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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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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 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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Explores the epistemological, experiential and political implications that follow when words are lifted out of language and discursive meaning.

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Explores the epistemological, experiential and political implications that follow when words are lifted out of language and discursive meaning.

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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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This book offers the first full account of Continental contributions to the philosophy of language. It includes coverage of a range of key figures including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot and Kristeva and is designed to engage advanced students with a range of literary references and case studies.

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This book offers the first full account of Continental contributions to the philosophy of language. It includes coverage of a range of key figures including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot and Kristeva and is designed to engage advanced students with a range of literary references and case 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 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.

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

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Aims to present an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced through analyses of spoken, written and visual texts that focus on truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Illustrates the enormous potential which corpus-based work has for German Studies as a whole. The topics covered include areas as diverse as literary studies, translation studies, language learning applications, specialist registers, descriptive and critical linguistics, spoken language, historical linguistics, and corpus construction.

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