This book explores and describes the process of interpretive journalism and how it is properly done. It will be of practical value to journalism students as well as practicing journalists who want to expand their artistic horizons. ...

Take the mystery out of selling your ideas to magazine, newspapers, and web sites by reading this book. It explains who hires writers, what editors want from freelancers, how much you can expect to be paid, how you can write effective query and pitch letters, and how the Internet can help your writing career take off. ...

A leading intellectual historian explores some of the reigning assumptions and imperatives of our age. By looking closely at what "words do and perform", Martin Jay makes us aware of the extent to which the language we use mediates and shapes our experience. Elegantly written and richly insightful, this is a work of cultural criticism and intellectual analysis of the first order. ...

A student introduction to descriptive linguistics, "Describing Language" is essentially practical in its orientation. It is useful for anyone who wishes to refer to technical literature involving linguistic description, who requires a basic conceptual framework and technical vocabulary with which to discuss language, and who needs to make elementary but principled descriptions and analyses of real data (such as classroom interaction or ...

Did you know that to tantalize recalls how Greek mythology's Tantalus was tortured by the food and drink just beyond his grasp? If someone goes berserk, he is emulating the Viking warriors of Norse myth - fabled for reckless bravery that bordered on madness? The phenomenon known as an echo takes its name from a nymph of Greek legend, cursed to repeat whatever was spoken to her? In this lively, meticulously researched book, linguist and literary ...

Our Miniature Editions "TM" collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when our first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library! ...

Through Sebeok's work it may come to be recognized that sign activity is the very definition of life in the universe. ...

Discourse Analysis is an ideal textbook for students taking a first course in linguistic approaches to discourse. It presupposes no previous coursework in linguistics. It is designed to encourage students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended heuristic, a set of techniques for systematically studying every possible source of the meaning of a sequence of speech or writing. Chapters cover the complex relationships between discourse ...

Whether you are a novice writer, or an immediate journalism student; in a freshmen English class; writing a speech, a technical report, advertising copy, or promotional or publicity material; beginning a magazine article or book; or working on any other writing project, you need to face the demands of that blank computer screen. You need to not only fill the blank screen, you need to begin your project effectively, introducing your subject to ...

I HAVE THIS NIFTY IDEA...Now what do I do with it?This book contains outlines for science fiction and fantasy novels which real authors (new and old) used to sell their books to major publishing companies . . . actual examples drawn from authors' files, not idealized versions prepared just for a textbook.Whether you're a beginning writer looking to break into novels, an experienced professional seeking new tools and techniques to sell books, or a ...