Semantics, Pragmatics, & Philosophy of Language
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“The most influential and seminal language book of the year” —William Safire
In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online andmobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones,multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis—are profoundlyinfluencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in theways we might suppose.
From ancient Greece to the modern era...
...the art of persuasion has been used, discussed, and debated for over twenty-four hundred years. Now the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric provides balanced coverage of classical rhetoric and the rhetorical turns in contemporary critical thought
Jewish tradition and biblical scholarship
Reflecting both contemporary biblical scholarship and the richness of Jewish tradition, The Jewish Study Bible provides an innovative one-volume resource specifically conceived readers of the Bible in mind.