Catálogo de libros: Semántica, análisis del discurso, etc.

2882 Catálogo de libros: Semántica, análisis del discurso, etc.

Libros Eliminar filtro Inglés Eliminar filtro Lenguas Eliminar filtro Lingüistica Eliminar filtro Semántica, análisis del discurso, etc. Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics
    Tony Jappy
    Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce’s theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are employed (visual rhetori...
    Disponible

    284,98 €

  • Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics
    Tony Jappy
    Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce’s theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are employed (visual rhetori...
    Disponible

    70,73 €

  • Metaphor
    L. David Ritchie / LDavid Ritchie
    ...
    Disponible

    60,36 €

  • The Language of Life and Death
    William Labov
    ...
    Disponible

    115,54 €

  • Authorial Stance in Research Articles
    P. Pho
    How do I structure a journal article?; 'Can I use ’I’ in a research article?'; 'Should I use an active or passive voice?' - Many such questions will be answered in this book, which documents the linguistic devices that authors use to show how they align or distance themselves from arguments and ideas, while maintaining conventions of objectivity. ...
    Disponible

    66,60 €

  • Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing
    Anne Surma
    In this important book, Surma combines threads from ethical, political, communications, sociological, feminist and discourse theories to explore the impact of writing in a range of contexts and illustrate the ways in which it can strengthen social connections. ...
    Disponible

    66,76 €

  • Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness
    Dariusz Galasinski
    Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness provides the first book-length study of fathers’ experiences of mental illness, arguing that a discourse analytic focus upon the experience of mental illness is relevant both to social scientists and mental health scholars and practitioners. ...
    Disponible

    66,70 €

  • Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology
    V. Pericliev
    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. ...
    Disponible

    66,76 €

  • Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing
    Anne Surma
    In a context of globalization, developing approaches to writing that take account of the differences between local and global contexts, between centre and periphery, between us and them is a real and pressing challenge. A critical cosmopolitan approach to developing and evaluating texts provides writers with an innovative strategy for reflecting on and negotiating our responsib...
    Disponible

    65,41 €

  • Branded Bodies, Rhetoric, and the Neoliberal Nation-State
    Jennifer Wingard
    Branded Bodies, Rhetoric, and the Neoliberal Nation-State, by Dr. Jennifer Wingard,explores how neoliberal economics has affected the rhetoric of the media and politics, and how in very direct, material ways it harms the bodies of some of the United States’ most vulnerable occupants. Wingard explains how the state uses certain bodies that will never be accepted as citizens as a...
    Disponible

    132,22 €

  • The Semantic Representation of Natural Language
    Craig Thomas / Greg Lessard / Michael Levison
    This volume contains a detailed, precise and clear semantic formalism designed to allow non-programmers such as linguists and literary specialists to represent elements of meaning which they must deal with in their research and teaching. At the same time, by its basis in a functional programming paradigm, it retains sufficient formal precision to support computational implement...
    Disponible

    297,89 €

  • Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
    Ryan Malphurs
    This book examines the rhetoric, discourse, and decision-making within significant Supreme Court cases. Contributing to the fields of communication, law, psychology, and political science, Malphurs considers their potential power and danger and reveals the dynamic nature of the justices’ interactions among themselves and the advocates. ...
    Disponible

    254,52 €

  • Of Mottos and Morals
    Martin / Mike W. Martin / Mike WMartin
    Whether in slogans, catchphrases, adages or proverbs, we encounter mottos every day, but we rarely take time to reflect on them. In Of Mottos and Morals: Simple Words for Complex Virtues, Martin explores the possibility that mottos themselves are worthy of serious thought, examining how they contribute to moral guidance and help us grapple with complexity. ...
    Disponible

    103,11 €

  • Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information
    Heimir Geirsson
    Geirsson’s account of the nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names focuses on subjects organizing information in webs; a name can then access and elicit information from a given web. Geirsson proceeds to extend the account of information to non-referring names, but they have long provided a serious challenge to the causal reference theorist. ...
    Disponible

    254,73 €

  • The WAC Journal 23 (2012)
    The WAC Journal is a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University and Parlor Press, The WAC Journal is an annual collection of articles by educators about their WAC ideas and WAC experiences. It is a journal of practical ideas and pertinent theory. | Contents of VOLUME 23 (2012): ARTICLES: 'Changing Research Practices and Acce...
    Disponible

    32,22 €

  • Semiotics of International Law
    Evandro Menezes de Carvalho
    Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.The diversity of languag...
    Disponible

