Language Arts category: 28677 books
Zarma (Djerma) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Niger
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Zarma Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Zarma Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Niger. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning the...
Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language
Pedagogy in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The History of the English Language has been a standard university course offering for over 150 years. Yet relatively little has been written about teaching a course whose very title suggests its prodigious chronological, geographic, and disciplinary scope. In the nineteenth century, History of the...
by John Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how...
Romanian Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Romania
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Romanian Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Romanian Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Romania. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning...
Jola (Diola) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in the Gambia
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Jola Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Jola Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to The Gambia. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning...
Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era
The Struggles for Language Control in the New Order in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case studies presented here examine...
German : Biography of a Language
Biography of a Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant...
A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials
China's Search for a Common Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth...
Speech and Language Challenges
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
More than three million people in the United States stutter. In excess of a million students from ages 3-21 receive school services for speech and language problems. Another five million Americans live with a disability from brain injury, which usually includes communication difficulties. Half a million...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language is integral to the construction of personal, socio-cultural and socio-political identities. Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture closely investigates the relationship between language and identities, offering a comprehensive yet progressive view of how linguistics relates to development...
Language and Identity
Discourse in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings.
Words...
Body Language: How to Read People Instantly, Master Non-Verbal Communication & Analyze People
Analyze People and Body Language, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Learning Body Language Has Never Been This Easy!
**Avoid conflicts, and become a better communicator! **
There are many things in adult life that no one seems to teach you about. Learning experiences may vary, but many valuable life skills seem untaught in the modern education system, and...
Language, Consciousness, Culture
Essays on Mental Structure
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary...
Foundations of Language
Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2002
How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments...