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  • af Gillian Brown
    151,95 kr.

    Young women are vanishing and turning up dead weeks later. A serial killer is on the loose and a damn good one...he doesn't leave a clue behind...Heather has solved a lot of crimes but has never encountered anything like this. Her own dark past is brought to light as well as her own curse. She has enlisted the aid of a guardian angel throughout her career and now believes that he may know a lot more than he's letting on...in fact, he may not be an angel at all...but a devil that wants her soul.

  • - Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
    af Gillian Brown
    365,95 kr.

    Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.

  • af Gillian Brown, Karen L. Currie & Joanne Kenworthy
    523,95 - 1.787,95 kr.

  • - The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
    af Gillian Brown
    1.110,95 kr.

    What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. The theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America.

  • - A Study of the Phonology of Lumasaaba
    af Gillian Brown
    433,95 kr.

    Dr Brown examines the functions of different types of rules in the phonological component of a generative grammar with examples especially from Lumasaaba, a Bantu language of eastern Uganda.

  • af Gillian Brown
    691,95 - 1.855,95 kr.

    The main topic of this revised and updated edition is the comprehension of the spoken language. Subjects covered include the function of intonation and paralinguistic features, while revisions made include a new section on `pause' and how this interacts with rhythm,

  • af Gillian Brown & George Yule
    476,95 kr.

  • af Gillian Brown & George Yule
    676,95 kr.

    Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature of comprehension of short written texts; for the computational linguist, it is concerned with producing operational models of text-understanding within highly limited contexts. In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse, but base their own approach centrally on the discipline which, to varying degrees, is common to them all - linguistics. Using a methodology which has much in common with descriptive linguistics, they offer a lucid and wide-ranging account of how forms of language are used in communication. Their principal concern is to examine how any language produced by man, whether spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose in a context.