Language Arts & Disciplines

This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South...

In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2019 Leonard Bloomfield Award Winner (Linguistic Society of America) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780262035323Author Charles YangFormat HardbackPage Count...

The first comprehensive guide to research methods and technologies in psycholinguistics and the neurobiology of language Bringing together contributions from a distinguished group of researchers and practitioners, editors Annette M. B. de Groot and Peter...

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of...

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim...

A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the multiple ways in which 'politics' and 'translation' interact. Divided into four sections with thirty-three chapters written by a roster...

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 controlling...

Rigby Rocket offers a wide range of engaging stories and non-fiction texts. Written by much-loved children's authors, the books have been expertly levelled to ensure your children are able to read them independently.Book InformationISBN...

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the...

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...

Genre: Animal fantasy story Learning Objectives: Language Comprehension Strand 8: Engage with books by exploring and enacting interpretations. Writing Opportunities Strand 9: Draw on knowledge and experience of texts in deciding what to write (e.g. draw...

Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child language acquisition for the first time. Starting from the first sounds a child produces, this book covers all the stages a child goes through in acquiring a...

An eloquent reminder of why we should care about-and revel in-eloquence in literature and speech On Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. Denis Donoghue, an eminent and...

This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. It contains a new section discussing the research on the alignment of...

This major text by the author of Mass Communication Theory offers a comprehensive analysis of the growing field of assessment and evaluation of the performance of mass media. Across different societies, with varying media systems, there is evidence of...

'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of semanticists, pragmatists, discourse analysts and also those...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358359937Author Josh KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 254mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782189206Author Lorraine LevisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Currach PressPublisher Columba BooksDimensions(mm) 226mm * 151mm * 20mm

This volume is a study of the language of literary texts. It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial authority and...

This volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters, written by recognized experts in the field, review the state of the art in phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic studies of Old...

Although there are numerous advertising texts available to the advertising student today, few focus solely on account planning and even fewer still view the digital landscape as permeating every aspect of advertising. Advertising Account Planning in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987930705Author Mark HanenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint JustonewordPublisher JustonewordWeight(grams) 234g

This brief, practical guide offers a clear and comprehensive strategy for conceptualizing, approaching, and executing the task of writing a research paper in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, it provides: a critical and process-oriented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976684381Author Jeff DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Tom Crone's classic text has been thoroughly revised by an impressive team of legal experts. It provides an essential source of reference for the key legal issues encountered by those who work in the media such as journalists, editors and producers, as...

In this ground-breaking book, Johanna Nichols proposes means of describing, comparing, and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, providing the foundations for a theory of diversity based upon population science. This book will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913907549Author Learn Like A NativeFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Learn Like A NativePublisher Publishink LTD

What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role does lexical information play in linguistic theory? This accessible...

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books about the role of language in human relationships. It...

This volume, in its 25 definitive chapters on normal and nonnormal language development, represents the authoritative and up-to-date complete sourcebook on child language development. All aspects of child language development are addressed, including...

What makes literature? How does it work? How do we read it? This work explores these questions and varying literary styles and authorship. It deals with openings, point of view, speech, gender and pop fiction. The book includes a wide-range of literary...

The Language of Colour provides a fresh and innovative approach to the study of colour from the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Reading Images.Moving on from the meanings of single colours, Theo van Leeuwen develops the theory that many different...

The cataloging and classification field is changing rapidly. New concepts and models, such as linked data, identity management, the IFLA Library Reference Model, and the latest revision of Resource Description and Access (RDA), have the potential to...

Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies encompasses all stages of the research process that include quantitative research methods, from conceptualization to reporting. In five parts, the authors cover:* sampling techniques,...

The lexicon represents the building blocks of language: words and vocabulary. Most of us think of language in terms of words, and words are also integral to the way in which linguists approach language as an object of study. The lexicon and lexical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974097039Author Bennie Bough Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint GoalMindsPublisher GoalMindsWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Research Methods in Intercultural Communication introduces and contextualizes the most important methodological issues in the field for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Examples of these issues are which paradigms and how to research...