Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Mary Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
SET READERS FREE TO FEEL YOUR STORYRemember the favorite stories on your “keeper shelf,” and more than likely the first thing that pops vividly to mind are the characters. That’s because truly great stories make readers feel, and standout characters are the primary key to unlocking those...
Japanese Respect Language
When, Why, and How to Use it Successfully: Learn Japanese Grammar, Vocabulary & Polite Phrases With this User-Friendly Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This is a concise and user–friendly book for learning polite spoken Japanese or written Japanese.
Respect language—the special style of polite spoken or written Japanese—is involved almost every exchange of Japanese between one person and another, including the simplest phrases of greeting....
Screenplays
How to Write and Sell Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
An accessible yet comprehensive guide aimed at those with a keen interest in writing feature film screenplaysUsing case studies, creative exercises, and interviews from the industry, this book will guide readers through the necessary stages of writing a screenplay, from finding and developing ideas...
by Ulrich Lins
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as an answer to a widespread...
Children's Learning From Educational Television
Sesame Street and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
At its best, educational television can provide children with enormous opportunities and can serve as a window to new experiences, enrich academic knowledge, enhance attitudes and motivation, and nurture social skills. This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject...
Craic Baby
Dispatches from a Rising Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
From the author of the bestselling Motherfoclóir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year.
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.
What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of syllables, or something more profound? How...
by Ana María Shua
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 11, 2017
En Cómo escribir un microrrelato, Ana María Shua nos da, desde su valiosa experiencia, las claves para llegar desde la primera idea a la obra terminada. Como el material del que se parte es pequeño y frágil, hay riesgo de que se rompa en el proceso. En este género cada palabra tiene el peso de...
by Matthew Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short...
¡Salva al gato! va al cine
Guía para guionistas de todos los argumentos del mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Después del éxito de ¡Salva al gato!, una guía que se convirtió en un clásico entre guionistas profesionales y amateurs, Blake Snyder publicó en 2007 ¡Salva al gato! va al cine. Escrito con la misma agilidad y gracia que su precedente, en él el autor insiste en su teoría de que los verdaderos...
Of Minds and Language
A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. Chapters by leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology are framed...
Learnability and Cognition
The Acquisition of Argument Structure
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive...
From Digital to Analog
«Agrippa» and Other Hybrids in the Beginnings of Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music industries and their enforcement...
Playwriting
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance. It contains a wealth of exercises for amateur and professional playwrights. Usable in a range of contexts, the book works as:
a step-by-step guide to the creation of an individual play
a handy resource for a teacher...
Baby Talk
A Guide to Using Basic Sign Language to Communicate with Your Baby
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Jump-start language and learning skills with this simple and elegant guide to using sign language to communicate with your preverbal baby.
Imagine averting a tantrum because your baby was able to communicate her desire for a favorite toy without tears, or simply sharing in your baby's wonderment...