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The only French-English dictionary to offer comprehensive, unexpurgated coverage of French slang, with three levels of English translation, ranging from slang through to standard English.About the AuthorRene James Herail, E. A. Lovatt, both Lecturers in...

The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development. According to a widely accepted...

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called '37'. The group and its journal offered...

This grammar-reader is based on almost twenty years' experience of teaching beginners the Swedish language and is reassuringly practical in approach. Miss Hird's aims are threefold: to provide a compromise between the traditional grammar-readers and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789873948Author John Amos ComeniusFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 408g

The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more that 370 million people across much of the Middle East and North and East Africa. This is the first general survey of those languages, including the Arab and Aramaic dialects and various...

Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and to the north to Taiwan and the Philippines. They vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781115744843Author E RodigerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint BiblioLifePublisher BiblioLifeWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466919389Author Nwakego P IhenachFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)...

First published in 1955, Learning Modern Languages by F. M. Hodgson offers a thoughtful exploration of the challenges and methods in modern language education. With a foreword by C. Gattegno, this insightful work examines the struggles of the so-called...

Reading Urdu: Novice to Intermediate is a comprehensive collection of accessible and engaging graded readings which are designed to increase language proficiency by introducing beginner-level learners to a range of genres and styles, real-world...

Taking a broadly chronological approach, this volume of original essays traces the origins of the concept of 'grammar'. In doing so, it charts the social, moral and cultural factors that have shaped the development of grammar from Antiquity, via the...

'Dearly beloved', 'say the word', 'the powers that be', 'for ever and ever' - these familiar phrases and many more were set down in print for the first time by William Tyndale. For his groundbreaking English translation of the Bible, he deliberately...

The edited collection Unlearning Languages That Control the Mind (ULCM) is to be read as a continuous multi-voiced work on what takes place when we forget that unlearning is a part of our existence as much as learning. As the world as we know it finds...

Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the second of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichs' writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic...

Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichs' writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at...

This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777. Instead, it reveals compelling evidence that Cornish continued to be used...

Fundamentals of Arabic Grammar provides an authoritative guide to fusha Arabic grammar. It is organized to promote a thorough understanding of this grammar and presents its complexities in a cohesive and user-friendly format. Explanations are clear,...

A Design Orientation to Second Language Writing Instruction presents the principles of a Design orientation to second language writing and argues for new directions in second language writing instruction.This book elaborates an approach to L2 writing...

Generative AI Technologies, Multiliteracies, and Language Education is a comprehensive edited volume that examines the integration of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies within the framework of multiliteracies pedagogies to enhance language teaching and...

This book focusses on the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language (CSL) in contemporary Taiwan. It explores linguistic, social, and pedagogical perspectives and offers unique insights into Taiwan's diverse language landscape, from...

Hispanic Pop Culture in Translation is a systematic course that combines both the relevant theoretical background and practical guidance to enable advanced students of Spanish to confidently translate pop culture texts. Through analysis of the current...

Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this book introduces readers to the methods for analysing discourse/texts written and spoken in the Chinese language. It presents Chinese discourse as a semantic unit, adopting a trinocular view in terms...

Multimodal Literacy in English as an Additional Language in Higher Education addresses three key aspects of multimodal literacy in higher education; identifying what is understood by multimodal literacy, its teachability in the EAL context, and how to...

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives.Spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world. Spanning Indonesia to the United States, the Arab world is here imagined as a continually changing one, with...

Multiliteracies, Multimodality and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education offers valuable insights and practical strategies for addressing the language and literacy needs of students in diverse, multilingual classrooms.This...

A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation examines the issue of lexical non-equivalence between written Chinese and Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) translation, describing its theoretical and practical implications.This research...

Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of language that can be considered acts of sociolinguistic revolution from across a range of social media...

Social Justice through Pedagogies of Multiliteracies explores the ways in which pedagogies of multiliteracies can be used to promote and achieve situated forms of social justice, especially for minoritized L2 learners.This edited collection focuses on...

Gramatica espanola: Variacion social presenta conceptos gramaticales claves de la lengua espanola a los alumnos intermedios y avanzados de una manera que enfatiza las conexiones entre lo social y lo linguistico. Esta segunda edicion ofrece varios puntos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138659261Author Byung-Jin LimFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd