Language Arts category: 28677 books
Developing Reading and Writing in Second-Language Learners
Lessons from the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
A Co-Publication of Routledge, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the International Reading Association
This book is a shorter version of *Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners, *reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. This...
Gorgeous Beasts
Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and...
Docudrama on European Television
A Selective Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by investigative journalism, television docudrama examines key events and personalities in unfolding national histories. Post-Fall...
Raccontarla giusta
Domande e risposte sulla scrittura
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2017
"Ok, ho deciso. Sono qui, davanti a questa pagina bianca, che fa paura a tanta gente (o così dicono). Voglio scrivere. Voglio raccontare. E non posso fare a meno di chiedermi da dove partire".
Inizia così Raccontarla giusta. Domande e risposte sulla scrittura il manuale pensato per chi...
Theophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists
Art Journalism of the Second Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Theophile Gautier a envoye avec un feuilleton plus de trois mille personnes dans latelier de M. Ingres, wrote Champfleury in 1848. For artists, critics and readers alike, Gautier was the essential figure in French art journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. During the short-lived but pivotal...
by Rib Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Strong characters – characters we love and hate, those we despair for at their low moments and egg on to their triumphs – are the foundation of any successful script. Written by award-winning writer Rib Davis and now fully updated for its second edition, Creating Compelling Characters for Film,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language. It responds to a rapidly growing interest in the Chinese language all over the world, and answers the need for a strong research background for the discipline. Without that, Chinese...
Proust Writing Photography
Fixing the Fugitive in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The importance of vision and visual arts such as painting, theatre, and sculpture in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu has long been affirmed; another significant system of visual representation in the novel is photography. Proust appropriated photography as a practice with its own distinctive...
Language in the Media
Representations, Identities, Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Examining the ways in which the media represents language-related issues and how it shapes and constructs what people think language is, this book offers a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media.
Tackling the big issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship,...
by Urszula Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a...
Portuguese Modernisms
Multiple Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time...
From Elvish to Klingon
Exploring Invented Languages
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
How are languages invented? Why are they invented? Who uses them? What are the cultural effects of invented languages? This fascinating book looks at all manner of invented languages and explores the origins, purpose, and usage of these curious artefacts of culture. Written by experts in the field,...
Media Edge
Media Logic and Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. More of our everyday lives and social institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates through conversation, interaction, marketing, as well...
by J. Macgregor Wise
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017
Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should feel about it, and what, if anything, can we do? Surveillance and Film is an engaging and accessible...