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Titolo |
The power of words : unveiling the speaker and writer's hidden craft / / David Kaufer ... [et al.] ; foreword by Todd Oakley |
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Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Semantics |
English language - Spoken English |
English language - Written English |
Written communication |
Oral communication |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Words and their Potency for Priming Audiences; I: Preliminaries; 1 Priming Audience and Practices of Literacy; 2 Cataloging English Strings for Their Priming Potencies: A Report of a Research Study; 3 Methods for Selecting and Cataloging Strings; 4 The Catalog Hierarchy; 5 The Hierarchy in Relation to Previous Scholarship; II: Results; 6 Cluster 1: Internal Perspectives; 7 Cluster 2: Relational Perspectives, Part I; 8 Cluster 2: Relational Perspectives, Part II |
9 Cluster 3: External PerspectivesIII: Implications and Applications of Rhetorical Priming Theory; 10 Using Priming Strings to Analyze Corpora of Texts; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that ""the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter."" We recognize differences between a politician who is ""willful"" and one who is ""willing"" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recognize that being ""held up"" evokes different experiences depending upon whether its direct object |
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