Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Saussure A Guide For The Perplexed Guides for the
Book SynopsisFerdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. This title introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language and demystifies his complex theories.Trade ReviewThe current volume, by someone who is not just a competent semiotician but a giant of contemporary semiotics, explains and assesses Saussure's bequest to sign study. Paul Bouissac's Saussure: A Guide for the Perplexed prints the bigger picture, not just the legend, and helps to open up a whole new era in the analysis of the cultural sign. -- Paul Cobley, Reader in Communications London Metropolitan University, UKTable of Contents1. Saussure's last lectures: a perplexed man; 2. Saussure's student years: insights and accomplishments; 3. Saussure in Berlin and Paris: What did it mean to be a linguist in 1880?; 4. Saussure the maverick: thinking outside the box; 5. S. like synchrony, structure, sign and semiology; 6. Diachrony: Saussure and the problem of time; 7. The Course in General Linguistics: Saussure's conceptual legacy; 8. From Saussure to Saussurism and back: the unfinished task; Appendix 1: Saussurean scholarship; Appendix 2: Quotes from Saussure.
£24.99
Edinburgh University Press Negotiating Boundaries at Work
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating boundaries at work, Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra & Janet Holmes Part I: Transitions to a profession; Chapter 2: Negotiating social legitimacy in and across contexts: Apprenticeship in a'dual'training system, Stefano A. Losa & Laurent Filliettaz; Chapter 3: Language mentoring and employment ideologies: Internationally educated professionals in search of work, Julie Kerekes; Chapter 4: Oh it's a DANISH boyfriend you've got- Co-membership and cultural fluency in job interviews with minority background applicants in Denmark, Marta Kirilova; Chapter 5: Constructing a'mission statement-A multimodal perspective on believable identity construction in a job interview, Ewa Kusmierczyk-O'Connor; Chapter 6: Teamwork and the 'global graduate': Negotiating core skills and competencies with employers in recruitment interviews, Sophie Reissner-Roubicek; Chapter 7: Doing evaluation'in the modern workplace: Negotiating the identity of'model employee'in performance appraisal interviews, Dorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie Schnurr; Part II: Transitions within a profession; Chapter 8: Multilingualism and work experience in Germany: On the pragmatic notion of'patiency' Kristin Buhrig & Jochen Rehbein; Chapter 9: Working and learning in a new niche: Ecological interpretations of work-related migration, Minna Suni; Chapter 10: Have you still not learnt Luxembourgish? Negotiating language boundaries in a distribution company in Luxembourg, Anne Franziskus; Chapter 11:The'internationalised'academic: Negotiating boundaries between the local, the regional and the'international'at the university, Anne H. Fabricius; Chapter 12: Collaborating beyond disciplinary boundaries, Seongsook Choi
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education
Book SynopsisCombining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book draws on a range of spoken and written data collected from a variety of contexts. With coverage of both theory and practice, this book is a key resource for educators and postgraduate students.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education
Book SynopsisCombining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book draws on a range of spoken and written data collected from a variety of contexts. With coverage of both theory and practice, this book is a key resource for educators and postgraduate students.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Concept of Conversation
Book SynopsisThe Concept of Conversation' traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Concept of Conversation
Book SynopsisThe Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Pragmatics
Book SynopsisThe first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Negotiating Boundaries at Work
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in
Book SynopsisThis book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual material, to examine attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It examines four types of interpersonal pragmatic marker: topic/affectee-oriented, speaker-oriented, hearer-oriented and subject-oriented.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Introducing Stylistic Analysis
Book SynopsisCarry out basic stylistic analyses of different text types using a range of stylistic frameworks
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Arabic Corpus Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms.
