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The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750

By James A. Herrick

The Language Parallax: Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy

By Paul Friedrich

The Words We Use

By Robert Lord

All About Language: A Guide

By Barry J. Blake (La Trobe University)

The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of Evolution

By James R. Hurford (, University of Edinburgh)

Conversation

By Theodore Zeldin

Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics

By Paul Elbourne (Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London)

Writing Matters

By Peter Moss

Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader

By Coffin, Caroline

Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills

By John M. Swales, Christine Feak

What Did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts

By Anna Wierzbicka (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University)

Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask

By Paul Anthony Jones

Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem

By Theodore Sasson

I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again

By Beatrice Longuenesse (Silver Professor, Silver Professor, New York University)

Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making

By John Fox

Dictionary of XML Technologies and the Semantic Web

By Vladimir Geroimenko

Harbrace College Handbook

By John C. Hodges, Mary E. Whitten

Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

By Gunther Kress (Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark), Theo van Leeuwen (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning

By Alexis Burgess (Stanford University), Brett Sherman (University of Rochester)

Pragmatics: A Slim Guide

By Betty J. Birner (Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Northern Illinois University)

Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form

By Patrick Duffley (Full Professor of English Linguistics, Full Professor of English Linguistics, Universite Laval)

Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives: A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most

By Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Emeritus CNRS Researcher, Emeritus CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Universite de Paris), Ion Giurgea (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, 'Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest)

Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs

By David Sosa (Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities, Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin)

Bad Language

By Herman Cappelen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo/University of St Andrews), Josh Dever (Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)

The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis

By Guliz Gunes (University Lecturer, University Lecturer, Department of English Linguistics, University of Tubingen), Aniko Liptak (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)

Enriched Meanings: Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory

By Ash Asudeh (Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Director of the Center for Language Sciences, Professor, University of Rochester), Gianluca Giorgolo (Independent Scholar...

Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory

By Elaine J. Francis (Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Purdue University)

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning

By Elin McCready (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Aoyama Gakuin University)

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

By Alex Preminger, O. B. Hardison, Frank J. Warnke

Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction

By Lesley Grant-Adamson