Language Arts & Disciplines

Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students learning to edit texts written by others, and professional translators wishing to improve their self-revision ability or learning to revise the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648850212Author Erica BlumenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Erica BlumenthalPublisher Erica BlumenthalWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730384724Author Wendy M. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams) 222g

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range...

Queen Norah thinks she knows everything that goes on in the castle. But she is wrong. In The Masked Cleaning Ladies Meet the Pirates, Princess Jane and the Masked Cleaning Ladies know what to do when pirates try to steal the royal treasures. TreeTops...

A History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.About the AuthorBarbara A. Fennell is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. She...

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Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate...

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Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature, including the realities of...

Over the past half century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years the number of academic institutions offering instruction in translation has risen along with an increased demand for...

Victor dreams of inventing something worthy of winning The Scariest Thing trophy. However, Victor's inventions aren't scary enough, unless you're afraid of cheese-flavoured sweets ... But this year Victor is dreaming up his scariest invention yet - a...

How language evolved has been called 'the hardest problem in science'. In "ADAM'S TONGUE", Derek Bickerton - long a leading authority in this field - shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as...

Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and electronic, in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, John Horgan shows...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Creative metaphor has been of central interest to the cognitive linguistic research community in recent years. However, little is known about what propels people to use metaphor in a creative way. In this Element, the authors identify and explore some of...

Collocations are word combinations that occur in natural speech more frequently than can be explained by chance. In English, we say, take a bath (or have a bath in British English), but in Japanese the equivalent is get in a bath, o-furo ni hairu. This...

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. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468310948Author John YorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm *...

Part of the Rigby Star Family, Rigby Star Guided is the number one choice for Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 guided reading.Book InformationISBN 9780433027874Author Monica HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint RigbyPublisher Pearson Education...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.A step-by-step grammar course for the new curriculumBook InformationISBN 9781408523971Author Wendy WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University...

An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing, showing his genius across a wide variety of genres. Selected by leading expert Peter Davison.Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 5 years to 5 years 6 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Starter Level 1B (equivalent to blue book band) Design supports readers with dyslexia Proven to...

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. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400069972Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913907280Author Learn Like A NativeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Learn Like A NativePublisher Publishink LTD

This workbook is designed to help non-native English speakers improve their knowledge and understanding of core banking and financial terminology. Self-study exercises and practical exercises for classroom use are included, making it easy to test your...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. These wordless stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters...

Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle's text into English as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788910794578Author Cristie PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Cristina DovanPublisher Cristina DovanWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

First published in 1993, this book provides clear illustrations of discourse analytic work and empirical critiques of the traditional psychological approaches. Drawing on a range of examples, the contributors argue that identity, deeply felt emotions,...

The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535135Author Alyse KnoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Boss Fight LLCPublisher Boss Fight LLC

Blaming the media for reproducing and extolling unrealistic female bodies has almost become a popular truism. Even medical opinion notes that the media can influence young women to starve themselves and therefore act as a possible causal factor of...

The spread of English as a global language has resulted in the emergence of a number of related fields of research within applied linguistics, including English as an International Language, English as a Lingua Franca, and World Englishes. Here, Heath...

Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral...

A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the...

Project X CODE is a book-by-book series built for SEN and struggling readers aged 6-11. Welcome to Micro World, invented by Macro Marvel - an amazing theme park where you have to shrink to get in! Disaster strikes when CODE, the computer that controls...

When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided...