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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set (2nd Ed.)
Elsevier Science | ISBN 0080442994 | 2 edition (December 27, 2005) | 12.000 pages | PDF | 165 Mb
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.
A Glossary of Literary Terms (7th Ed)
Cornell University | 1999 | ISBN: 015505452X | PDF | 384 pages | 7.28 MB
First published in 1957, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students.
A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin
University Of Minnesota | 232 Pages | 1994 | ISBN 0816622965 | PDF | 13 MB
A Dialogue of Voices was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota editions.
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (2nd Ed.)
Oxford University Press | 2010 | 400 pages | ISBN 0195374940| PDF | 1,3 mb
Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor.
Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
Llh | 605 Pages | 2004-07 | ISBN: 3110173743 | PDF | 31 MB
The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many iant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's two-domain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization.
Discourse and Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521834023 | 2006-07-24 | File type: PDF | 476 pages | 1.19 mb
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic.
Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom Series)
Routledge | 256 Pages | 2000-05-26 | ISBN-10: 0415174759 | PDF | 1 Mb
No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional ideas about reading or writing undisturbed.
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative [2nd ed.]
University of Toronto Press | 256 Pages | 1997-12-31 | ISBN 0802078060 | PDF OCR | 47 MB
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies.
