Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement “”Steampunk”” persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its modeling of attire …
. Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form It has turn out to be an axiom in comedian research that “”comics is a language, not a style.”” . However what precisely does that imply, and how is discourse on the type each aided and hindered by pondering of it in linguistic phrases?. In …
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language (Oxford Quick Reference) The Concise Companion to the English Language is a language lover’s dream. Tom McArthur unveils a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. He covers a variety of topics, from Abbreviations to split infinitives, and includes …
The Tenses, the Aspects, and the Voices of the English Language: Abridged Edition 1.4 The Tenses, the Aspects and the Voices of the English Language: Abridged Edition 1.4 explains the contrast between the tenses and the aspects; expounds the difference between the active voice and the passive voice; elucidates the types of verbs, i.e. the …