Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423248040Author Rachel Berg SchererPage Count 6Imprint Quickstudy Reference GuidesPublisher Quickstudy Reference GuidesWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998517735Author Erika KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Ek Publishing, LLCPublisher Ek Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference to things in the world. This textbook provides a...

What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of...

This pack contains 6 copies of one workbook, suitable for teachers to use in the classroom with a group of children. These can be used alongside: Level 2 Stories. Books are also available in class packs of 30 and as well as packs of 6.Ideal for...

The definitive guide to the field of language policy, rich with examples Explores a theory of language policy starting with the individual speaker rather than the nation Draws on a range of examples and case studies including examples of threatened...

With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method-and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques-liberated generations of students and teachers...

Shakespeare's English: A Practical Linguistic Guide provides students with a solid grounding for understanding the language of Shakespeare and its place within the development of English. With a prime focus on Shakespeare and his works, Keith Johnson...

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to 'look back' on past events. Much of the work on embodied metaphor to date has...

Conjunctions and Interjections in Modern Standard Arabic is a grammar for Modern Standard Arabic introducing conjunctions and interjections from the most basic to the most advanced, with drills for each grammatical point. Skill in the use of conjunctions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766101541Author Chester Francis-JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 100g

'Is there one who understands me?' So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would 'keep the professors...

In this highly relevant work, Dr. Michael Hameleers illuminates the role of traditional and social media in shaping the political consequences of populism and disinformation in a mediatized era characterized by post-factual relativism and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802360066Author Robert FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

Our journey to language begins before birth, as babies in the womb hear clearly enough to distinguish their mother's voice. Canvassing a broad span of experimental and theoretical approaches, this book introduces new ways of looking at language...

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. Cool...

Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as knowledge-in-the-making rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights. Analysing the theoretical...

Trish Hall's essential new work on writing well is a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. Hall has spent years immersed in argument, passion and trend-setting ideas-but also in tangled sentences,...

Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 6 years 6 months to 6 years 11 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Stage 3 Level 3B (equivalent to orange book band) Design supports readers with...

About half the world's population knows and uses two or more languages in everyday life, and an increasing number of parents are raising their children bilingual. This makes a resource on what it means to become and be bilingual all the more necessary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736213506Author B Rain BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Flying Flounder PublishingPublisher Flying Flounder PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395073004Author Rukmini S.Format HardbackPage Count 348Imprint ContextPublisher Westland Publications Limited

This unique Russian-language textbook draws on printed mass media, especially up-to-date Internet media sources, to introduce intermediate and advanced students to varied aspects of modern Russian life. Presenting fascinating material on armed conflicts,...

This book focuses on the varieties of Birmingham and the industrial heartland of the Black Country. This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial...

Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582970622Author E MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea...

"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.The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it...

Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of speakers: about ten million in Haiti and two million in diaspora communities in North American, France, and the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the French overseas...

Speech is the most effective medium humans use to exchange and transmit knowledge, ideas and experiences. It exists physiologically as neural and muscular activity, and subsequent articulatory, acoustic and auditory events, and as an abstract,...

This is a lively and exciting resource which includes writing frames, grammar and vocabulary development and language practice exercises. Each Workbook is closely linked to the Students' Books and so provides opportunities for students to gain a deeper...

This is a comprehensive guide for the millions of professional artists working today who seek financial support. This is a comprehensive guide to finding the funds and writing winning grants for the millions of professional artists working today who seek...

What is information? Who are the information rich and who are the information poor? How can there be equality of access for users in the light of the political, economic and cultural pressures that are placed upon information creators, gatherers and...

Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as...

We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject and verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the ways in which these elements can combine to resonate with...

Follow one of the first women network news producers as she climbs the career ladder right through the headlines of American history and inspires us all to speak up for our ourselves and fight for our own success. From Cuba to Vietnam and to Tiananmen...

As we rely increasingly on digital resources, and libraries discard large parts of their older collections, what is our responsibility to preserve 'old books' for the future? David McKitterick's lively and wide-ranging study explores how old books have...

This is the eleventh volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's Collected Works. Taken together, they have shown the sizeable international interest across a number of disciplines in the systemic functional linguistics framework. It is applicable to all...

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we...