Language Arts & Disciplines

Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces the analysis of language structure, combining both description and theory...

Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time. Culled chiefly from great...

'Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.'With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only...

The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375006Author John William ByersFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A guide to ebook publishing on a budget which takes the reader gently through every stage of the self-publishing process: from copy editing and proofing to the simplest, most robust, free ebook formatting method and on to sales, social media and...

The Potters and Captain Kev love life on the high seas. One day a ship is sighted full of pirates. They are not as nice as Kev and try to take various things. Dad shows them the pirate code so they have to fight to sort things out. The family outwit the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824813727Author Alberta Pualani HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940468839Author Ellen KFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint White Cloud PressPublisher White Cloud PressWeight(grams) 109g

A timely and incisive exploration of disinformation and its impact in the Global South In Disinformation in the Global South, media and communications scholars Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales deliver a unique and geographically diverse...

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the actual tools and methods have been largely passed on through 'word of mouth', rather than...

This is a comprehensive linguistic description of Kunbarlang (Gunbalang), a highly endangered polysynthetic language of northern Australia. Kunbarlang belongs to the non-Pama-Nyungan Gunwinyguan language family and is currently spoken by nearly 40 people...

Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore how gender and sexuality are represented and constructed through language. Drawing on international research, Sauntson incorporates...

Providing a detailed guide to editing multi-authored publications such as a collection of papers, a special issue of a journal or an academic blog, this must-read book canvases the benefits and challenges of undertaking editorial work.This compact book...

'Cognitive Grammar' is a theory of language which has been developing since the late 1970's. Underlying the theory is the assumption that language is inherently symbolic in nature and that a language provides its speakers with a set of resources for...

How to Write a BA Thesis is the only book that directly addresses the needs of undergraduate students writing a major paper. This book offers step-by-step advice on how to move from early ideas to finished paper. It covers choosing a topic, selecting an...

Great Animal Gallery takes the reader on a journey around an art gallery to discover how artists have depicted animals throughout the centuries. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944370015Author Jay a ArtaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Birds of a Feather PressPublisher Birds of a Feather PressWeight(grams)...

The centering of whiteness in English Language Teaching (ELT) renders the industry callous, corrupt and cruel; or, antisocial. Using the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder as a rhetorical device, this book examines major issues with...

This is a comprehensive study of the Jewish and Muslim dialect networks of Morocco in its traditional boundaries, covering twenty-two Muslim and some thirty Jewish dialects of Moroccan Arabic.Book InformationISBN 9780415567787Author Jeffrey HeathFormat...

The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting provides a comprehensive survey of the field of interpreting for a global readership. The handbook includes an introduction and twenty-seven chapters by contributors who are experts involved in the interpreting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985719Author Benjamin DreyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Imagine a records management (RM) future where the user community collectively describes the value and properties of a record using the wisdom of the crowd; where records retention, description and purpose are determined by their users, within general...

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of...

In this book, Ghil'ad Zuckermann introduces revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization, and reinvigoration. Applying lessons from the Hebrew revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political...

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. Game...

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ()-which alternately...

Daisy and Zac meet for the first time. At first, they are a little shy and each tries to interest the other in a game - Daisy wants to play with her cat, Zac wants to play with his toy cars. Finally, they find a hiding place and play with the cars, and...

Proposing a novel theory of parts of speech, this book discusses categorization from a methodological and theoretical point a view. It draws on discoveries and insights from a number of approaches - typology, cognitive grammar, notional approaches, and...

This book is about boys and girls who go to a ballet school. It describes the 5 basic positions and emphasises the hard work, dedication and strength needed to be a ballet dancer. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your...

There are 6 books at Level 4: Book 19 'Revise and Blend' Book 20 'Revise and Blend' Book 21 practises 'ay, oy, ea, ie' Book 22 practises 'ow, ew, ew, ou' Book 23 practises 'ir, aw, eer, are' Book 24 practises 'ce, ea, o, ed' Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928048220Author Douglas SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Douglas SmithPublisher Douglas SmithWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262513036Author Richard K. LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

This text outlines the ways in which contemporary trends - political, social and economic - give rise to public debates about policies concerned with culture. A range of theoretical issues are explored and three key arenas of contested regulation are...

New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve...

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986134715Author Linda S ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Ubiquitous PressPublisher Ubiquitous PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technical introduction to the physiological processes involved in producing sounds in human speech. Traces the path of the speech production system through to the point where simple vocal sounds are...

A second collection of the cutest baby animals, all from unusual species which young readers will enjoy discovering for the very first time.Book InformationISBN 9781913339227Author Loll KirbyPage Count 24Imprint Owlet PressPublisher Owlet Press