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  • Discourse Markers Across Languages

    A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography

    by Siepmann Dirk ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • German and English

    Academic Usage and Academic Translation

    by Dirk Siepmann ...
    German and English: Academic Usage and Academic Translation focuses on academic and popular scientific/academic usage.This book’s brief is both theoretical and practical: on the theoretical side, it aims to provide a systematic, corpus-based account of current academic usage in English and in German as well as of the translation problems associated with various academic genres; on the practical ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Les émotions dans le discours / Emotions in Discourse

    Edited by Peter Blumenthal, Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann ...
    Comment les mots permettent-ils d’appréhender ces objets obscurs que sont nos emotions ? Diverses langues européennes offrent-elles les mêmes perspectives sur cette réalité mouvante, explorée aussi par plusieurs disciplines appliquées (didactique, lexicographie, traitement automatique des langues) ? Le volume tente de répondre à ces questions en mettant en relief certaines innovations théoriques ... Read more

    $123.59 CAD

  • Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel

    A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives

    Edited by Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom international project on the phraseology of contemporary novels, the contributed chapters combine literary studies with corpus linguistics to analyse fantasy, romance, crime, historical and science fiction in ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Tolkien as a Literary Artist

    Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings

    by Thomas Kullmann, Dirk Siepmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien’s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien’s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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    Mr Baggins and Return to Bag-End

    by John D. Rateliff, J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    This revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Story of Kullervo

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Lord of the Rings

    The Mythology of Power

    by Jane Chance ...
    " With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • J. R. R. Tolkien

    Author of the Century

    by Tom Shippey ...
    The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey.Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey, presents us with a fascinating and informed companion to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, in particular focusing ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Hobbit Journey, A

    Discovering the Enchantment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

    by Matthew Dickerson ...
    The Lord of the Rings trilogy has delighted millions of fans worldwide in book and movie form. With the theatrical release of the two-part film The Hobbit slated for 2012 and 2013, attention will once again turn to J. R. R. Tolkien's classic works. In a culture where truth is relative and morality is viewed as old-fashioned, we welcome the chance to view the world through hobbit eyes: we have free ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

    Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

    by Edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny ...
    This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, "Techniques of Structure and Story," compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Guide to Middle Earth

    Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

    by Colin Duriez ...
    This absorbing insight into the mind behind Middle-earth will introduce or remind readers of the abundance that exists in Tolkien's thought and imagination. Interweaving sections explore The Lord of the Rings and its history; the key themes, concepts and images in Tolkein's work; the people and places in his life, and his other writings. At the heart of the book is an indispensible A-Z of middle ... Read more

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