Language Arts & Disciplines

In today's ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new,...

Ethics of Media reopens the question of media ethics. Taking an exploratory rather than prescriptive approach, an esteemed collection of contributors tackle the diverse areas of moral questioning at work within various broadcasting practices,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688146900Author Lawrence BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

What they won't teach you in film school: This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyright laws for screenwriters. Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and...

This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. The semantic roles and grammatical relations indicated by case are fundamental to the whole system of language...

The texts in this reader include prose, metrical prose, and poetry, and represent a variety of genres (saints' lives and metrical charms as well as heroic verse). Frequently taught canonical texts are balanced with interesting, lesser-known works. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648850243Author Erica BlumenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Erica BlumenthalPublisher Erica BlumenthalWeight(grams) 721g

This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling - developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective of a foreign language teacher. It is intended to serve...

Facing persecution in early modern England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for their own rulers to have a change of heart. This book studies the relationship forged by English...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.You can't see a cyber thief, you can't hear a cyber thief. Only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501172281Author AnonymousFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 130mm *...

Providing a simple - but not simplistic - introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to SFG through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936507429Author Becky BurkheartFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint ACOAPublisher ACOAWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries...

In this comprehensive introduction, Anne-Michelle Tessier examines how we acquire the sounds and sound patterns of language. Analyzing child speech patterns and their analogues among adult languages while also teaching the basics of Optimality Theory,...

In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling. Drawing on innovative research and contemporary theory, she describes what happens when one...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set: 06 Non-fiction Title: Sightseeing Focus: ar ow er Tricky Words: you go by the to and of Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set...

This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book aims to enable students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and to extend...

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

A look at the history and myth of the objective journalist and how this ideal has been used to silence marginalized voices. In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history of "objectivity" in journalism and how its been used...

The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural...

When The Other Tongue appeared in 1982, it was called "required reading for all those concerned with English teaching in non-native situations, from the classroom teacher to the policy planner", Jowhn Platt, English World-Wide) and "an extremely useful...

The contributors to this collection offer an essential introduction to the ways in which feminist linguistics and critical discourse analysis have contributed to our understanding of gender and sex. By examining how these perspectives have been applied...

This timely volume offers a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the role of communication in the construction of hate speech and polarization in the online and offline arena.Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme...

This is the first volume of its kind to treat specifically the critical role of language in Korean culture and society. Early on, contributors examine the invention and use of the Korean alphabet, South Korea's ""standard language""...

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts - printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in - offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time...

The increased use of sophisticated mobile devices opens up new possibilities and challenges for language teachers and learners, which has led to an increasing need to consider issues relating to mobile technologies specifically. To date, there is no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440496882Author Dinesh VermaFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

Genre: A simple play in a traditional story setting. Learning Objectives: Word Recognition Strand 5: Read more challenging texts which can be decoded using their acquired phonic knowledge and skills, along with automatic recognition of high frequency...

Stimmt! for National 4 has been expertly developed to help students achieve their potential in National 4 German. Stimmt! for National 4 German helps to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and includes translation, understanding...

This book will protect your audiences from the following disorders:* Death by PowerPoint* Tedium* Compulsive fidgeting* Losing-the-Will-to-Live SyndromeNearly all of us have to pitch or present our ideas, whether in a...

The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there seemed to be a new de-synchronicity - a huge reality gap - between the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media's...

"Thussu brings to this project the passion for news of a socially committed former journalist, the political economy of his international relations education and a formidable assembly of global detail, examining the recent explosion of...

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...

This book unlocks one of the great secrets about copywriting by revealing the vast range of opportunities that exist outside the world of TV advertising. The author shows how good writers are always in demand by companies and their agencies to tackle the...

"This is not another turgid guide to digital editing, writing for radio and the structure of a newsroom team. It is an ambitious and accessible study that combines a succinct narrative history of radio journalism with an analysis of its power in the...

That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing. Based on Evan Jenkins's long-running column 'Language Corner' in Columbia Journalism Review, the book is compiled of brief, alphabetically arranged entries on approximately 200 major...

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of our everyday conversations. When we engage with communicative partners we build...

First Published in 1987. Part of a series on the psychology of education and instruction, this volume marks a highpoint in the development on writing from a cognitive perspective. It significantly expands the data base upon which our understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915160355Author Lewis CarollFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint Weeve LanguagesPublisher Weeve Languages