Language Arts category: 28677 books
No Uncertain Terms
More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
There is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist William Safire.
For many people, the first item on the agenda for Sunday morning is to sit down and read Safire's "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine, then to compose a "Gotcha" letter...
by Catherine Nichols, David Bowell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Learning a new language is easier than you think! This informative book teaches you the basics of American Sign Language.
It's the third most used language in the United States--and yet it's “spoken” without even opening your mouth! It's estimated that as many as two million Americans speak...
For the Love of Language
An Introduction to Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language is essential to human life, both as a basic social necessity and also as a powerful and complex social resource. For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction to the workings of language and the role of linguistics in investigating its fundamental...
by Glenn Fulcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.
This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments,...
Plain Language and Ethical Action
A Dialogic Approach to Technical Content in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Plain Language and Ethical Action examines and evaluates principles and practices of plain language that technical content producers can apply to meet their audiences’ needs in an ethical way. Applying the BUROC framework (Bureaucratic, Unfamiliar, Rights-Oriented, and Critical) to identify situations...
by Daniel L. Everett
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet."
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth?...
Doing English Language
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Doing English Language provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of English Language studies for readers who are interested in taking courses at university level.
This book addresses the fundamental questions about studying English Language, including:
How is...
by Leroy Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Body Language
27 Essential Steps to Understand and Interpret Body Language Signals
Body language is one of the most immediately affecting ways to build trust, take control of situations, make money, and even find love. And yet itís taken for granted in spite of its incredible power....
Russian (Kyrgyz Republic) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan)
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Russian (Kyrgyz Republic) Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Russian (Kyrgyz Republic) Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to the Kyrgyz Republic. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect...
Language and Woman's Place
Text and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years,...
You Are What You Speak
Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
"An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus
What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world...
Setswana (Tswana) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Setswana Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Setswana Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Botswana. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning...
Azerbaijani Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Azerbaijan
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Azerbaijani Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Azerbaijani Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Azerbaijan. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested...
The Language Parallax
Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Humankind has always been fascinated and troubled by the way languages and dialects differ. Linguistically based differences in point of view have preoccupied many original minds of the past, such as Kant, and remain at the forefront of language study: in philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism,...