Language Arts & Disciplines

During David Woodlands 19 years service with the Metropolitan Police, the thin blue line came under intense pressure. In addition to the routine caseload of gang crime, murder and armed robbery, Irish terrorist groups launched a vicious and prolonged...

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...

Helping teachers move beyond fluency as measured by speed alone, this book focuses on building the skills that students need to read accurately, meaningfully, and expressively--the essential components of reading comprehension. Each concise chapter...

INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the...

MOTOR SPEECH DISORDERS: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, 2E offers a detailed, yet streamlined introduction to motor speech disorders. The book opens with a brief historical review of motor speech disorders, providing useful context for understanding the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736990452Author Shirley JumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Jumpstart Creative SolutionsPublisher Jumpstart Creative SolutionsWeight(grams)...

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 *...

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its...

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...

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 *...

Essential Vietnamese Grammar is designed for use by English-speakers to help them speak and write Vietnamese more naturally.The twelve chapters in this book cover the essential sentence constructions of Vietnamese—from beginning to intermediate and...

Second language (L2) fluency is an exciting and fast-moving field of research, with clear practical applications in language teaching. This book provides a lively overview of the current advances in the field of L2 fluency, and connects the theory to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989120286Author Jason MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Jason MillerPublisher Jason MillerWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the...

Written for students, graduates and academics from the disciplines of film, media and related subjects, and for those from other disciplines who want to break into the media, this book is a virtual career coach and an employability course all in one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425813017Author Timothy RasinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Now in its 8th edition, Broadcast Journalism continues to be an essential text on the production of news broadcasting and the practical skills needed.It includes not only basic techniques and classic examples for the production of radio and TV news, but...

This book is intended primarily for undergraduate students of English, though it will also be useful for undergraduates in linguistics focusing on English. It shows how a restricted set of principles can account for a wide range of the phenomena of...

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...

How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a...

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. Acceptability...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective. Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter introduces a topic in...

Within the European context, linguistic diversity can be studied at the level of both official state languages and non-national languages. This comprehensive overview offers insightful crossnational and crosscontinental perspectives on non-national...

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, this book combines his original research with an...

Drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives, including cultural studies, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, political economy and sociology, Journalism, Culture and Society examines journalism as a democratic necessity that often fails to...

Cecil Wooten has produced the first translation into any modern langauage of a key treatise of the ancient world. He provides a faithful English translation of Hermogenes' analysis based on a reliable Greek text established by Rabe at the beginning of...

Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry--including profound financial instability and public distrust--is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences. This raises important questions: How do journalists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621065265Author Danny CaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer a preliminary view of what would become The Theory of Communicative...

This volume begins with the general assumption that suspense is a major criterion for both an audience's selection and evaluation of entertaining media offerings. This assumption is supported not only by the popularity of suspenseful narratives, but also...

Some of us may believe that interpersonal communication is a matter of common sense or that skillful communication is an innate ability that you either have or you don't. In this text, Denise Solomon and Jennifer Theiss demonstrate that interpersonal...

Focusing specifically on the stories of the Han Chinese (the largest ethnic group in China, numbering over a billion people), this collection presents more than 50 tales, both well known and obscure-from Monkeys Fishing the Moon and The Butterfly Lovers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474488136Author Thiago Costa ChaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Grounded in theoretical principle, Media Effects and Society help students make the connection between mass media and the impact it has on society as a whole. The text also explores how the relationship individuals have with media is created, therefore...

This accessible and practical book provides educational managers with an understanding of both managerial and teacher wellbeing, along with a set of practical strategies which they can use to support the wellbeing of teachers in their school. It draws...

An updated edition of the perfect do-it-yourself memoir that helps you record and preserve the experiences and knowledge of a lifetime for years to come.Divided into Early, Middle, and Later Years, this keepsake volume contains 201 questions that guide...