Language Arts & Disciplines

Module by module teaching notes, including lead-ins, background information on the texts and ideas for extension activities.Six photocopiable Exam practice sections providing the opportunity to test skills for Papers 1-4.37 module-linked photocopiable...

Inspire a love of reading with stories that are written from a child's perspective and will encourage children to discover the world around them. With audio and activities, Peapod Readers are the perfect start to a child's journey into learning English. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681563Author Barbara AbercrombieFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic interaction. Kasia Jaszczolt's view represents the most radical stance on meaning to be found in the contextualist tradition and thereby the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996752480Author Bonni GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VizyePublisher VizyeWeight(grams) 127g

This book provides a holistic overview of what leads to success in foreign language learning at an early age and deepens our understanding of early foreign language learning. The studies use an array of methodological approaches to research learners aged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612769Author Mariano DelgadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 329Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 492g

Mental Spaces is the classic introduction to the study of mental spaces and conceptual projection, as revealed through the structure and use of language. It examines in detail the dynamic construction of connected domains as discourse unfolds. The...

Written by one of America's most prominent linguists, the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskian Revolution' - the implications of which are still being debated some three decades on. Here together for the...

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and...

This title explores metaphor theory in the work of contemporary European scholars. This book encourages readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought. It first offers a critical introduction to metaphor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554217Author Maria Angela CernigliaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 441g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889057569Author Jeff KolbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Nova PressPublisher Nova PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

There are ways of being in the world that create a flourishing life and other ways that restrict that life, both for ourselves and others. Listening is one of these ways of being. Listening gives shape to speaking, inviting other people into a dialogue...

This is a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion of the connections between language, borders and identities. Looking at a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, this volume illustrates a range of methodological approaches. It...

Since its initial publication this text has served as an essential resource for both LIS students and practitioners. Journal of Hospital Librarianship deemed it 'a librarian's dream... very forward-thinking.' The new fourth edition offers an updated,...

The first ever fourth edition from the world's best-selling English course - a perfectly-balanced syllabus, completely rewritten and packed with new material.Book InformationISBN 9780194768740Author Amanda MarisFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Oxford...

In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and...

First taking shape during the seventeenth century, the European encyclopedia was an alphabetical book of knowledge. For the next three centuries, printed encyclopedias in the European tradition were an element of culture and peoples' lives, initially...

This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have...

Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, Yoda: these are just a handful of the writers and speakers whose words are parsed in this diverting romp through sentences culled from poems, essays, speeches, songs, fiction and film. In...

The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects every one of Europe's 150 or so languages including...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. A...

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308486Author Peter ConstantineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Color and Mastering for Digital Cinema explores the implications for motion picture post production processes and changes required to the supporting equipment and software. While a new concept to the motion picture community, the selection of the wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782700507072Author Marie-Pierre MazeasFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint AssimilPublisher AssimilWeight(grams) 414g

Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu, the world's most linguistically diverse nation with at least 80 actively spoken Oceanic languages used by about 200,000 people. Bislama began as a plantation pidgin based on English in the nineteenth century,...

The Student Newspaper Survival Guide has been extensively updated to cover recent developments in online publishing, social media, mobile journalism, and multimedia storytelling; at the same time, it continues to serve as an essential reference on all...

There are 12 books at Level 5. Level 5: Book 25 'Alternative Spellings' Book 26 'Alternative Spellings' Book 27 'Alternative Spellings' Book 28 'Alternative Spellings' Book 29 'Alternative Spellings' Book 30 'Alternative Spellings' Level 5 More...

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity provides an introduction to and survey of a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between language and creativity. Defining this complex and multifaceted field, this book introduces a conceptual...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. ...

There are 6 books at Level 2: Book 7 practises 'j v w' Book 8 practises 'x y z' Book 9 practises 'zz qu ch' Book 10 practises 'sh th ng' Book 11 practises 'j dge wh' Book 12 practises 'cks tch nk' Each sound is explored through an Oxford Reading...

Katharina Reiss's now classic contribution to Translation Studies, Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der UEbersetzungskritik: Kategorien und Kriteren fur eine sachgerechte Beurteilung von UEbersetzungen, first appeared in 1971. This is the first English...

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications addresses language specialists, terminologists, and all those who take an interest in socio-political and technical aspects of Terminology. The book covers its subject comprehensively and deals among other...

The super-villain, Twister, plans to smash cities to the ground with his tornado. Can the agents come up with a plan to stop him?Book InformationISBN 9780435070786Author Diana BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson...

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: *Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? *Who takes a bath, and who has a bath?...

Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian,...

At a time when policy discussions are dominated by "I feel" instead of "I know," it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates about...