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  • Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “Here,” “This,” “Come”

    de H. Dubrow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments; but it also suggests parallels with both iconic and neglected texts from a range of later historical periods. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • How Language Works

    de David Crystal ...
    In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • It's Been Said Before

    A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches

    de Orin Hargraves ...
    Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • That's Not English

    Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us

    de Erin Moore ...
    An expat’s witty and insightful exploration of English and American cultural differences through the lens of language that will leave readers gobsmackedIn That’s Not English, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a historic and fascinating cultural divide. In each of the thirty chapters, Erin Moore explains a different ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Pragmatics

    de Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Leer más

    $78.99 USD

  • Discourse of Twitter and Social Media

    How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web

    de Dr Michele Zappavigna ...
    Series series Continuum Discourse
    Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Defining Pragmatics

    de Mira Ariel ...
    Series series Research Surveys in Linguistics
    Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Corporate Discourse

    de Ruth Breeze ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Discourse
    Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with other collective entities and with the world at large. It is concerned with understanding how language works in business contexts and how corporate identity and personal and professional relationships are ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Edición de Ruth Page ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Semiotics of Happiness

    Rhetorical beginnings of a public problem

    de Ashley Frawley ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of 'happiness' (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring its origins in the US and subsequent spread into the UK and across the globe.The research takes as its starting point the development of discussions about happiness in UK newspapers in which dedicated advocates began to claim that a new 'science of ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Meaning and Humour

    de Andrew Goatly ...
    Series series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
    How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour, such as systemic functional linguistics, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Measurement and Valuation of Health Status Using EQ-5D: A European Perspective

    Evidence from the EuroQol BIOMED Research Programme

    Edición de Richard Brooks, Rosalind Rabin, F. de Charro ...
    EQ-5D from the EuroQol Group is a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health. It is in widespread use in many countries and has been applied in many different settings. EQ-5D is now an integral feature of many clinical trials and is increasingly used in population health surveys.This book reports on the results of the European Union-funded EQ-net project which ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD