Language Arts & Disciplines

Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded...

AMHARIC VERB CONJUGATION explains in-depth how to conjugate verbs in past, present, future, and continuous tenses in both the affirmative and negative. This is not a beginners Amharic book, and thus does not include greetings, vocabulary, and typical phrases. However, this book will take...

In The Corinthian Correspondence, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that there were eight original letters by the Apostle Paul to the church in Corinth. In the first part of the book, they use literary and redaction criticism to show the reasons for...

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters Volume 1 of the two part collection Stories and Lessons from the World's Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. Featuring interviews and conversations...

Each year instructors and scholars contemplate their instructional spaces in search of information about incoming students and how best to relate course content to a new generation of learners. Communication Instruction in the Generation Z Classroom: Educational Explorations outlines communication considerations for effectively interacting...

The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum...

How do written and other signs shape our educational spaces and practices; and how, in turn, are these written and other signs shaped by the educational spaces and practices they inhabit? Building on enquiries into the linguistic landscapes of public spaces, this volume addresses...

Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this unique collection preserve the surviving public writing of Venice's individuals and collectivities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They celebrate...

The dramatic and contested history of the library, from the ancient world to the digital age Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with...

For years you had a dream......and now the book is published.Why isn't it selling?When Amazon introduced the Kindle, it changed the publishing world and the gates came crumbling down for millions of people who had stories to tell. Now, self-publishing supports thousands of authors...

Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, he also traces the decline...

This essential book will help English teachers to address the challenges and opportunities in creating a powerful, knowledge-rich, concept-led curriculum, which draws on lived experience and engages with cognitive science and other educational research. It explores persistent problems in the teaching of English, why...

In the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, it was poetry that allowed Niara to process the hatred fueled racism they were witnessing and the anger that flooded their body. These poems are the footsteps left along their road towards...

This monograph examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire's leading print centres.Author: Drew B. ThomasPublisher: BrillPublished: 01/28/2022Pages: 360Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.10dISBN: 9789004462403About the AuthorDrew B. Thomas, Ph.D. (2018), University of St....

The globalized use of language calls into question conventional ways of thinking in linguistics, applied linguistics and language pedagogy.This book critically examines this thinking from an historical, at times satirical, perspective and proposes an alternative conceptualization.The first section defines a number of key concepts...

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing critical commentary, explaining...

Phonics Activity Book Help your child learn to read with fun and engaging exercises! Building phonics skills is the first step to reading success. This phonics learning letters workbook is an engaging, interactive way to introduce young children to the world of letters and...

Geoffrey Kimball presents the first grammar of the American Indian language Yukhíti Kóy, better known in English as Atakapa, once spoken in coastal southwestern Louisiana and coastal eastern Texas. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a drastic fall in the Atakapa population,...

Literacy proficiency became the responsibility of every middle and high school teacher as each state adopted, or revised and adopted, The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Its intention was immediately misunderstood, and...

Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy, Dalton and Butler offer practical guidance for determining the fundamental issues that make up a controversy and what expectations public audiences will have for advocacy based on the issues and the burdens of advocates challenging or...