£20.89
Lexington Books The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball
Book SynopsisThis entertaining and informative work uses data driven analysis to guide and enhance the study of linguistic and stylistic differences in written game summaries. Timely and illustrative, The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology will appeal to fans of the game as well as students of lexicon.Trade ReviewThe Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology fills a scholarly void in Hispanic linguistic studies but will be of interest to a diverse audience, from lexicographers and learners of Spanish to baseball fans and sports enthusiasts. This volume is well overdue, and it will likely serve as a model for similar books regarding other sports. -- Rafael Orozco, Louisiana State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Why a Vocabulary for el Béisbol?Chapter 2 – Dictionaries, Data, Words, and MeaningsChapter 3 – Getting Started: Equipment, Field, and Player PositionsChapter 4 – Hits and Other Ways to Get on BaseChapter 5 – Home RunsChapter 6 – Grounders, Liners, and Fly BallsChapter 7 – Hitting the Ball: The Crack of the BatChapter 8 – Runners on Base, Scoring, and RBI’sChapter 9 – Pitchers and PitchingChapter 10 – Innings and Outs (and Getting it Right)Chapter 11 – DefenseChapter 12 – Style: In the Game and in the Story
£999.99
Pan Macmillan Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive
Book Synopsis'This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better' – Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing'All you need is Buster Benson. His methods are instantly actionable, [and] his writing is funny and relatable' – Adam Grant, author of OriginalsWhy Are We Yelling is Buster Benson's essential guide to having more honest and constructive arguments.The way we argue is broken. Whether it’s about Brexit, the existence of ghosts, the best burger in the city or who’s allowed to sit in your favourite chair, we end up digging our heels in and yelling at one another or choosing to avoid heated topics entirely. There has to be a better way.Buster Benson, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with two decades of experience facilitating hard conversations at some of the biggest tech companies in the world, recommends eight things to try in order to make disagreements more productive. By applying these eight new habits, we can flip frustrating, unproductive disagreements into ones that bear fruit and bring people closer together.In this book you'll master practical skills to make your disagreements more productive by:- Understanding four ways of disagreeing that are more valuable than simply ‘winning’ the argument- Identifying the kind of argument you’re having so you know how best to negotiate it- Articulating the best possible version of your opponent’s argument before attacking itWith this toolkit we can explore more possibilities and perspectives in the world, simply because we’ll no longer be afraid to wade into scary topics of conversation.Trade ReviewConflict can be ugly. But if you follow the precepts of Buster Benson, you’ll discover that it’s also inevitable, necessary, and even helpful. Why Are We Yelling? provides a taxonomy of disagreement - explaining how arguments arise, how to handle them, and how to resolve them. Nobody can completely avoid conflict, but everybody can learn how to argue better and more productively with this provocative book. -- Daniel H. Pink, author of When and To Sell Is HumanThis is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better -- Seth Godin, author of This is MarketingAll you need is Buster Benson. His methods are instantly actionable, his writing is funny and relatable, and his book is the ideal companion to Difficult Conversations -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeI’m a sucker for frameworks, and this is one of the greats. You'll learn to turn the messy, frustrating, emotional experience of arguing into a fine art. You'll watch the quality of your collaborations—and your ideas—go through the roof -- Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and IndistractableConflict can be ugly. But if you follow the precepts of Buster Benson, you’ll discover that it’s also inevitable, necessary, and even helpful . . . everybody can learn how to argue better and more productively with this provocative book -- Daniel H. Pink, author of When and To Sell Is HumanReading Why Are We Yelling? is like having your most calm, level-headed friend explain how you might diffuse a tense situation in your life and work. I especially recommend this book to anyone who has ever tried to ‘win’ an argument only to end up frustrated with the results -- Jason Shellen, co-founder of Google Reader, Boxer, and Brizzly; founder of A Little DriveWith provocative ideas—and the brain science to back them up—Why Are We Yelling? offers