Language Arts & Disciplines
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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja AwakeningRecovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Performing Arts: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which...
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Communicating the Climate Crisis: New Directions for Facing What Lies AheadCommunicating the Climate Crisis puts communication at the center of the change we need, providing concrete strategies that help break the inertia that blocks social and cultural transformation. Reimagining "earth" not just as the ground we walk upon but as the atmosphere we breathe-Eairth-this...
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News Coverage of Global Disasters: Journalism's Power to Aid Healing and RecoveryNews Coverage of Global Disasters: Journalism's Power to Aid Healing and Recovery addresses an under-explored aspect of news, arguing that journalism helps people heal and recover in the aftermath of significant traumas. This comparative analysis draws from local and international news in eight countries...
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Rationalist Pragmatism: A Framework for Moral ObjectivismIn Rationalist Pragmatism: A Framework for Moral Objectivism, Mitchell Silver draws from a wide array of philosophical fields to formulate a comprehensive theory of ethics. He argues that an understanding of justification rooted in pragmatism leads to practical principles that apply to all those...
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Aprendamos A Leer Y Escribir! Primer A Tereer GradoOver 150 worksheets to practice, review, and reinforce skills in reading and writing for Spanish students. The activities are in Spanish only and cover the following topics: phonics, reading for meaning, capitalization & punctuation, sentence writing, and story-writing activities. This resource is a compilation...
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Exploring Multilingual Hawai'i: Language Use and Language Ideologies in a Diverse SocietyEmploying an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, Exploring Multilingual Hawaiʻi examines situated language usage and underlying ideological beliefs to explore and understand Hawaiʻi's multilingualism. This book begins with a description of the ideologies that developed as a result of contact with...
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Linguistics Meets PhilosophyLinguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields,...
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Inkslinger 2 Planning Your Amazing BookIn this book, Inkslinger 2-Plan Your Amazing Book, we take the planning topics we summarized in Inkslinger-99-Day Guided Writing Experience and expand on them. We dive deeper into the plotting and preparation required to craft a truly excellent book. We try not to put...
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Localizing Global English: Asian Perspectives and PracticesEnglish is the most widely taught and learned language in the world and is used for communication among speakers from different language backgrounds. How it can be effectively taught and learned, what English means to, and how it can be owned by, non-native speakers...
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The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and RoguesThis book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is,...
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Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Women Writing for WomenSylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a selection of their...
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Nonverbal Communication in Political DebatesNonverbal Communication in Political Debates presents a framework for understanding and analyzing the multiple ways that nonverbal behavior functions in political debates. In addition to addressing the ways in which politicians are presented and present themselves in debate broadcasts, the framework considers a wide...
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A Linguistic Approach to the Study of DyslexiaThis volume contributes to the growing body of research on developmental dyslexia, focusing on the disorder's behavioural manifestations at different levels of the language system. It is organised into three sections that cover the three main vantage points from which the effects of dyslexia...
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Social Media Marketing for Book PublishersProviding a concise toolbox for publishing professionals and students of publishing, this book explores the skills needed to master the key elements of social media marketing and therefore stay relevant in this ever-competitive industry.Taking a hands-on, practical approach, Social Media Marketing for Book Publishers...
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Translating Controversial Texts in East Asian Contexts: A Methodology for the Translation of 'Controversy'Zulawnik focuses on the broad concept of 'controversy' and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia. The research methodology is exemplified through a case study in the form of the author's translation of the best-selling Japanese graphic...
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The Sound Pattern of EnglishThe theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.Author: Noam Chomsky, Morris HallePublisher: MIT PressPublished: 01/17/1991Pages: 488Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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America's Top 30 Idioms and Their Origins: America's 30 Most Whacko IdiomsAuthor: Fred EnghPublisher: Fred EnghPublished: 05/15/2022Pages: 90Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9798414982487
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Scottish Gaelic and its European CousinsThis book examines where Gaelic stands within the family of European languages, tracing its roots to Indo-European languages and showing how firmly it is established within them, rather than being a strange, unrelated outlier. He uses his knowledge of several modern and ancient languages...
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Teaching the Global Middle AgesCultural interconnection informs this collection's view of the Middle Ages.While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of...
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The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language TeachingAuthor: Mohammad Javad AhmadianPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/09/2021Pages: 750Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.00lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.80w x 1.50dISBN: 9781108491389About the AuthorAhmadian, Mohammad Javad: - Mohammad Javad Ahmadian is currently the Head of Postgraduate Taught at School of Education, University of Leeds. He has published widely...
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