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"While covering typical pragmatics topics, this book presents a new view on pragmatics: integrative pragmatics. It is comprehensive in its coverage, yet incorporates state-of-the-art research. Examples and case studies throughout connect theory with data, and illuminate how pragmatics phenomena and concepts are realised or tempered in English"--

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This book provides a rhetorical criticism of the presidential powers used by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the War on Terror. A close reading of the documents used to exercise presidential powers reveals the ways in which both presidents expanded the personal power of the office.

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Examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. This work shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views.

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This book examines the relation of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints on Raising to object position to the surface structure syntactic results of that rule. The investigation is limited primarily to English constructions of four types and to verbs that embed clauses describing propositions.

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Introduces drama strategies for language teachers to maximise learners' engagement, retention and development of personal and social skills.

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Introduces drama strategies for language teachers to maximise learners' engagement, retention and development of personal and social skills.

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Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditional grammar instruction in its focus on structured input rather than learners' output. This book looks at the relative effectiveness of Processing Instruction on discourse-level linguistic ability.

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Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning. This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching.

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provides good answers to the expectations it title raisesthe book provides far more than just an approach for processing two tropes: the whole methods gives a way to distinguish diifferent tropes and literal language, to process meaning representations, and to resolve lexical ambiguity. Computational Linguistics

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Gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. For each of these professions, this book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.

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Gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. This book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.

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This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together insights into the processing of persuasive messages, attitude theory as viewed from a neural network model, and models of resistance to influence.

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Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heideggers early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies it to the question of language.

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This book is a guide for language researchers who are considering the adoption of a transdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to language research. It aims to provide a n overview of each of the most popular physiological methods today, along with their applications in research, and basic data collection procedures.

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Science and technology have starring roles in a wide range of genres--science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and more.

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Examines how the translation profession assesses and improves quality.

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"First published in 2008 by Continuum."--Title page verso.

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"First published in 2008 by Continuum."--Title page verso.

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Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

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Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

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A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate. -- .

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The book contains a discussion of such well-recognized fallacies as many questions, black-or-white questions, loaded questions, circular arguments, question-begging assertions and epithets, ad hominem and tu quoque arguments, ignoratio elenchi, and replying to a question with a question.