Language Arts category: 28677 books
Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
An introduction to sign language linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an accessible overview of its grammar (how sentences are structured), phonology (the...
Language and Power
A Resource Book for Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
The progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle? What major language development milestones occur in infancy? What methodologies do researchers...
Creativity and Copyright
Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to...
Fundamentals of Formulaic Language
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This is the first book to address formulaic language directly and provide a foundation of knowledge for graduates and researchers in early stages of study of this important language phenomenon. It is also suitable for students of linguistics, applied linguistics, and language teacher education. The...
The Open Hand
Arguing as an Art of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Based on five years of classroom experimentation, The Open Hand presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentative writing. In his course Arguing as an Art of Peace, Barry Kroll uses the open hand to represent an alternative approach to argument, asking students...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.
The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing field
Features new contributions...
Will the Real Pakistani Woman Please Stand Up?
Empire, Visual Culture and the Brown Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media. Analyzing Hollywood films, British documentaries, newspapers and mainstream U.S. magazines, the book traces sensational female figures of Pakistan—all of whom have been subject to patriarchal violence—highlighting...
Tamil Cinema
The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
Invisible Language
Its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility of language has exercised a far more profound...
by Scott Soames
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical...
Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras
Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn is the first book to link these five filmmakers together through an analysis of the relationship between filming one’s own body and the creative body. Through engaged artistic practices, these female filmmakers turn...
A Life in Storytelling
Anecdotes, Stories to Tell, Stories with Movement and Dance, Suggestions for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A Life in Storytelling contains the reflections and lessons from one of the most noted storytellers of our times. Fifty years of storytelling has provided Binnie Tate Wilkin with the experiences and insights to form the basis of a text for the storyteller, both for the professional librarian, teacher...