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Emoji is everywhere-on messaging apps, social networking sites, and even in offline media like billboards, films, and printed ads. While there is a substantial existing bibliography on emojis, it often fails to address their functions and interpretations...

This is Volume 3 of "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Literally Translated by C.D. Yonge", presenting a collection of Cicero's most important speeches. Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer, widely regarded as one of...

This is Volume 2 of "[Dmosthenous kai Aischinou ta Szomena]; textui, qui variorum est," a collection of works by the ancient Greek orators Demosthenes and Aeschines. This edition, published in 1824, presents the original Greek text. Demosthenes and...

In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and...

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed...

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focus, the volume encourages readers to value civility when engaged in arguing and reasoning. Authors Gass and...

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges...

Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book fills that...

In the past decades, quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines-quotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently, whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally...

A collection of essays providing an interdisciplinary account of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's judicial rhetoric.

An Indexed Synopsis of The Grammar of Assent is a book written by John Joseph Toohey in 1906. The book is essentially a summary of the famous work, The Grammar of Assent, written by John Henry Newman. The Grammar of Assent is a philosophical and...

This volume describes in detail teaching philosophies, curricular structures, research approaches and organizational models used in European countries. It offers concrete teaching strategies and examples: from individual...

1. OUTLINE German has the three main perfect constructions which are illustrated in (1. 1). 1 In each of these constructions, the verb appears in the past participial form and is combined with an auxiliary - in this case, haben...

""Einleitung in die Slavische Literaturgeschichte und Darstellung ihrer �����lteren Perioden, Teil 1: Einleitung in die Slavische Literaturgeschichte"" ist ein Buch von Gregor Krek, das im Jahr 1874 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch ist eine...

Das Buch ""Eine Geschichte der Relativen Pronomina: In der englischen Sprache"" von Paul Noack aus dem Jahr 1882 besch�����ftigt sich mit der Entwicklung und Verwendung von Relativpronomen in der englischen Sprache. Der Autor untersucht die verschiedenen...

This book presents a complementary study of lexicalist approaches and constructionist approaches in Linguistics. Specific topics discussed include different versions of semantic roles, predicate decomposition, event structures, argument realizations, and...

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creative and participatory space, giving rise to complexities in the definition of categories such as expert,...

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.

This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new...

Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself...

Theories of Rhetoric: An Anthology offers students a critical/cultural lens through which to view the history and definition of rhetoric and how it functions in society. The scholarly readings included in this volume illuminate the effects of gender,...

Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm...

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to...

Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.

This book will enable students, researchers and practitioners with some background in applied linguistics and/or (business) communication to engage with most of the issues raised by the multidisciplinary field of business discourse. To applied linguists...

Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communicationThe Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing addresses the classic divide in...

Reported speech is a universal form across human languages. However, previous studies have tended to be limited because they mostly emphasize on the form and authenticity of reported speech, while its discourse and pragmatic functions have largely been...

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and...

Tense and aspect are means by which language refers to time--how an event takes place in the past, present, or future. They play a key role in understanding the grammar and structure of all languages, and interest in them reaches across linguistics. The...

Das Buch ""Das Unorganische E Im Orrmulum: Zugleich Eine Untersuchung Uber Die Flexionsweise Orrm's"" von Richard Sachse aus dem Jahr 1881 befasst sich mit der Analyse des mittelenglischen Textes Orrmulum. Dabei untersucht der Autor insbesondere die...

This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of...

This book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by arguing for its distinctiveness and non-reducibility to other familiar phenomena, and addresses the question of how communication is possible despite it. Belleri argues that the...

Johann August Eberhards Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ist eine unschätzbare Ressource für jeden, der seine Deutsche sprachliche Fähigkeiten verbessern möchte. Dieses Handbuch enthält tausende von Synonymen, die die Leser dabei...

Un livre essentiel pour les étudiants en littérature et en rhétorique, Rhétorique offre une analyse approfondie des techniques de la parole et de l'écriture. Avec des exemples pratiques et des conseils pédagogiques, Antoine Jeudy Dugour offre une...

In diesem Werk analysiert der Autor Heinrich Schefczik die strukturellen Merkmale der ersten philippischen Rede des Demosthenes. Er zeigt auf, wie verschiedene rhetorische Argumentationstechniken eingesetzt werden, um den Zuhörer zu überzeugen.This work...

Franciska de Jong and Jan Landsbergen Jan Landsbergen 2 A compositional definition of the translation relation Jan Odijk 3 M-grammars Jan Landsbergen and Franciska de Jong 4 The translation process Lisette Appelo 5 The Rosetta...

Acquiring Pragmatics offers a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art research on the acquisition of pragmatics. It introduces the current topics of research in theoretical pragmatics and explores the issues they raise for language acquisition...

This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate...

This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning. In particular, chapters examine the interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that...

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages. The...

In 1916, three years after the death of Ferdinand de Saussure, the Cours de linguistique générale (CLG) was published in Geneva. This foundational work marked the beginning of a discipline that has profoundly influenced the development of...

"A surprisingly fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language!"Sentence Diagramming 101: Fun with Linguistics (and Movies) explores the relationship between words using traditional sentence diagramming and amusing movie references. Inside...