Language Arts & Disciplines

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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain, and Germany, visiting the German lines on both the western and eastern fronts....

This book will equip you with the requisite knowledge and skills you need to join millions of people speaking Nigeria Pidgin-English across Africa and other parts of the world. It will also give you the right pidgin words you could use to promote your...

PSAT Prep 2021 and 2022: Study Guide with Practice Test Questions for the NMSQT Pre SAT College Board Exam [Book Includes Detailed Answer Explanations]College acceptances and scholarships hinge on collenge entrance exam performance. The PSAT exam is the pefect way to begin preparing for...

Shortlisted for the 2022 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and PublishingWinner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize presented by the Research Society for Victorian PeriodicalsIn...

Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the second edition of The Business of Digital Publishing provides an essential introduction to the development of digital products in the book and journal industries today.Offering a fundamental overview of the main technological developments that have influenced the growth...

In this book, early fluent readers will learn how writing can help us focus, examine emotions, and increase mindfulness. Step-by-step instructions help readers write poetry, record thoughts and observations in a nature journal, and practice gratitude and mindfulness by creating a journaling habit. Social...

Author: Jann HuizengaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 07/18/2010Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.30dISBN: 9780194248266

Author: Hardy GouldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 07/01/2019Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.89h x 5.13w x 0.16dISBN: 9780194634441

Perhaps more now than at any other time in modern history, our students need a feeling of connectedness at school. They need to feel seen, heard, understood, and known in our classrooms. And it begins with us. As middle and high school teachers, we...

Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & Linguistics For many people, newspapers are a key source of information on many topics, including issues related to gender and sexuality. Applying a broad range of corpus linguistic methods, Transgender Identities in the Press critically...

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documentary practices enabled by the proliferation of new digital imaging, lightweight and non-operator digital cameras, multiscreen and interactive interfaces, and web 2.0 platforms. These emergent practices encompass digital...

Practical and insightful solutions to the growing problem of academic dishonesty In Cheating Academic Integrity: Lessons from 30 Years of Research, a team of renowned academic integrity experts delivers revealing and practicing insights into the causes of--and solutions to--academic cheating by students. This edited...

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it can be used to...

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. After Eskaya people were first 'discovered' in 1980, visitors described the group as...

Give your young readers the building block to successful learning!Sight Words Workbook is a fun and interactive way for young readers, ages 4-7, to practice sight words. The fun activities inside make it easy for preschoolers, kindergarteners and first graders to learn 50 of...

Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him...

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 03/01/2012Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.30w x 0.50dISBN: 9780194001786

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and...

Once upon a time, there was a student who wanted to learn English...He did everything. He did grammar exercises, he looked at lists of vocabulary, he even tried reading books for native speakers. But nothing worked, and he couldn't progress.Then, one day, he found...