN: 9780415074063
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative...

Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
ISBN: 9780253350046
Format: Hardback
$95.99

By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills...  Read More >>

Cccc Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1990

Cccc Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1990...

Author: Erika Lindemann ,  Sandra Monroe Fleming
ISBN: 9780809318117
Format: Hardback
$89.27

Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this 1990 volume lists and annotates 1,849...  Read More >>

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media...

Author: Marjorie Perloff
ISBN: 9780226657332
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"This text considers what happens when the ""natural speech"" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up...  Read More >>

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