fresh approaches to conflict and connection -- Sarah Milstein, author of The Twitter BookLively, accessible, and practical guide . . . eight valuable principles for turning rude arguments or suppressed differences into dynamic conversations that illuminate, connect, and yield better results for all -- William Ury, co-author of Getting to Yes, and author of Getting to Yes with YourselfThis clever, empowering book shows how conflict can be a source of growth, intrigue, and joy . . . This is the perfect book at the perfect time to bring some sanity back into disagreements -- Annie Duke, author of Thinking in BetsBuster Benson turns everything you know about arguing on its head. Before reading this book, I never thought I’d be looking forward to my next disagreement. Productive disagreeing is the most underrated life skill you can build -- Ev Williams, CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of TwitterIn today’s polarized climate, 'productive disagreement' often feels like an oxymoron. Benson brilliantly challenges this idea, offering a thoughtful guidebook on how to lower our voices, tolerate tension, and have the constructive dialogue our world needs -- General Stanley McChrystal, author of Leaders and Team of Teams
£17.09
University of Calgary Press The Eloquence of Mary Astell
Book SynopsisThe Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate.Trade ReviewSpare and elegant . . . With admirable dexterity and economy, Sutherland sets out women's loss of ideological status in the Reformation and Renaissance. Regina Janes, University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introudction Part I: Mary Astell's Context 1. The Problem of Ethos 2. Mary Astell and the Problem of Ethos Part II: Mary Astell's Rhetorical Practice 3. Letters Concerning the Love of God 4. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I 5. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II 6. Some Reflections Upon Marriage 7. The Christian Religion 8. Political Pamphlets Part III: Mary Astell's Rhetorical Theory 8. Rhetorical Theory I 9. Rhetorical Theory II Conclusions Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Notes Index
£37.00
Equinox Publishing Ltd Body Talk and Cultural Identity in the African
Book SynopsisThe body is a site bearing multiple signs of cultural inscriptions. People's postures, use of space, dress codes, speech particularities, facial expressions, tone qualities, gaze, and gestures are codes that send messages to observers. These messages differ across cultures and times. Some of these non-verbal messages are taken to be conscious or subconscious projection of a sense of personal or collective identity. The various forms of "body talk" may flag personal distinction, style, uniqueness or politics, in which case, the body and its presentations become stances of the self. Different from this, body talk may exhibit a society's or culture's standardized norms of valuation with respect to what conforms or deviates from expectations.The subject of this anthology is non-verbal communication signals with contributing studies from societies and cultures of Africa and African Diapora. The goals are to document popular gestures, explore their meanings, and understand how they frame interactions and colour perception.The anthology is also aimed at offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the problematics of non-verbal communication by making sense of the various ways that different cultures speak without "voice", and to examine how people and groups make their presence felt as social, cultural and political actors. Some of the contributions include case studies, descriptive codification, theoretical analyses and performative studies. The issues highlighted range from film and literature studies, gender studies, history, religion, popular cultural, and extends to the virtual space. Other studies provide a linguistic treatment of non-verbal communication and use it as means of explicating perception and stereotyping.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Body Talks, Non-verbal communication in some African Societies and Institutions Augustine Agwuele Part One: Body Talk in Arts and Literature 1. What Traditional Dances Tell Us about African Cultural Identity in Puerto Rico and Trinidad" Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico 2. Fela's Clenched Fists: The Double Black Power Salute and Political Ideology from Afrobeat to Occupy Nigeria" Dotun Oyebade, University of Texas (PhD candidate) 3. Dressed-to-Kill: Don Mattera's Sophiatown Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico 4. Body Arts, Body Decoration, and Identity in Yorubaland Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Missouri State University 5. Bodies in Motion: Gestures and Performance of Identity in Tess Onwueme's Shakara Dance Hall Queen Maureen N. Eke, Central Michigan University Part 2: Non-Verbal communication and Cultural Diversity 6. The convergence of language and culture in Malawian gestures: Handedness in Everyday Rituals Karen W. Sanders, Tulane University 7. Nonverbal communication codes among the Hamar: structures and functions Moges Yigezu, Addis Ababa University 8. So That We Might Find Ourselves: Refashioning Embodied Beauty and Collective Identity in Yoruba Culture Abimbola A. Adelakun, Independent scholar 9. Nonverbal Message: Yoruba view of 'deviant' male hairstyles Augustine Agwuele 10. "Embodying Holiness: Gender, Sex and Bodies in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Kenya" Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Egerton University
