Language Arts & Disciplines

Descubre los secretos de la redacción persuasiva y escribe correos electrónicos y páginas de ventas eficaces.Examinaremos cómo el componente persuasivo y emocional desempeña en la situación actual un papel cada vez más decidido a los ojos del público objetivo. El componente lógico, informativo y...

Bible Translation: An Introductory Course in Translation Principles continues to provide crucial, practical training for those preparing to translate the Bible or contribute to Bible translation in other ways.The fourth edition of this classic textbook is a leading voice in addressing the following developments...

Language learning and translation have always been complementary pillars of multilingualism in the European Union. Both have been affected by the increasing availability of machine translation (MT): language learners now make use of free online MT to help them both understand and produce texts...

This book presents the first systematic linguistic study of Zenodotus' variant readings, showing that he used a version of Homer older than the one used by Aristarchus a century later. Several clues point to the fact that Zenodotus' version belongs to a tradition that...

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this...

VR occupies an interesting place in the media ecosystem. On the one hand, it is an emerging, 'cutting-edge' technology backed by billions of USD by major corporations. On the other hand, VR is older than the World Wide Web and older than social networking...

A series of poetic probes and philosophical musings based on 7 pechakucha presentations, and featuring 140 original collage illustrations, Massaging the Medium features famed poet Adeena Karasick at her best: incisive, insightful, ironic, illuminating, and always devoted to free play and humorous juxtapositions as...

What makes political speech powerful? How does eloquent rhetoric transcend ordinary language? Which stylistic choices allow effective orators to stir emotions and spur action? And in the age of Donald Trump, does political eloquence still matter?This book examines a wide swath of political discourse...

Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a...

This collection, edited by Daniel S. Strasser, was unearthed from the demand for more inclusive and expansive dialogues on intersectional identities, ethnicity, neuro-diversity, physical ability, religion, sexual orientation, class, and gender performance in academia. The autoethnographic and narrative accounts within Communication and Identity in...

Electing Madam Vice President presents the presidential bids of the six women who ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and the historic, groundbreaking vice-presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris. When Vice President Kamala Harris and her family moved...

This is the first in-depth typological research into how the grammatical encoding of information source, that is, evidentiality, functions in Qiangic languages.Author: Junwei BaiPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/30/2022Pages: 92Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9789004526266This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

Now a sprawling video game franchise, Resident Evil has kept us on the edge of our seats for decades with its tried-and-true brand of jump scares, zombie action, and biological horror. But even decades after its release, we can't stop revisiting the original's thrills,...

The process of exchanging and imparting information to large segments of the population using mass media technologies is called mass communication. The key objective of this discipline is to develop an understanding about the effects of information dissemination technologies on the opinions and attitudes...

★This stunning book contains the BSL signs for: ✓Santa, ✓Snow, ✓Merry Christmas, ✓Christmas tree, ✓Elf, ✓Angel, ✓Card, ✓Reindeer and more.✓This book is suitable also for teens and adults that care for others that communicate using the sign language.♥Get the perfect gift for your loved...

This practical resource takes educators through a planning process--from selecting standards to designing learning activities--that weaves together language, literacy, and science in ways that are responsive to emergent bilinguals. Drawing on extensive and current research, the authors show how secondary educators can use students'...

Poems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power. Written for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, Poetry as Spellcasting reveals the ways poetry and ritual can,...

So practical and easy: this transformed my relationships at work and at home." Lisa, NHS Director. The Kinder Feedback Method helps you have the conversations that matter most, in the relationships that mean the most. We are told some conversations are just plain difficult....

Since the inception of Translation Studies in the 1970s, its researchers have held regular metareflections. Largely based on the assessment of translation and interpreting as two distinct but related modes of language mediation, each with its own research culture, these intradisciplinary debates have sought...

In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an animate thing of shifting...