Language Arts category: 28677 books
The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World
Why Language Is at the Center of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The Trinity is a speaking God: three divine persons who share the same essence and commune with each other in love and glory. How does this truth shape the way we view the world and our place in it? The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World explores these questions by presenting all of life through...
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’.
This book serves as a classic introduction to the...
Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity
White Men, Black Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people, using the context of isiXhosa in South Africa. While power in language learning research has traditionally focused on the powerful native speaker and the relatively disempowered learner,...
Into the Newsroom
Exploring the Digital Production of Regional Television News
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Into the Newsroom provides a rigorous investigation into the everyday rituals that are performed in the television newsroom, and offers a unique suggestion that news is both a highly haphazard and yet technologically complicated process of deliberate construction involving the interweaving of reflexive...
Nunca mientas a un idiota
Póker para guionistas y demás escribientes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2012
¿Qué esperas encontrar en Nunca mientas a un idiota? ¿Comedia romántica? ¿Autoayuda? ¿Y si el libro lleva impreso el subtítulo Póker para guionistas y demás escribientes? Este libro tiene algo de juego porque a escribir también se aprende jugando, poniendo al máximo nuestra capacidad de...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called “Indradhanush” (rainbow) in Hindi. It delves into the major challenges involved in developing a WordNet in a multilingual country like India, where the information spread across...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This volume brings together chapters which collectively address issues relating to inclusive language education and technology. Topics include language teaching to the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and students with dyslexia, benefits of multimodal approaches for language learning, examples of software use...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of attentional and visual processes involved in language comprehension. Key concerns include how linguistic and non-linguistic processes jointly determine language comprehension and production and how the linguistic system interfaces with...
The Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language
A Study of Language Use and Attitudes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million members of the Ethiopian Deaf community, but it remains...
Standardizing Minority Languages (Open Access)
Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**
This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language...
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families
Theories and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families: Theories and Contexts brings together an international group of researchers to share their findings on language brokering—when immigrant children translate for their parents and other adults. Given the large amount of immigration occurring worldwide, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This book investigates language disorders in children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English. The chapters in the first section of the volume focus on language disorders associated with four different syndromes in multilingual populations and contexts. This section discusses language...
The Great Mosaic Eye
Embodied Language Evolution and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This is a revised and extended version of the Great Mosaic Eye originally published in 2001. There have been major changes in neuroscience and in language research since then. Apparently disparate segments of research have started to come together and it is necessary to recast both the structure and...
Teaching Languages with Technology
Communicative Approaches to Interactive Whiteboard Use
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This book draws on theories of second language acquisition (SLA) to illustrate how interactive white board technology can be exploited to support language acquisition. It examines interaction, collaboration and negotiation of meaning and focus on form in the communicative language classroom in primary,...