£67.50
Equinox Publishing Ltd Body Talk and Cultural Identity in the African
Book SynopsisThe body is a site bearing multiple signs of cultural inscriptions. People's postures, use of space, dress codes, speech particularities, facial expressions, tone qualities, gaze, and gestures are codes that send messages to observers. These messages differ across cultures and times. Some of these non-verbal messages are taken to be conscious or subconscious projection of a sense of personal or collective identity. The various forms of "body talk" may flag personal distinction, style, uniqueness or politics, in which case, the body and its presentations become stances of the self. Different from this, body talk may exhibit a society's or culture's standardized norms of valuation with respect to what conforms or deviates from expectations.The subject of this anthology is non-verbal communication signals with contributing studies from societies and cultures of Africa and African Diaspora. The goals are to document popular gestures, explore their meanings, and understand how they frame interactions and colour perception.The anthology is also aimed at offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the problematics of non-verbal communication by making sense of the various ways that different cultures speak without "voice", and to examine how people and groups make their presence felt as social, cultural and political actors. Some of the contributions include case studies, descriptive codification, theoretical analyses and performative studies. The issues highlighted range from film and literature studies, gender studies, history, religion, popular cultural, and extends to the virtual space. Other studies provide a linguistic treatment of non-verbal communication and use it as means of explicating perception and stereotyping.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Body Talks, Non-verbal communication in some African Societies and Institutions Augustine Agwuele Part One: Body Talk in Arts and Literature 1. What Traditional Dances Tell Us about African Cultural Identity in Puerto Rico and Trinidad" Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico 2. Fela's Clenched Fists: The Double Black Power Salute and Political Ideology from Afrobeat to Occupy Nigeria" Dotun Oyebade, University of Texas (PhD candidate) 3. Dressed-to-Kill: Don Mattera's Sophiatown Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico 4. Body Arts, Body Decoration, and Identity in Yorubaland Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Missouri State University 5. Bodies in Motion: Gestures and Performance of Identity in Tess Onwueme's Shakara Dance Hall Queen Maureen N. Eke, Central Michigan University Part 2: Non-Verbal communication and Cultural Diversity 6. The convergence of language and culture in Malawian gestures: Handedness in Everyday Rituals Karen W. Sanders, Tulane University 7. Nonverbal communication codes among the Hamar: structures and functions Moges Yigezu, Addis Ababa University 8. So That We Might Find Ourselves: Refashioning Embodied Beauty and Collective Identity in Yoruba Culture Abimbola A. Adelakun, Independent scholar 9. Nonverbal Message: Yoruba view of 'deviant' male hairstyles Augustine Agwuele 10. "Embodying Holiness: Gender, Sex and Bodies in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Kenya" Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Egerton University
£23.70
De Gruyter Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text: Dedicated to Gabriel Altmann on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
Book SynopsisThe collection contains more than 60 original papers and reflects current research topics in linguistics and text analysis. Most of the papers present recent results of empirical quantitative investigations; others focus on methodological issues, whereas some of them are of a more theoretical, systems-theoretical/semiotic character. Finally, a number of contributions form typical integrative deductive-inductive studies. The volume is a valuable source of information about the current state-of-the-art in quantitative linguistic research, presented by renowned representatives of the field.
