Language Arts category: 28677 books
An African Language Experience
Aspects of the Relationship Between Language and Culture Among the Hausa People of Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The present book is about Hausa linguacultural practices. Its primary goal is to demonstrate aspects of the relationship between Hausa language and culture as it affects northern Nigeria, the territory with the largest concentration of native-Hausa speakers on earth today. Using various examples,...
by Jessie Coleman, Paul Peditto
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Find your voice -- write your unique story that sells! Everyone has a story. Whether it is a drama, thriller, comedy, or horror, writing a screenplay is about finding your voice as a writer and writing your own unique story that will come alive through plays or movies. This book will show you the...
Write What You Don't Know
An Accessible Manual for Screenwriters
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Write What You Don't Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We all write what we know - how could we not? Writing what you don't know and doing it in an informed and imaginative way is what makes the process worthwhile.
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by Vince Iuliano
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
For better or verse, you've always written poetry. Or dabbled in it.
No one ever took you seriously. But one day (you thought), you could be the next Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou.
Well, you can. And it all starts with your very first chapbook.
This is a month of tips, a trainer...
by Gunnar Linning
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (English Department), course: Basics in Applied Semantics, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Everybody who is seriously acquiring a language different...
Beyond Pure Reason
Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic...
by Derek Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology,...
The Origins of Meaning
Language in the Light of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of...
Making Media Content
The Influence of Constituency Groups on Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Making Media Content addresses the development of media content and the various factors and constituencies that influence content, such as advertisers, corporate interests, owners, and advocacy groups. It examines the strategic decision-making of mass media organizations as they determine what content...
by Alex Tz Meng Foo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Is there a skill that can transform a second language into a native language, and the moment we learn it, we can begin to speak a second language like a native speaker?
Welcome to the art of transforming a second language into a native language. This is the transformation skill that will allow you to do just that.
Methods and Methodologies for Language Teaching
The Centrality of Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
**An essential guide for pre-service and in-service English language teachers. **
There are countless theories and approaches to language teaching, and with so many different methodologies available it can be difficult for teachers to weigh up the pros and cons of each – or even to know...
Digital Media
Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Digital media has exploded over the past quarter century, and in particular the past decade. As varieties of digital media multiply, scholars are beginning to examine its origins, organization, and preservation, which present new challenges compared to traditional media. To examine issues from multiple...
by Jim Beaman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Programme Making for Radio offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors focused practical guidelines to the professional techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how specific radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What are today's best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow's speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to...