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Argumentative Indicators
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Argumentative Indicators: A Pragma-Dialectical Study identifies and analyses English words and expressions that are crucial for an adequate reconstruction of argumentative discourse. It provides the analyst of argumentative discussions and texts with a systematic set of instruments for giving a well founded analysis which results in an analytic overview... more...
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 34.95Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times,... more...
Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99Reports on the authors' Systematic Empirical Research of the Conventional Validity of the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules. This book provides an insight into theoretical and practical conceptions of reasonableness, supported by empirical material gained by means of experimental research. more...
Metaphor and Discourse
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. more...
The Language of Everyday Life
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 58.00This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of analytical concepts and techniques, described in basic, clear... more...
Our Own Worst Enemy as Protector of Ourselves
University Press of America 2010; US$ 32.99This book takes us through the persuasive process, particularly as it is used in terrorist persuasive settings and as it has been used in some of the major propaganda battles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. more...
Stylistics
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 65.80Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect looks backward toward classic and foundational approaches and texts that helped to establish the field of stylistics. It also looks forward by examining recent innovations that seem likely to alter the ways in which style is studied in the years to come. The essays presented here, written by an array of experts from... more...
Stylistics and Social Cognition
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 84.00This volume of articles comprises papers from the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005. The theme of the conference was Stylistics and Social Cognition, and as usual at a PALA conference, this theme was interpreted very widely by... more...
Rhetorics of the Americas
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00This book will provide the first collection of original research and scholarship on uniquely Western Hemispheric rhetorics. more...
Metaphor Networks
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00Metaphor Networks focuses on the historical evolution of metaphor and proposes new theories on language change based on substantial empirical data. It explores how the metaphors of today are very often linked to images existing in the past and traces metaphor paths back to the Middle Ages and Antiquity. The findings reveal that regular patters of... more...









