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English for Everyone English Idioms, Vocabulary Builder, Phrasal Verbs 3 Book Box Set - Paperback

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by DK (Author)Build your fluency and confidence in English with this fun, engaging, and easy-to-use self-study program.Want to brush up on your English idioms? Always caught out by phrasal verbs? Or are you just looking to expand your English vocabulary? With three visual guides to the most common and useful English words and expressions, this beautifully packaged box set will teach you all the language you really need to know and make your English more fluent and natural. The books in this E...

Translating the Crisis: Politics and Culture in Spain After the 15m - Paperback

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by Fruela Fernández (Author)Translating the Crisis discusses the multiple translation practices that shaped the 15M movement, also known as the indignados ('outraged'), a series of mass demonstrations and occupations of squares that took place across Spain in 2011 and which played a central role in the recent global wave of popular protest. Through a study of the movement's cultural and intellectual impact, as well as some of its main political evolutions (namely Podemos and Barcelona en Comú...

Los castellanos del Perú: historia, variación y contacto lingüístico - Paperback

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by Luis Andrade Ciudad (Editor), Sandro Sessarego (Editor)Este libro reúne contribuciones de destacados investigadores de la lingüística hispánica para ofrecer un panorama integral de los castellanos del Perú, incluidos algunos que han sido tradicionalmente objeto de discriminación, como el castellano andino, el amazónico y el afroperuano. Los capítulos se concentran en diferentes variedades habladas en el Perú desde distintos enfoques teóricos y metodológicos, atendiendo a su formación, su c...

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity - Paperback

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by Reem Bassiouney (Editor), Keith Walters (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more generally and Arabic and identity in particular.Split into three parts, covering 'Identity and Variation', 'Identity and Politics' and 'Identity Globalisation and Diversity', it is the first of its ki...

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics: Foundations and Interfaces - Paperback

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by Dale A. Koike (Editor), J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them. 　 Written by a diverse set of experts in the field, the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics, the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three ...

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by S. C. Cunningham (Author)WRITE THAT BOOK... It's easier than you think! Do you need to successfully write, publish, and market an eBook or novel?Are you launching a product, starting a business, or beginning a new career? 'Write That Book' is the must-read kick-start for aspiring writers. Giving succinct, no-nonsense, courage, dispelling fears, and providing the tools you need to begin your writer's life. A walkthrough: the killer idea, research, word count, outline arc, characterization, ...

Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Goldberg (Author), Chris Gavaler (Author)This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of revision concerning works of fiction, fact, and faith, revealing unexpected insights about the philosophy of language, the metaphysics of fact and fiction, and the history and philosophy of science and religion.Using the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien as exemplars, the authors introduce a fundamental...

Delicious Words: East Asian Food Words in English - Paperback

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by Jieun Kiaer (Author)As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven at an unprecedented speed and across an impressive scope, so too is the world of food, allowing the English language to develop an ever-widening culinary vocabulary. This book examines the lives of such words in today's discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign - particularly East Asian - influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a modern transcultural envi...

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States: The Limits of Toleration - Paperback

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by Chris Demaske (Author)Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights toward a more positive support of social equality. Drawing on Axel Honneth's theory of recognition, the author develops a two-tiered framework for free speech analysis that will promote a strategy for combating hate sp...

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Co - Paperback

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by Keith Lloyd (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics offers a broad and comprehensive understanding of comparative or world rhetoric, from ancient times to the modern day. Bringing together an international team of established and emergent scholars, this Handbook looks beyond Greco-Roman traditions in the study of rhetoric to provide an international, cross-cultural study of communication practices around the globe. With dedicated sections covering theory and practice,...

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common - Hardcover

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by Jenell Johnson (Author)Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.Author Biography Jenell Johnson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of American Lobotomy and has edited or coedited numerous volumes, including The Neuroscientific Turn, Biocitizenship, Rhetoric...

