Parents, teachers, and mental health workers will find the answersto these- and many other-questions in this forthright yet compassionate guide to helping your adolescent through the tumultuous teen years.
One in three girls will be in a controlling, abusive dating relationship before she graduates from high school from verbal or emotional abuse to sexual abuse or physical battering.
Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of over 6,000 phrases from book and film titles, idioms and cliches, to nicknames, slogans and quotations with this modern and entertaining guide to wonderful phrases by one of the world's best-known wordsmiths.
By the authors of Cool Names for Babies, and with over 50,000 hugely imaginative entries from around the world, this is the ultimate book of baby names.
A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.
An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.
Guadeloupe gehort zu den franzosischen "e;Altkolonien"e;, die nicht in die Unabhangigkeit entlassen wurden, sondern seit 1946 als "e;Departements d'outre-mer"e; ein Teil des Mutterlandes geworden sind.
An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics.
An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics.
Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Second Edition (COPE) is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the discipline of pragmatics, an important branch of natural language study dealing with the study of language in it's entire user-related theoretical and practical complexity.
The book presents the state-of-the-art in major aspects of text analysis and cognitive text processing by some of the most well-known European and American researchers in the field of text-linguistics and cognitive psychology.
This book is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations.
Rethinking the ethics and politics of translation in the age of AIThe rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translationto allow transparent dialogue across linguistic barriers.
Rethinking the ethics and politics of translation in the age of AIThe rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translationto allow transparent dialogue across linguistic barriers.
The first book to recover the Indigenous aesthetic principles that guided how artists of the Aztec Empire created precious artFor the Nahua people of the Aztec Empire, precious things such as feathers, stones, and goldknown in the Nahuatl language as tlazohtliwere central to their understanding of the material world and their place in it.
The first book to recover the Indigenous aesthetic principles that guided how artists of the Aztec Empire created precious artFor the Nahua people of the Aztec Empire, precious things such as feathers, stones, and goldknown in the Nahuatl language as tlazohtliwere central to their understanding of the material world and their place in it.