£173.82
De Gruyter Wortbildung der deutschen Gegenwartssprache
Book SynopsisIn einer grundlegenden Überarbeitung der 3. Auflage von 2007 bietet das Werk unter Einbeziehung der neuesten Forschungsliteratur eine aktualisierte Gesamtdarstellung der Wortbildung der deutschen Sprache des 20. und des beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts. Herausgearbeitet werden die Grundzüge der Wortbildung des Substantivs, Adjektivs, Verbs und Adverbs, wobei sowohl die strukturell-morphologischen als auch die semantischen Parameter der Bildungsmodelle in analytischer und synthetischer Sicht behandelt werden. Im Vordergrund steht das Prinzip synchroner Beschreibung, ggf. ergänzt um sprachhistorische Erklärungen. Neu aufgenommen wurden Kapitel zur Stellung der Wortbildung in der Grammatik sowie zum Verhältnis zwischen Wortbildung und Lexikon. Einige Grundfragen wurden neu entschieden, z. B. die Gliederung der Wortbildungsarten, der wortbildungsmorphologische Status der Verbzusätze und die Gruppierung wortbildungsmorphologischer Paradigmen. Morphosyntaktische Bezüge der Wortbildungsmodelle bekommen ein stärkeres Gewicht. Erweitert wurden das Textkapitel sowie die Darstellung der Fremdwort- und der Kurzwortbildung. Zeitgemäße Beispiele aus journalistischen und belletristischen Quellen sowie aus elektronisch verfügbaren Korpora wurden ergänzt. Ein Sach- und ein Formenregister, beide verbessert, erleichtern die Orientierung im Text.
£21.38
de Gruyter Handbuch Juristische Rhetorik
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£179.96
De Gruyter Elemente Der Narratologie
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£23.70
De Gruyter Handbuch Rhetorik Und Pädagogik
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£207.00
Walter de Gruyter Singen Und Sagen
£59.46
De Gruyter Language in Social Interaction
£96.30
Springer International Publishing AG Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model
Book SynopsisThis book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes – from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality – and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I. Theorising poetic difficulty.- Chapter 1. Approaches and issues.- Chapter 2. Semantics and poetic meaning.- Chapter 3. Linguistic indicators of difficulty.- Chapter 4. Readerly indicators of difficulty.- Chapter 5. A new stylistic model.- Part II. Analysing poetic difficulty.- Chapter 6. Geoffrey Hill.- Chapter 7. Ezra Pound.- Chapter 8. Wallace Stevens.- Chapter 9. Jeremy H. Prynne.- Chapter 10. Susan Howe.- Chapter 11. Mark Strand (the accessible poem).- Chapter 12. Towards a typology of difficulty in poetry.- Conclusion.
£80.99
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Rechtswandel
£87.92
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Historische Semantik
Book SynopsisZur Theorie der Bedeutungsentwicklung. Anhand von vielen Beispielen vom Althochdeutschen bis zur Gegenwart führt der Autor in die historische Semantik ein. Ausgewählte Analysen von Bedeutungsentwicklungen konkretisieren theoretische und methodische Fragen.
£17.09
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Computer - My Life
Book SynopsisKonrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the first programming languages, the Plan Calculus, including features copied only decades later in other languages. He wrote numerousbooks and articles and won many honors and awards. This is his autobiography, written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style, full of anecdotes, reminiscences, and philosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war, to a ripe old age andwell-earned celebrity.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The book tells the story of an inventor and an entrepreneur. It is refreshing because it allows one to see things outside of the box, beyond the more traditional story, so that he or she can better appreciate key aspects of computing and computation. Furthermore, the book tells the story of a father, a hard worker, and a recognized inventor, including pictures and plenty of anecdotes. … The book is probably the only reliable source about Konrad Zuse’s life and contributions to the world.” (Hector Zenil, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2011)Table of Contents1 Ancestors and parents — Early childhood memories — School days — Metropolis — Abitur.- 2 Studies (not without detours and by-ways) and general studies — First inventions — The Akademischer Verein Motiv — Student life between science and politics.- 3 The early years of the computer (and a digression on its prehistory) — Colleagues remember — From mechanics to electromechanics — Schreyer’s electronic computing machine — First outside contacts — Thoughts on the future.- 4 Outbreak of the war and (first) call-up — Structural engineer in aircraft construction — The Z2 and Z3 — Second call-up — Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau, Berlin — The first process computer.- 5 Origins of the Z4 — News from the United States — Attempt at a Ph.D. dissertation — Computing machine for logic operations — Final months of the war in Berlin — The evacuation — Z4 completed in Göttingen — Final war days in the Allgäu.- 6 End of the war — Refugees in Hinterstein — The Plankalkül — The computing universe — Automation and self-reproducing systems — A logarithmic computing machine — Computer development in Germany and the United States — Move to Hopferau near Füssen — The mill of the Patent Office.- 7 The Zuse-Ingenieurbüro, Hopferau bei Füssen — First business partners: IBM and Remington Rand — The first pipelining design — Founding of ZUSE KG in Neukirchen — The Z4 in the ETH in Zurich — The computer in Europe: taking stock — Lost opportunities — The first German contract: the Z5.- 8 The partners leave — Computing machine for land use zoning — Electronics gains acceptance — First funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft — Losing one’s way (and possibly a lost opportunity) — The array processor — Custom work for geodesists — The Graphomat Z64 — Growth and crisis of ZUSE KG — The end.- 9 Free for science (again) — Honors — A look to the future.- Appendices.- 1. From Forms to Program Control.- 2. Construction of Devices.- 3. On Computer Architecture.- 4. On the Plan Calculus.- 5. Lecture on the Occasion of the Award of the Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Berlin (Extract).- 6. The Computer Did Not Fall from Heaven.- Notes.- References.- Name Index.- Computer Index.
£55.24
Peter Lang AG Anglicisms and Corpus Linguistics: Corpus-Aided
Book SynopsisThe study of anglicisms and of the complex network of related categories has deeply evolved in the first two decades of the twenty-first century and it is quite likely that it will keep evolving in decades to come. Much more attention is being paid to the way in which the large collection of English morphological and lexical items is modified and reinvented within the receptor languages. Throughout the nine chapters of this book, the latest developments in anglicisms in languages like French, Danish, German, Czech, Italian, Finnish and Spanish are explored. To do so, a corpus methodology has been used in each chapter, which will contribute to a better understanding of this challenging phenomenon on European languages from an innovative perspective. Table of Contents On a daily basis … a comparative study of phraseological borrowing Comme disent les Anglais/Américains: Identifying and Analyzing Anglicisms in Corpora by Means of Metalinguistic Comments Grammatical and social structures of English-sourced swear words in Finnish discourse Anglicisms: Criteria, Categories & Corpora – Aims and means in the compilation of the Danish GLAD contribution Recyclable Loans: Idiosyncrasy, Rule-Governedness and Gradience in Contact-Induced Lexical Creativity Hey, it’s what all the Cool Kids Are Talking about, Okay? Exploring Collocations of Anglicisms in Spoken German Pseudo-Anglicisms in Czech. Between Borrowing and Neology New Anglicisms in Italian Corpora: A Comparison between CORIS and Italian Web 2016 A dictionary- and corpus-based proposal for compiling a collection of indirect Anglicisms in Spanish (with a sample of some of the latest semantic loans and calques)
£47.22
Universitatsverlag Winter Linguistische Argumentationsanalyse
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£18.71
The University of Chicago Press The Vocation of a Teacher Rhetorical Occasions
Book SynopsisA collection of writing on the experience of teaching.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Presidents Creating the Presidency
Book SynopsisArguing that the presidency is not defined by the Constitution, but by what presidents say and how they say it, Deeds Done in Words has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric. This title reveals how our media-saturated age has transformed the rhetorical strategies presidents use to increase and sustain the executive branch's powers.Trade Review"Campbell and Jamieson have taken another leap forward in establishing the essential relationship between rhetoric and the presidency itself. They argue successfully that the genres they have identified actually help define what the presidency is and how that office interacts with the other branches of government and the American people." - American Political Science Review"
£66.50
The University of Chicago Press The Generic Book
Book SynopsisThe articles in this work examine aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides an overview of various issues and synthesizes analytical approaches to them. The papers that follow collectively reflect the state of the art in the semantics of generics.
£52.25
The University of Chicago Press Dynamics of Meaning Anaphora Presupposition and
Book SynopsisThis text illustrates how seemingly abstract stances on the nature of meaning can have significant and far-reaching linguistic consequences, leading to the detection of new facts and influencing the understanding of the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface.
