Language Arts & Disciplines

Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000407Author Ashley BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint Finders PublishingPublisher Finders PublishingWeight(grams) 734g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692286555Author Marie EagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Thoroughfare PublishingPublisher Thoroughfare PublishingWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771430425Author Frederick J ZornFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint CCB PublishingPublisher CCB PublishingWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

To be published in 30 volumes,Flora of North America represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S...

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to...

This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to the history of the English language (HEL), offering a fresh perspective on the process of language change. Aimed at undergraduate students, The Emergence and Development of English is accessibly...

Anita Pomerantz is one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis (CA), a field that has grown from a small and marginalized subfield into a significant, international, multidisciplinary field of inquiry. CA now enjoys widespread acceptance and...

Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Everyday Racism adopts a fresh approach to the study of racism. Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin identify the prevalence of sophisticated racism. They explore sophisticated and everyday...

Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the...

The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writing'The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of...

This updated fourth edition presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary guide to social media communication. Examining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube, the book analyzes social media's use in journalism, public...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9781563083914Author George Stephen Nestor LuckyjFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Libraries Unlimited IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Discourses in Place is essential reading for anyone with an interest in language and the way we communicate. Written by leaders in the field, this text argues that we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos...

In this fully updated Eighth Edition of Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, author James W. Neuliep provides a clear contextual model (visually depicted by a series of concentric circles) for examining communication within cultural,...

No other description available.About the AuthorMari Vargo holds an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University. She has authored numerous ELT textbooks and online educational materials for a wide range of audiences, including community colleges,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910945698Author Jorge MuhleFormat HardbackPage Count 20Imprint Futa FataPublisher Futa FataWeight(grams) 170g

When Alice's little brother falls ill, she is sent to live with her grandma. Feeling rejected by her family, it takes the friendship of an unusual boy named Charlie Fisher to teach Alice some lessons about what family and friendship really mean. Part of...

The formal sciences, particularly mathematics, have had a profound influence on the development of linguistics. This insightful overview looks at techniques that were introduced in the fields of mathematics, logic and philosophy during the twentieth...

This volume forms part of the Applied Linguistics and Language Study collection that looks at the field of analysing and appreciating literary texts. First published in 1975, this text makes a considerable contribution to extending our view of the...

Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and...

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities.A six-level course which offers a clear, structural syllabus, carefully paced progression, and lively child-centred activities.Book InformationISBN 9780194351010Author Cathy LawdayFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474431224Author Alina SchartnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Transforming Newsrooms offers a practical guide to navigating structural and culture change for news organizations facing economic disruption in today's rapidly changing media landscape. Even when the need for change is obvious, the best ideas and...

Applied Linguistics in Action: A Reader presents students with an applied linguistics framework for the analysis of real-world problems in which language is a central issue. The reader allows students to develop both the theoretical and empirical skills...

No company, organization, or individual whose livelihood depends on public reaction can afford to function without a crisis communications plan. This student workbook reviews the critical terminologies, processes, and skills needed for understanding and...

This book presents a series of illuminating studies which conclusively demonstrates that the prevailing conception of historical linguistics is deeply flawed. Most linguists today believe that there is no good evidence that the Indo-European family of...

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written...

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293521Author Dinty W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

The new, third, edition of this indispensable guide for speech pathology and therapy students is completely updated, applying the results of the most recent research into speech disorders. Phonetics for Speech Pathology introduces normative aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543170Author Jonathan BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Joe knows there is something strange going on in Moon City but he doesn't know what. Can he find out what is going on in the tunnels below Moon City?Book InformationISBN 9780435070960Author David ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint...

This book breaks new ground in its representation of the voices of people in a superdiverse city as they go about their everyday lives. Poetic, polyphonic, and compelling, it places the reader at the heart of the market hall, surrounded by the...

This is the inside story of a newspaper and nation over five decades. This birth, death and the rebirth of The Scottish Daily ExpressBook InformationISBN 9780946487486Author Jack CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Luath Press LtdPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937539224Author Cavett RobertFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tremendous Life BooksPublisher Tremendous Life BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial...

Fifty-six classroom activities requiring minimal preparation, ranging from shorter and less demanding to longer and more complex activities, culminating in a series of original dramatic sketches.This very popular series gives teachers practical advice...

The Level 4 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C help...

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both...