    134,10 €

  • Victor Dudman’s Grammar and Semantics
    Jean Curthoys / Victor Dudman
    ...
    Disponible

    65,50 €

  • Language and Language Acquisition
    F. LOWENTHAL University of Mons Mons, Belgium In September 1980, researchers from many different countries and working in disciplines as varied as philosophy, psychology, neurology, mathematics, education, linguistics, sociology, and others we forget to mention, again met in Mons to discuss problems concerning Language and Language Acquisition. Confli...
    Disponible

    136,04 €

  • Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action
    Bump Halbritter / Scott K. Halbritter / Scott KHalbritter
    NEW MEDIA THEORY | SERIES EDITOR: BYRON HAWK | MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION: AUDIO-VISUAL RHETORIC FOR WRITING TEACHERS addresses the current technological challenges and opportunities of writing teachers through a conceptualization of writing and reading that could not have been imagined by many writing teachers at the turn of the twenty-first century. While MICS, CAMERAS, S...
    Disponible

    40,73 €

  • In Vino Veritas
    This is a systematically arranged, annotated collection of outstanding literary works dealing with drink. It centers on some of the most enduring themes in both literary depictions of drinking and alcohol research: causes of drinking; effects of drinking; the tavern; drinking and family life; drinking and gender; and the spiritual dimension of drinking. Organized into chapte...
    Disponible

    42,84 €

  • Student Writing and Genre
    English Fiona
    ...
    Disponible

    64,18 €

  • Situated Politeness
    Davies Bethan L / Davies Bethan L.
    Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This new study approaches the concept from an original perspective, namely situatedness.Although politeness research often concentrates on examining how speeches or discourses themselves are situated with regards to different places and contexts, the ...
    Disponible

    63,90 €

  • From Quantification to Conversation
    This volume is dedicated to Robin Cooper on the occasion of his 65th birthday.The honoree’s contributions to formal linguistics and language technology range from quantifier storage techniques and generalised quantifiers to the development of foundations and applications of a type-theoretical framework for formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language, with a focus on lin...
    Disponible

    27,77 €

  • Key Issues in Creative Writing
    This volume explores the teaching, learning and researching of creative writing. It outlines current issues, as defined by experts from the UK, USA and Australia. These expert contributors suggest solutions that will positively impact on the development of the discipline of creative writing in universities and colleges today and in the future. ...
    Disponible

    45,10 €

  • Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition
    Sooho Song
    Brown and Levinson (1987) developed a universal politeness theory that posits distance, power, and task imposition together to determine politeness weightiness perception. However, their theory overlooks the importance of cultural differences in politeness behavior. Furthermore, the theory mathematically formularizes that politeness weightiness perception is determined by simpl...
    Disponible

    65,49 €

  • The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property
    Jessica Reyman
    The availability of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to digital information. At the same time, however, U.S. copyright law has shown a decided trend toward more restrictions over what we are able to do online. As a result, a gap has emerged between the reality of copyright law ...
    Disponible

    85,72 €

  • Composition Studies 40.2 (Fall 2012)
    Jennifer Clary-Lemon
    CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 40.2 (FALL 2012): ARTICLES | Forging Rhetorical Subjects: Problem-Based Learning in The Writing Classroom by Paula Rosinski And Tim Peeples | Incendiary Discourse: Reconsidering Flaming, Authority, and Democratic Subjectivity in Computer-Mediated Communication by Timothy Oleksiak | Bodies Of Knowledge: Definitions, Delineations, and Implication...
    Disponible

    25,45 €

  • Tacit Knowledge and Spoken Discourse
    Michele Zappavigna
    Professional Linguistics is an emergent area of study within applied linguistics, using discourse analysis to assist people working in professional domains. This book examines tacit knowledge - that expertise that is considered to be lost when skilled practitioners leave an institution. Traditionally it has been argued that some aspects practical knowledge cannot be articulate...
    Disponible

    298,05 €

  • Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse
    Matt Davies
    Constructed opposition has proved as viable an area of research as traditional antonymy, and a useful tool in looking at ideologically orientated texts. This book investigates how binary oppositions are constructed discursively and the potential ideological repercussions of their usage in news reports in the British press.The focus is particularly on the positive presentation o...
    Disponible

    298,03 €

  • Summoning the Rains. Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers
    One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 2011 the third FEMRITE African Women Writers Residency alleviated this challenge for 15 women writers from 11 different countries across the continent. The writers from Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tunisia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, an...
    Disponible

    45,70 €