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She seeks to analyze congressional hearings and debates on welfare to understand the role of language in framing welfare policy and contemporary welfare discussions.

She reviews welfare history in the United States and provides a rhetorical analysis of welfare deliberations.

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Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. It analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production and technological innovation and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

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Analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. This book demonstrates through a study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures.

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In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, this work demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. It shows that language is a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing.

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A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study

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A contribution to our understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on the past, and how the present may challenge the future. The papers include oral histories reflections given at the Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, 1996.

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A contribution to our understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on the past, and how the present may challenge the future. The papers include oral histories reflections given at the Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, 1996.

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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

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Gila Schauer's study of interlanguage pragmatic development in English is situated in the context of studying abroad.

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Examines the interlanguage pragmatic development of German learners of English at a British University. This book focuses on the learners' productive pragmatic development and their pragmatic awareness, which is compared with their grammatical awareness. It is suitable for researchers and those doing postgraduate studies in applied linguistics.

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Farese presents a comprehensive analysis of the most important Italian cultural keywords and cultural scripts, which reflect the salient aspects of Italian culture and society. This book illuminates ways in which the Italian language is related to Italians character, values, and way of thinking.

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Offers a showcase of the developments in Japanese applied linguistics, within discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. This book covers a wide range of issues and influential theoretical and methodological frameworks, many of which are of concern not only for Japanese specialists but also applied linguists in general.

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A companion volume to "Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction", this work introduces pragmatics, discourse, and language and culture in the Japanese context. It covers: Language in context; Japanese in conversation; Honorifics and politeness; Language and gender; and Young people's language.

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Offers a comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of linguistics and language studies courses. This book is suitable for students on linguistics, language studies and media and cultural studies courses who are engaging in discourse analysis.