Language Arts & Disciplines

Have you ever noticed an accent or puzzled over a dialect phrase? Language can be a powerful tool with which one can create a persona; it can be a common ground between people or can be used as a divide between social groups. This Companion is for anyone...

The easy way to learn the Japanese HIRAGANA and KATAKANA alphabets!This is the perfect workbook to use when learning to write Japanese Hiragana and Katakana, the two phonetic alphabets that all learners of Japanese need to know. It features a complete...

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734923421Author Salt & Sage BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Salt & Sage BooksPublisher Salt & Sage BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announcers. The results of its deliberations were published for general consumption in a series of pamphlets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438163Author Christian StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate...

This is a 1995 edition of Dr Stubbings' Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge ABC, first published by the author in 1991. This edition was revised, enlarged and adorned with a selection of illustrations. The book aims to explain the many special...

The broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural contexts of humour. The material used in illustration is of corresponding breadth: schoolyard...

The Navigate A2 Workbook gives additional review and practice of language and skills covered in the Coursebook. It comes with its own CD to accompany listening exercises and pronunciation work.Based on academic research on how adults best learn languages...

This is the most comprehensive and current introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Presupposing only minimal background in linguistics, the book introduces the basic concepts and principles of phonological analysis and then systematically...

An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usageStellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and common errors. Frank Cioffi emphasizes how formal written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471431688Author Lee GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Do you know the story of Cinderella? Ella's step sister Druscilla tells the story as you've never heard it before in Sister Ella. It isn't all Ella's fault, but the ugly sisters aren't to blame either and Ella is desperate to marry a prince TreeTops...

"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 a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the...

Genre: Modern realistic story. Simple sentence structure. Learning Objectives: Word Recognition Strand 5: Read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently. Language Comprehension Strand 8: Use language to imagine and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565912281Author Chungsook KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Hollym International Corp.,U.S.Publisher Hollym International Corp.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The first-ever guide to native-Japanese words that sound the same but are written with different characters, often with subtly different meanings. The KODANSHA KANJI USAGE GUIDE enables learners to deepen their understanding of how script is used in...

This book provides detailed studies in one of the fastest growing areas of linguistics - corpus analysis - and shows how computers can be used to reveal culturally significant patterns of language use.About the AuthorMichael Stubbs is Professor of...

This is the essential guide to research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and language studies. The "Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics" is designed to be the essential...

What is involved in the act of creative writing? How do renowned authors such as Robert Pinsky, Iain Banks and Philip Pullman write? Proving that there is no single way of writing creatively, Inside Creative Writing features original interviews with...

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent...

The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473430603Author Edwin McRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Narrative LimitedPublisher Narrative LimitedWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Peter Newmark's third book is an attempt to deepen and extend his views on translation. He goes easy on theories and models and diagrams and offers a few correlative statements to assist translators in finding a variety of options and in making their...

Modern library services can be incredibly complex. Much more so than their forebears, modern librarians must grapple daily with questions of how best to implement innovative new services, while also maintaining and updating the old. The efforts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of British Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9781592402038Author Lynne TrussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams)...

The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters reflecting new research from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook pushes at the boundaries of existing...

Providing an ideal introduction to historical semantics, this book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics and English Language an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989854245Author Charity Singleton CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint T. S. Poetry PressPublisher T. S. Poetry PressWeight(grams)...

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...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

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...

Skills in English is a lively, stimulating full-colour resource designed to develop the skills that students need to improve their performance in English and enable them to achieve their full potential at Key Stage 3 and beyond. Skills in English offers...

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...

The Indexing Companion, first published in 2007, gives an overview of indexing for professional indexers, editors, authors, librarians and others who may be called upon to write, contribute to, edit or commission an index. It covers basic principles as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913720001Author Gareth RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Cambridge Learning HousePublisher Cambridge Learning HouseWeight(grams)...

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 book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original...