Language Arts & Disciplines

The Semantic and Structural Analysis (SSA) commentaries are designed to assist Bible translators and Bible translation consultants. Due to the careful attention to meaning at all levels of the discourse, they should also be useful for Bible scholars, teachers, preachers, and anyone interested in...

This work provides a brief overview of the basic relationships of meaning and structure of a language. The overview is followed by a more detailed analysis and practical application of the semantic relationships from the lowest level propositions through the highest level units of...

Can a culture have a theme that unifies seemingly unrelated practices? In this volume, Collins suggests that Maya-Mam customs as different as constructing a house, staying healthy, seeking God, disciplining children, agreeing to a contract, or just speaking the language, all originate from the...

What does "orality" (oral forms of discourse) have to do with the "Scriptures," a corpus of sacred written documents? The aim of these essays is to reveal how the field of "orality studies" concerns the manifold process of composing, translating, and transmitting the diverse...

Understanding Language Choices is an introductory textbook for anyone studying the motivations behind language use choices. It provides an introduction into the numerous factors, both internal and external, influencing such choices in a speech community: language attitudes, language learning, identity, the mobility of the...

Metadata remains the solution for describing the explosively growing, complex world of digital information, and continues to be of paramount importance for information professionals. Providing a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, Zeng and Qin's thorough revision of their...

Today's learners communicate, create, and share information using a range of information technologies such as social media, blogs, microblogs, wikis, mobile devices and apps, virtual worlds, and MOOCs. In Metaliteracy, respected information literacy experts Mackey and Jacobson present a comprehensive structure for information literacy...

The expanded text that reflects the rapidly changing sphere of information services makes this bestselling, comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries even more valuable. Building the basic skills good library managers must exercise throughout, this third edition includes a completely new chapter on...

LIS professionals use structures for organizing knowledge when they catalog and classify objects in the collection, when they develop databases, when they design customized taxonomies, or when they search online. Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schema explores and explains this...

More and more libraries, archives, and museums are creating online collections of digitized resources. Where can those charged with organizing these new collections turn for guidance on the actual practice of metadata design and creation? To Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-To-Do-It Manual. This...

Give your trustees the tools needed to translate their experiences and interests into strong results on behalf of their libraries. Current executive director of the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) and former public library director Sally Gardner Reed draws on...

Here is an in-depth guide to understanding, building, and managing an optimal collection of graphic novels that is targeted to please the format's mamy dedicated adult fans. The book provides a helpful overview of the increasingly imporant role that graphic novels play in collection...

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. Some six thousand languages are still spoken on the planet, and author Glenn Dixon - an expert is socio-linguistics and a tireless adventurer - travels...

Covering topics from the dawn of print to hypertext, this anthology is a current and comprehensive look at book history. Author: Michelle LevyPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 10/23/2014Pages: 648Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.00dISBN: 9781554810888About the Author Michelle Levy is Associate Professor...

A highly readable, visually exciting introduction to the book as a technology. Author: Solveig RobinsonPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 11/22/2013Pages: 388Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.25dISBN: 9781554810741About the Author Solveig C. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Publishing...

Concise, clear, and inexpensive, this text is designed to teach beginning learners of Old English basic reading skills. Author: Murray McGillivrayPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 12/20/2010Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781551118413About the Author Murray McGillivray is Professor of English at...

W.F. Garrett-Petts's respected "insider's guide" to writing like a literary critic now includes a new chapter on writing about poetry. Author: W. F. Garrett-PettsPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 06/13/2013Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781551117430About the Author W.F. Garrett-Petts is Professor...

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of "The Afterword," Steven Heighton's memos and dispatches to himself -- a writer's pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing -- have been tweeted and...

This book has been written with the fiction writer in mind. It teaches writers, through writing each day of the year on a subject of their choice, how to use description, narrative and character development. Each of the exercises is simple to follow and...

Are you tired of writing intermittently? Would you like to install a lifelong writing habit, one that gets your butt in the chair every single day? Then this is the book for you. Lifelong Writing Habit draws on well tested neuroscience to help you...