Language: history & general works books

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I Won't Be Your ESCAPE GOAT: David Carroll's HO MADE Social Media Blunders

I Won't Be Your ESCAPE GOAT: David Carroll's HO MADE...

Author: David Carroll
ISBN: 9781958922316
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Newscaster David Carroll collects misspellings, misinterpretations, and other social-media mishaps for fun and laughs....  Read More >>

Aphasia’s Implications for Linguistics Research: Exploring the Interface Between Semantics and Pragmatics

Aphasia’s Implications for Linguistics Research: Exploring...

Author: Roberto Graci
ISBN: 9783031368103
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The research herein is gathered across disciplines to provide theoretical and clinical contributions and collaborations,...  Read More >>

Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language Evolution

Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language...

Author: Francesco Ferretti
ISBN: 9783031092084
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The study of the transition from animal communication to language addresses both the selective pressures that led...  Read More >>

Understanding Language: An Introduction to Linguistics

Understanding Language: An Introduction to Linguistics...

Author: Roger Fowler
ISBN: 9781032213262
Format: Paperback
$60.99

In this work, originally published in 1974, Roger Fowler explains the character and absorbing interest of language....  Read More >>

Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts: Pragmatic Features and Referent Interpretation

Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts: Pragmatic...

Author: Donghong Liu
ISBN: 9789819946297
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher’s (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation...  Read More >>

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2022 / Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 2022: and Supplement for Previous Years / et complement des années précédentes

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2022 / Bibliographie...

Author: Anne Aarssen ,  René Genis
ISBN: 9789004546042
Format: Hardback
$1755.60

The Linguistic Bibliography is an annual that provides bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics....  Read More >>

Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media

Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media

Author: Matteo Di Cristofaro (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032125701
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language...  Read More >>

I Won't Be Your ESCAPE GOAT: David Carroll's HO MADE Social Media Blunders

I Won't Be Your ESCAPE GOAT: David Carroll's HO MADE...

Author: David Carroll
ISBN: 9781958922323
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Newscaster David Carroll collects misspellings, misinterpretations, and other social-media mishaps for fun and laughs....  Read More >>

A Constructional Approach to Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality

A Constructional Approach to Interpersonal Metaphor...

Author: Jian Hu
ISBN: 9789819927630
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book is a current and comprehensive study that incorporates constructional frameworks to inquire grammatical...  Read More >>

Understanding Sun Tzu and the Art of Hybrid War

Understanding Sun Tzu and the Art of Hybrid War

Author: Zia Ul Haque Shamsi
ISBN: 9781636672335
Format: Hardback
$126.59

The book attempts to rediscover Sun Tzu’s precepts from The Art of War, and its application in today’s hybrid warfare....  Read More >>

Reading Images for Knowledge Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science

Reading Images for Knowledge Building: Analyzing Infographics...

Author: J.R. Martin (The University of Sydney, Austraila) ,  Len Unsworth (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367759179
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed...  Read More >>

Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on Corsica

Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on...

Author: Alexander Mendes
ISBN: 9781837644391
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang

Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang

Author: H.G Nelson
ISBN: 9781922507556
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little...  Read More >>

Samson Abramsky on Logic and Structure in Computer Science and Beyond

Samson Abramsky on Logic and Structure in Computer Science...

Author: Alessandra Palmigiano ,  Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
ISBN: 9783031241161
Format: Hardback
$362.22

Samson Abramsky’s wide-ranging contributions to logical and structural aspects of Computer Science have had a major...  Read More >>

Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination

Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination...

Author: Marcel Danesi
ISBN: 9783031315817
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first...  Read More >>

Nähe, Distanz und Anonymität - Untersuchungen zum sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv: am Beispiel der Presse-, Politik- und Rechtssprache

Nähe, Distanz und Anonymität - Untersuchungen zum sein-Modalpassiv...

Author: Igor Trost
ISBN: 9783662678534
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Untersuchungsgegenstand sind die Grammatik, die Modal-, Temporal- und Aspekt-Semantik, die Pragmatik und die Funktion...  Read More >>

English for Journalists: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

English for Journalists: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition...

Author: Wynford Hicks (Freelance Journalist, UK) ,  Gavin Allen
ISBN: 9781032232652
Format: Paperback
$73.99

English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics...  Read More >>

Manuscripts and Arabic-script writing in Africa

Manuscripts and Arabic-script writing in Africa

Author: Charles C. Stewart ,  Ahmed Chaouki Binebine
ISBN: 9781739260705
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Manuscripts and Arabic-script writing in Africa - explores the lesser-known secrets of the African past, specifically...  Read More >>

Jest for the Pun of It: Wordplay for Those Who Dare

Jest for the Pun of It: Wordplay for Those Who Dare...

Author: Meridith Montague
ISBN: 9781961776357
Format: Paperback
$34.19

"Puns are one of the great pleasures of the English language. And for all those unfortunates who would disparage...  Read More >>

English for Journalists: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

English for Journalists: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition...

Author: Wynford Hicks (Freelance Journalist, UK) ,  Gavin Allen
ISBN: 9781032232645
Format: Hardback
$284.00

English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics...  Read More >>

Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Complete Guide

Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Complete Guide

Author: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ,  Kazuhiro Teruya (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
ISBN: 9781138938274
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying SFL (Systemic Functional...  Read More >>

Meaning and Justification. An Internalist Theory of Meaning

Meaning and Justification. An Internalist Theory of...

Author: Gabriele Usberti
ISBN: 9783031246043
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired...  Read More >>

Pregunta lo que mi3rda quieras.

Pregunta lo que mi3rda quieras.

Author: Mariano L Michel
ISBN: 9798856541655
Format: Paperback
$31.68

Este libro,...  Read More >>

Digital Influencers and Online Expertise: The Linguistic Power of Beauty Vloggers

Digital Influencers and Online Expertise: The Linguistic...

Author: Aditi Bhatia (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780367820565
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate...  Read More >>

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