Language Arts & Disciplines
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Beyond Fitting in: Rethinking First-Generation Writing and Literacy EducationGuidance on teaching writing to first-generation college students.Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation college students inform literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. Essays, written by scholar-teachers in the field of rhetoric and composition, discuss best practices for...
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Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language: The Sphinx's LegacyScientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or language? This book attempts...
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Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World: A Critique of Unreason and Academic NonsenseAt the end of 2019, Americans were living in an era of post-truth characterized by fake news, weaponized lies, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, magical thinking, and irrationalism. While many complex interconnected factors were at work, this post-truth era was partly the culmination of a...
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Online Community Therapy: The Support NetworkThis book explores how online therapy communities offer an accessible space that is not confined by economic abilities, geographical barriers, or familial restraints. Will Henderson and Mary Jackson Pitts use mixed methodologies of self-administered surveys and in-depth interviews to explore how online therapy communities...
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Spanish So White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a 'Foreign' Language EducationExplicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US - especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and...
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Summary: How to Win Friends and Influence People: Review and Analysis of Carnegie's BookThe must-read summary of Dale Carnegie's book "How to win Friends and Influence People: The All-Time Classic Manual of People Skills"This complete summary of the ideas from Dale Carnegie's book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" shows that no matter your occupation, goals,...
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Manual of Textual AnalysisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and CliftonThe Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key observation about four...
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Press Reform Debate: Coverage in the British MediaIn the first decade of the 21st century, the British newspaper News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and its sister publications were involved in a controversy. The employees of these newspapers were accused of phone hacking, police bribery and other improper influences....
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The Handbook of DialectologyDialectology is the science of linguistic dialects that mainly studies variations in language based on geographical distribution and the features associated with them. It is a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It is concerned with the grammatical, lexical and phonological features that relate to regional areas....
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Italy and the USA: Cultural Change Through Language and NarrativeThis collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S....
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Spanish Sentence Builders - Grammar - Verb PivotsThe Spanish Verb Pivots book focuses on the present indicative, but also covers the immediate future, and gustar + infinitive (as well as 'verbs like gustar'). It is aimed at learners in the A1-B1 proficiency range. It was conceived both for classroom and independent...
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Do It Right the First Time: Write Your BestsellerSomeday you're going to be someone's favorite authorYou don't have to learn by trial and error. An expert can keep you from wasting time, teach you cost-saving-revenue-generating strategies, and position you to write, publish, and market a book that gets you media attention, paid...
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The South Beach Method for Conversational ItalianRevolutionary learning method for conversational Italian. You'll be speaking Italian in a matter of weeks, just by studying 10 minutes a day.Speak Italian through four verbs. Quickly learn the essential words and vocabulary to communicate. Learn to speak in present, past and future in...
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Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption"You are what you eat," but what if you're seen as a rat eater, bat lover, or MSG user? In Inscrutable Eating, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier considers how everyday assumptions about Asian food influence the perception of Asian and Asian American identity within the US...
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The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing LifeA new, mindful approach to the writing life In a radical departure from standard advice about creative success, effort, critique, and competition, The Way of the Fearless Writer will show you that there is another way to thrive--a writing path of ease, trust, wonder,...
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Hieroglyphic Vocabulary HardcoverThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Advice on Establishing a LibraryThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Language of Contemporary Poetry: A Framework for Poetic AnalysisThis book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author's book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the...
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Muslim Women as Speakers of EnglishThis book examines representations of Muslim women as speakers of English in the context of a language ideological debate in the UK in 2016. The author shows how Muslim women are stereotyped as non-speakers of English through the manipulation of census data, and how...
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