Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book traces the evolutionary trajectory of language and teaching from the earliest periods of human evolution to the present day.

This book unpacks recent changes in the landscape of literature and language teaching, and aims to find new explanations for the altered relationships between readers and writers, the democratisation of authorship, and the emergence of new ways of using language.

The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

How do we learn what it means to be a man?

This edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts.

This book explores how transformations and translations shape musical meanings, developments and the perception of music across cultures.

In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

The quotations contained in this monumental volume consist of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes.

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles.

This book brings together experts engaging in empirical studies on how emotion influences learning and processing for varying text types in different contexts.

This book addresses questions that have concerned rhetoricians, literary theorists, and philosophers since the time of the pre-Socratics and the Sophists: How do people come to believe and to act on the basis of communicative experiences?

A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its effectsNow known to the Chinese as the "e;ten years of chaos,"e; the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions.

Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard?

A commanding study of the motivational speech of military leaders across the centuriesIn this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day.

The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techne as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and social change, which is necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy.

Breast or Bottle?

Burke in the Archives brings together thirteen original essays by leading and emerging Kenneth Burke scholars to explore provocatively the twenty-first-century usefulness of a figure widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential rhetorician.

In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused with the spirit of ethics, a method of inquiry, and a sense of beauty.

Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing and emergent literacy practices.

Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "e;orthodoxies"e; that have dominated the tradition.

Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation.

John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment.

Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A.

In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C.

Reassesses the philosophical and pedagogical contributions of ProtagorasProtagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of the Older Sophists, Protagoras of Abdera.

An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable.

In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings-from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises.

The inaugural lecture is a tradition that has been practiced in western universities for centuries.

An accessible guide to decoding and understanding the divisive rhetoric implemented by the former president, and to resisting it.

Hay muchas razones para estar insatisfechos y aun por momentos desesperados con respecto a las habilidades para leer y escribir que presentan los de por sí pocos mexicanos que acceden a la educación media superior y superior, por no decir los poquísimos que se gradúan e incluso emprenden estudios de posgrado.

Roman für Jugendliche von 13–16 Jahren, auch als Klassenlektüre an weiterführenden Schulen geeignet, Fach: Deutsch, Förderunterricht, Klasse 8–10 +++ K.

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy.

Much like in everyday life, politeness is key to the smooth running of relationships and interactions.

This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists.

This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language.

Solides Fachwissen reicht oft nicht aus, um Gespräche so zu gestalten, dass sie nach den eigenen Vorstellungen verlaufen.

Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system.

In 'Walter Benjamin: Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen' erforscht der renommierte Autor die Rolle der Sprache in der menschlichen Existenz und Kultur.

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.

Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations.

The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated?

This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts.

Gekonnt plaudern, Sympathien gewinnen.

This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the social phenomenon of migration from various legal-linguistic perspectives.

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism.

Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention).