Language Arts & Disciplines

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics.Each book in the series guides readers...

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have...

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series includes 40 of the best known stories from all over the world, which have been passed down for generations. They are a perfect introduction to different cultures, traditions and morals. All the stories are...

Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as...

This book is filled with fun physical challenges that you could try anywhere. There are eight body tricks and balances to try and the only equipment you will need is yourself and one piece of paper! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500...

Appreciated by thousands of thoughtful students, successful managers, and aspiring senior leaders around the world Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness skillfully integrates theory, research, and real-world case studies into models designed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847166081Author Stephen WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward PublishingWeight(grams) 244g

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as empathy, communication, fairness, openness and equality. The Age of...

For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression - but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative process, with practical drawing exercises throughout...

Offers the most up-to-date coverage of research methods and best practices in the study of second language acquisition, edited by two of the leading figures in the field Current Approaches in Second Language Acquisition Research provides an up-to-date...

Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation's legal compliance and have roles and responsibilities in both complying with the law and taking advantage of its provisions. To do...

First published in 1980 and now reissued for the first time as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, Language - The Loaded Weapon is at once an introduction to and a critique of everything we know, or think we know, about language. This classic text explains...

This book, first published in 1970, is the reissue of the sixth edition of C. T. Onions' standard introductory text-book, based on the principles and requirements of the Grammatical Society. The Introduction is designed to provide a full scheme of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595120260Author Elizabeth S HelfmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 13mm

This Element surveys transmissions of ancient Greek and Latin texts into anglophone literatures, often straddling boundaries between translational responsibility and adaptive, re-creative textual practices. Attention to manifestations of and reasons for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292391441Author Pearson EducationImprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 213mm * 10mm

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots and key...

This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field...

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. The discussion is framed within the philosophical and social beliefs that have forged the practices endemic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561948880Author Jiang LipingFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

Radical Construction Grammar presents a profound critique of syntactic theory and argumentation, and offers a genuinely new approach to syntax based on the fact of grammatical diversity. Recent syntactic theories are essentially formal models for the...

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594488481Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Douglas Robinson offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. The result is a startling panoply of...

Multimedia Storytelling for Digital Communicators in a Multiplatform World is a unique guide for all students who need to master visual communication through multiple media and platforms. Every communication field now requires students to be fluent in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734479966Author Matty DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint William Kingsfield PublishersPublisher William Kingsfield PublishersWeight(grams)...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 6 years 6 months to 6 years 11 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Stage 3 Level 3B (equivalent to orange book band) Design supports readers with...

This volume includes two general chapters; the first of these chapters suggests a new analysis of perfectivity in language, showing how the Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode perfectivity. The second deals with modality within the approach of...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947934016Author Charlie MechemFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Half Nelson EnterprisesPublisher Half Nelson EnterprisesWeight(grams)...

In The Foundations of Gentry Life, Peter Coss examines the formative years of the English gentry. In doing so, he explains their lasting characteristics during a long history as a social elite, including adaptability to change and openness to upward...

Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking research in applied linguistics. Godfroid's research synthesis and methodological guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986965722Author John C GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Gneiss PressPublisher Gneiss PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911481768Author Charles DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Foxton BooksPublisher Foxton Books

This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. To date, approaches to language shift have typically...

Q. Is it "happy medium" or "happy median"? My author writes: "We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme." Thanks! A. The idiom is "happy medium," but I like the...

Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into...

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey delivers a rigorous overview of the sound systems of varieties of English...