Mastering the four arguments

Learning to think well means learning to argue well. But it’s not easy: Teachers often say they spend more time teaching students how to write than covering their subject, and students often wonder what all the fuss is about. What’s the point when AI has all the answers anyway?The truth is that w...

Frederick douglass’s newspapers

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizingA robust body of work has established the importance of print in general, and newspapers in particular, to African American culture in the 1800s. Such work regularly acknowledges Frederick D...

Reading media

Innovative methods in textual analysis to decode today’s ever-expanding media landscapeReading Media: How to do Textual Analysis reinvigorates one of media and cultural studies’ most foundational methods at a moment when it is most needed, showing its continuing vitality by adapting it to new med...

No-prep activity cards for english language teaching: literacy

Discover fun and engaging ways to boost the reading skills of your multilingual learners of English with No-Prep Activity Cards for English Language Teaching: Literacy! Choose from 100 quick activities designed to build English language literacy skills in elementary school learners. Cards are di...

How to keep your language alive

Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring new speakers will take the place...

Planet digital

Explores how digitalization has transformed global media entertainment and the making of popular culturesIn the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed, reshaping culture on a planetary scale. Yet the story o...

Racial exhaustion

How to build stamina to confront racial exhaustion and communicate differently about raceIn the wake of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many Americans—regardless of race—find themselves exhausted by conversations about race and racism. People of color continue to bear the weight of ...

New ways in teaching business english

This volume offers more than 80 ready-to-use activities for the business English classroom, specifically selected to represent the diversity that is driving innovation in business English teaching today. The contributors come from a variety of teaching contexts around the world, including tertia...

Plain style

Plain Style is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism, The True and Only Heaven, and many other memorable works of American history and social criticism. Written for the benefit of the students at the University of Ro...

Sociolinguistics and language teaching

A language teacher's role is not only critical in teaching a language, but also in teaching the cultures and societies that surround the language. Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching looks at the relationship between language and society and the importance of showing language in a real social ...

Occupied words

How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousand...

Poisoned relations

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered...

New ways in teaching grammar, second edition

Unsure of how to include creativity and project-based learning in grammar lessons? The second edition of this best-selling book includes updated activities and new contributions that cover a wide range of teaching techniques—from introducing a specific grammar point to providing meaningful, conte...

Applying linguistics in health research, education, and policy

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The new science of scientific writing

A revision and expansion of Gopen's highly acclaimed and widely influential 1990 American Scientist article "The Science of Scientific Writing," this book introduces the Reader Expectation Approach — how writers need to understand certain expectations of readers in order to control both the write...

Sign language ideologies in practice

Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars, theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied studies on sign languages...

History and applications

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Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche erinnerungsforschung

Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Grundlagen, Schwerpunkten und Perspektiven der Beschäftigung mit kommunikativem Erinnern und medialem Gedächtnis. Damit erschließen seine Beiträge das Feld kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Erinnerungsforschung und verknüpfen es mit komplemen...

Cinematic metaphor

Metaphors in audiovisual media receive increasing attention from film and communication studies as well as from linguistics and multimodal metaphor research. The specific media character of film, and thus of cinematic metaphor, remains, however, largely ignored. Audiovisual images are all too fre...

Libraries empowering society through digital literacy

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of th...

Teaching reading, revised edition

Do you think that taking their own vocabulary tests helps students learn the words? This reflective question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press’s best-selling Teaching Reading, which explores different approaches to teaching reading in secon...

Concepts of humans and nature in historical perspective

The "Graduiertenkolleg 1876" in Mainz examined how concepts of humans and nature developed in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe from 100,000 BC to the Middle Ages. The aim of the conference papers collected in this volume is to study such fundamental components of concepts of humans and t...

Inside knowledge

2025 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleA powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced itInside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the writings collected in the American Pr...

New ways in teaching reading, revised

This revised edition of New Ways in Teaching Reading bursts with new activities while retaining many of the features that made the first edition a best seller. The activities chosen for this edition are inspired by state-of-the art trends in teaching reading to English learners. Teachers now fin...

The medieval culture of disputation

Scholastic disputation, the formalized procedure of debate in the medieval university, is one of the hallmarks of intellectual life in premodern Europe. Modeled on Socratic and Aristotelian methods of argumentation, this rhetorical style was refined in the monasteries of the early Middle Ages and...

Battlefield linguistics

This volume addresses the politicization of linguistic features indexing sexual and gender non-normativity at the phonological, morphological, and discursive levels. In the context of masculinist, heteronormative, and transphobic backlash around the world, these groundbreaking studies adopt queer...

On revival

A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literatureOn Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” or the idea that Hebrew—a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century—was revitalized as part of a broader nati...

Semiotic investigations

Summarizing his life-long engagement with the field of semiotics and extending this with cognitive science and phenomenology into the transdisciplinary science of cognitive semiotics, the author asks key questions like: What is meaning in general and sign use in particular? What is specific about...

Correspondence

Peirceana provides a forum for the best current work on Peirce worldwide. Besides monographs, the series publishes thematically unified anthologies and edited volumes with a defined topical focus and untranslated English selections of Peirce’s writings.

Forms of talk

Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned him in his work on frame analysis. This boo...

Excavating the castle

Excavating the Castle demonstrates that the serious and respectable historiography of the Gothic begins not in 1921 but in the early nineteenth century and that the Gothic concept crystallized more than half a century earlier than historians of the Gothic had realized previously. 

