Author: Roger D. Sell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: pragmatics, literary
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $77.50
ISBN-10: 0415056012
ISBN-13: 9780415056014

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity. This has now radically changed. "Pragmatics" could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and its users. This volume seeks to reposition the literary text at the centre of that study. The internationally renowned contributors draw together two main streams. On the one hand, there are concerns which are close to the syntax and semantics of mainstream linguistics, and on the other, there are concerns rang

Author: Roger D. Sell
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: september, compostela, pragmatics, amp, new, santiago, icehl, syntax, historical, morphology, selected, papers, english
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2000-12-04
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9027247315
ISBN-13: 9789027247315

This volume is a companion to "Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000", that also contains papers from this conference. The two volumes together offer a representative sample of the contributions presented at the conference, including some of those delivered during the workshop on historical word formation. The papers, which have been selected for presentation and publication, relfect the various concerns of English historical linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century and the different methodologies applied to address

Authors:Roger D. Sell, Peter Verdonk,
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Keywords: literature, history, studies, linguistics, poetics, new, interdisciplinarity
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 1994-01
List price: $111.00
ISBN-10: 9051835973
ISBN-13: 9789051835977

In recent years there has been an increasing realization that language and literature are, so to speak, socioculturally consubstantial. Accordingly literary scholars and linguists now often define their interests in sociohistorical terms, and the ’lang.-lit.’ divide is giving way to shared concerns which are interdisciplinary between the three poles: poetics, linguistics, society. To illustrate and consolidate this new interdisciplinarity, the editors of this volume have collected a number of articles specially written by an international team of scholars, including figures of th

Authors:Roger D. Sell, Anthony W. Johnson, Anthony W. Johnso
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: england, religion, writing
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754662780
ISBN-13: 9780754662785

The fruit of intensive collaboration among leading international specialists on the literature, religion and culture of early modern England, this volume examines the relationship between writing and religion in England from 1558, the year of the Elizabethan Settlement, up until the Act of Toleration of 1689. Throughout these studies, religious writing is broadly taken as being ’communicational’ in the etymological sense: that is, as a medium which played a significant role in the creation or consolidation of communities. Some texts shaped or reinforced one particular kind of relig

Authors:Alan P. F. Sell, Alan P. F. Sell, David J. Hall, Ian
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: protestant, texts, nonconformist, century, eighteenth
Number of Pages: 459
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0754638537
ISBN-13: 9780754638537

This book is one of four substantial volumes designed to demonstrate the range of interests of the several Protestant Nonconformist traditions from the time of their Separatist harbingers to the end of the twentieth century. In this volume we are concerned with the eighteenth century. It was a period in which Old Dissent - the Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Quakers - had to face challenges from Enlightenment thought on the one hand and Evangelical Revival enthusiasm on the other. Largely in their own words, though with introductions contributed by the editors, we enter into th

Author: C.S. Sell
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Keywords: chemistry, terpenoid, introduction, fragrant
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2003-11-06
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 085404681X
ISBN-13: 9780854046812

Terpenoids play an important part in all our lives, from Vitamin A and hormones to perfumes and pharmaceuticals. This book provides an introduction to terpenoid chemistry, concentrating on the lower terpenoids, but the basic principles taught are also the foundation for the chemistry of the higher terpenoids. Coverage includes: the biogenesis of terpenoids; some of the history of the field; the principles of structural determination; and the importance of stereochemistry and stereoselective synthesis. Carbocation chemistry is introduced, as are the principles of total and partial synthesis. Fi

Author: Scott P. Sell
Publisher: The Guilford Pre
Keywords: family, guilford, therapy, series, guide, based, tough, adolescent, treating
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1593850999
ISBN-13: 9781593850999

This book illuminates the causes of severe adolescent behavioral problems and presents a research-based, 15-step model for helping families bring about meaningful change. Incorporating structural and strategic principles, the author’s cohesive approach focuses on setting clear rules and consequences; changing the mood and direction of confrontations; neutralizing such problem behaviors as disrespect, truancy, running away, violence, and threats of suicide; and restoring positive, nurturing family relationships. Special treatment issues covered include adolescent substance abuse and manag