Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have you ever actually seen …
Rhetorical scholarship has found rich source material in the disciplines of advertising, communications research, and consumer behavior. Advertising, considered as a kind of …
This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks.Orthodox histories have presented a tunnel …
Traditional grammar instruction often focuses too much on what's right or what's wrong, hiding the true power of conventions-the creation of meaning, purpose, and effect. Instead …
How do young children bridge the gap between "e;writing"e; a story with pictures and writing with words? How children learn to use written words to tell a story is a topic …
Focusing on language and the assessment of its meaning, this volume concentrates on a method of content analysis developed by the author and Goldine Gleser. Applicable to …
This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA) languages. It utilizes a cognitive framework to analyse and compare the case markers of …
Published in 1976, Language, Memory, and thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology
In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "e;the difference between the almost-right word and the …
Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strmqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman …