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The Language Parallax: Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy

By Paul Friedrich

Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory

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

Semantics: A New Outline

By Frank Robert Palmer

Conversation in Context: A Corpus-driven Approach

By Christoph Rühlemann

Vague Language Explored

By Joan Cutting

Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction

By David Lee

Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language

By Adele E. Goldberg

The Pragmatics of Politeness

By Geoffrey N. Leech

Illness as Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors

By Susan Sontag

A Pragmatist's Progress?: Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History

By John Pettegrew

Aristotle's Rhetoric: Volume 6 (Philosophical Traditions)

By Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg Oksenberg

Techniques of Description: Spoken and Written Discourse : a Festschrift for Malcolm Coulthard

By John McHardy Sinclair, Michael Hoey, Gwyneth Fox, Malcolm Coulthard

Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis

By Michael Hoey

Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer Assisted Studies of Language and Culture

By Michael Stubbs

Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography

By Sidney I. Landau

Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature

By Cristopher Nash

Semiotics and Interpretation

By Robert E. Scholes, Robert Scholes

Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character

By Eugene Garver

On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation (Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature)

By David Wood, Wood, David

Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction

By Kenneth J. Gergen

On Metaphor

By Sheldon Sacks

Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology

By Danny D. Steinberg, Leon A. Jakobovits

Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction

By Lesley Grant-Adamson

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

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

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning

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

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

By Paul Anthony Jones

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)

Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader

By Coffin, Caroline

Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem

By Theodore Sasson