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• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1978), by Michael Riffaterre (HTML with commentary at Indiana)
• Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary Multilevel Modeling (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007), ed. by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, and Don Dedrick (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
• In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, by Genevieve Vaughan (illustrated HTML at for-giving.com)

• Developments in Linguistics and Semiotics, Language Teaching and Learning, Communication Across Cultures (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1987), ed. by Simon P. X. Battestini (PDF at Georgetown)

• Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1981; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1982), ed. by Deborah Tannen (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)

• Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)

• International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (c2012), ed. by Charles Bazerman, Christopher Dean, Jessica Singer Early, Karen J. Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)

• Academic Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum (2000-2003) (full serial archives)

• Strategies of Discourse Comprehension (New York: Academic Press, 1983), by Teun A. van Dijk and Walter Kintsch (PDF at discourses.org)

• Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, and Susanne Hucklenbroich-Ley (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities (c1991), ed. by Charles Bazerman and James G. Paradis (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Prejudice in Discourse: An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Ideology and Discourse: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (ca. 2007), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse (London and New York: Longman, c1977), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• An Applied Linguistic Approach To Discourse Analysis (1973), by H. G. Widdowson (PDF files in the UK)
• News Analysis: Case Studies of International and National News in the Press (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• News as Discourse (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010), by Anita Naciscione (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Paromita Sanyal and Vijayendra Rao (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2020), by Matthew Clark and James Phelan (PDF and Epub at Ohio State)
• Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play (text-only version; c2008), by Drew Davidson
  • PDF with commentary at CMU
  • PDF with commentary at Figshare

• Agreement Beyond Phi (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #75; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Shigeru Miyagawa (PDF at dropbox.com)

• Writing Selves, Writing Societies: Research From Activity Perspectives (2003), ed. by Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Rhetoric of Literate Action (v1 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Theory of Literate Action (v2 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum (fourth edition, c2006), by Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward A Taxonomy of "Small" Genres and Writing Techniques for Writing Across the Curriculum (c2011), ed. by Richard E. Young (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by M. B. Iampolskii, trans. by Harsha Ram (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternal Authority (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Richard L. Regosin (HTML at UC Press)

• Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse (London and New York: Longman, c1977), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)
• What is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1903), by Victoria Welby
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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