Business and Technical Writing, 6th Edition

By: Jeffrey Jablonski Business and Technical Writing takes a rhetorical approach that emphasizes writing in context and aims to move students through a continuum of writing experiences ranging from less contextualized workplace simulations to more situated, more authentic, client-based projects.   Business and Technical Writing develops multiple literacies, including rhetorical...
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Straight Talk About Communication Research Methods, 3rd Edition

By: Christine S Davis, Kenneth A Lachlan Researchers are like detectives. Both are trying to find something out. Both are asking and answering questions. Both are trying to put together a puzzle to come up with a solution. In both, answering questions leads to more questions. And, in...
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

By Noam Chomsky The fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark work in generative grammar that continues to be influential, with a new preface by the author. Noam Chomsky’s Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical...
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The Morpheme: A Theoretical Introduction

by David Embick This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology. Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their phonological form post-syntactically, through the operation of Vocabulary Insertion. In addition to looking closely at syncretism, the primary...
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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation

by Carlos Gussenhoven Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments and morphemes, and intonation gives utterances a further discoursal meaning that is independent of the meanings...
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I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science

by Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth style Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss give a crystal-clear demonstration of the application of the scientific method in linguistic theory. Their presentation of the research programme inspired and led by...
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X-ray Architecture (2019)

2019 | ISBN: 3037784431 | English | 200 Pages | PDF | 11.5 MB How our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture. It...
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