Language Arts & Disciplines

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by...

This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they are used to communicate identity, both corporate and individual. The book provides a detailed approach to...

Reflecting the remarkable changes in the world of propaganda due to the increasing use of social media, this updated Seventh Edition provides a systematic introduction to the increasingly complex world of propaganda. Viewing propaganda as a form of...

Book History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circulation and reception of the book in all its forms, it has transformed the study of history, literature and...

Discover the power of (finally) getting unstuck, claiming your clarity, and becoming the person whose life you want to live-all through a simple self-care practice you can build into your daily routine. For anyone who's trying to make sense of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219890Author Linda Adler-KassnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

Vocabulary is now well recognized as an important focus in language teaching and learning. Now in its third edition, this book provides an engaging, authoritative guide to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in another language. It contains...

An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from...

The Level 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B offer a predictable...

Since its first publication in 1962, Gimson's Pronunciation of English has been the essential reference book for anyone studying or teaching the pronunciation of English.This eighth edition has been updated to describe General British (GB) as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996987127Author Diane LockwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Terrapin BooksPublisher Terrapin BooksWeight(grams) 386g

The mechanism of speech is a very complex one and in order to undertake any analysis of language it is important to understand the processes that go to make up the message that a speaker transmits and a listener receives. Professor Fry therefore first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

All students have to write essays and writing the essay itself is a learning experience yet many are never taught how to compose an essay. The act of writing the essay is a learning experience in itself; it develop's the student's thinking ability and...

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gardenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics...

Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the...

Turn detective and investigate a range of theories about what happened to one of the world's most fascinating civilizations: the Maya. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction...

`This book is worth reading for a number of reasons. It is the first introductory work of critical audience research that suggests how we can study the connection of media consumption in general with every day life, and it also goes beyond its...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542072Author James R. HagertyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993129667Author Cassandra FarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Welford PublishingPublisher Welford PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will be accessible to all students with an elementary...

What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature and ourselves? In this historical and developmental account, David Olson offers a new perspective on this process. Reversing the traditional assumption about...

How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language? This concise and accessible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Ant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087868554Author J ThornFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

This book offers unique insight into the role that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) discourse plays in shaping the ideological terrain of contemporary Israel/Palestine through constructing the subjectivities of those who plan, teach, and learn it. ...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996190367Author William H ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Storyinliteraryfiction.comPublisher Storyinliteraryfiction.comWeight(grams)...

The Language of Humour:* examines the importance of the social context for humour* explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy and stand-up comedy* includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive...

Understanding reading abilities and their development is fundamental for language comprehension and human cognition. Now in its second edition, this book draws on research from multiple disciplines to explain reading abilities in both L1 and L2, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345397584Author Larry BeinhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...

The aftermath of graduate school can be particularly trying for those under pressure to publish their dissertations. Written with good cheer and jammed with information, this lively guide offers hard-to-find practical advice on successfully turning a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692173374Author Jennifer JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Blue Lake PublishingPublisher Blue Lake PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440496882Author Dinesh VermaFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

This completely new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky surveys Chomsky's contributions to the science of language, to socioeconomic-political analysis and criticism, and to the study of the human mind. The first section focuses on the aims of...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634629416Author Nana FifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Technics Publications LLCPublisher Technics Publications LLC

A helpful, engaging guide to the revision of scholarly writing by an editor and award-winning author "Pamela Haag has been called 'the tenure whisperer' for good reason. Any scholar who hopes to attract a wider audience of readers will benefit from the...