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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends
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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among FriendsConversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others.

 
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Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition)
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Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition)

The theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of 20th-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that Welby is the ""founding mother"" of semiotics.

 
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Reference (Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics)
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Reference (Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics)

This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries. She begins by examining the basic issue of how far reference is a two place (words-world) or a three place (speakers-words-world) relation.

 
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Daytime Dating: Never Sleep Alone
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Daytime Dating: Never Sleep AloneDaytime Dating: Never Sleep Alone

Daytime Dating by Soul is a tried and tested 3-part system you can use to meet, attract and date any of the gorgeous women you just happen to see during your day-to-day life. At your local cafe, on the way home... or even "that" cute girl from work. Here's the simple truth. Meeting women during the day can be much easier than at bars or clubs.
 
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Meaning, Discourse and Society
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Meaning, Discourse and SocietyMeaning, Discourse and Society

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences.

 
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