Language Arts & Disciplines
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Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign LanguageIn the sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. Such spatial uses of signs are an obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing. There is no parallel for...
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American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams"A fascinating portrait of activism deepened and sustained by Herculean labors of research and investigation."--The Nation Historian Kevin Starr described Carey McWilliams as "the finest nonfiction writer on California--ever" and "the state's most astute political observer." But as Peter Richardson argues, McWilliams was also...
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Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth SlangSpectacular vernacular--delivered with fresh flavor.--PlayboyHang with this slang and reep these righteous words! This entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans, tracing slang terms and expressions from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. In addition to alphabetical...
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One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022Following the significant advance of English in Ireland during the 18th century, the restoration of Irish as the vernacular language formed a key part of a broad cultural Revival movement from the late 19th century. Many of those who fought figuratively or literally for...
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Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the ArtA follow-up to the highly praised Poets Teaching Poets, Daniel Tobin and Pimone Triplett's Poet's Work, Poet's Play gathers together essays by some of the most important voices in contemporary poetry: Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Tony Hoagland, Heather McHugh, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Eleanor Wilner,...
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Connecting Reading & Writing in Second Language Writing InstructionIn this substantively revised new edition, Hirvela moves beyond the argument he made in the first edition of the value of connecting reading and writing. This new edition explains various dimensions of those connections and offers a fresh look at how to implement them...
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Making News at the New York TimesMaking News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation's, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It presents a lively chronicle of months spent in the newsroom observing daily conversations, meetings, and journalists at work....
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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of GrammarWhether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now...
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Speed Reading: Third EditionFrom the bestselling author of The Mind Map Book and Use Both Sides of Your Brain, dramatically increase your reading speed, comprehension, and retentionTony Buzan, world-famous expert in the field of the brain and the inventor of Mind Mapping, has gained international recognition with...
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Super Reading SecretsDevised by the man recorded in Guinness as the world's fastest reader--80 pages per minutes--this is the only program that combines the most up-to-date learning techniques and psychological discoveries with proven speed-reading methods and ancient tools like meditation to significantly improve both reading speed...
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Key Readings in JournalismKey Readings in Journalism brings together over thirty essential writings that every student of journalism should know. Designed as a primary text for undergraduate students, each reading was carefully chosen in response to extensive surveys from educators reflecting on the needs of today's journalism...
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Norwegian: A Comprehensive Grammar: A Comprehensive GrammarNorwegian: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Norwegian (the Bokmål standard). The Grammar is an essential source for the serious student of Norwegian, and for students of comparative linguistics. It is ideal for use in colleges, universities and adult classes...
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Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for getting publishedIt's not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider's perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique...
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An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and MethodDiscourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee's unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of...
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Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension: A handbookThe ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of reading comprehension in recent years but despite this there is...
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The Joy of Syntax: A Simple Guide to All the Grammar You Know You Should KnowLanguage columnist June Casagrande presents a fun and breezy guide to everything a grown-up interested in grammar needs to know. When it comes to grammar, it seems like everyone--even die-hard word nerds--feel they missed something in school. The Joy of Syntax picks up where...
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Textual Editing and Criticism: An IntroductionThis book introduces undergraduate and beginning graduate students to the field and provides them with a broad range of examples and materials for hands-on practice. Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction is concerned with both the history of the text and the aesthetic and...
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The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and PracticeIn 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. In short, essayistic chapters and an appendix of thirty stimulating exercises, The Art of...
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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the InternetHere is an intellectual extravaganza, a dazzling history of the key institutions that have shaped and channeled knowledge in the West from the classical period to the present. Fashioned with elegance and wit, this exhilarating survey carries us through the pivotal points of institutional...
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A Writer's Time: Making the Time to WriteExpanding his focus now, Kenneth Atchity adds a substantial new chapter, Breaking into Show Business, and new material about recapturing the high of creativity and maintaining confidence despite setbacks. He shows you how to transform anxiety into productive elation, how to separate vision from...
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