£57.00
The University of Chicago Press Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, chronological survey of the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks through the twentieth century. The author discusses rhetorical theories and practices in the context of the times of political and intellectual crisis that gave rise to them.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Civic Jazz
Book SynopsisJazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. This book weaves an argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. It will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism.Trade Review"A provocative, well-written, original study of how Kenneth Burke and jazz musicians in performance both explore the complications of achieving e pluribus unum-the 'impossible American ought,' the many-in-one, the one-in-the-many." (Walton Muyumba, Indiana University)
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Spaces Worlds and Grammar Cognitive Theory of
Book SynopsisThese 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. The contributors analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals and deictic expression.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press News Values Ideas for an Information Age Paper
Book SynopsisA statement about the fundamental, ethical, practical issues facing newspapers, this book seeks to clarify these issues, and also to offer a provocative perspective on questions which should concern journalists who care about creating a more cohesive society.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Metaphor and Musical Thought
Book SynopsisTreating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, this book offers an evaluation and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music.Trade Review"Spitzer has written an informative and thought-provoking work, leaving us to question not only our methods of music analysis but our very choice of words in speaking and writing about music." (Notes)
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Rhetoric
Book SynopsisThis text shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his treatise, the "Rhetoric". Garver treats the "Rhetoric" as philosophy and connects its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's "Ethics" and "Politics".
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Black and White Styles in Conflict
Book Synopsis"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."--Marjorie Harness Goodwin, "American Ethnologist"
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press Blank Darkness Africanist Discourse in French
Book SynopsisBlank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Céline to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world.James Olney, Louisiana State University
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press On Narrative
Book SynopsisEssays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world.
£16.50
The University of Chicago Press Does Science Need a Global Language English and
Book SynopsisIn all scientific endeavors lies the ancient drive for sharing ideas and knowledge, and now this can be accomplished in a single tongue - English. But is this a good thing? This author answers this question by investigating the phenomenon of English in science, how and why it came about, the forms in which it appears, and what is its future.Trade Review"It may seem obvious that English is the one truly global language, but Scott L. Montgomery, himself a professional translator, is the first to assess the costs and benefits of this fact with such clarity." -Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK"
£26.07
The University of Chicago Press Hand and Mind
Book SynopsisUsing data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. Hand and Mind persuasively argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas that language cannot always express, we must examine language and gesture together to unveil the operations of the mind.
£40.85
The University of Chicago Press Seeming and Being in Platos Rhetorical Theory
Book SynopsisAn analysis of Plato and the relationship he posits among language, truth, and the world.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Crises of the Sentence
Book SynopsisThere are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the word, trope, line, or stanza. To understand what is at stake in thinking--or not thinking--about the sentence, Jan Mieszkowski looks at the difficulties confronting nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors when they tried to explain what a sentence is and what it can do. From Romantic debates about the power of the stand-alone sentence, to the realist obsession with precision and revision, to modernist experiments with ungovernable forms, Mieszkowski explores the hidden allegiances behind our ever-changing stylistic ideals. By showing how an investment in superior writing has always been an ethical and a political as well as an aesthetic commitment, Crises of the Sentence offers a new perspective on our love-hate relationship with this fun
£77.90
The University of Chicago Press Crises of the Sentence
Book SynopsisThere are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the word, trope, line, or stanza. To understand what is at stake in thinking--or not thinking--about the sentence, Jan Mieszkowski looks at the difficulties confronting nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors when they tried to explain what a sentence is and what it can do. From Romantic debates about the power of the stand-alone sentence, to the realist obsession with precision and revision, to modernist experiments with ungovernable forms, Mieszkowski explores the hidden allegiances behind our ever-changing stylistic ideals. By showing how an investment in superior writing has always been an ethical and a political as well as an aesthetic commitment, Crises of the Sentence offers a new perspective on our love-hate relationship with this fun
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Rousseaus Reader
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£29.45
