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A lo Sucu Sumucu: Raíces Mayas del Habla Jíbara (Vol IV) - Paperback

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by Manuel A. Crespo Rodríguez (Foreword by), Roberto Pérez-Reyes (Contribution by), Roberto Martínez-Torres (Author)A LO SUCU SUMUCU (Vol. IV): en este cuarto volumen, el investigador j baro, Roberto Mart nez Torres, a ade nuevas palabras a su recolecci n publicada en los tres vol menes previos de la serie. Esta nueva lista de m s de 500 palabras, las cuales escuch desde ni o en boca de sus familiares cercanos, padres, abuelos y amigos, engalanan esta entrega. El an lisis etimol gico de esta...

Watching in Tongues: Multilingualism on American Television in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by James G. Mitchell (Author), Monika Bednarek (Preface by)This book explores ideas and issues related to second language (L2) speakers and L2 use as portrayed on American television. It examines many examples of television depictions of L2 speakers and L2 use collected in the first decades of the 21st century. The book is divided into four three-chapter sections."Humor and Homicide" looks at two aspects of the inclusion of L2 speakers and L2 use on television: L2 use or speakers depicted to ...

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by Esther Odilia Breuer (Editor), Eva Lindgren (Editor), Anat Stavans (Editor)This book highlights multilingual literacy practices inside classrooms as well as the importance of multilingual literacy outside of educational contexts. It provides a springboard for developing opportunities for learning and identity-building for all, across different settings.Author BiographyEsther Odilia Breuer is Head of the Centre for Writing Competency at the University of Cologne, Germany. Eva Lindgren is Pr...

Big Screen, Small Screen: A Practical Guide to Writing for Flim and Television in Australia - Paperback

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by Coral Drouyn (Author)Thinking in pictures is a gift; transferring them to words on paper is a craft. Put them together, and that's the screenwriter's art. Big Screen, Small Screen is a complete guide to writing for film and television for beginners as well as more experienced writers. It covers all aspects of screenwriting from changing a film genre to picking a television timeslot. Taking you through the basics of screenwriting with step by step guides to structure, character and the firs...

Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies: An Introduction - Paperback

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by Christopher D. Cantwell (Editor), Kristian Petersen (Editor)The Digital Humanities is a well-established, fast-growing, multidisciplinary field producing computational applications and analytical models that enable new kinds of research in both the Humanities and Computer Sciences. IDH Religion is a series of short introductions addressing specific areas of study at the intersection of Digital Humanities and Religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, tools, and pr...

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar - Paperback

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by Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung (Author), Dimitrios Ntelitheos (Author), Meera Al Kaabi (Author)Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from native Emirati Ar...

Linguistic Relativity Today: Language, Mind, Society, and the Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology - Paperback

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by Marcel Danesi (Author)This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. All technical terms are explained and a glossary is provided at the back of the volume. The book looks at the history and different versions of the hypothesis over the centuries, including the research parad...

Re/Thinking Chickens: The Discourse around Chicken Farming in British Newspapers and Campaigners' Magazines, 1982 - 2016 - Hardcover

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by Elena Lazutkaite (Author), Judith Still (Preface by)Re/Thinking Chickens: The Discourse around Chicken Farming in British Newspapers and Campaigners' Magazines, 1982-2016 has major social relevance as it focuses on one of the most forgotten and yet most exploited farmed animals, chickens, who now have a combined mass exceeding that of all other birds on Earth. Dr Elena Lazutkaite demonstrates that the planet's most numerous birds, with a population of 23 billion at any one time, are trivia...

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by James Naughton (Author), Karen Von Kunes (Author)Czech: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Czech. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Czech in short, readable sections. This new revised edition has been thoroughly updated with examples of current usage, additional morphological explanations and an historical ov...

Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement - Hardcover

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by Henrik Bergqvist (Editor)The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and cross-linguistic comparison....

Su Alteza, el Intérprete: El fascinante mundo de la traducción simultánea - Paperback

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by Óscar Curros (Translator), Ewandro Magalhães (Author)ESTE ES UN LIBRO DE AVENTURAS, porque describe las emociones de un profesional llevado a enfrentarse a retos. ES UN LIBRO DE ORIENTACI N PROFESIONAL, porque les da excelentes consejos a los nuevos int rpretes sobre c mo superar el miedo. ES UN LIBRO T CNICO, que da buenas sugerencias para plantarle cara a la nueva profesi n. ES UN LIBRO DE HUMOR, porque es rara la p gina en la que no hay un recuerdo, una historia, una met fora divertida....

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SSAT Upper Level Prep Books 2020 and 2021: Upper Level SSAT Study Guide and Practice Test Questions for the Secondary School Admission Test [6th Editi - Paperback

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by Tpb Publishing (Author)Test Prep Books' SSAT Upper Level Prep Books 2020 and 2021: Upper Level SSAT Study Guide and Practice Test Questions for the Secondary School Admission Test 6th Edition] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the SSAT Upper Level exam. This comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Find out what's inside this guide Test-Taking Strategies Learn the best tips to help overcome your exam Introduction Get a thorou...

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GED Study Question Book 2020 and 2021 All Subjects: Three Full-Length Practice Tests for GED Test Prep [3rd Edition] - Paperback

$48.20

by Tpb Publishing (Author)Test Prep Books' GED Study Question Book 2020 and 2021 All Subjects: Three Full-Length Practice Tests for GED Test Prep 3rd Edition] Taking the GED test? Want to get a good score? Written by Test Prep Books, this comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Test-Taking Strategies Introduction Reading Comprehension Extended Response Mathematical Reasoning Science Social Studies Practice Questions Detailed Answer Explanations Disclaimer: GED(R) is a re...

The Making of a Journalist: Santhi & I: A Memoir - Paperback

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by David R. Zimmerman (Author)Brilliant and utterly exhilerating, this wry, revealing, and insightful journey into his own life once again reveals how David Zimmerman has been filling the footsteps of the legendary independent journalist Izzy Stone, author of I.F. Stone's Weekly. Zimmerman, an exceptional reporter and writer, has spent much of his seventy-year career exposing industry falsehoods, in politics and Big Science, in the New York Times and other major media, and has published five ...

Learn and Write Words: Practice words pronunciations and writing activity for children blow 7 years - Paperback

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by Oliva Dejonge (Author)A book is suitable to children below 7 years. There are many activities in this book like reading, prnounciing, word matching, word blends, initial blends, terminal blends, compound words, vocabulary, vowel sounds, revision words, rhyming words, missing words, choose the correct word, hidden words, opposite words and more. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9.25 x 7.52 IN Publication Date: August 11, 2020

Arabic alphabet writing practice book for kids / read, write, trace, color: learning Arabic alphabet - Paperback

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by Sara Publishing (Author)read, write, trace, color book teaches your kids the Arabic alphabet.perfect for all ages, and anyone wanting to start learning the Arabic language(2 pages for each letter).✅ Learn Arabic alphabets from Alif to Ya.✅ Learn how to trace Arabic letters.✅learn how to write word for each letter.✅ Practice step by step Arabic handwriting.recommended for: Homeschooling, Preschool, Kindergarten, Nursery, Arabic Schools.learn Arabic step-by-step By tracing the letters and wr...

Cursive Writing for Adults: Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Adults, good handwriting for adults, handwriting books for adults - Paperback

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by Andy Lawell (Author)If you are looking to improve your cursive writing skills Luckily, improving your handwriting does not require months of learning. The following book will help you to quickly find your flow again. With writing letters, words and poems, your level improves every day. This Complete Cursive Writing book teaches you How to improve your current Handwriting to a Beautiful and Legible Cursive Handwriting. if you want to improve your writing even further, you will need to pract...

50 Tips for First-Time Authors: Learn the Secrets of Writing for Publication - Paperback

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by Shelley Widhalm (Author)Do you agonize over getting started writing, or do you wonder how to write what you love but in a way that readers will also love what you do? In these 50 tips, I cover how to get started with a writing project from a short story to a novel or collection of poetry. I offer a few ways to find space and time for writing without making it too stressful. I delve into the writing process, as well as the differences among writing in the fiction, nonfiction and poetry genr...

