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Suitable for those who write or wants to write, this title teaches a Zen-like method that can take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is 'raw, full of energy, alive and hungry'. It is packed with advice on: how to find time to write; how to discover your personal style; and, how to overcome writer's block.

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"This guide reveals how writers can take advantage of the brain's hard-wired responses to story to captivate their readers' minds through each plot element"--Provided by publisher.

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This is the first comparative study of the pioneering work on language of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The book focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject. Philosophical investigations and Truth and Method, respectively.

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These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgensteins treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individuals relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.

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Wobbly Bits is the essential guide to polite conversation. Covering everything from the politically incorrect to the seriously taboo, this entertaining book offers over 3,000 ways to avoid speaking your mind.

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A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century.

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This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It includes extraordinary women, such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those, such as Phyllis Schlafly, who have been actively anti-feminist.

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An ingeniously handy guide to help one transform "chew" into "masticate, rainy into pluvian, and antediluvian into plain old old, this engaging, easy-to-use reference presents the right word for any occasion.

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An introduction to Word Grammar, this is a collection that will interest academics encountering Word Grammar for the first time, or for those who are already familiar with this theory and are interested in reading how it has evolved and what its future may hold.

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Offers an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. This book includes work on a number different languages and perspectives to illustrate its power to analyse linguistic phenomena.

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A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.

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Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language.

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This wonderful follow up o the best selling Lost for Words continues its humorous and nostalgic trip through our language.

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An analysis of learning a second language through process drama. Topics covered include: evoking dramatic moments in second language learning and teaching; the nature of teacher-student interaction in drama-orientated language classrooms; and the psycho-social aspect of drama on learning.

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An analysis of learning a second language through process drama. Topics covered include: evoking dramatic moments in second language learning and teaching; the nature of teacher-student interaction in drama-orientated language classrooms; and the psycho-social aspect of drama on learning.

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Looks at the important role translation studies plays in exploring how words, sounds and images are translated and reinterpreted in various socio-cultural contexts. Using case studies drawn from a range of different countries and languages, this book presents a comprehensive examination of various areas of research within translation studies.

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Looks at the important role translation studies plays in exploring how words, sounds and images are translated and reinterpreted in various socio-cultural contexts. Using case studies drawn from a range of different countries and languages, this book presents a comprehensive examination of different areas of research within translation studies.

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Its aim is to diagnose linguists' failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps toward satisfying these requirements.

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Explores how international teaching assistants in Canadian universities craft accents that work toward communicative goals, conforming to and contesting expectations of academic labor.

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Goleman investigates the relationship between critical theory and composition pedagogy in extensive and methodical ways.