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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333446812Author Colin SwatridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Macmillan EducationPublisher Macmillan EducationWeight(grams) 100g

Bitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today—after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word-it's not always entirely clear what it means. Bitch is a chameleon. There are good bitches and bad bitches;...

Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language. Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117011212Author Ernest GowersFormat PaperbackImprint Stationery Office BooksPublisher TSO

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907795022Author Alison WestwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hachette AustraliaPublisher Hachette AustraliaWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901878540Author W.S.B. BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Society of Genealogists Enterprises LtdPublisher Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd

As long ago as the 1720's Daniel Defoe was pondering on the eccentricities of English dialects, and three hundred or so years before him John Trevisa had censured 'all the language of the Northumbrians' as harsh and incomprehensible. Variety in English...

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role...

This revised edition of a major textbook provides an introduction to the queries that arise in connection with bilingualism and the effect it has on the personality. It underlines the normality of speaking and using more than one language and aims to...

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This volume provides a critical examination of texts which can be considered 'literary'. What distinguishes some texts as 'art'? How do we recognize literary creativity? To answer questions such as these, the book ranges across creative texts produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170430170Author Henry FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

The last three decades have witnessed a growth of interest in research on tasks from various perspectives and numerous books and collections of articles have been published focusing on the notion of task and its utility in different contexts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699117678Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 189g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140725633Author Joseph AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170781036Author Noah WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170268896Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140725695Author Gilbert WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170796214Author Thomas BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170763629Author Charles Hanbury WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170130605Author Jean BonnefonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 272g

This book explores multilingualism as a resource and goal at school in contexts of student diversity and institutional monolingualism. Combining translanguaging theory and sociocultural theory, the author proposes a framework for the learning and use of...

This book equips pre-service language teachers with research and inquiry skills which they can use in the course of their classroom teaching. Research is presented not as an additional burden in teachers' busy lives but as an integrated tool for...

This book takes as its starting point the assumption that interpersonal communication is a crucial aspect of successful language learning. Following an examination of different communicative models, the authors focus on traditional face-to-face (F2F)...

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515103367Author Theokritos KouremenosFormat HardbackPage Count 121Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

This book analyses the letters of marginalised groups of World War I soldiers - including Black, Indian and disabled ex-servicemen - from a linguistic perspective, looking at issues such as descriptions of disability, identity and migration, dealing with...

This book aims to provide a micro-level, working model of a methodological approach and practical guidelines for building a corpus, informed by the work on the CorCenCC project (Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes - the National Corpus of Contemporary...

Foreign language teaching in America today falls into three distinct fields of influence and interest: public and private schools, college and other post-secondary programs, and courses for adult learners. At a time when academics and instructors in each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783985540846Author Simon WehrleFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Language Science PressPublisher Language Science PressWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMartin Guardado, University of Alberta, Canada.Book InformationISBN 9781501519413Author Martin GuardadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint De Gruyter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140963189Author Christopher SmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140989608Author Mrs YeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170392836Author George LytteltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170457405Author Eliza Fowler HaywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170666050Author Lady (author of Dorinda Catsby)Format PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170432488Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170391563Author Samuel JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 336g