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Seven Tears into the Seaby Terri Farley
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2010; US$ 8.99Beckon the sea, I'll come to thee.... Shed seven tears, perchance seven years.... At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and then disappeared. Shortly thereafter, her family moved away from their seaside home and Gwen never saw the boy again. Now seventeen, Gwen is returning to her childhood home. Her nana asked her to come. But Gwen knows it's time to go back for another reason: She yearns for the sea. Perhaps the sea itself is calling to her. Perhaps the memory of the boy and his haunting words are drawing her back to the place they met. Perhaps it's time for her to face her destiny. more...
Critical Thinking Across The Curriculumby Mal Leicester; Denise Taylor
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 47.98This exciting, practical book is an essential resource for developing literacy, philosophy and thinking skills in the primary classroom. more...
Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmaticsby Marina Sbisà; Jan-Ola Östman; Jef Verschueren
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 59.00The 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 volumes select specific cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this 10th volume focuses on the interface between pragmatics and philosophy and reviews the philosophical background from which pragmatics has taken inspiration and with which it is constantly confronted. It provides the reader with information about authors relevant to the development of pragmatics, trends or areas in philosophy that are relevant for the definition of the main concepts in pragmatics or the characterization... more...
Methods for Critical Discourse Analysisby Ruth Wodak; Michael Meyer
Sage Publications Ltd. 2009; US$ 51.00Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis provides a concise, comprehensible and thoroughly up-to-date introduction to CDA, appropriate for both novice and experienced researchers. This new edition has been updated throughout, with a new introduction contextualizing the development of the CDA approach, and two entirely new chapters on the 'social actor approach' to CDA and the use of quantitative corpus linguistic methods. The editors have brought together contributions from leading experts in the field, who each introduce their own approaches to CDA. Examples are included throughout, demonstrating the value of the method in analyzing a variety of genres of written material on a whole range of topics, including global warming, leadership... more...
Endangered Metaphorsby Anna Idström; Elisabeth Piirainen; Tiber F.M. Falzett
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 143.00When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists of fifteen articles about metaphors in endangered languages, from Peru to Alaska, from India to Ghana. The empirical data demonstrate that the assumptions of contemporary cognitive linguistic theory about ?universal? metaphors and the underlying cognitive processes are still far from plausible, since culture plays an important role in the formation of metaphors. Moreover, that theory has been based on knowledge of metaphors in some standard languages.... more...
Naming and Referenceby R.J. Nelson
Routledge 1992; US$ 155.00Nelson looks at how language relates to the world and more particularly at the referring power of names. The first half of the book details the history of the subject from Locke onwards and is followed by Nelson's own reference theory. more...
New Labour, New Language?by Norman Fairclough
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95The first book on this subject, New Labour, New Language? is a critique of New Labour and its policies via an in-depth analysis of the language and rhetoric employed by Tony Blair and his spin doctors. more...
Philosophy of Languageby William G. Lycan
Routledge 1999; US$ 35.95This book introduces the student to the main issues and theories in 20th century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. more...
God and the Creative Imaginationby Paul Avis
Routledge 1999; US$ 44.95In God and the Creative Imagination , Paul Avis argues that metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. more...
Perform or Elseby Jon McKenzie
Routledge 2001; US$ 41.95In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie brilliantly explores the relationship between cultural, organisational, and technological performance. more...









