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Language, Ideology and Point of Viewby Paul Simpson
Routledge 1993; US$ 52.95This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view is shaped by ideology. It focusses on the way in which people encode their beliefs and biases in a wide variety of media. more...
Linguistics of Political Argumentby Alan Partington
Routledge 2002; US$ 173.00This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps, through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. more...
Handbook of Persuasive Tacticsby Joan Mulholland
Routledge 1994; US$ 180.00This is a valuable work of reference for courses which deal with the management of interaction, pragmatics, discourse analysis and communications. Tactics such as analogy, argument, presentation, humour and metaphor are included. more...
Rhetoric and Educational Discourseby Richard Edwards; Katherine Nicoll; Nicky Solomon; Robin Usher
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 56.95This book is the first to offer a philosophical and linguistic analysis of rhetoric and discourse as deployed throughout education.It will be a key resource for those conducting research into discourse in any branch of education. more...
Professing Rhetoricby Frederick J. Antczak
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 41.95This volume represents theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and should be of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines. more...
Metaphor in Cultureby Zoltan Kovecses
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00This book is an attempt to bring the Lakoff-Johnson view of metaphor closer to those who have an interest in the role of metaphor in complex social-cultural phenomena, such as emotions, politics, thought, morality, as well as cultural processes and entities such as time, life, and personhood. more...
Argumentationby Frans H. van Eemeren
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 44.95This title teaches step by step the insights that are required to perform the different tasks that have to be carried out well to analyze, evaluate, and present argumentation adequately and to be able to reflect on the problems one may encounter. more...
Rhetorical Democracyby Gerald Hauser
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2004; US$ 49.95This collection presents theoretical, critical, applied and pedagogical questions and cases of publics and public spheres, examining these contexts as sources and sites of civic engagement and reflecting the current state of rhetorical theory and research. more...
Patterns in Languageby Shan Wareing
Taylor & Francis 1998; US$ 52.95Investigates the use of language in literary and non-literary texts using the principles of linguistic analysis. This work shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the analysis of texts. Borrowing from stylistics, it focuses on recurring linguistic patterns used by writers. more...
Textual Metonymyby Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 95.00In this work, the author proposes a semiotic approach to the treatment of metonymy, on the basis of which a textual model of metonymy as a process of representation is developed to account for text cohesion and text coherence. more...









