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Hardcover. Examines the relations between grammar, text, and discourse. This book intends to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis. It introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process, and focuses on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631234517
ISBN
9780631234517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.78

Paperback. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 303.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631234524
ISBN
9780631234524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.43

Hardcover. This anthology introduces representative authors from Spanish America's major literary periods, including contemporary writers. Includes complete works in a variety of genres: short stories, poetry, essays, and plays. Num Pages: 720 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 184 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1162.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780470002490
ISBN
9780470002490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 229.69

Hardback. This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333914519
ISBN
9780333914519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.28

Hardback. Drawing from a detailed analysis of the different types of textual variants that occur in the numerous duplicates of a group of ten compositions known collectively as the Decad, this book aims to provide a much needed critical methodology for interpreting textual variation in the Sumerian literary corpus. Series: ASOR Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplement Series. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 2ZM; CF; CJBG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 287 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1022.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
American Schools of Oriental Research United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897570886
ISBN
9780897570886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.98

Paperback. Covering all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing, this edition is for students and scholars. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; DSA; DSB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 29. Weight in Grams: 684.
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
582
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815317913
ISBN
9780815317913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.38

Hardback. A study of 'texture', a key feature of literary reading. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625819
ISBN
9780748625819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.67
€ 101.60

Paperback. Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350. 224 pages, illustrations. Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight: 348.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625826
ISBN
9780748625826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. This first book-length study of what Heidegger called "thinking poetics" expounds the sense of language from the perspective of fundamental ontology. It is based on readings of the pertinent chapters of Being and Time, the lectures on Holderlin, "The Origin of the Work of Art," and On the Way to Language. Translator(s): Plug, Jan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733748
ISBN
9780804733748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.96

Hardback. Num Pages: 181 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 18 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFX; UMX; UYQN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319247120
ISBN
9783319247120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780227173961
ISBN
9780227173961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.29

Hardback. Investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. This volume fills gap in providing a collection of articles which focus on language acquisition but at the same time address the overarching syntactic issues involved. Editor(s): Powers, Susan M.; Hamann, Cornelia. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 514 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 936.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792362494
ISBN
9780792362494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.29

Paperback. Melvyn Bragg's fascinating biography of the English language Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 x 8pp b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340829936
ISBN
9780340829936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Drawing from mythology, cosmology, history, the Bible, literature, and esoteric and conventional sources, this book takes the reader on a tour of each of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet. It also shows the history and development of each letter, and how its history, and meanings were reflected in myth, literature, science and religion. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC london
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747552994
ISBN
9780747552994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Hardback. In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, this monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets. This approach is grounded in semantics and pragmatics, and accounts for the vagueness inherent in natural language. Series: IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 1090.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306442698
ISBN
9780306442698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFD; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KST0009942
ISBN
9780801485619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Beginning signers can now improve their recognition of the most commonly used signs with this easy-to-follow handbook. Illustrates 800 common signs organized by topics including food, travel, family, sports and more. 800 illustrations. Num Pages: 176 pages, 800 sign illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 248 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563681301
ISBN
9781563681301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 574 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; CFG; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 190 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1012.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Collegiate Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
574
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939693351
ISBN
9780939693351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 134.84

Paperback. The first comprehensive study of how the phonology and grammar of ancient Egyptian changed over four millennia of language history. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 2CXG; CBX; CFF; CFLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
266
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107664678
ISBN
9781107664678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.07

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
York Medieval Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153307
ISBN
9781903153307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.58

Paperback. A study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For this second edition Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism. Num Pages: 204 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195112214
ISBN
9780195112214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.97

Hardback. Translator(s): French, Geoffrey. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640785
ISBN
9780691640785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.90

Paperback. An introductory guide for students of Arabic language, Arabic historical linguistics and Arabic socio-linguistics. It covers various aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects and Arabic as a world language. It makes links between linguistic history and cultural history. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 2CSR; CF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748645275
ISBN
9780748645275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; GTC; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226875064
ISBN
9780226875064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

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