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    Conceptual Metonymy and Lexicographic Representation

    The book aims to show how the tenets of the cognitive theory of metonymy can benefit the lexicographic representation of metonymic lexemes, so that the semantic connections between basic and derived meanings become more transparent and motivated. The...
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    Metaphors of the Web 2.0

    This study is an attempt to semantically decompose the most popular metaphorical expressions associated with two particular Web 2.0 practices: social networks and folksonomies. What is a friend on a social networking Web site like MySpace and StudiVZ? Is...
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    People, Products, and Professions

    When people collaborate in professional contexts, and more specifically, when they communicate about and through products in business contexts, they have to make a series of basic choices, one of them concerning the language used in the communication...
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  • Rhetorical Listening in Action Rhetorical Listening in Action
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    Rhetorical Listening in Action

    Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsEdited by Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson LoganRHETORICAL LISTENING IN ACTION: A CONCEPT-TACTIC APPROACH aims to cultivate writers who can listen across differences in preparation for thinking critically, communicating,...
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  • Composition Studies 48.3 (Fall 2020) Composition Studies 48.3 (Fall 2020)
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    Composition Studies 48.3 (Fall 2020)

    The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing...
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  • Rhetoric and Experience Architecture Rhetoric and Experience Architecture
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    Rhetoric and Experience Architecture

    Rhetoric is a natural choice for UX work."--Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"I really like the definition of experience architecture. As Potts and Salvo write in their introduction,...
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  • Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse
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    Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse

    Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian...
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  • Rhetorics of Names and Naming Rhetorics of Names and Naming
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    Rhetorics of Names and Naming

    This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal,...
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  • The Logic Of Will The Logic Of Will
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    The Logic Of Will

    The Logic of Will: A Study in Analogy is a book written by Helen Wodehouse in 1908. The book is a philosophical exploration of the concept of will, which is defined as the ability to make choices and decisions. Wodehouse uses analogy to explain the...
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    Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English

    The book is devoted to conceptual metaphors in English according to the level of abstraction in their target domains. The findings reveal a striking difference between mappings onto concrete domains and mappings onto abstract ones. In metaphors with...
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  • Why Language? Why Language?
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    Why Language?

    There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent...
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  • Mediale Emotionskulturen Mediale Emotionskulturen
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    Mediale Emotionskulturen

    Der Band untersucht spezifisch geprägte und prägende Emotionalitätskulturen in massenmedialen Kontexten. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Analyse der Medialität verschiedener Emotionsdisplays. Der Band vereinigt kulturanalytisch-medienlinguistische Analysen im...
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    Australians Speak Out

    The book assesses rhetorical stylistic choices of public figures in a representative democracy, referencing over 20 notable Australians from the 1890s to modern times. "Although it may seem like Australians Speak Out will be...a...
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  • A Rhetoric of Becoming A Rhetoric of Becoming
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    A Rhetoric of Becoming

    Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsEditors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar takes Western feminism abroad into the complexity of transnational spaces. Working at interdisciplinary intersections...
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  • The Internet as a Game The Internet as a Game
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    The Internet as a Game

    In THE INTERNET AS A GAME, Jill Anne Morris proposes that by defining internet arguments as games, we can analyze ad hominem and ad baculum arguments coming from online mobs and trolls using procedural rhetoric. Building upon and extending Ian Bogost's...
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  • Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020 Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020
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    Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020

     Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of rhetoric and composition-to select...
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  • Composition Studies 49.3 (Fall 2021) Composition Studies 49.3 (Fall 2021)
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    Composition Studies 49.3 (Fall 2021)

    The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing...
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    Eloquence Divine

    ""While serious studies of the Bible's rhetoric have been written for academic readers . . . few have attempted to examine the persuasiveness of speeches directly assigned to the biblical 'God' that so many believe in and worship. . . . Further, no...
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  • Words Well Spoken Words Well Spoken
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    Words Well Spoken

    It has been more than two decades since the publication of George Kennedy's influential New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism (1984). The essays in Words Well Spoken demonstrate the influence of Kennedy's work on New Testament...
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  • A Grammar Of The Punjabee Language (1812) A Grammar Of The Punjabee Language (1812)
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    A Grammar Of The Punjabee Language (1812)

    A Grammar Of The Punjabee Language, published in 1812, is a comprehensive guide to the Punjabi language written by William Carey. The book provides a detailed overview of the pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary of Punjabi, one of the major languages...
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  • Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes
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    Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes

    Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France Revision is a fundamental component of the writing process. So fundamental that for some specialists writing is...
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  • A Vocabulary Of Proper Names, In Chinese And English A Vocabulary Of Proper Names, In Chinese And English
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    A Vocabulary Of Proper Names, In Chinese And English

    ""A Vocabulary of Proper Names, in Chinese and English: of Places, Persons, Tribes, and Sects, in China, Japan, Korea, Annam, Siam, Burma"" is a book written by Frederick Porter Smith and published in 1870. The book is a comprehensive compilation of...
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  • A Guide To Sanskrit Verbs A Guide To Sanskrit Verbs
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    A Guide To Sanskrit Verbs

    A Guide To Sanskrit Verbs: Parts First And Second is a book written by Govind Shankar Shastri Bapat and originally published in 1886. This guide is intended to help students of Sanskrit language to understand the complex system of verb conjugation in...
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  • Bilderverrätselung in der Werbung Bilderverrätselung in der Werbung
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    Bilderverrätselung in der Werbung

    Bilderverrätselungen in der Werbung basieren auf einer paradoxen Wirkungsweise: Statt Widerstände in der Kommunikation zu umgehen, bauen sie Widerstände auf und erschweren die Kommunikation. Zur Klärung der rhetorischen Funktion werden Fragen zur...
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  • Trends in South Asian Linguistics Trends in South Asian Linguistics
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    Trends in South Asian Linguistics

    The field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent years, as a wider and more diverse range of languages have become subject to serious linguistic study, and as advancements in theoretical linguistics are...
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  • Perfekt unperfekt Perfekt unperfekt
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    Perfekt unperfekt

    Perfekt unperfekt? Auf Hochglanz polierte Gestaltung erscheint uns manchmal distanziert, umgekehrt kann eine rasch hingeworfene Linie oder eine verwackelte Fotografie authentisch wirken. Im Design ist der Ausarbeitungsgrad ein wichtiger Stil- und...
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  • Handbuch Literarische Rhetorik Handbuch Literarische Rhetorik
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    Handbuch Literarische Rhetorik

    ‚Literarische Rhetorik' ist eine literaturwissenschaftliche Umgangsform mit Literatur und Literaturgeschichte unter Einbeziehung des Systems der Rhetorik. Diese literaturwissenschaftliche Umgangsform wird in zahlreichen Themenfeldern der...
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  • Dua Libro de l' Lingvo Internacia Dua Libro de l' Lingvo Internacia
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    Dua Libro de l' Lingvo Internacia

    La Dua Libro estis originale verkita en Esperanto kaj aprobita de la cenzuro je 18-a de januaro de 1888, kiu estis planonta la unua parto de pli ampleksa libro, enhavonta 5-6 kajerojn, aperontajn dumonate dum 1888. Sed post la eldono de la unua parto,...
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  • Inspiring Student Writers Inspiring Student Writers
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    Inspiring Student Writers

    A volume in Literacy, Language, and LearningSeries Editor Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne CollegeOkay, wait a minute. Does that title mean students need to be inspired . . . or they can be inspiringwriters?How about both.Getting our students to write...
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  • Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis
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    Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis

    Livesey lays the works of Demosthenes, Cicero, and the Apostle Paul side-by-side and compares the rhetorical strategies—such as hyperbole, rebuke, and irony—that each used to win over their audiences. In doing so, she teases out the ambiguity...
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  • A Semantic and Structural Analysis of Revelation A Semantic and Structural Analysis of Revelation
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    A Semantic and Structural Analysis of Revelation

    The Semantic and Structural Analysis (SSA) commentaries are designed to assist Bible translators and Bible translation consultants. Due to the careful attention to meaning at all levels of the discourse, they should also be useful for Bible scholars,...
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  • Prophetic Rhetoric Prophetic Rhetoric
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    Prophetic Rhetoric

    Prophetic RhetoricCase Studies in Text Analysis and TranslationSecond EditionErnst R. WendlandSIL International®Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics 7 Why were the Hebrew prophets so persuasive? Of course, they were spokesmen for God, but...
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  • Semiotic Networks Semiotic Networks
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    Semiotic Networks

    This book traces the genealogy of meaning structures utilising the language of category theory. It combines theoretical frameworks from Philosophy, Semiotics, Psychology, Sociology and Linguistics with experimental findings from Cognitive Psychology,...
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  • Joan Didion Joan Didion
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    Joan Didion

    Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.
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  • On the Semantics of Syntax On the Semantics of Syntax
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    On the Semantics of Syntax

    First published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated grammar) of mood and condition in English. It seeks to establish correspondences between areas of semantic organisation ('planes')...
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  • Die Rhetorik Und Judische Homiletik (1890) Die Rhetorik Und Judische Homiletik (1890)
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    Die Rhetorik Und Judische Homiletik (1890)

    Die Rhetorik und j�����dische Homiletik ist ein Buch von Ludwig Philippson, das erstmals 1890 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber die Kunst der Rhetorik und Homiletik im j�����dischen Kontext. Philippson untersucht die...
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  • Persian Literary Devices Persian Literary Devices
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    Persian Literary Devices

    This volume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature. It establishes an incontrovertible connection between literary devices - figurative language, rhetoric, and so on - and pedagogy and...
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  • Bild, Realität und Medienkonstruktion Bild, Realität und Medienkonstruktion
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    Bild, Realität und Medienkonstruktion

    Dieses Buch untersucht im Rahmen der Framing-Theorie, wie Nachrichtenmedien soziale Themen und Ereignisse konstruieren und dadurch bestimmte Wahrnehmungen vermitteln. Durch die Operationalisierung des medialen Framings als Interpretationsprozess durch...
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  • Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin
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    Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin

    This book explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media. Gangtaiqiang (Hong Kong-Taiwan accent), a socially recognizable form of mediatized Taiwanese...
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  • Linguistic Decision Making Linguistic Decision Making
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    Linguistic Decision Making

    This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on two new concepts: numerical scale and consistency-driven methodology. The numerical scale model provides a unified framework to connect...
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  • Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution
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    Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution

    This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive...
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