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Figurative Thinking and Foreign Language Learning
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.00Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ figurative thinking. This book examines figurative thinking, considers its contribution to language ability, and explores the implications for language teaching and learning. more...
Rhetoric and Composition Study Guide
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 19.99Boost Your grades with this comprehensive Quick Study Guide. You will use it from high school to college and beyond. FREE basic writing chapters in the trial version. Audience. Intended for everyone interested in improving their writing and presentation skills, particularly high school and college students. An essentialguide for students struggling... more...
Reporting Discourse, Tense, and Cognition
BRILL 2002; US$ 124.00Reporting discourse has attracted rigorous analyses in linguistics, literary theory, cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnomethodology. This book provides analyses of controversial topics in reporting discourse like tense alternation, reporting styles, patterns and functions. After critically examining existing theories, Tomoko I. Sakita offers... more...
OurSpace
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 24.95In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of Òculture jammingÓ by activists. For Harold, it is a different type of opposition that offers a genuine alternative to corporate consumerism. Exploring the revolutionary Creative Commons movement, copyleft, and open source technology, Harold advocates a more inclusive... more...
Irony in Language and Thought
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2007; US$ 59.95Assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought. more...
Thank You for Arguing
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero?s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe?s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience?s expectations by pretending to be... more...
Out of Style
Utah State University Press 2008; US$ 17.00Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. Butler’s goal in Out of Style is to articulate style as a vital and productive source... more...
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 50.00A distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. more...
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...









