Language and Linguistics

This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 OCR A Level English Language specification.

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form *; Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction *; Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes *; Teaches the skill of analogical thinking that is the core perceptual tool for writers *; Explores the subtle techniques of powerful writing, from inducing associational dreaming in the reader, to language symmetry, sound patterning, foreshadowing, feeling flow, and more Approaching writing as a sacred art, Stephen Buhner explores the core of the craft: the communication of deep meaning that feeds not just the mind but also the soul of the reader.

This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn English English Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learningimaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively.

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "e;nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so"e;.

This is the first book to cover the range of research methods currently employed across the field of linguistics.

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000.

The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell.

Jeder von uns hat eine Geschichte zu erzählen, eine Mischung aus gelebten Erfahrungen – guten wie weniger schönen –, die unserem Leben Bedeutung geben und uns als Persönlichkeit ausmachen.

Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English.

The accurate determination of the speech spectrum, particularly for short frames, is commonly pursued in diverse areas including speech processing, recognition, and acoustic phonetics.

Languages are constantly changing.

Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabat addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

A partir dels estudis consolidats i, sobretot, d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu, amb rigor i profusió, la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication.

The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English.

The role of the interpreter at international meetings of politicians and diplomats is a critical one.

This text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students.

Adolescence is a challenging stage for all individuals, especially for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multifaceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city.

Das Interesse für die Anwendung der Valenztheorie auf die deutsche Sprachgeschichte besteht seit etwa fünfzig Jahren.

Machine translation has become increasingly popular, especially with the introduction of neural machine translation in major online translation systems.

The essays in this book deal with a number of problems in the analysis of intensional language - more especially with the analysis of the personal modalities in natural language.

Developing Writing Skills in Arabic is specifically designed for upper-intermediate to advanced students who need to write Arabic for personal, professional and academic purposes.

A comprehensive survey of the quickly developing discipline of cognitive linguistics, its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context.

Luther’s transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature.

This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

The French language is more than just a tool for communication; it has a crucial role to play in how native speakers of French think about the world and about themselves and their culture.

The BBC television series Downton Abbey (2010-2016), highly rated in the UK, achieved cult status among American viewers, harking back to the days when serial dramas ruled the airwaves.

In Twelver Shi'a Islam, the wait for the return of the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, at the end of time, overshadowed the value of actively seeking martyrdom.

A handy 3-in-1 Italian study book: grammar, verbs and vocabulary in one volume, ideal for beginners who need a clear and easy-to-understand Italian reference and revision guide.

No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology.

Die Studie geht der Frage nach, wie „nationale Identität“ im Zeitraum der so genannten Berliner Republik als epistemische Größe sprachlich in Erscheinung tritt.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

LEARN HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL COURSE.