Language Arts & Disciplines
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Euphemania: Our Love Affair with EuphemismsHow did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language. EUPHEMANIA traces the origins of...
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Brown and Black Communication: Latino and African American Conflict and Convergence in Mass MediaThough Latinos and African Americans have lived together in large cities as neighbors, there is much that is still misunderstood between them. Those who live in non-diverse locales have only news and entertainment representations on which to base their information about the two cultures....
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Word Workout: Building a Muscular Vocabulary in 10 Easy StepsWord Workout is a practical book for building vocabulary--a graduated program featuring thousands of words that begins with those known by most college graduates and ascends to words known only by the most educated, intelligent, and well-read adults. This workout is a comprehensive program,...
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Wipe Clean: First 100 Words (Enclosed Spiral Binding): Includes Wipe Clean PenHelp your child learn how to write and spell 100 key first words with this big, fun, wipe-clean book from Roger Priddy. The practical exercises and activities inside include dotted letter shapes to trace over, which will quickly allow pre-schoolers to master letter formation,...
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Nrsv, Artisan Collection Bible, Cloth Over Board, Pink, Art Gilded Edges, Comfort PrintThe only NRSV Bible with a watercolor-effect cover design Exquisite from the inside out, the NRSV Artisan Collection Bible will delight you with its gorgeous cover created with an alcohol ink painting technique. The printed cover showcases hand-painted flair and foil accents. Each page...
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The Essential Guide to Intellectual PropertyA broad introduction to the changing roles of intellectual property within society Intellectual property is one of the most confusing--and widely used--dimensions of the law. By granting exclusive rights to publish, manufacture, copy, or distribute information and technology, IP laws shape our cultures, our...
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Introduction to Spoken Standard Arabic: A Conversational Course [With DVD]This text-and-DVD package can be used to improve the conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginning Arabic students. It helps students as they begin to express themselves in the Arabic language, guiding them through language functions such as introductions, describing people and places, and...
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Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, a young scholar named Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Traveling mostly on foot with a fiddle slung over his shoulder, Rickaby fell...
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Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin ProjectIn Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to...
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Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma: Creating Safe and Nurturing Classrooms for LearningHuge numbers of our students are caught in storms of trauma--whether stemming from abuse, homelessness, poverty, discrimination, violent neighborhoods, or fears of school shootings or family deportations. This practical book focuses on actions that teachers can take to facilitate learning for these students. Identifying...
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The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on ArgumentationThe New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since "argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced," says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely,...
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Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of MindPsychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and naturalist threats to its...
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Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation ManifestoAn engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty--summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is...
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Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken WordsAn argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues...
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The Minimalist Program, 20th Anniversary EditionA classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues...
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Introduction to Journalism: Essential Techniques and Background KnowledgeAnyone studying journalism, or training for the industry, will benefit from the broad scope of information and guidance packed into this textbook. Those already employed in journalism or related areas will also find it useful as a reference book. Essential techniques employed by journalists...
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Media U: How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher EducationAre homecoming games and freshman composition, Twitter feeds and scholarly monographs really mortal enemies? Media U presents a provocative rethinking of the development of American higher education centered on the insight that universities are media institutions. Tracing over a century of media history and...
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Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 2This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China's Rulers. Here the historian is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the...
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Beginning Old EnglishThis basic introduction to Old English is an essential guide for students with little or no linguistic knowledge. Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Beginning Old English focuses on the explanation and demonstration of how the language works, using accessible illustrations from simplified Old...
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On the Origin of LanguageThis volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of Grammatology, and...
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