Penelope Brown & Stephen C. Levinson 
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Some Universals in Language Usage

Arrows of Freethought by G. W. Foote is a seminal work in the realm of rationalism and secularism, offering a compelling critique of religious dogma and advocating for atheism. The book addresses the …

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essen …

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Accompanying continued industrial production and sales of artificial intelligence and expert systems is the risk that difficult and resistant theoretical problems and issues will be ignored. The part …

This book seeks to extend research on framing beyond linguistic and cognitive perspectives by examining framing in visual and multimodal texts and their impact on moral cognition and attitudes. Drawi …

First released in 2005, Ken Hyland”s Metadiscourse has become a canonical account of how language is used in written communication. ”Metadiscourse” is defined as the ways that writers reflect on t …

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