Language Arts & Disciplines
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Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language ChangeThe sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of...
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Early African American Print CultureThe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges...
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Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English VernacularWith the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics--or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English Vernacular--much attention has been paid to the patterns of speech prevalent among African Americans in the inner...
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The Tongue of AdamIn the beginning there was one language--one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. "These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed...
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The Prose of the WorldThe work that Maurice Merleau-Ponty planned to call The Prose of the World, or Introduction to the Prose of the World, was unfinished at the time of his death. The book was to constitute the first section of a two-part work whose aim was...
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Prophets, Gurus, & Pundits: Rhetorical Styles & Public EngagementIn Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits, author Anna M. Young proposes that the difficulty of bridging the gap between intellectuals and the public is not a failure of ideas; rather, it is an issue of rhetorical strategy. By laying a rhetorical foundation and presenting analytical...
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The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy: Centering Trauma as Powerful PedagogyWhat is trauma and what does it mean for the literacy curriculum? In this book, elementary teachers will learn how to approach difficult experiences through the everyday instruction and interactions in their classrooms. Readers will look inside classrooms and literacies across genres to see...
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A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in EducationThis concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories...
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You Gotta Be the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with AdolescentsThis award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next-generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading...
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Understanding Colonial Handwriting (Rev)Harriet Stryker-Rodda presents examples of colonial letter forms and script, showing the letter forms in the process of development and marking the ways in which they differ from later letter forms. She also provides a comparison of English and American handwriting and examples of...
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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906: Volume 58Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of "civilizing." Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced...
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Teaching Word MeaningsLearning new words is foundational to success in school and life. Researchers have known for years that how many word meanings a student knows is one of the strongest predictors of how well that student will understand text and be able to communicate through...
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Arapaho Stories, Songs and Prayers: A Bilingual AnthologyA bison and a bobtailed horse race across the sky, raising a trail of dust behind them-leaving in their wake the Milky Way to forever mark their path. An unknown Arapaho teller shared this account with an ethnographer in 1893, explaining that the race...
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The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, Revised and Updated: Interviews, Examples, and Advice from Today's Most Celebrated WriterTwelve years after it was first published, The Joy of Writing Sex remains the classic writer's resource on creating compelling sex scenes. Elizabeth Benedict covers all the issues, from the first time, to married sex and adultery, to sex in the age of AIDS....
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Intermediate Japanese: Your Pathway to Dynamic Language Acquisition (Audio CD Included)Intermediate Japanese is a complete Japanese self-study textbook and language learning package for intermediate learners -- who want to become fluent in the Japanese language and have fun while doing it In the new intermediate level installation of this highly-acclaimed series, continue to learn...
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Tagalog in a Flash Kit, Volume 1Tagalog in a Flash: Volume I is an excellent new Tagalog language learning resource for beginning students and a great way to study Tagalog vocabulary. Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines and the beloved language of the second-largest Asian-American ethnic group. With...
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Chinese Phrase a Day Practice Pad: Learn Chinese One Day at a Time!A Chinese Phrase A Day is a fun, less-intimidating way to learn Chinese! Part of Tuttle's best-selling page-a-day line, this new edition teaches useful everyday phrases and words. Although more people are studying the Chinese language than ever before, others are still wary of...
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Tuttle Chinese-English Dictionary: [Fully Romanized]This is an extensive and user-friendly Chinese to English dictionary. The Tuttle Chinese-English Dictionary provides clear and accurate definitions in idiomatic English for the 18,000 most common Chinese vocabulary items (characters and compounds), including all words required for the official HSK Chinese Language Proficiency...
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The Second 100 Japanese Kanji: (Jlpt Level N5) the Quick and Easy Way to Learn the Basic Japanese KanjiThis is an invaluable study guide for learning Japanese characters. The major struggle facing all beginning Japanese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Japanese characters. The Second 100 Japanese Kanji adopts a structural approach that helps students to...
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Basic Written Chinese: Move from Complete Beginner Level to Basic Proficiency (Audio CD Included)This is a beginning-level course in written Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences. Along with its sister book Basic Spoken Chinese and their accompanying workbooks, Basic Written Chinese offers a complete...
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