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  • Empirical Studies of Literature

    Selected Papers From Igel '98. A Special Issue of discourse Processes

    Edited by David S. Miall ...
    The sixth conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, or IGEL, was held in August 1998 in Utrecht, Holland. The conference brought together a wide range of scholars concerned with understanding the place and role of literature in its social, historical, psychological, linguistic, and other dimensions, and who seek to advance our knowledge through empirical ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

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  • Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language

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  • The Language of Life and Death

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  • Hiphop Literacies

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  • The Semiotics of Movement in Space

    by Robert James McMurtrie ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

    Edited by Yan Huang ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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  • More Heat Than Light?

    Sex-difference Science and the Study of Language

    by Deborah Cameron ...
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  • Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice

    by John Baugh ...
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