Preserving useful knowledge

This book traces the history of collections care at the American Philosophical Society (APS) as revealed through its minute books, treasurers’ receipts, and librarians’ correspondence. It also examines the physical evidence presented by books and documents that were repaired by former restorers a...

Terrible stuff damaging everybody

The definitive story of Dominion v. Fox, the battle over election lies that changed the future of democracyDominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network is the watershed media case of the century. After an onslaught of attacks by several Fox News hosts and guests insisting that Dominion’s voting ma...

Even the terrible things seem beautiful to me now

An updated collection of more than 150 columns from Mary Schmich, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist whose column appears in the Chicago Tribune.

Beacons in the darkness

Earnest, intimate reporting on the vanishing terrain of community newspapers across America, and the proud few that are still standing guard.

Kinesics and context

Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these cod...

Rhetorical minds

As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.

Relative points of view

The relationship between language and various kinds of non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The authors in this volume explore this relations...

Doing conceptual history in africa

Focuses on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. An emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. Engages with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” ta...

Collecting educational media

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.

Cambridge primary english workbook 1 second edition

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education- Reinforce learning, deepen understanding and encourage self-reflection in practical workbook activities.- Provide extra practice and self-assessment: Each Workbook is intended to be used by the learner for practice ...

Literary analysis for english literature for the ib diploma

Build confidence in a range of key literary analysis techniques and skills with this practical companion, full of advice and guidance from experienced experts.- Build analysis techniques and skills through a range of strategies, serving as a useful companion throughout the course - from critical-...

Culture figures

Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie th...

Empty signs, historical imaginaries

Rhetoric and social relations

Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinati...

Tropological thought and action

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnog...

Language and identity politics

A sophisticated look at the complicated relationship between language and identity. Describes the growing political salience of questions relating to language. Considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America.

Communication

Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all f...

Yiddish transformed

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflection...

Astonishment and evocation

International scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. Covers the evocative power of visual ar...

Dictionary of authentic american proverbs

Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliogra...

Irish/ness is all around us

A detailed ethnography of Irish-speaking and Irish-speakers in contemporary west Belfast Sheds new light on the issues attending language revivalism in Ireland and its intersection with historic conflict in N.Ireland Explores the complexities of changing and contradictory senses of I...

The rhetorical emergence of culture

“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of ...

English corpus phonetics and phonology

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features vo...

Estructuras de predicación y alternancia de cópula

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied  Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality mo...

Kant’s place

This series publishes outstanding monographs and edited volumes that investigate all aspects of Kant’s philosophy, including its systematic relationship to other philosophical approaches, both past and present. Studies that appear in the series are distinguished by their innovative nature and abi...

Chiasmus and culture

Uses the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation Provides first book-length study of chiastic thought Contributors explore what chiasmus reveals about the world, cultural patterns, human relations, psychology, and artistic an...

Abriss der althochdeutschen grammatik

Der ‚Abriss der althochdeutschen Grammatik‘ ist als erste sprachgeschichtliche Einführung in das Studium des Althochdeutschen und Altsächsischen gedacht und auf sprachgeschichtlicher Grundlage aufgebaut. Die 16. Auflage stellt eine Neubearbeitung und Aktualisierung dar, die den Bedürfnissen ...

Historische pragmatik und diskurstraditionen des gesprächs

Diskurstraditionen sind ein Kernkonzept historischer Pragmatik, die Sprachgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte erforscht. Im Zentrum stehen Traditionen, die in altspanischen Texten die Gestaltung von Fragen und Antworten im Gespräch anleiten. In Engführung mit linguistisch-philologischen Studien wird ...

Buchgeschichte

Das moderne Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen setzt sich mit vielfältigen Anforderungen auseinander und entwickelt sich ständig weiter. Die Reihe Bibliotheks- und Informationspraxis greift neue Themen und Fragestellungen auf und will mit Informationen und Erfahrungen aus der Praxis dazu beitrage...

Sprachphilosophie / philosophy of language / la philosophie du langage. 7

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "SPRACHPHILOSOPHIE (DASCAL U.A.) 2.TLBD HSK 7.2" verfügbar.

Language and literature for the ib myp 1

Exam Board: IBLevel: MYPSubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Language and Literature presented in globa...

Extended essay for the ib diploma: skills for success

Exam Board: IBLevel: IBSubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: August 2016First Exam: May 2018Build confidence in a range of key essay writing techniques and skills with this practical companion, full of advice and guidance from experienced EE experts.· Build essay writing techniques and skills through a...

Ai characters

It has become something of a cliché to introduce theoretical explorations of characters in contemporary culture by noting their ubiquity. Yet, it remains true that characters are represented in a broad range of media forms that includes literary texts, plays, comics, films, television series, and...

A grammar of coastal marind

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A reference grammar of caijia

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A grammar of gurindji

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A grammar of modern baba malay

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A grammar of seenku

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A grammar of bunaq

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Language contact and change in chinese

The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned a...

A grammar of belep

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Language families in contact

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The influence of english on italian

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A grammar of karbi

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A grammar of sierra popoluca

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Board games in the clil classroom

The present book explores how modern board gaming and language teaching can be beneficially combined to achieve optimal impact. Modern board games have a lot to offer language learners and teachers, and they should play a much more significant role in what has been labelled "Content and Language...

A grammar of kunbarlang

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A grammar of ngardi

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is ...

Binominal lexemes in cross-linguistic perspective

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