Language Arts & Disciplines
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Easy Hindi: A Complete Language Course and Pocket Dictionary in One (Companion Online Audio, Dictionary and Manga Included)Concise and user-friendly, Easy Hindi: A Complete Language Course and Pocket Dictionary in One is perfect for anyone who wants to learn Hindi--whether on their own or with a teacher. This language learning book is the perfect introduction to Hindi for beginners. It enables...
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The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two LanguagesWhat is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Molière's Don Juan and J. L. Austin,...
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Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume II: Descriptive ApplicationThis is the second volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. The central claim of cognitive grammar is that grammar forms a continuum with lexicon and is fully describable in terms of...
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Ojibwe Discourse MarkersPublished through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Brendan Fairbanks examines the challenging subject of discourse markers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Mille Lacs elder Jim Clark...
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The Indian Sign LanguageIn 1876 and 1877, Captain W. P. Clark commanded a detachment of Indian scouts-including Pawnees, Shoshones, Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Crows, and Sioux-who conversed in sign language. They made requests, relayed information, and told stories with their hands, communicating in a language indispensable for quick understanding...
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Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express SagaThe story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about...
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Synthesizing Gravity: Selected ProseThe first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and...
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Narrative DiscourseAuthor: Gerard GenettePublisher: Cornell University PressPublished: 08/31/1983Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.58w x 0.72dISBN: 9780801492594Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorCuller, Jonathan: - Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. His book, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study...
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Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision MakingThe contributors to this volume explore the communication practices of various stakeholders--interested citizens, grassroots and public interest groups, industry representatives, scientists and technical experts, government agencies, federal regulators--engaged in a variety of environmental decision-making contexts in the U.S. and elsewhere. Included are case studies...
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Walt Kelly and Pogo: The Art of the Political SwampOne of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow's radar. The strip's satire was so biting,...
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Communication Theory Through the AgesCommunication Theory Through the Ages presents communication theory as a journey through history by way of asking engaged questions. Encouraging intellectual vitality, the authors show students step by step how theoretical ideas are interconnected and lead to an increasingly complex understanding of communication. Students...
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Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the WordAre you a word person? A curiosity seeker? An explorer? Take a look at these twenty-six extraordinary individuals for whom love of language is an extreme sport. Step right up and read the genuine stories of writers so intoxicated by the shapes and sound...
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Creative Writing [With Poster]From the bestselling illustrator whose friendly take on science has revolutionized our understanding of everything from the periodic table to the universe, comes a fresh take on creative writing as only Basher can do it. Meet Plot, one of the many 'Schemers and Dreamers'...
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Word Origins... and How We Know Them: Etymology for EveryoneWritten in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the science of etymology, making this little-known field accessible to everyone interested in the history of words. Anatoly Liberman, an internationally...
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Writing Flash Fiction: How to Write Very Short Stories and Get Them Published. *Then Re-Publish Them All Together as a BookWriting flash fiction is a fun, easy way to break into print and quickly establish yourself as a professional author. This book shows you everything you need to write great stories under 1,000 words, as well as how and where to get them published....
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World English 3 with My World English OnlineWith World English, learners experience the world through content and ideas from National Geographic and TED, providing the motivation to talk about what�s most important to them.Author: Christien Lee, Rebecca Tarver Chase, Kristin L. JohannsenPublisher: Heinle ELTPublished: 06/11/2019Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.50w...
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Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical ReaderWith a diverse selection of readings chosen to serve as both models for and springboards into student discussion and writing, Patterns for a Purpose is a rhetorically-arranged reader that encourages thoughtful use of the rhetorical patterns--either alone or in combination--to achieve various writing purposes....
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the LanguageWhy is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth...
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Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good EnglishWhich is preferred - nom de plume, pseudonym, or pen name? What are neologisms, disguised conjunctions, and fused participles? Language enters into almost every part of human life and yet it is all too often misused: directness and clarity disappear in a whirl of...
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In Praise of ProfanityWhen President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude...
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