Language Arts & Disciplines

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...

Satire, according to Jonathan Swift, is a mirror where beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own. and over twenty-four centuries the mirror of satirical literature has taken on many shapes. Yet certain techniques recur continually,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985389406Author William KenowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wdbk ConnectionsPublisher Wdbk ConnectionsWeight(grams) 204g

This book presents Jorgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The chapters focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034432Author Kitty Burns FloreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Tracing the development of communication markets and the regulation of international communications from the 1840s through World War I, Jill Hills examines the political, technological, and economic forces at work during the formative century of global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556714139Author Daniel KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic PublicationsPublisher Summer Institute of...

About Sheila Murnaghan's translation "A terrific new translation-Murnaghan'sMedeais both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers." -KIRK ORMAND, author of Controlling Desires: Sexuality in...

Language Crimes tells the story of some of the remarkable criminal court cases in which Roger Shuy has served as a consultant or expert witness. These intriguing cases show how linguistic analysis can help the courts unravel the ambiguities of taped...

Translation Quality Assessment has become one of the key issues in translation studies. This comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of translation evaluation makes explicit the grounds of judging the worth of a translation and emphasizes that translation...

Heads Up! is a journey through the ages, looking at weird and wonderful headgear from all over the world. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics...

Peter Newmark's fourth book on translation, a collection of his articles in The Linguist, is addressed to a wide readership. He discusses the force of translation in public life, instancing health and social services, art galleries, operas, light...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997970616Author Becca SymeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hummingbird BooksPublisher Hummingbird BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in the early 2000s as a formal theory of language within Principles and Parameters framework. Deploying a radical implementation of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982159102Author Elena Minakova-BoblestFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Asbuka, MunichPublisher Asbuka, MunichWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715676704Author B F SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561467747Author Kristine Kathryn RuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Wmg PublishingPublisher Wmg PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Nearly all of us have to pitch or present our ideas, whether in a formal setting after lunch to a hundred jaded salespeople, in a lecture theatre or classroom, putting over our thoughts to a team of colleagues, or even selling a concept one-on-one to...

Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional Practice, Fourth Edition presents principles and practices for systematic management of recorded information. It is anauthoritative resource for newly appointed records managers and...

"Combined here are two classics on the nature of native languages of North America: Boas' famous 1911 essay pointing to new methods of research and Powell's pioneering 1891 work on classification." - "Scholarly Books in America". "Two cognate essays -...

Can the methods of science be directed toward science itself? How did it happen that scientists, scientific documents, and their bibliographic links came to be regarded as mathematical variables in abstract models of scientific communication? What is the...

In this brilliant book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes. Drawing on books and films, cultural history and his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610359900Author Robert W BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc

This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the...

The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific...

What are `alternative media'? Are they the same as underground, radical or oppositional media? In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to `radical' media, but can also account for newer...

Cataloguing and Classification introduces concepts and practices in cataloguing and classification, and common library standards. The book introduces and analyzes the principles and structures of library catalogues, including the application of AACR2,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565912472Author Haiyoung LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hollym International Corp.,U.S.Publisher Hollym International Corp.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"Rigby Star" is a guided reading programme developed specifically to meet the requirements of the NLS. It offers stories and teaching support to help plan and manage guided reading lessons - all within a structured reading programme. Teaching versions...

Introducing language use and interaction as the basis of good teaching and learning, this invaluable book equips teachers and researchers with the tools to analyze classroom discourse and move towards more effective instruction.Presenting an overview of...

This essential guide offers a detailed framework for assessing communication processes within an organization and using the results to develop improved organizational strategies. Presented in clear, accessible prose are the tools of the trade for...

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As a sociolinguistic phenomenon that connects language and its users to the social world that surrounds them, politeness can provide insights into the very structure of social reality and the process by which it is established and maintained. And through...

This volume presents the author's view of the scope of linguistic description, insofar as the field of linguistics touches on questions of the meanings of sentences. Fillmore takes the subject matter of linguistics, in its grammatical, semantic and...

This book considers the importance of language education in a rapidly changing world. The authors look at language education from different perspectives: the teaching and learning of foreign or second languages; the role of literacy, oracy and language...

The Solo Video Journalist, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the solo video reporting process from start to finish.Drawing from years of professional experience in the field, the author covers all aspects of multimedia...

Until recently, collaborative efforts between formal linguistics and literary studies have been relatively sparse; this book is an attempt to bridge this gap and add to the hitherto small pool of studies that combine the two disciplines.Our study...

In Romans, Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon provide a foundational examination of the Greek text of Acts. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. The authors' exposition is a convenient pedagogical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533263Author Adrian AkmajianFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm