Language Arts & Disciplines

Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition "With its cornucopia of information, both thorough and practical, this book is a must for our methodology shelves. Its study questions and project suggestions will be a boon for many research methods...

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971633803Author Nat GertlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint About ComicsPublisher About ComicsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 213mm * 10mm

A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. Impossible Persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person,...

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understood...

We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is, in fact, full of gaps, because speakers and writers operate in contexts which allow bits of language to be...

This major textbook, setting new standards of clarity and comprehensiveness, will be welcomed by all serious students of first language acquisition. Written from a linguistic perspective, it provides detailed accounts of the development of children's...

'This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780698113541Author Ruth HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our...

In (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the...

Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity. By taking each of these three elements -...

The super-villain, Chiller, plans to freeze everyone to death. Can the agents come up with a plan to stop her? Book InformationISBN 9780435070793Author Diana BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education...

The colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connections between the subject and the verb! The English LearnBots are a great resource for dyslexic learners,...

This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language. English is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to master. Yet while the English language has a...

`Alertness to the changing terms of debate, familiarity with the latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in teaching make this collection a very worthwhile addition to course reading lists' - John Corner, University of Liverpool ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561920480Author Liu XunFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

Collins Practice Tests for the TOEFL iBT® Test contains all the advice and practice you need to succeed in the TOEFL iBT Test. Fully updated to match the new test from July 2023, this book includes: four complete TOEFL tests with a key, audio scripts...

With Tessa, a nature photographer, as our guide, this book explores how the animal kingdom uses colour. It has sections on using colour to avoid being eaten, to hide and to find a mate. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps...

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386228048Author Rohini BakshiFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut PublicationDimensions(mm) 230mm * 160mm *...

From writing emails to writing a thesis, CV or letter, this book will give you all the tools you need to improve your written English and make it more readable and interesting. In many situations you must be able to put your ideas across as clearly and...

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it...

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language...

Where did you see it-that perfect quotation from Foucault or Kristeva to use in your upcoming keynote address? Stop the search and pick up Arthur Berger's handy book of over 300 concise quotations from the vast literature in cultural theory. This...

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named "Nim Chimpsky" in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a...

So you've always dreamed of a career in publishing... but you don't know where to start or how? You're holding the key in your hands!Using insider information, How to Get A Job in Publishing is the newly revised edition of the classic text for you if you...

A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism,...

This new edition of The Newspapers Handbook presents an enlightening examination of an ever-evolving industry, engaging with key contemporary issues, including reporting in the digital age and ethical and legislative issues following the hacking scandal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989643266Author Bermuda Word HyplernFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bermuda WordPublisher Bermuda WordWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it...

Discourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in conversation. Dr Schiffrin's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, within linguistics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882514076Author Mary F HydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Greenleaf PressPublisher Greenleaf PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm *...

This clear and accessible text provides a complete introduction to basic linguistic terms and descriptions of language structures. The German Language Today describes in detail the main liguistic features of the language and the wide variety of speech...

This is the original English translation of the first Indian Muslim woman's experiences in the 'West'. Atiya Fyzee's (1877-1967), travelogue-cum-diary was published in an Urdu journal and then in 1922 as a book Zamana-i-Tahsil. The narrative is unique as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312243050Author Joan DetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981758411Author Marcia J BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Ketchhikan PressPublisher Ketchhikan PressWeight(grams) 526g

This volume highlights the integration of qualitative research methods into traditional journalism, offering new ways of expanding and enhancing news coverage. Designed for readers without prior experience in social science research, this collection...

The author examines who language teacher educators are in the field of language teaching and learning. This includes a description of the different types of language teacher educators working in a range of professional and institutional contexts, an...