Language Arts category: 28677 books
Language in the USA
Themes for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
This textbook provides a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the USA. Through a series of specially commissioned chapters by leading scholars, it explores the nature of language variation in the United States and its social, historical and political significance. The book is divided...
The Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.
‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’
The Washington Post
A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world. The concept of culture – as in the phrase ‘Chinese culture’ – has often been one of the main emphases of Chinese...
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education
From Innovation to Program Building
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education provides the rapidly growing and globalizing field of heritage language (HL) education with a cohesive overview of HL programs and practices relating to language maintenance and development, setting the stage for future work in the field. Driving...
The Writer's Bible
Digital and Print Media: Skills, Promotion, and Marketing for Novelists, Playwrights, and Script Writers. Writing Entertainment Content for the New and Print Media.
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
The Writer's Bible is a popular textbook, guide, and mentor to fiction, entertainment, and nonfiction writers in the new and print media. The book helps writers write their business plan as well as acquire skills.
It's a career planning and writing-skills textbook and a popular book for authors...
The American Television Critic
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Aren’t we all TV critics? It’s a question that overlooks the importance of professional critics whose print and online columns reach large audiences. Their work helps viewers engage with programming and helps shape the conversations that arise. This book covers more than five decades of American...
Humor in the Classroom
A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford in classroom discourse and additional language learning. The book considers the ways...
by Gregory D. Keating
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Starting from the premise that language instruction should be informed by how humans learn language, this module on second language acquisition (SLA) aims to provide teachers at any level with a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the key findings about how second languages are learned in...
Docufictions
Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Through most of the 20th century, the distinction between the fictional narrative film and the documentary was vigorously maintained. The documentary tradition developed side by side with, but in the shadow of, the more commercially successful feature film. In the latter part of the century, however,...
by Angela Leucci
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 28, 2015
"Diario di una giornalista precaria". Quello che le redattrici non dicono. È una dichiarazione aspra e decisa nei confronti di un mestiere, quello della giornalista, che Angela Leucci svolge nel Salento dall'età di diciannove anni.
È un atto d'accusa, un gesto d'amore, un gioco di sguardi....
by Annalisa Bruni, Lucia De Michieli, Anna Toscano
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Aspiranti scrittori e curatrici del corso di narrazione "Cucina di storie" hanno lavorato insieme – spesso combattuto a colpi di virgole – per dare alla luce questi quindici racconti pieni di vita, estremamente diversi, il cui filo conduttore è riscoprire l’umanità nel confronto,...
by Antropoetico
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Quali ragioni spingono un essere umano a diventare un assassino seriale? La cattiveria può avere una giustificazione morale? Un poliziotto, alle calcagna di uno spietato serial killer senza riuscire mai a catturarlo, all'improvviso ne diventa preda in un drammatico gioco psicologico in cui verrà coinvolta la sua famiglia. Scoprirà la verità ma a carissimo prezzo.
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects
Hollywood's Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood’s Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry’s visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced the evolution of viewing pleasures and spectatorship...
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations
Al-Jazeera and Qatars Soft Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. This book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright...