Language Arts category: 28677 books
Translation and Language Education
Pedagogic Approaches Explored
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities.
In this book, Sara Laviosa proposes a translation-based pedagogy that is grounded in theory and has been...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics—also known as structuralism—is one of the major...
Roc the Mic Right
The Language of Hip Hop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Complementing a burgeoning area of interest and academic study, Roc the Mic Right explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). With its status convincingly argued as the best means by which to read Hip Hop culture, H. Samy Alim then focuses on discursive practices, such as...
Sound Advice
Voiceover from an Audio Engineer's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
I've written this book to give you a sound engineer's perspective on your career as a voiceover talent.
In this book I've tried to provide you with basic information about audio and equipment that is taught in recording schools. Hopefully, this information will provide a foundation for you...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Innovations in music technology bring with them a new set of challenges for describing and understanding the electroacoustic repertoire. This edited collection presents a state-of-the-art overview of analysis methods for electroacoustic music in this rapidly developing field. The first part of the...
by Roberto Schaefer, Lindsay Coleman, Ceri Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices....
The Truth about Language
What It Is and Where It Came From
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident—a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products of those brains) become increasingly complex.
But...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
An American Sign Language Guide helps someone trying to learn sign language, by allowing the person to study at their own pace and in their own time. Also, an American Sign Language Guide allows the person who is wanting to learn Sign Language to study anywhere that is convenient for them. This could...
Sign Language
Speedy Study Guides
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A Sign Language study guide is a tool that accompanies a basic course in American Sign Language. It is designed to contain drills featuring sentences in order to give the student an effective way to practice speaking this language. A study guide for Sign Language reinforces the lessons already learned,...
Law and Language
Current Legal Issues Volume 15
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought....
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children
When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the...
Screenplay and Narrative Theory
The Screenplectics Model of Complex Narrative Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Screenplay and Narrative Theory draws attention to the notion that in order to comprehend complex narrative dynamics, which are encountered in a great variety of narrative genres, forms, and formats, a more comprehensive theory of narrative is required. George Varotsis explains how a work of narrative...
Situated Language and Learning
A Critique of Traditional Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Why do poor and minority students under-perform in school? Do computer games help or hinder learning? What can new research in psychology teach our educational policy-makers?
In this major new book, Gee tackles the 'big ideas' about language, literacy and learning, putting forward an integrated...
Once Upon A Time It Was Now
The Arts & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there.
Learning...