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Grounded Literacies in a Transnational Wac/Wid Ecology: A Korean-U.S. Study - Paperback

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by Jay Jordan (Author)In this book, Jay Jordan draws from WAC/WID, second language writing, rhetoric and composition, and scholarship on English teaching and learning in South Korea to describe the ways writing as a privileged literate activity shapes and is shaped by the development of one university's transnational campuses. Through grounded analysis of three years of student and faculty surveys and interviews, writing samples, observations, and through personal narrative about the author's...

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback

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by Dani Shapiro (Author)"Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between."--Jennifer Egan From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation...

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21 Days to Awaken the Writer Within: Find Joy in Creative Writing and Discover Your Unique Voice - Paperback

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by Lisa Fugard (Author)Discover insightful guidance, tools and techniques to become a skilled writer and learn how to share your work with the world. How do you sustain your ideas and overcome self-doubt in your talents? How do you transmit your ideas so that the world will take notice? What techniques can you use to create discipline and make your writing sessions a joy? We live in exciting times: anyone with an idea can reach a worldwide audience, but how do you separate yourself from the t...

Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication - Paperback

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by Xinren Chen (Author)There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is often (de)constructed and negotiated in communication in order to impact the outcome of the interaction. Filling an important gap in current research, this book offers the first systematic, pragmatic theory to account for the generative mechanisms of identity in communication.Using data drawn from real-life communicative contexts in China, Xinren Chen examines why identity strategies are adopted, how and w...

How To Write A Successful Series: Writing Strategies For Authors - Hardcover

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by Helen B. Scheuerer (Author)Do you want to learn how to design a series that will hook readers for life and set you up for long term success?Whether you're a new or experienced writer, How To Write A Successful Series is a comprehensive guide that will have you writing addictive, bestselling book series that lay the foundation for a lucrative career.In How To Write A Successful Series, you'll learn: The REAL reasons you should write in a series How to approach a series from the start (for ...

How To Write A Successful Series: Writing Strategies For Authors - Paperback

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What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything - Hardcover

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by Philippe Schlenker (Author)How meaning works--from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music--and how meaning is connected to truth. We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how m...

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Atlas de Las Emociones Humanas / The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty -154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel - Paperback

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by Tiffany Watt (Author)156 emociones que has sentido, que no sabes si has sentido, o que nunca antes has podido nombrar en tu idioma. Una enciclopedia de emociones alegre y bien pensada, a la vez amplia y exageradamente específica, de distintas épocas y todas partes del mundo. Cómo te sientes hoy? Tu corazón tiembla con impaciencia? Sientes el estómago tenso de los nervios? Te estás enamorando? Tienes la piel de gallina? Te sientes ansioso con iktsuarpok o lleno de nakhes? Investigaci...

Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese Using Language Sample Analysis - Paperback

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by Anita Mei-Yin Wong (Author)Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese using Language Sample Analysis brings together 20 years of research on typical development and Development Language Disorder (DLD) in Cantonese. This book begins with a succinct overview of Cantonese, which is a popular variety of Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language. The second chapter describes a new framework of the Grammatical Analysis of Cantonese Samples (GACS), which is developed on the basis of functionali...

News Nerds: Institutional Change in Journalism - Paperback

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by Allie Kosterich (Author)The content of news has not changed much over the last century--politicians, celebrities, wars, crime, and sports dominate past and present headlines. Yet, the ways in which journalists both gather and disseminate information have been turned on their head. Gone are the days of editors assigning stories to writers, who then research, inquire, and present what they found in a compelling yet accurate fashion. Today's journalists are coding, programming, running analyt...

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Motion, Voice, and Mood in the Semitic Verb - Hardcover

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by Henning Ambjörn Sjörs (Author)This book explores the relationship between the so-called ventive morpheme in Akkadian (-am) and the related suffixes -n and -a in other Semitic languages, including Amarna Canaanite, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Using formal reconstructions of the various morphemes and a functional analysis of their different usages, Ambjörn Sjörs convincingly argues that these endings are cognate morphemes that were formally and functionally related to the ventive morpheme ...

