Language Arts & Disciplines

This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses...

Research has shown that families and schools that partner together improve literacy outcomes for their students. Family literacy includes homework and shared book reading but goes beyond these school-to-home activities to encompass family-generated practices. These literacies include family connections around activities such as cooking,...

Anthony Hewitson was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press, provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1862 and 1912, lift the veil of anonymity hiding the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian...

A wide-ranging bounty of poetry spanning two decades, this new collection includes An Altitude Within (2010), the twelve-part verse monologue the saga of fnc gull (2009), with illustrations here by Isobel MacGillivray, Redomones, and Eye to the Future (2016), Riding to Trapalanda (2018), Walking...

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of four decades between 1980...

PREFACECHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1.1 Background1.2 Summary of ChaptersCHAPTER 2: RELIANCE ON INTUITIONS: 2.1 The Received View2.2 The Task?2.3 Experimental Semantics 2.4 "Cartesianism"2.5 A Priori Knowledge?2.6 Embodied Theory?2.7 Competence as a Skill2.8 Intuitions as Empirical Judgments2.9 Rejecting "Voice of Competence"2.11 ConclusionCHAPTER 3: THE SEMANTICS-PRAGMATICS DISTINCTION3.1 Introduction3.2...

Being a writer is hard. Nobody denies that. It is one of the toughest, most unforgiving career paths one can choose, and at the end of the day, only the strong (and lucky) survive. But then, why do people still do it? This collection...

Completely content to have onlythe warmth from the blanket of starsoutside your house and in my side-pocket, self-sabotage- In I Only Speak Catharsis, author Abi Nosrati explores the intersection of inner and outer human identity. She looks inside the struggles of love, friendship, and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The very moment you meet someone, you already have a vague idea of what will happen in the relationship. And the emotion that arises from that initial look is equal to the importance that this person will take on in your life. What if,...

Monument des sciences humaines, le Cours de linguistique générale, publié en 1916, a bouleversé les sciences du langage, mais aussi l'anthropologie, la préhistoire, l'ethnologie, la sociologie, la psychologie ou la psychanalyse, et jusqu'à notre vision de l'être humain. Mettant l'accent sur la dimension relationnelle...

Dieses Buch ""Moderne Geister: Literarische Bildnisse aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert "" wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als wichtig angesehen, und damit dieses Werk niemals vergessen wird, haben wir uns bemüht, es zu bewahren, indem wir dieses Buch in einem modernen Format für gegenwärtige und...

The world is an amazing place.Get up close with Look, a seven-level series for young learners of English.See something real with amazing photography, authentic stories and video, and inspiring National Geographic Explorers.Help learners make connections in English between their lives and the world they...

Become a more sophisticated thinker with THINKING CRITICALLY, which teaches you a surefire process for developing the thinking abilities you need for academic and career success. First, you'll build your confidence by learning and practicing basic skills related to your personal experiences. Next, you'll...

Author: Paul DummettPublisher: National Geographic SocietyPublished: 12/22/2016Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781337104166About the AuthorDummett, Paul: - Paul Dummett is a teacher and writer based in Oxford, UK, where he ran his own school teaching English to professionals from 1996 to...

Many experts dive deep into the field of color psychology - with incredible books that show color's theory, history and science. But they've missed one of the most important truths of color as it relates to human beings: That color itself is a language.It...

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena. The morphological complexity and phonological length that are characteristic of words in these languages make them a particularly fruitful ground...

A new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropriation. Remix--or the practice of recombining preexisting content--has proliferated across media both digital and analog. Fans celebrate it as a revolutionary new creative...

What happens when learning is approached as a transaction between teachers, students, texts, and methods? Based on classroom action research conducted in a diverse suburban school district, the author shares a framework that encourages teachers to approach their work with a restorative mindset by...

A sublime book of thirty-one poems written by Frater Achad. This edition has been fully and completely digitally remastered to be as close to the now out of print original. It is not a cheap scan or PDF, it is a loving work of...