Language Arts & Disciplines
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Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic LibraryIntegrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library explores how popular culture is used in academic libraries for collections, instruction, and programming. This book describes the foundational basis for using popular culture and discusses how it ignites conversations between librarians and students, making not only...
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The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political EmotionCharts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment. The term "resentment," often casually paired with words like "hatred," "rage," and "fear," has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despite its increased use, this...
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Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and UseAll living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making efficient choices in grammar, lexicon and phonology. It presents a new theory of 'communicative efficiency', the idea...
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Language Creativity: A Semiotic PerspectiveIn Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective, Simone Casini aims to frame the concept of creativity within a linguistic dimension by developing a theoretical reflection with constant references to contact languages and to the educational plan. Semiotic creativity abandons the condition of the linguistic property...
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How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death AcceptanceHow Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was" and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical...
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You Wrote It, Now Go Sell It - 2nd Edition: A Marketing and Promotions Guide For Authors In A Few Simple StepsThis easy to read, quick, no fluff guide gives writers over 30 helpful ideas to help promote their books including: Pre and Post Release Strategies Checklist of release action items Tactics to help build buzz and support for releases The Seven Streams of Income...
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Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and EnglishThis collection bridges disciplinary scholarship from critical language studies, Latinx critical communication, and media studies scholarship for a comprehensive exploration of Spanish-English bilingualism in the US and in turn, elucidating, more broadly, our understanding of bilingualism in a post-digital society.Chapters offer a state-of-the-art on...
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Tesol Teacher Education in a Transnational World: Turning Challenges Into Innovative ProspectsTESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World critically examines theories and practices in contemporary TESOL teacher education to shed new light on the intersection of transnationalism and language teacher education. It emphasizes the scholarship of transnational mobility of language teachers, and showcases critical research...
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Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-Collar WorkplacesThis collection brings together global perspectives which critically examine the ways in which language as a resource is used and managed in myriad ways in various blue-collar workplace settings in today's globalized economy. In focusing on blue-collar work environments, the book sheds further light...
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Institutional Translation and Interpreting: Assessing Practices and Managing for QualityThis collection brings together new insights around current translation and interpreting practices in national and supranational settings. The book illustrates the importance of further reflection on issues around quality and assessment, given the increased development of resources for translators and interpreters. The first part...
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Managing Multilingual Workplaces: Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic PerspectivesThis book sets new trajectories for language-sensitive business and management research and pedagogy. The existence of language plurality characterises these. Empirical studies have been established as important and relevant for contemporary research. It has shifted language-sensitive research from the periphery to the centre of...
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Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written JapaneseImagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions of how language variants influence interpretation of language acts/users have focused on variation in...
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Vocabulary and the Four Skills: Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for Teaching VocabularyThis edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). Each of the four sections presents a skill area with two chapters presented by two leading experts in the...
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MedeaONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIESAuthor: EuripidesPublisher: G&D MediaPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19dISBN: 9781722503857
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5 Choti ChidiyanLearn to count in Hindi (1-5) as 5 little birds are flying away. This book based on a Hindi rhyme, written in English transliteration (with text in Hindi script at the end), is a fun way to introduce Hindi counting to kids.Author: Sugandhi SharmaPublisher:...
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How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby TeamWhile the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and athlete language plays in shaping these relationships remains largely unexplored. This book addresses this gap by examining how every day, authentic language...
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Understanding Personalisation: New Aspects of Design and ConsumptionUnderstanding Personalization: New Aspects of Design and Consumption addresses the global phenomenon of personalization that affects many aspects of everyday life. The book identifies the dimensions of personalization and its typologies. Issues of privacy, the ethics of design, and the designer/maker's control versus the...
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Mary and Mr. Crow Solve a ProblemMary and Mr. Crow Solve a Problem Mr. and Mrs. Crow are shocked when no food is in Mary's bird feeder for them. The Sparrows and Grandma Finch also realize their tasty meals of birdseed are not available. And they know what happened! It's...
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Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry Into the Limits of RhetoricWith language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred, however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that...
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How Writing Works: A Guide to Composing GenresCollege students are expected to master new genres in every course they take. Yet composition instructors can't possibly teach students every genre they will need for their college courses or careers. Instead of telling students how to write a genre, authors Jack and Pryal...
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