Putting Thoughts Into Words
Author: Arthur Plotnik
More than ever in this completely updated edition, "The Elements of Expression" helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness--the viv ... |
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In Search of the Promised Land
Author: Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper & Xiaoye You
THE POLITICS OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND is the first edited collection to present a sustained discussion of classroom practices in larger contexts of institutional politics and policies. C ... |
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Author: Kenneth Burke
In August, 1959, an anxious William Rueckert wrote Kenneth Burke to ask, "When on earth is that perpetually 'forthcoming' A Symbolic of Motives forthcoming? Will it be soon enough so that I can wait for it before I compl ... |
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Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse
Author: Kevin J. Porter
MEANING, LANGUAGE, AND TIME: TOWARD A CONSEQUENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY OF DISCOURSE is concerned with the interanimations of meaning, time, language, and discourse. The chief target of critique is meaning apriorism, the notio ... |
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Author: George Townsend Warner
A classic text for the student of essay writing with an appendix consisting of 21 extracts from important essays. |
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Author: Almut Koester
"Workplace Discourse" provides an overview of the rapidly developing field of spoken and written workplace interaction, taking a fresh perspective on research methods and key issues in the field. It examines discourse in ... |
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Author: Nicholas Allott
This is the first study of pragmatics with an introduction organized by key terms, including short intellectual biographies of key thinkers, and a list of key works for further reading. Pragmatics is a core discipline wi ... |
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At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse
Author: Maggie Charles, Diane Pecorari & Susan Hunstan
Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This volume presents a selection of recent work by experts in ac ... |
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The Study Abroad Context
Author: Gila Schauer
Gila Schauer's study of interlanguage pragmatic development in English is situated in the context of studying abroad. It is the first book-length study of a common occurrence worldwide, but one that has not received the ... |
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Author: Phil Woods & Steve Smith
Beat About the Bush is a hilarious book of sayings we use that don't really make any sense. It's a humorous read for all ages. Author Phil Woods' first taste of a pen was when he was just six months old. He ended up in a ... |
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Author: Jan Zienkowski, Jan-Ola Ostman & Jef Verschueren
The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other v ... |
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Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel
Author: Bronwen Thomas
Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel. Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the developme ... |
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A Usage-based Approach
Author: Stefanie Wulff
Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter. What exactly is it about these two phrases tha ... |
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Construals, Constructions and Canonicity
Author: Steven Jones, M. Lynne Murphy, Carita Paradis & others
The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative ... |
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Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
Author: Bettina Fischer-Starcke
"Corpus Linguistics and The Study of Literature" provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. The f ... |
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Author: Yahya Benkhedda
This study reveals many interesting cases of rhetorical variation across four samples of scientific writing involving Arabic, Arab-English, French, and English. It is suggested that the considerable variation in the tone ... |
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An Approach to Discourse Analysis
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Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances
Author: N.J. Enfield
How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create unified 'composite utterances'. In this book N. J. ... |
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The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's Ptq
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