Language Arts & Disciplines
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Better Reading English: Improve Your Understanding of Written EnglishSharpen your language skills while you send your knowledge of American cultureThe more you read in English, the greater your knowledge of the language and of the culture of its native speakers. The short articles in Better Reading English reflect real-life, contemporary issues and...
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When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to Pay: Seafaring Words in Everyday SpeechHave you ever wondered about the origin of "son of a gun," "flotsam and jetsam," or "hunky-dory"? You'll find the nautical derivation of these expressions and more than 250 others in this collection of nautical metaphors and colloquialisms. In addition, this book includes thought-provoking...
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Thereby Hangs a TaleFrom "mad as a wet hen" to "corn dodger" and "hobgoblin," Charles Funk's collections of curious words and expressions are a treasure trove of word origin. In a language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a...
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Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and ShowmanshipWould You Like to Become More Commanding, Convincing, And Charismatic?In this book, Steve Cohen, master magician and star of the long-running Chamber Magic show in New York City, will reveal the secrets of all great showmen and magicians--how to persuade, influence, and charm, and...
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Spanglish: The Making of a New American LanguageWith the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this...
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Grammar and Language Workbook: Grade 12The Grammar and Language Workbook offers sequential language instruction along with extensive drill and practice in grammar, usage, and mechanics. This important tool includes a handbook as well as vocabulary, spelling, and composition lessons.Author: McGraw-HillPublisher: McGraw-Hill/GlencoePublished: 09/01/1999Pages: 348Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 10.94h x 8.55w...
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Upper Case Letters: Wipe-Clean Activity BookIntroduce young learners to upper case letters with this fun and engaging wipe-clean activity book. - Lots of practice opportunities to help children learn how to write letters.- Wipe-clean pages and pen so that children can try the activities again and again.- Colourful, motivating...
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Collins Easy Learning Spanish - Easy Learning Spanish GrammarCollins Easy Learning Grammar titles provide easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout. Key grammatical points are highlighted, and a glossary gives clear explanations of grammatical terminology. The books also discuss all the regular verb forms and conjugations, and the most common tenses...
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Graffiti On My WallDr. Seema Sinha is an Associate Professor in English. At present, she is working as Head of the University Dept. of English, Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University, Dhanbad. She is also the Dean of Humanities and a Member of the University Senate. She has...
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Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings, Second EditionDrawing on the authors' experience gained from library projects around the world, this book charts a readable path through everything from the planning of a new library, to major refurbishment, or the remodeling of a current library. It clearly explains the library design language...
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How to Write Better EssaysThis book takes the reader carefully through each stage of the essay writing process from the interpretation of the question, to the research, planning and revision. They are shown not just how to improve their study skills such as note-taking, reading, organisation and writing,...
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Handbook of Research on Fostering Social Justice Through Intercultural and Multilingual CommunicationStudents taught with a social justice framework will ideally have a stronger sense of what is just and fair and choose careers and lifestyles that support their communities. Over time, students look at current and historical events-even their own actions-through the lens of social...
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Translation as Experimentalism: Exploring Play in PoeticsThis Element argues for a perspective on literary translation based around the idea of ludification, using concrete poetry as a test case. Unlike rational-scientific models of translating, ludic translation downplays the linear transmission of meaning from one language into another. It foregrounds instead the...
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The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community: Survival CommunicationThe Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community analyses the interactions of immigrants within an Irish reception centre for asylum seekers to highlight the instinctive resourcefulness of people who are faced with the challenge of communicating when there is no...
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Orality in Written Texts: Using Historical Corpora to Investigate Irish English 1700-1900Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsOrality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900. Focusing in on a time during which Ireland became overwhelmingly English-speaking, the book...
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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and PragmaticsThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics provides an overview of key concepts and theory in pragmatics, charts developments in the disciplinary relationship between translation studies and pragmatics, and showcases applications of pragmatics-inspired research in a wide range of translation, spoken and signed language...
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Words Matter: Writing to Make a DifferenceNewspapers and magazines have been steadily shrinking, and more and more former subscribers have gone to digital and internet sources for the news. Yet it has become increasingly clear that "short takes" don't satisfy many readers, who still long for nuanced, long form journalism....
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Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an Unnative LanguageIn 1928, members of a young subaltern Indonesian elite pirated the language of the Dutch empire, bringing the Indonesian language into being along with its nation. Today, Indonesian is the language of two hundred and forty million citizens but is the native language of...
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Business and Accounting for AuthorsYou have a dream ...... become a full-time author.But how do you turn your writing into a business so you can say, "I quit my job!"?Most beginning authors, and far too many experienced wordsmiths, don't have any idea what it takes to manage the...
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Decolonizing Foreign Language Education: The Misteaching of English and Other Colonial LanguagesDecolonizing Foreign Language Education interrogates current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by acclaimed critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes cutting-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to rigorously challenge...
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