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  Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know your Values and Frame the Debate

  The Essential Guide for Progressives

  by George Lakoff

  Don’t Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing’s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways... (more)
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  Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis (Corpus and Discourse)

  by Michael Hoey, John Sinclair, Wolfgang Teubert, Michael Stubbs

  Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right, but little attention has been given to the theoretical perspectives from which the subject can be approached. The present book contributes to filling this gap. Bringing together original contributions by internationally renowned authors, the chapters include coverage of the lexical priming theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of... (more)
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  The New Critical Idiom

  Discourse

  New Critical Idiom

  by Sara Mills

  This volume provides a broad analysis of the term "discourse" and a thorough examination of the many theoretical assumptions surrounding it. In the revised edition of this invaluable guidebook, Sara Mills: *examines the historical definitions and developments of discourse *analyzes Foucault's use of the term and its appropriation in the fields of linguistics, social psychology, and feminist, colonial and... (more)
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  Discourse And Identity

  by Bethan Benwell

  Across the social sciences and humanities, "identity" is increasingly treated as something actively and publicly created through discourse. This book examines everyday conversation, institutional settings, narrative, spatial locations, and other situations where people do "identity work." The authors demonstrate a range of analytical methods to study this discursive identity and link them to larger critical... (more)
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  Textual Analysis: A Beginner's Guide

  by Alan McKee

  Text covers textual analysis, a methodology for researchers who are interested in the ways in which people make sense of the world. Uses examples from advertising, films, novels, comic books, television, and videos to provide students with a workable understanding of what textual analysis is, why it matters, and how to do it. Softcover, hardcover available.
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  Brooks & Warren Modern Rhetoric Shorter Edition

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  Discourse and Cognition

  by Derek Edwards

  The central project of Discourse and Cognition is a wholesale reappraisal of psychological concepts of human action, mental states, language and social interactions. Derek Edwards reviews a wide range of thought and research to demonstrate how the dominant cognitive approach to psychology has failed. He makes a compelling case for language to be best understood as a kind of activity, as discourse. The... (more)
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  The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses

  by John S. Dryzek

  The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek analyzes the various approaches which have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades, and which are likely to be influential in the future. These perspectives range from faith in unlimited economic growth to... (more)
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  Exploring Media Discourse (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

  by Myra Macdonald

  The volume explores how a concept of discourse can be usefully applied to the analysis of visual as well as verbal texts. Drawing on case studies from American and British media, it re-examines the relationship between discourse and ideology, demonstrating how both interrelate and contribute to media analysis.
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  Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction

  by David Lee

  Cognitive linguistics is a relatively new theory of language that challenges many of the basic assumptions of traditional approaches. Drawing on his long-standing interest in the relationship between language and perspective, Lee here sets out to make the theory accessible to readers who have no prior training in the discipline.
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  Conditionals (Bradford Books)

  by Nicholas Rescher

  This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This approach, argues Rescher, makes it easier to understand how... (more)
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  Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology (Representation and Mind)

  by Terry Horgan

  The authors of Austere Realism describe and defend a provocative ontological- cum -semantic position, asserting that the right ontology is minimal or austere, in that it excludes numerous commonsense posits, and that statements employing such posits are nonetheless true, when truth is understood to be semantic correctness under contextually operative semantic standards. Terence Horgan and Matjaž Potrč argue... (more)
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  On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

  by Hollis Frampton

  As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and produce films and... (more)
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  Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes

  by Elizabeth M. Losh

  Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns target citizens with messages from the government—even as officials make news with digital gaffes involving embarrassing e-mails, instant messages, and videos. In Virtualpolitik, ... (more)
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  Między wierszami

  by Janusz L. Wiśniewski & Małgorzata Domagalik

  Małgorzata Domagalik i Janusz L. Wiśniewski znów zaczynają elektroniczną korespondencję. On w pierwszym liście pisze: będę cytował dane, zarzucał Cię faktami, odwoływał się do nauki, powątpiewał w Twoje dane, albo przyjmował je z zachwytem. Egoistycznie będę "wysysał" z Ciebie wszystko, czego nie wiem. Bo ja uwielbiam wiedzieć. Może nawet bardziej niż Ty. Ona zaś proponuje, by tym razem było więcej o miłości. I... (more)
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  Amusing Ourselves to Death

  Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

  by Neil Postman

  Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death ... (more)
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  Turing (A Novel about Computation)

  by Christos H. Papadimitriou

  Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computer executive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist,... (more)
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  The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

  by Michel Foucault

  "Next to Sartre's Search for a Method and in direct opposition to it, Foucault's work is the most noteworthy effort at a theory of history in the last 50 years." -- Library Journal
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  Mappings in Thought and Language

  by Gilles Fauconnier

  Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This book reveals the creativity that underlies our effortless use of language in everyday life, when we engage in conversation, understand humor, or solve puzzles. The capacities and principles that we develop from infancy... (more)
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  Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

  by Gunther R. Kress

  Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages: "design thinking" and "production thinking," the kind of thinking which occurs in direct interaction with the materials and media used. This book will be a key text in courses of language,... (more)