Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Books

Previous works on Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics have either been dominantly focused on theory or on practice without much balance and attention to both theory and analysis. The present volume seeks to strike a balance between the two closely related...

Siebzehn mehrsprachige Kinder, die seit mindestens zwei Jahren eine Kindertagesstätte besuchen, werden bei ihrem Erwerb der deutschen Sprache beobachtet. Nach einem Überblick über die aktuelle Forschungssituation zur mehrsprachigen Aneignung sowie zu...

Diese Arbeit fühlt sich der von L. Wittgenstein angedeuteten und von R. Keller entwickelten Gebrauchstheorie der Sprache verbunden. Kellers instrumentalistische Bedeutungstheorie geht davon aus, dass Zeichen allein aufgrund ihrer Gebrauchskonventionen zu...

Inspired by Frank Palmer's work, this book addresses a set of specific topics pertaining to the description of modality in English and places them in a broader context. A number of more general theoretical and typological matters are also raised, which...

Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in academic writing by exploring recurring patterns of function in texts representing different subject areas. The...

L'analyse du discours contrastive fait converger la comparaison des discours dans différentes langues et cultures. Ce cadre théorique explore des catégories issues de l'analyse du discours française et des travaux de Bakhtine et s'interroge sur la...

THE WAC JOURNAL is a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University, Parlor Press, and the WAC Clearinghouse, THE WAC JOURNAL is an annual collection of articles by educators about their WAC ideas and WAC...

NEW MEDIA THEORY | Series Editor, Byron Hawk | 327 pages, including photographs, bibliography, and index. © 2012 by Parlor Press | AVATAR EMERGENCY is Gregory L. Ulmer's fourth book featuring the EmerAgency, an online virtual consultancy for the digital...

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and...

ARGUMENT IN COMPOSITION provides access to a wide range of resources that bear on the teaching of writing and argument. The ideas of major theorists of classical and contemporary rhetoric and argument-from Aristotle to Burke, Toulmin, and Perelman-are...

This work provides a brief overview of the basic relationships of meaning and structure of a language. The overview is followed by a more detailed analysis and practical application of the semantic relationships from the lowest level propositions through...

Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior - how our bodies...

Notes Towards A Secoana Grammar is a book written by William Crisp and published in 1886. The book is a detailed study of the Secoana language, which is spoken by the Batswana people in Botswana. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar...

Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us.This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

Rudimenta Mythologiae Semiticae Supplementa Lexici Aramaici (1848) est opus auctore Boetticher, Paulo, quod de mythologia Semitica tractat. In hoc libro, Boetticher additamenta lexici Aramaei praebet, quae ad intelligendum mythologiam Semiticam utile...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

""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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‚Literarische Rhetorik' ist eine literaturwissenschaftliche Umgangsform mit Literatur und Literaturgeschichte unter Einbeziehung des Systems der Rhetorik. Diese literaturwissenschaftliche Umgangsform wird in zahlreichen Themenfeldern der...

This book examines word pairs with similar meanings from two closely related languages-Russian and Bulgarian. Specifically, this book offers a historical overview of research on Russian and Bulgarian vocabularies. It further outlines the key principles...

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,...