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Richard Toye Society's attitudes to rhetoric are often very negative. Here, Richard Toye provides an engaging, historically informed introduction to rhetoric, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Wide-ranging in its scope... | David Crystal Words, Words, Words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. It invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell... |
Quintilian; D. A. Russell A new edition of The Orator's Education. | Quintilian; D. A. Russell; D. A.... Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In "The Orator's Education" ("Institutio Oratoria"), a comprehensive training program in twelve books... |
Quintilian; D. A. Russell; D. A.... A new edition of The Orator's Education. | Quintilian; D. A. Russell A new edition of The Orator's Education. |
Quintilian; D. A. Russell A new edition of The Orator's Education. | Simon Sebag Montefiore This gripping CD provides genuine historical recordings of 20 of the most significant speeches of the 20th century, each introduced by acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore |
Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers A collection of essays that explores the myths of mass culture. It deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life, unmasking the hidden ideologies and... | Roland Barthes The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. This book revives beyond... |
Daniel Everett Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found... | Ken Hyland; Brian Paltridge; Ken Hyland The definitive state-of-the art resource to discourse analysis, providing a guide for advanced students and researchers in the field. > |
Andrew Delahunty; Sheila Dignen An absorbing dictionary that clearly explains the meanings of references and allusions that are likely to be encountered in modern English. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Corpus... | Galer, Raul; What is a false friend? Though the English word "actual" is spelled the same as "actual" in Spanish, the two words mean very different things. (In Spanish it means... |
John Bowden Providing examples, tips and hints for confidence, this wedding speech guide is written exclusively for the father of the bride. It covers being sober and sensitive; saying it with humour;... | David Foster Wallace; Steven M. Cahn;... Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in "Infinite Jest," Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. This volume... |