Language Arts & Disciplines

Complete Gentlemen is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Ansell reconstructs dozens of encounters with continental...

"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.Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290070Author Dinty W. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113324Author June CasagrandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 179mm *...

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...

This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic...

Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men as much of the language and gender literature claims. Sara Mills discusses the complex relations between gender and politeness and argues that although...

In this Red-B-level Rat and Cat book: Cat creeps up and catches Rat while he is looking at a book. Rat says he will do a cool dance, so Cat lets him go. Rat puts on a 'dress' and a 'wig' and dances, but it is a trick! Part of the Bug Club reading series...

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns...

This textbook explores the ways in which language informs the structure and function of the human mind, offering a point of entry into the fascinating territory of cognitive science. Focusing mainly on syntactic issues, Language in Cognition is a unique...

The battle for freedom in Putin's Russia. Twelve Russians from across the country's social spectrum all have one thing in common: their participation in the historic March of the Dissidents. Held in 2007 to protest the eroding state of affairs in...

Translation Revision and Post-editing looks at the apparently dissolving boundary between correcting translations generated by human brains and those generated by machines. It presents new research on post-editing and revision in government and corporate...

This guide offers detailed advice on the journal article publication process, describing each step of the process and providing insights for improving the presentation of work intended for publication in communication journals. It includes advice from...

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. In...

Now in its fifth edition, this pioneering volume of Routledge's 'Key Guides' series offers clear explanations of key concepts, showing where they came from, what they are used for and why they provoke discussion or disagreement.The new edition is...

Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research. Government actions such as the priority given to reading in the review of the National Curriculum reflect current UK concern. Reading is an essential life...

This book makes available five classic studies of the organisation of behaviour in face-to-face interaction. It includes Adam Kendon's well-known study of gaze-direction in interaction, his study of greetings, of the interactional functions of facial...

FCE Gold Plus corresponds to level B2 of the Common European Framework and helps prepare students for the Cambridge ESOL First Certificate in English examination. The Teacher's Book includes: full teaching notes with answer key and audio script...

This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how...

This book tells us about plants that eat insects. Most insects use plants for their food, but some plants trap insects and use them for food. And one plant even eats frogs! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child...

When Jack sells his cow for a few beans, his mother is furious. But the beans grow into a magic beanstalk, and at the top Jack meets a hungry giant and a hen that lays golden eggs. Jack escapes with the hen, but the giant gives chase. Jack chops down the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615943671Author Mary L MercerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Mary L. MercerPublisher Mary L. MercerWeight(grams) 272g

This book contains one hundred typical mistakes relating to papers, proposals, oral presentations, and correspondence with editors (e.g. journal submissions), reviewers (rebuttal letters), and editing agencies.The book is primarily intended for...

This book examines transnational identities, integration and linguistic practices on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. Within the context of major historical events and migratory flows, the author considers the significance of the multicultural small...

This textbook proposes a theoretical approach to linguistics in relation to teaching English. Combining research with practical classroom strategies and activities, it aims to satisfy the needs of new and experienced TESOL practitioners, helping them to...

"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.Book InformationISBN 9780194790673Author O...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995639478Author Sarah ChevertonFormat PaperbackImprint Life is AmazingPublisher Life is Amazing

This books tells us surprising and startling facts about electricity. Find out just how shocking an electric shock can be, and why Benjamin Franklin flew a kite into a thundercloud! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your...

'A book celebrating a remarkably successful programme and rife with examples of valuable craft and life lessons' - Peter Ho Davies, The GuardianAn essential companion for young writers facing the long period of apprenticeship that lies ahead of them,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262530422Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 209g

Starting from the critical notion that we should be asking questions of contemporary importance - and that 'importance' itself must be defined - Anthony Pym sets about undoing many of the currently dominant models of translation history, positing, among...

Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames - what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing...

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544955Author Guglielmo CinqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This Dinosaur contains pictures and factual information about different types of dinosaurs. Clear headings are used to tell the reader what is being described on each page of the report. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735204492Author Jeffrey JacobiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books Canada LtdPublisher Penguin Books Canada LtdWeight(grams) 397g

Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remain undefined, with emphasis on syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese, especially as the Maltese inhabitants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814158470Author Mary E. StyslingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

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. When...