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In honor of his eightieth birthday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on writing and the writing life, sharing his thoughts on such topics as the limits and attractions of nonfiction, the need for work habits, the pitfalls of early success, coping with bad reviews, and his fellow writers, i

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Focuses on Rome's practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics.

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Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political th

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"Creative writing professor Dinty W. Moore prescribes remedies for the most common stumbling blocks novelists and memoirists encounter when embarking on their writing project"--

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This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty.

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A thorough overview of work on discourse markers covering a variety of approaches, from discourse analysis to computational linguistics

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Offers a detailed overview of research on discourse markers covering different areas of linguistics: from a discourse analysis point of view, to a Relevance Theory perspective going through a computational linguistics approach. This book is of interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, grammar and discourse analysis.

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A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.

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A detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within a Chomksyan theoretical framework

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Organized around a series of propositions that range from the idea that nothing is translatable to the idea that everything is translatable, this book examines the vital role of translation studies in the "invention" of comparative literature as a discipline.

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Bridging the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as creative literary practice, this book aims at giving voice to silent translators and in so doing to move the attention back to the act of translating.

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Aims to bridge the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as distinctive creative literary practice.

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"At the juncture of translation theory and literary criticism, The Translator's Visibility reveals the radical notion of creativity behind the motif of translation in contemporary Latin American fiction, and explores the cultural and political implications of the unique relationship this gesture establishes between language and power"--

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More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

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'The Truth about Confident Presenting' is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking inaccessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

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Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace.