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Practical Tips for Successful Library ManagementPractical Tips for Successful Library Management takes management theory and practice and places it within a library and information context so that readers can see how the practical tips provided can be applied in their own roles. Author: Leo AppletonPublisher: Facet PublishingPublished: 02/16/2023Pages: 224Binding...
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The Evolution of Human Consciousness and Linguistic Behavior: A Synthetic Approach to the Anthropology and Archaeology of Language OriginsDrawing from the disciplines of cognitive science, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, Karen A. Haworth and Terry J. Prewitt offer a novel discussion of the origins of language, based primarily in the distinction of holistic versus analytical cognitive processing. Also, by employing a...
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A Cognitive Psychology of Mass CommunicationThe eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding of how media affect our attitudes, thinking, and behavior. Continuing its academically rigorous yet student-friendly approach to this subject,...
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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and JournalismThe Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of...
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Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary TextsLiterature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of 'literature', outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a...
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Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II: Function WordsChinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increasing popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners....
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Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual PracticesLanguage Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies to new perspectives from sociolinguistics. The book begins by charting historical...
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De-Gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Professional DiscourseDe-Gendering Gendered Occupations brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what are traditionally considered female occupations. The volume integrates a range of theoretical frameworks, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, and...
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Exploring English Language Teaching in Post-Soviet Era Countries: Perspectives from AzerbaijanExploring English Language Teaching in Post-Soviet Era Countries analyses different elements of English language teaching from the Soviet era to a new era of Westernised influence. This work provides an insight into the problems that occur in present-day English language education in post-Soviet era...
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Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches with Socio-Cultural InterpretationThis edited thematic collection features latest developments of discourse analysis in translation and interpreting studies. It investigates the process of how cultural and ideological intervention is conducted in translation and interpreting using a wide array of discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistic approaches and...
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A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919-2019): English Publication and ReceptionThis book delves into the Chinese literary translation landscape over the last century, spanning critical historical periods such as the Cultural Revolution in the greater China region. Contributors from all around the world approach this theme from various angles, providing an overview of translation...
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Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies: Creativity and Call Teacher EducationThis book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom. The volume builds on existing literature on project-based language learning...
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Corpus Analysis in Different Genres: Academic Discourse and Learner CorporaThis collection sheds light on the ways in which corpus linguistics and the use of learner corpora might be applied to the study of academic discourse, revealing linguistic and rhetorical patterns and insights into variation across a range of disciplinary genres. Organized into three...
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Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital AgeMedieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the...
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The Burden of Traumascapes: Discourses of Remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and BeyondDemonstrating the range of linguistic and semiotic practices which are deployed in the construction of war memory, The Burden of Traumascapes investigates the discourses of remembering that are enculturated in the everyday lives of the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Maida Kosatica explores how the memory...
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Teaching and Studying Transnational CompositionEssays exploring transnational composition as a site for engaging with difference.Transnational composition is a site for engaging with difference across populations, economies, languages, and borders and for asking how cultures, languages, and national imaginaries interanimate one another.Organized in three parts, the book addresses the...
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The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write: A Handbook for Fiction WritersAuthor: Sarah Burton, Jem PosterPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/17/2022Pages: 298Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781316513446
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Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and MathematicsAs discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view that mathematics is free...
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A5 Notebook Hardback: Black Marble Wide Rule JournalA5 Hardback Black Notebook This cool and elegant hardcover wide ruled notebook or writing journal has 100 Wide Ruled pages measuring 5.83 x 8.27 inches - standard A5 size. It makes a great small notebook for daily use, as a present for students, or...
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The Color of Language: Centering the Student of Color in World Language AcquisitionThe Color of Language helps to shed new light on the intersectionality of language, race and identity by offering readers a unique multi-perspective approach to the proscription of identity when language and culture have a direct impact on the understanding of race and ethnicity....
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