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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259865193Author Donalda DickieFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837103969Author Mikel DufrenneFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful...

Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820488516Author Jamal AssadiFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 430g

Practical and easy to use, Essential Speaking Skills is the definitive guide to teaching speaking to students of English as a second or additional language. Brimming with invaluable advice on teaching approaches and practical classroom ideas and learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878084883Author Sandra M WeyenethFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint William Carey Library PublishersPublisher William Carey Library...

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful...

This major thesaurus, first published in 1994 is carefully designed and easy-to-use. It contains an original collection in A-Z format of over 200,000 synonyms and antonyms. It has been compiled by William Lutz, author of Doublespeak and a renowned expert...

This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon -...

This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides a readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of...

This book is an edited collection addressing competence and professionalism in Vocational Education and Training. Its prime focus is the caring professions of teaching, youth work, social work and community care. Contributors examine critically the...

"This book gives a voice to English language teachers faced with the challenges posed by English language curriculum change. As a core component of national state system curricula in virtually every country in the world, there has nevertheless been...

This book offers a holistic practitioner and research-based perspective on English Language Teaching and teacher education in difficult circumstances. In addition to extending the current conceptualization of 'difficult circumstances' in ELT to include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803995Author Diane Joy CharneyFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield...

A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating...

Borah of Idaho focuses on William Borah: an all-time giant of the Senate and one of the most enigmatic of American statesmen. He was the nonconformist par excellence: a Republican by inheritance, a Democrat by inclination, "just plain Bill" to his...

Illuminating Fiction contains nineteen interviews with fiction-writing luminaries including Edward P. Jones, Julia Glass, Amy Bloom, Jill McCorkle, Margot Livesy, Ron Carlson and Steve Almond. The interviews contain questions about narrative, voice, ...

Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory, particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon, morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from...

Referential expressions include terms such as determiners, proper names, noun phrases, pronouns, and all other expressions that we use to make reference to things, beings, or events. The first of its kind, this book presents a detailed, integrated...

Using the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this pioneering book provides the first comprehensive account of Korean grammar, building foundations for an engagement with Korean texts across a range of spoken and written registers and...

Familiar narratives and simplistic stereotypes frame the representation of women in U.S. politics. Pervasive containment rhetorics, such as the distinction between women as mothers and caregivers and men as rational thinkers, create unique hurdles for...

The World and Language propounds the assumption that natural language is not linear. Linear languages are those in which an iteration of a sign is allowed. In contrast, in natural language-as it is assumed-an iteration of a term must have a different...

From her activism to her passionate writings, June Jordan (1936 - 2002) is one of the most revered American poets of our time. Jordan's writing simultaneously provokes delight and energy while urging reflection on American society and its injustices. In...

The Design of The Waste Land offers a detailed, comprehensive explanation of T.S. Eliot's enigmatic poem. It relates The Waste Land to earlier and later poems by Eliot, demonstrating that the major poems describe a continuous spiritual odyssey or quest...

This project focuses on the classical Greek rhetorical construct kairos, generally translated as right timing and due measure. Classical Greek scholars positioned kairos as a symbolic tool used by rhetoricians during the production of oral discourse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656916369Author Susa SchnuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 56gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 1mm

In On What We Mean, Arnold Chien discusses the meaning of a speaker, a notion we use in everyday conversation. Speaker's meaning is a fundamental notion of pragmatics, i.e. the study of the relation between words and speakers. Yet everyday speaker's...

The Story of Papiamentu is a non-linguistic history of the creole language, Papiamentu, which is spoken in Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire. Papiamentu is a Spanish-based creole which most believe to have originated in the 17th century. The exact origin of...

Four English Vocabularies to Spell, written in a clear, conversational style, posits that the English language has four distinct yet interconnected systems for spelling. The text borrows from the work of linguists Henry Lee Smith, Jr. and Henry J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656478836Author Daniel LauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 56gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 1mm

This work utilizes an empirical and theoretical approach to the study of linguistic phenomena, such as syllable structure, stress assignment, diphthongs, and phonological processing in Spanish. Based on data from L1 and L2 environments in Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668170940Author Bahar IlkFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 56gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668592865Author Amir Hossein Yasini VistiFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 56gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656900375Author Dr Christian HaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 56gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656947707Author Johanna MettFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 63gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668597471Author Chiara WideraFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656036890Author Tamara HollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

ThZr_se Desqueyroux, Fran_ois Mauriac's stark and introspective 1927 novel, appears to be quite a different tale from Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's succ_s de scandale published exactly seventy years earlier. Yet upon closer scrutiny, the two novels'...

A New Approach to French Grammar is a major reference work on global themes for the study of the French language. It is intended primarily as a textbook to be used in English speaking countries, particularly the United States and Canada. Uniquely, this...