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Textual Explorations eBook Series

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  • Language and Characterisation

    People in Plays and Other Texts

    by Jonathan Culpeper ...
    Series series Textual Explorations
    Textual Explorations General Editors-Mick Short, Lancaster UniversityElena Semino, Lancaster UniversityThe focus of this series is on the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, and the theoretical issues which such work raises. Textual Explorations will include books that cover studies of literary authors, genres and other groupings, stylistic studies of non-literary texts, ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

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  • Impoliteness

    Using Language to Cause Offence

    by Jonathan Culpeper ...
    Series Book 28 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social psychology, Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. He ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

  • The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes

    Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

    by Michael Parsons ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique.In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes, Michael Parsons explores the tension of this paradox. As they respond to it and struggle to sustain creatively, analysts discover their individual identities. The work of outstanding clinicians ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

  • Belief and Imagination

    Explorations in Psychoanalysis

    by Ronald Britton ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

  • Donald Winnicott Today

    Edited by Jan Abram ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    What in Winnicott’s theoretical matrix was truly revolutionary for psychoanalysis?In this book, the editor and contributors provide a rare in-depth analysis of his original work, and highlight the specifics of his contribution to the concept of early psychic development which revolutionised the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Including re-publications of selected Winnicott papers to set the ... Read more

    $89.93 CAD

  • Metaphor

    by L. David Ritchie ...
    Series series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
    'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of semanticists, pragmatists, discourse analysts and also those working at the interface of language and literature and in other disciplines such as philosophy and psychology. This book provides a summary, critique ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Meaning and Relevance

    by Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber ...
    When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts ... Read more

    $56.87 CAD

  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $58.04 CAD

  • Performance and Cognition

    Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

    Edited by Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors ... Read more

    $99.78 CAD

  • Teaching Grammar, Structure and Meaning

    Exploring theory and practice for post-16 English Language teachers

    by Marcello Giovanelli ...
    Series series National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)
    Teaching Grammar, Structure and Meaning introduces teachers to some basic ideas from the increasingly popular field of cognitive linguistics as a way of explaining and teaching key grammatical concepts. Particularly suitable for those teaching post-16 English Language, this book offers a methodology for teaching key aspects of linguistic form and an extensive set of learning activities. Written by ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • Erotic Transference and Countertransference

    Clinical practice in psychotherapy

    Edited by David Mann ...
    Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their ... Read more

    $65.29 CAD

  • Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition

    Interpretation and Other Psychoanalytic Issues

    by Lesley Caldwell ...
    Series series The Winnicott Studies Monograph Series
    This book focuses on two themes: the first theme is the true self and the resonance of Winnicott's thinking with the contributions of other major psychoanalysts of the past half century; the second theme emerges from the first: the pursuit of authenticity, whether by patient or analyst. ... Read more

    $68.98 CAD