Language Arts & Disciplines

In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing...

This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining practical strategies with scholarly...

This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.About the AuthorMichael Stubbs is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier in Germany. He was...

30-day crash course to successful writing Do You Have What it Takes? Open the pages of this no-nonsense training guide to becoming the writer you’re meant to be and prepare to be pushed to the max. You’ll write more words in a day than you ever thought...

In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two decades. Ham draws on recent advances in communication research to unveil a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911481584Author Lewis CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Foxton BooksPublisher Foxton Books

Choices Behind Human Communication The Interpersonal Communication Book approaches the subject of communication through integrative theory, research, and hands-on methods. A threefold approach identifies important communicative concepts: choices in...

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 controlling...

Can established humanities methods coexist with computational thinking? It is one of the major questions in humanities research today, as scholars increasingly adopt sophisticated data science for their work. James E. Dobson explores the opportunities...

This book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal. Crucial concepts from the theory of argumentation are systematically discussed and explained with the help of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991389452Author C S LakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ubiquitous PressPublisher Ubiquitous PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955051033Author Joy Eggerichs ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Punchline AgencyPublisher Punchline AgencyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Most people are called upon to make a speech or toast at some point in their lives. This book will help the inexperienced speaker to stand up with confidence, and deliver a really effective speech or toast that is appropriate for the occasion. It also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101856Author Jack LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 427g

This collection of myths - some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing - illustrate the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People. Interspersed with drawings by Georgina Beier of Yoruba motifs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628265Author Michael ErardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltan Koevecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases...

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical...

Studying printed books as physical objects can reveal not only how books were produced, but also how their design and layout features emerged and came to convey meanings. This concise and accessible introduction to analytical bibliography in its...

Zoe has never let being in a wheelchair stop her from doing what she wants. But when her family moves to northern Canada, life in her new home town gives her unforeseen challenges in the form of snow and a pack of wild dogs. Part of the Bug Club reading...

The hero Odysseus will need all of his skill and courage to get home to Ithaca in The Journey of Odysseus. All kinds of monsters and magical creatures are lurking in the seas and islands on his way, including the one-eyed Cyclops, the Sirens and the...

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of...

This lively and accessible book is the first sustained account of feminist stylistics. Mills explores such issues as sexism, political correctness, reader positioning and meaning, opening up the study of style to feminist inquiry.About the AuthorSara...

A thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons Rodney Huddleston concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. The book is written for students who may have no...

This book takes a hard look at some of the assumptions that are customarily made concerning the role of age in second language acquisition. The evidence and arguments the contributors present run counter to the notion that an early start in second...

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Taking as their starting point the idea that citizens need to be briefed...

This research-led textbook investigates the use of new technologies for language learning, linking theory to practice. The book synthesises previous technology use (including Computer Assisted Language Learning) theory and research, and describes...

Forensic Linguistics is an introduction to the fascinating interface between language and the law. Provides an integrated and fully theorized understanding of language and law issues.Contains many helpful examples from genuine legal contexts and texts...

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical linguistics has been successful in using the comparative method, the...

Teaching and Learning English in the Early Years offers teachers an extensive repertoire of creative ideas and techniques to work with in the classroom. The A-Z format provides a memorable and easily-referenced manual for teachers, with a large variety...

Exploring the relationship between the writer and what he/she happens to be writing, this text by one of the foremost scholars in the field of literacy and cognition is a unique and original examination of writing--as a craft and as a cognitive activity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781338315Author Teena LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644506820Author Letitia WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Accomplishing Innovation PressPublisher Accomplishing Innovation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991167487Author Arlene MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bigwords101Publisher Bigwords101Weight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

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 of...

Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to...

The Audience Studies Reader brings together key writings exploring questions of reception and interpretation, reprinting forgotten pieces and combining key essays with new research. Beginning with a general introduction to the Reader, each extract is...

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 9780618380411Author Richard CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735204638Author Mimi GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall PressWeight(grams) 187g