Language Arts & Disciplines

The Language of Magazines:*shows how linguistic techniques such as puns and presuppositions are used by magazines to capture our attention*examines how image and text combine to produce meaning*discusses how ideological messages are conveyed*analyses how...

This book offers a 'how-to' guide to conducting research in discourse analysis. Organised around different approaches to discourse analysis and working with different types of discourse data, the book will help students answer questions such as: Which...

This report text explains the impact of global warming on four key habitats around the Earth, by considering the impact on animals. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence...

This textbook, first published in 2004, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, Andrew Radford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561938232Author Liu FuhuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156005692Author William F Buckley, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156006163Author William F. Buckley JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace International

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...

Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how...

"The study of television, still the most powerful of modern media, has long been fascinated by its capacity for 'liveness'. Marriott offers an insightful analysis of the complexities of this phenomenon, particularly its increasingly vital connection with...

This is a succinct introduction to the rapidly developing field of pragmatics - the study of language from the point of view of its users, of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction, and the effects...

Media Psychology examines the impact that 21st century media use has on human behavior, from teenage crushes on pop stars to soap fandom in adulthood. It brings together North American communication research with European media research in a variety of...

'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are...

English as spoken in the north of England has a rich social and cultural history; however it has often been neglected by historical linguists, whose research has focused largely on the development of 'Standard English'. In this groundbreaking,...

Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people's everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's...

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474447942Author Andreas JuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Designed to help those studying speech-language pathology, this highly useful workbook is both an introduction to the basic concepts and a teaching tool to develop and test students' knowledge. Frequently encountered communication disorders are included,...

This is a history of modern linguistics which focuses on the spread and dominance of linguistic theory originating in North America. It concentrates on the theories and influence of Bloomfield and Chomsky, and offers systematic coverage of their enormous...

The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119669142Author A Irwin–TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648510758Author Jordana BorensztajnFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Jordana BorensztajnPublisher Jordana BorensztajnWeight(grams) 45g

With all the bells and whistles, this intriguing guide to all those everyday phrases really is the bees knees for anyone with a love of the English language.Let's cut to the chase: cliches are a familiar part of the English language, but to be honest,...

This book focuses on the emotional complexity of language teaching and how the diverse emotions that teachers experience while teaching are shaped and function. The book is based on the premise that teaching is not just about the transmission of academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252093Author Brian RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983007869Author Diane WindinglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Small Talk Big ResultsPublisher Small Talk Big ResultsWeight(grams)...

Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore and Creativity is the first textbook dedicated to analyzing and appreciating sign language storytelling, poetry and humour. The authors assume no prior knowledge of sign language or literary studies,...

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into two...

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book places social and cultural dynamics at the centre of its evolution: language...

This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what makes an authorship analysis more or less reliable. Further to this, the author describes the recent...

Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used 'translation' as a metaphor to describe ethnography's processes of interpretation and cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and...

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be...

One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection...

This study is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. Traversing four millennia, Martin offers a chronicle of writing as a cultural system, a means of communication and a history of technologies. He...

Each book introduces students to exam formats and provides step-by-step guidance Useful tips are included to maximise their chances of excellingBook InformationISBN 9780582829107Author Peter LucantoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint LongmanPublisher...

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press' Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.High-Tech Trash analyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and...

The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism. In The Evolution of Pragmatism in India, Scott R. Stroud delivers a comprehensive exploration of the influence of John Dewey's pragmatism on Bhimrao Ambedkar,...

Many otherwise strong doctoral students get stuck at the dissertation stage, but this trusty guide takes students from the early planning phase to finishing the final draft. It contains straightforward advice for each stage of the dissertation process:...

Semantic Indexicality shows how a simple syntax can be combined with a propositional language at the level of logical analysis. It is the adoption of such a base language which has not been attempted before, and it is this which constitutes the...