Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561938980Author Liu FuhuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it function? Answering these questions and more, An Introduction to Conversation...

When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to...

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...

Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. How times have changed! In America and, indeed, most of the English-speaking world, "guy"...

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...

In Bug Buzz!, find out about an animal that has six legs, armour, and can look around without turning its head! Discover the weird and wonderful things that make insects so amazing. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage...

"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 the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf- Pack has a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425815240Author Jodene SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Published at a time of unprecedented growth of interest in translation, the Dictionary of Translation Studies aims to present the insights of a number of different approaches to translation in an unbiased, non-partisan way. With more than 300 articles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063276444Author C s LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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. From...

Cat creeps up and catches Rat while he is watching TV. Rat suggests they jump on the bed, so Cat lets him go. Rat then does 'flips' from the chest of drawers onto the bed. When Cat flips onto the bed, he catapults Rat out of the window and safely into a...

This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how...

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, Coulson identifies two related sets of processes: frame-shifting...

Some of the world's strangest theatres and most spectacular productions feature in this child-friendly guide to the world of drama. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction...

Genre: Mystery story Learning Objectives: Language Comprehension Strand 8: Explain their reactions to the text, commenting on important aspects. Writing Opportunities Strand 9: Sustain form in narrative, including use of person and time (e.g. writing an...

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Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M. Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. Children acquire meaningful lexical items...

This book also comes as part of a pack with audio CDs: ISBN 9781406680195 Talk Japanese (Book) has already inspired thousands of people to learn Japanese from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go. Whether you're learning for business, travel...

An Introduction to Court Interpreting has been carefully designed to be comprehensive, accessible and globally applicable. Starting with the history of the profession and covering the key topics from the role of the interpreter in the judiciary setting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578631707Author Fred BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Society of Professional Journalists FoundationPublisher Society of Professional...

This book addresses the issue of valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value and featuring a range of collections including fine art, archives, science and photography. Practical advice is given on how to assign...

This book is intended for Prizes won etc.Book InformationISBN 9780198380481Author Jenny AcklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 204mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312609344Author Regina BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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. ...

Since it was first published, LIS students and professionals everywhere have relied on Miller's authoritative manual for clear instruction on the real-world practice of metadata design and creation. Now the author has given his text a top-to-bottom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473445263Author Gerrard CusackFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint GED CusackPublisher GED CusackWeight(grams) 152g

On Writing Short Stories, Second Edition, explores the art and craft of writing short fiction by bringing together nine original essays by professional writers and thirty-three examples of short fiction. The first section features original essays by...

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447100465Author Takamitsu MuraokaFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 170mm *...

"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.When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally...

Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects...

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. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399174209Author Pamela Des BarresFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

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. As...

80 pages of extra practice - one for each lesson in the Student's Book. The practice pages include grammar tables, writing exercises, practise and learn boxes, and review sections after every four lessons.One page - one lesson - one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375726217Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904421092Author Violet BrandFormat PaperbackImprint BrandBooksPublisher BrandBooks