Language Arts & Disciplines

Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.About the AuthorIain ChambersBook InformationISBN...

This book describes some of the unusual pets that children have. On each page useful information is given about a particular pet, followed by its correct name. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading...

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms any undergraduate or graduate student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics and English language or in other degrees involving linguistics, such...

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...

Science communication is a rapidly expanding area, and a key component of many final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Authored by a highly regarded chemist and science communicator, this textbook pulls together all aspects of science...

Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes is a clear and accessible guide to the theoretical background and practical tools needed for this early stage of curriculum development in ESP. Beginning with definitions of needs analysis and...

The philosophy of the artist-teacher is not a new phenomenon. In fact, many artists working within the Bauhaus, nineteenth century Schools of Design, and The Basic Design Movement all applied this method of thinking to their teaching. Artist Teacher...

This study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. After setting the scene in a short introduction, it examines the development of Kanda-Jinbocho, the area...

The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the Handbook begins...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample...

This book sets out a new reconstruction for the Semitic case system. It is based on a detailed analysis of the expression of grammatical roles and relations in the attested Semitic languages and, for the first time, brings typological methods to bear in...

A guide that offers a step-by-step process to data-driven qualitative multimodal discourse analysis Systematically Working with Multimodal Data is a hands-on guide that is theoretically grounded and offers a step-by-step process to clearly show how to do...

This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day, charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the way we spell today. While good spelling is seen as socially and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561467525Author Dean Wesley SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Wmg PublishingPublisher Wmg PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Television continues to play a major role in the lives of most children and adolescents, but current research also reflects the explosive growth in new technologies and their widespread use by young people. Integrating information from communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535128Author Daniel LisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Boss Fight LLCPublisher Boss Fight LLC

The K-Wave On-Screen provides an engaging and accessible exploration of the meaning of 'K-' through the lens of words and objects in K-dramas and K-films. Once a small subculture known only to South Korea's East Asian neighbours, the Korean Wave has...

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...

The Workbook provides extra language and vocabulary practice that supports the units of the Student's Book making it ideal for homework. This version comes with the key. READING/LISTENING - All Workbook and some Student's Book texts are read aloud on...

Quantitative Methods in Linguistics offers a practical introduction to statistics and quantitative analysis with data sets drawn from the field and coverage of phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and syntax, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936740147Author Arthur PlotnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva Editions

Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper-and for decades Kate L. Turabian's Student's Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago has...

The focus of this volume is on how the people of the Korean Peninsula-historically an important part of the Sinocentric world in East Asia and today a vital economic and strategic site-have negotiated oral and written interactions with their Asian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732120600Author Deanne WelshFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Unstoppable Writers PublishingPublisher Unstoppable Writers PublishingWeight(grams)...

This text is a comprehensive introduction for all professionals working with bilingual children. For speech therapists, doctors, psychologists, counsellors, teachers, special needs personnel, the book addresses important issues at a practical level.About...

Translation and Multimodality: Beyond Words is one of the first books to explore how translation needs to be redefined and reconfigured in contexts where multiple modes of communication, such as writing, images, gesture, and music, occur simultaneously...

This book investigates how forensic scientists find very small clues that are almost invisible to the rest of us, and use them to help to solve crimes. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency...

This book is a pragmatic, case-rich guide to how current and future public relations practitioners can apply ethical principles and the industry's codes of ethics to their day-to-day work. Authors Trevor Morris and Simon Goldsworthy draw on their years...

Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations is an "all-in-one" handbook that covers the areas of scientific communication that a student, researcher, or scientist needs to know and to master in order to successfully...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This volume offers an exhaustive look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728431697Author Brian P ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lerner Publications (Tm)Publisher Lerner Publications (Tm)Weight(grams)...

Two appendixes from Nabokov's famous edition of Eugene Onegin: his study of versification in English and Russian poetry, and his "term paper" on Pushkin's Ethiopian ancestor. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

Designed for students, this detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more traditional grammarians. Theory is placed firmly in the service of description and analysis, and...

What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the...

People often mean more than they say. Grammar on its own is typically insufficient for determining the full meaning of an utterance; the assumption that the discourse is coherent or 'makes sense' has an important role to play in determining meaning as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399514906Author Rod R. ButterwothFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and...

A spiral-bound, interleaved book which gives you a page of notes per lesson, and 80 photocopiable activities - that's one for every lesson. With this book, you also get a CD-ROM of adaptable tests. Either customize them to your own...

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets, and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkable...

Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots; in the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent. Through the study of the Greek and Latin roots of English, students can expand their knowledge of...