Language Arts & Disciplines

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A 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 all your favourite characters with some...

This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of pragmatics: the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming no prior knowledge, Siobhan Chapman surveys the development of pragmatics from...

This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom...

This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs. Building on the concept of the pluriversal, Perry explores how literacy education can support multiple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692582626Author Darrin DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Shamrock New Media, Inc.Publisher Shamrock New Media, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Translation Studies is currently one of the fastest growing interdisciplinary subjects in the world. Constructing Cultures brings together for the first time the work of the two translator/scholars who are regarded as founders of this major field of...

Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve intercultural problems. Each chapter exemplifies the everyday intercultural through ethnographic narratives in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506698Author David Karena-HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

"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 Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891289364Author Diane P WormsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495881Author Frank UpwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 35g

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...

Though it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Written to address the vague and problematic advice given...

When originally published in 1986, this book was the first to survey intonation in all its aspects, both in English and universally. In this updated edition, while the basic descriptive facts of the form and use of intonation are presented in the British...

Linguistics and Law offers a clear and concise introduction to making sense of the law through linguistics. Drawing on lexical semantics, syntax, and pragmatics to interpret both written and spoken laws, this book: addresses how to interpret legal...

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...

English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based.This Language Workbook:* Examines how speech-sounds map onto each other* Explores the extent to which words sound identical or look identical* Analyzes...

The Digital Archives Handbook provides archivists a roadmap to create and care for digital archives. Written by archival experts and practitioners, Purcell brings together theoretical and practical approaches to creating, managing, and preserving digital...

Psycholinguistics is an authoritative, wide-ranging and up-to-date A to Z guide to this important field. Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, this book is a highly accessible introduction to the main terms and concepts...

Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image and the interaction between the two, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437236Author Stan TenenFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A 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 all your favourite characters with some...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634022354Author Bill HonigFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Ann Arbor Publishers IncPublisher Ann Arbor Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate...

This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a...

A professional introduction to the end-to-end process of digital filmmaking!The EDCF Guide to Digital Cinema Production sheds light on the ongoing and confusing transition from analog to digital technology in film production. In addition to a complete...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here, two of the world's leading pioneers in humor studies, Alleen and Don Nilsen, explore how humor can be...

Aimed principally at the undergraduate student, this exciting new textbook provides a compact presentation of the fundamental concepts of phonology.About the AuthorAndrew Spencer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the...

Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition informs their communication habits, practices, and norms.This edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737020752Author David E SaharFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint David SaharPublisher David SaharWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

When we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning but also its function and the circumstances under which it should be used in preference to words of similar meaning. Standard dictionaries do not address such matters, treating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578809Author Dinty W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Semantics is a bridge discipline between linguistics and philosophy; but linguistics student are rarely able to reach that bridge, let alone cross it to inspect and assess the activity on the other side. Professor Kempson's textbook seeks particularly to...

The Political Communication Reader gathers together key writings in a unique one-volume resource. The selected texts are grouped into thematic sections, each introduced by the editors, covering such areas as:the exercise of power, media and democracythe...

No other description available.About the AuthorSue Kay studied at Birmingham University, unaware that it would later be the home of the prestigious Bank of English and one of the first places to carry out corpus-based research into the English language...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set: 08 Non-fiction Title: Transport Today Focus: Adjacent consonants and long vowel sounds Tricky Words: of we have to today there are some the by when were...