Media : Writing and Language Arts

Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, Goatly provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations. more...

Price: $49.95

The standard thesaurus has been redesigned to include all of the key features of a thesaurus in a more compact version. Despite its compact size it contains more than 150,000 synonyms, is in a convenient alphabetical format and has extensive cross-referencing. more...

Price: $12.00

Investigating how changes to the world's media have affected, and been affected by, language this book explores a wide range of topics looking at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes on the world - and our world-view. more...

Price: $39.95

There is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prize winning columnist William Safire. For many people, the first item on the agenda for Sunday morning is to sit down and read Safire's 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine, then to compose a 'Gotcha' letter to the Times. Each of his books on language is a classic, to be read, re-read and fought over. more...

Price: $11.99

English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and comprehensive dictionary comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their meanings. All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. Concise definitions of the wider subject of linguistics, including phonetics and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar. more...

Price: $16.00