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University - A History of Public Speaking - Paperback

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by John Quincy Adams Former Ow (Author)Before becoming President of the United States, John Quincy Adams was a Harvard professor of language, rhetoric and oratory, with this book comprising his lectures.Published in 1810 when Quincy Adams was in his forties, this work is a collection which demonstrates the breadth of knowledge which he passed to students eager to learn about the arts of speaking. The early lectures cover the basic principles of oratory and eloquence in the context of public ...

A Writer's Handbook - Fourth Edition with MLA 2021 Update: Developing Writing Skills for University Students - Spiral

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by Leslie E. Casson (Author)Back JacketWritten collaboratively by writing instructors at the Queen's University Writing Centre, A Writer's Handbook is a compact yet thorough guide to academic writing for a North American audience. This clear and concise handbook outlines strategies both for thinking assignments through and for writing them well. The fourth edition is revised and updated throughout and reflects changes to MLA citation style for 2021. Author BiographyLeslie E. Casson is Associ...

New media art conservation: 2. Evolutive Conservation Theory based on cases - Paperback

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by Lino García Morales (Author)New media art, produced at the intersection of art, science and technology, makes up the majority of a Museum of Contemporary Art's collections. However, technological obsolescence and technical fragility of the artworks make their conservation-restoration an ongoing challenge. A new theoretical approach to permanence through change addresses this problem and offers alternatives and solutions from the production to recreation of new media art. Number of Pages: 1...

Shakespeare and his impact on modern day fiction. Traces of Cymbeline in George R.R. Martin's

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by Philipp Röttgers (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), course: Mapping the Romances, language: English, abstract: This analysis looks at the similarities between Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline" and George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books and tries to find out if Martin has been influenced by Shakespeare's play and if the ...

New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges - Paperback

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by Renata Enghels (Editor), Bart Defrancq (Editor), Marlies Jansegers (Editor)The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not yet been fully addressed in the literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the data commonly used in cross-linguistic st...

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Provoking the Press: (More) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism - Paperback

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by Kevin M. Lerner (Author)At the beginning of the 1970s, broadcast news and a few newspapers such as The New York Times wielded national influence in shaping public discourse, to a degree never before enjoyed by the news media. At the same time, however, attacks from political conservatives such as Vice President Spiro Agnew began to erode public trust in news institutions, even as a new breed of college-educated reporters were hitting their stride. This new wave of journalists, doing their ...

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Signed Language Interpreting Pedagogy: Insights and Innovations from the Conference of Interpreter Trainers Volume 13 - Hardcover

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by Laurie Swabey (Editor), Rachel E. Herring (Editor)For over forty years, the Conference of Interpreter Trainers has provided opportunities for advancing teaching and learning in interpreter education. This volume highlights fifteen seminal papers from past conference proceedings, along with newly written responses to the selected papers. Many of the new contributions are co-written by the author of the original paper and one or more emerging scholars, giving readers a historical lens on how...

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Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting with You - Hardcover

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by Samara Bay (Author)Use your voice to lead us to a better future with this game-changing guide to redefining what power and authority sound like--from a speech expert who's worked with Hollywood's biggest stars, political powerhouses, and businesspeople shaking up the status quo. "I love this book--funny, surprising, stirring, and so important! What a beautiful accomplishment and gift to put into the world."--Rachel McAdams Getting heard is a tricky business: It's what you say and how you s...

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by Stanley Unwin (Author)"It is by books that mind speaks to mind, by books the world's intelligence grows, books are the tree of knowledge."-C. Kegan Paul, a British nineteenth century publisherThe Truth About Publishing (1926) by Sir Stanley Unwin is a classic about book publishing as a business and an art. Although written during early twentieth century, when publishing was quite different from now, it offers an insight in publishing at that time infused with Unwin's view that books are no...

Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism - Hardcover

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by Summer Harlow (Author)Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism explores the rise of independent, digital-native news outlets in Latin America and their role in social change, protest participation, and the refinement of the concept of "alternative" media.Drawing upon a decade of original research, including interviews, surveys, focus groups, and content analyses, this book questions how the emergence of online-native news sites in Latin A...