Language Arts & Disciplines

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators and...

The Potters are a very ordinary family - except for their obsession with tidying - until they meet Captain Kev, a pirate. Captain Kev's parrot is sick. The family offer to help him and Captain Kev and his parrot move in. Soon the Potter family become...

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...

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 volume introduces the field of child language development studies, and presents hypotheses in an accessible, largely non-technical language, aiming to demonstrate the relationship between these hypotheses and interpretations of data. It makes the...

Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's ""Odyssey"" and Euripedes' ""Medea"". More recently, a number of science fiction and fantasy works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the internet has brought these...

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

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...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634629416Author Nana FifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Technics Publications LLCPublisher Technics Publications LLC

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)...

It comes as a surprise to many that the elemental human impulse to tell stories, far from being the exclusive realm of children's bedtime, long-forgotten civilizations and remote cultures, is also a burgeoning creative art form here, now, in twenty-first...

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...

First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition incorporates an extensive new chapter reappraising the original research and discussing other sociolinguistic work...

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 9781737020752Author David E SaharFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint David SaharPublisher David SaharWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and global reach of celebrity politics today. Celebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have had a profound impact upon the practice of politics and the...

The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it...

Written by some of the most distinguished literary translators working in English today, these essays offer new and uncommon insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating...

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...

With its proven methodology, Headway is the course you can always trust. The strong grammar focus, clear vocabulary syllabus and integrated skills work give you lessons that really work in class. Constant updates mean the material is always current, and...

There have always been tales about people who change their shape to become animals and plants. Shapeshifters is a collection of seven stories from around the world which share the theme of shapeshifting. Captivating versions of some of the best myths...

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on speech and writing. Written in a clear, user-friendly style, it combines practical activities...

Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425813048Author Timothy RasinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425813055Author Timothy RasinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains...

Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator...

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to construct contexts, how to draw inferences and how to identify...

This book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West...

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...

Happy uses different kinds of learning strategies to match children's changing development and learning styles. Start the learning journey in the reassuring setting of Happy House. Introduce children to reading and writing English in the wider world of...

It is now well-established that the long-time economic model on which the news industry has relied is no longer sustainable. Facebook, Google, and declining levels of popular trust in the media have been major contributors to this situation...

This book explores the world of comets: what they are, how they are formed and how people have reacted to them throughout the centuries. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence...

When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198380535Author Jenny AcklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 117g

Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Library and Information Professionals is a simple, jargon-free guide to using data for decision making in library services. The book walks readers step-by-step through each stage of implementing, reviewing...