Language Arts & Disciplines

Revised edition of this successful introduction to English syntax.Author: Jim MillerPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/20/2008Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9780748633616Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorJim Miller is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he had a personal chair...

This book looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. It shows how the major national varieties of English have developed, why similar causes have given rise to different effects...

The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English...

Learn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York). The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and...

Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents...

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias...

Create, Craft, and Sell Your First Novel, Memoir, or Nonfiction BookAuthor: Mary Carroll MoorePublisher: Riverbed PressPublished: 03/16/2011Pages: 402Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.52w x 0.82dISBN: 9780615231389About the AuthorMary Carroll Moore is the award-winning, internationally published author of thirteen books in three genres, including...

This resource features ready-to-go reproducible pages that target key grade-level grammar topics--parts of speech, verb tenses, capitalization, punctuation, types of sentences, and more! Each activity includes quick teacher tips, but because most students will be able to complete these exercises independently, they are perfect...

When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious...

This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students experience a classic drama as they work through the process of careful translation and...

What they won't teach you in film school: This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyright laws for screenwriters. Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed...

In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference...

An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success...

Stafford reflects on the writing process and on the influences on his artAuthor: William StaffordPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 11/28/1986Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.01h x 5.30w x 0.44dISBN: 9780472063710

Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous...

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black EnglishSpoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture.-Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown universityA lively, well-documented history of Black English ....

What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics...

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese. This one semester advanced course in Japanese translation is designed to raise awareness of the many considerations that must...

Why does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson,...

Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences is a small, engaging book that sits at your desk and gives golden advice. It knows precisely what your questions are, answers them clearly, makes sure you understand, and stops. What an unusual find: a grammar and punctuation guide that speaks...