Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
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Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
Hardback. This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account for variation and change in the system of English predicate complementation. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137509482
- ISBN
- 9781137509482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 163 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFGR; JFSJ; KJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506207
- ISBN
- 9781137506207
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Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardcover. This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive, self-reflective society. Series: Literary Disability Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFGR; DSB; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493477
- ISBN
- 9781137493477
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Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardcover. This book introduces key issues and historical contexts in critical discursive research in psychology. It sets out methodological steps for critical readings of texts, arguments that can be made for qualitative research in academic settings, and arguments that could be made against it by critical psychologists. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition, New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485595
- ISBN
- 9781137485595
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Condition: New
€ 123.02
€ 123.02
hardcover. Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471581
- ISBN
- 9781137471581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 482 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 12 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 482
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470270
- ISBN
- 9781137470270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Hardcover. This book shows that the discourse of the Labour party 1994-2007, revolving around three key concepts of identity, narrative and metaphor, not only reflected new Labour's policy and organisational changes, but that it was also an essential part of its successful strategies of renovation and of power legitimation. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; CFGR; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137427380
- ISBN
- 9781137427380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.98
€ 64.98
Hardcover. Media, Myth and Terrorism is a rigorous case study of Blitz mythology in British newspaper responses to the July 7th bombings. Considering how the press, politicians and the public were caught up in popular accounts of Britain's past, Kelsey explores the ideological battleground that took place in the weeks following the bombings. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; JFD; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410689
- ISBN
- 9781137410689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFGR; JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398772
- ISBN
- 9781137398772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.04
€ 113.04
Hardcover. Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, this book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by seeking an answer to the questions of how it can be explained, and how communication is possible despite it. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398437
- ISBN
- 9781137398437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. The book is devoted to the analysis of promotional material of tourist activities on tourism websites, including walking, dining, and visiting natural and cultural heritage sights, as instances of multimodal texts through a case study of Croatian and Scottish tourism websites. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DVWYC; CFG; KNSG; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397904
- ISBN
- 9781137397904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary China. Incorporating Chinese philosophy and theory, it offers not only a distinct cultural paradigm in the field, but also a culturally sensitive and effective tool for studying Chinese discourses. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CFB; CFGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137365033
- ISBN
- 9781137365033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. First-Year Writing describes significant language patterns in college writing today, how they are different from expert academic writing, and how to inform teaching and assessment with corpus-based linguistic and rhetorical genre analysis. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFGR; CJCW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350459
- ISBN
- 9781137350459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFD; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333278
- ISBN
- 9781137333278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.47
€ 122.47
Hardcover. In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263537
- ISBN
- 9781137263537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardback. This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program in relation to two basic problems: the commonly occurring inconsistency of componential models; and the huge number of alternative componential models. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031174
- ISBN
- 9781137031174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Pragmatic Literary Stylistics (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Languag...
Billy Clark, Chapman, Siobhan
Hardcover. In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate. Editor(s): Chapman, Siobhan; Clark, Billy. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023254
- ISBN
- 9781137023254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardback. The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses. Editor(s): Ross, Steven; Kasper, Gabriele. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003515
- ISBN
- 9781137003515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.59
€ 123.59
Paperback. Discusses Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian event analyses of verbs and verbal roles. This book also discusses theories of semantic plurality, focussing on the analysis of collective, distributive and cumulative readings. It develops a neo-Davidsonian theory of events and plurality, a theory of event-maximalization, and a theory of scopal relations. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 396 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365693
- ISBN
- 9780792365693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.31
€ 69.31
Hardback. Based on an edition published in 1992 in Bulgarian, this book offers a specific approach to controversial problems in linguistics. It states that aspect is the result of a complex interplay between the referents of verbs and nouns in the sentence. It also talks about the role nouns and noun phrases play in the explication of aspect in English. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365389
- ISBN
- 9780792365389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.46
€ 193.46