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  • GOVERNING INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
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    GOVERNING INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
    JOHN PARTINGTON / BARRIE STACEY / ALAN TURLAND
    Governors are a valuable but under-used asset to independent schools. Under the day-to-day pressures of running schools, they are too often sidelined, yet are frequently called to account by parents and the media when things go wrong. Both new and experienced governors of independent schools will welcome this lively and informative handbook, originally published in 1998, which ...

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  • THE LINGUISTICS OF LAUGHTER
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    THE LINGUISTICS OF LAUGHTER
    ALAN PARTINGTON
    The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter. In particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and stra...

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  • THE LINGUISTICS OF POLITICAL ARGUMENT
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    THE LINGUISTICS OF POLITICAL ARGUMENT
    ALAN PARTINGTON
    This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are discussed from the Kosovo crisis to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.This work is highly o...

    $1,460.00

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  • LEXICAL PRIMING
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    LEXICAL PRIMING
    ALAN PARTINGTON / EUGENIA DIEGOLI
    This pioneering volume builds on Prof. Michael Hoey’s seminal work on Lexical Priming (LP) theory by applying it to specific varieties of Japanese, alongside English, as a first step in corroborating and expanding the validity of LP theory. The book sets the scene by surveying LP research on specific discourse-types, inspired by Hoey in 2005, and by elucidating the ways in whic...

    $1,240.00

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  • THE LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION IN POLITICS AND THE MEDIA
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    THE LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION IN POLITICS AND THE MEDIA
    ALAN PARTINGTON
    This bestselling introductory textbook examines the relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they employ. Now fully revised with new material on delegitimisation, ‘fake news’, disinformation, (self-)censorship, ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘Zombie’ narratives, key topics include: Evaluation, the ‘engine’ of persuasion ‘Spin’, ‘spin control’ a...

    $1,160.00

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