Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Mark Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Language and Human Nature" exposes a century's worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. It begins by examining the causes of changes in the English vocabulary. These sometimes take the form of new words, but...
Crafting Presence
The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that holds promise for writing students, as well as for achieving a sense of common purpose currently...
Dialect Matters
Respecting Vernacular Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Based on Peter Trudgill's weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, this book has two overall messages. The first is that language is a fascinating and enjoyable phenomenon which not enough people know enough about. The second is that we should not discriminate negatively against individuals...
Television Brandcasting
The Return of the Content-Promotion Hybrid
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Television Brandcasting examines U. S. television’s utility as a medium for branded storytelling. It investigates the current and historical role that television content, promotion, and hybrids of the two have played in disseminating brand messaging and influencing consumer decision-making. Juxtaposing...
Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine
A Comparative Exploration of Discourses in Post-Soviet Russian-Language Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language policy and usage in the postcommunist region have continually attracted wide political, media, and expert attention since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. How are these issues politicized in contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine? This study presents a cross-cultural qualitative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Comment l’espace médiatique (presse, télé, web) façonne-t-il la définition et l’attribution de valeurs pour des entités de toutes sortes ? Au moment où abondent les instruments d’évaluation fondés sur la quantification – des indicateurs aux classements, des hit-parades aux baromètres,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.
Examines...
Language, Mind and Body
A Conceptual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Where is language? Answers to this have attempted to 'incorporate' language in an 'extended mind', through cognition that is 'embodied', 'distributed', 'situated' or 'ecological'. Behind these concepts is a long history that this book is the first to trace. Extending across linguistics, philosophy,...
by Maximilian Mattes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Erfurt (Philosophische Fakultät Institut für Anglistik), course: English as a World Language, language: English, abstract: The present paper puts a focus on the contribution of the Internet genre...
by Danny D. Steinberg, Natalia V. Sciarini
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course.
Cognitive Linguistics explores the...
Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary English Classrooms
Power, Prestige, and Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Standardized tests demand Standard English, but secondary students (grades 6-12) come to school speaking a variety of dialects and languages, thus creating a conflict between students’ language of nurture and the expectations of school. The purpose of this text is twofold: to explain and illustrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing,...
Language as Hermeneutic
A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language in all its modes—oral, written, print, electronic—claims the central role in Walter J. Ong’s acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life’s...
Second Language Acquisition
An Introductory Course
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related...