Language Arts & Disciplines

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary...

Most 'How to write/publish' books are aimed at the scientific community and medical professionals as a whole. To date none has ever been dedicated to surgeons alone. This book is aimed specifically at surgeons who wish to have their work, observations, novel ideas to...

Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been covered in English as a foreign language (EFL) materials and textbooks. Bringing together current theories from pragmatics and...

Do your sentences fail to sound the way you want? Are they lackluster, with flat characters and settings? Is your prose full of bad habits and crutches?The Anatomy of Prose: 12 Steps to Sensational Sentences, by Sacha Black, showed writers how to polish their...

This textbooks introduces the main arguments for an innate, domain specific capacity to learn human language. It guides you through the growth of language in a typically developing child and also discusses a range of viewpoints, introducing the central controversies in the field of...

Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Research Methods and Current Issues provides a comprehensive guide both to the statistical methods in Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) and its key elements, such as corpus building, tagging, and tools. The major goal is to explain the steps involved in the method so...

Author: Collins DictionariesPublisher: CollinsPublished: 07/01/2019Pages: 992Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.80dISBN: 9780008309428This title is only available via back order

The importance of reading for children cannot be underestimated. Reading for pleasure can benefit a child's education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.Reading with children can help to create a love of reading for life. Multiple studies have found a...

The importance of reading for children cannot be underestimated. Reading for pleasure can benefit a child's education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.Reading with children can help to create a love of reading for life. Multiple studies have found a...

The importance of reading for children cannot be underestimated. Reading for pleasure can benefit a child's education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.Reading with children can help to create a love of reading for life. Multiple studies have found a...

Successful negotiation requires a close understanding of their partner's culture, their feelings, habits and values. When planning to do business with suppliers and other partners in Asia, a thorough preparation is essential to avoid misunderstandings, confrontations and disappointments, and to ensure the mutually desired...

Assuring successful author/editor collaborations depends on meeting expectations regarding process, changes, money, contracts, deadlines, communications and trust. This EFA Booklet, written for both freelance editors and writers who plan to hire an editor, highlights how to set up transparent expectations so they can be...

A comprehensive modern manual on how to self-edit your book.Written by a professional editor, this book gives you a clear and easy-to-follow process that mirrors the editing that a traditionally published book undergoes.Broken down into structural, sentence-level and proofreading stages, each section is copiously...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the community those newspapers served disappeared with assimilation in the ensuing decades--but luckily, the complete run of one of the weeklies, Das Arkansas Echo, still...

Este libro te ayudar a dominar las habilidades que necesitas para hablar en p blico incluso si es introvertido o ansiosoSi eres como la mayor a de nosotros, admiras abiertamente y, tal vez envidias en secreto, a aquellos que pueden pararse sin miedo frente...

Apostrophes can be tricky, but the fun fairies in this book will help readers learn how to use them correctly. Grammar rules about apostrophes are simplified for learners in this beautifully illustrated guidebook that makes learning about apostrophes entertaining. Magical Facts boxes present interesting...

Unicorns have healing powers, but your readers will learn that they are also great at writing compound sentences. Presented here is a magical journey featuring unicorns that help students learn about joining sentences together. Engaging fact boxes provide interesting information about this mythical one-horned...

There are many rules for irregular plural nouns, but let the magical elves in this vibrant volume make learning those rules easy! Some might think that elves just make toys in Santa's workshop, but they are also experts on irregular plural nouns. Young readers...

Collective nouns may not seem all that interesting to young readers, but this volume, which features facts about mermaids, makes collective nouns extremely engaging. Let the mythical mermaids take readers on a journey of learning about different and sometimes amusing collective nouns. Even developing...

Wizards have magical powers, and they also know a lot about capitalization rules! This entertaining book combines grammar rules about when to capitalize words, with unique and engaging facts about wizards, making learning about capitalization magical. Vivid illustrations, fun fact boxes, and an enticing...