Master English Collocations & Phrasal Verbs: The Ultimate Phrasal Verbs and Collocations Book for Learning English - Paperback

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by Marc Roche (Author)"Master English Collocations & Phrasal verbs: The Ultimate Phrasal Verbs and Collocations Book for Learning English" is ideal for anyone who has problems understanding, remembering and using collocations and phrasal verbs in English, and who wants to speak English fluently and confidently. Don t waste hours upon hours researching words and trying to understand their exact meaning. This book will make your learning more efficient with less of your own effort, which me...

Teaching ESL and STEM Content through CALL: A Research-Based Interdisciplinary Critical Pedagogical Approach - Paperback

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by Abdelilah Salim Sehlaoui (Author), Hannah R. Gerber (Foreword by)English learners are not offered adequate support to succeed in STEM-related areas necessary for college and careers. This book provides a research-based and a critical pedagogical framework using project-based learning methodology and classroom-tested CALL programs to address this need. Author BiographyAbdelilah Salim Sehlaoui is professor of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and applied linguistics, an...

Maker Literacies for Academic Libraries: Integration into Curriculum - Paperback

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by Katie Musick Peery (Editor)Melding universities' strategic goals with libraries' teaching and learning mission, the academic library makerspace can be a powerful catalyst for information literacy, offering faculty partners a place for interdisciplinary, experiential learning. If you're pondering what it takes to get your makerspace into the curriculum, this volume's relatable, first-hand accounts from librarians, makerspace staff, and faculty partners will give you the confidence to make t...

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Joining the Dialogue: Practices for Ethical Research Writing - Paperback

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by Bettina Stumm (Author)Back JacketJoining the Dialogue offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication ethics. Holding to the current view that academic writing means situating ourselves in a research community and learning how to join the research conversations going on around us, Joining the Dialogue proposes that how we engage in dialogue with other researchers in our community matters. We not only read, acknowle...

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TOEFL Preparation Book 2020 and 2021: TOEFL iBT Prep Study Guide Covering All Sections (Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing) with Practice Test - Paperback

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by Tpb Publishing (Author)Test Prep Books' TOEFL Preparation Book 2020 and 2021: TOEFL iBT Prep Study Guide Covering All Sections (Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing) with Practice Test Questions With Audio Links for the Listening Section] Taking the TOEFL test? Want to get a good score? Written by Test Prep Books, this comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Test-Taking Strategies Introduction Reading Listening Speaking Writing Practice Questions Detailed Answer E...

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The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language - Paperback

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by Albert Costa (Author)'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher SpectatorThe definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex ability really works. ...

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The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist - Hardcover

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by John Mullan (Author)'One for your Christmas list ... A feast of Dickensian knowledge' The Times 'This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters? What was Dickens's...

The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News - Paperback

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by David G. McAfee (Author)With each passing day the potential reach of a single false news story--and its ability to negatively impact all of us--grows in both size and scope. Although politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens regularly complain about deceptive or biased news reports, they tend to define fake news as anything with which they happen to disagree, thus compounding the problem even further. Seeking to bring some much-needed clarity to the subject, journalist David G. McAfee ...

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China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World - Hardcover

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by Liang Hong (Author), Emily Goedde (Translator)A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Henan Province. What she found was an extended family riven by the seismic changes in Chinese society and a village turned inside out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, ...

Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang - Hardcover

$111.76

by Hyesu Park (Author)This book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are less discussed--Korean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients regardless of their different national, cultural, and geographical backgrounds.Drawing on narrative theory and cultural studies, the book makes a compelling argument about how to analyze the production and consumption of...

Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice - Paperback

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by Rosemary Wette (Author)Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice provides research-based information about key components of source-based writing, and the challenges it presents for novices. Proficiency in source-based writing is an essential and challenging goal for all inexperienced academic writers, from both L1 and L2 backgrounds. This comprehensive book presents an innovative, integrated approach for graduate students, teaching faculty, and practice-or...

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Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard - Hardcover

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by Claire Cock-Starkey (Author)In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning--our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers. These marks, which have their origins in the earliest written communications, have evolved over many hundreds of years. Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histo...

108 Word Search Puzzles with the American Sign Language Alphabet, Volume 06: ASL Fingerspelling Word Search Games - Paperback

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by Fingeralphabet Org (Developed by), Lassal (Cover Design by), Lassal (Illustrator)VOLUME 6 STANDARD EDITION The only approved ASL word searches with all signs as SEEN BY THE VIEWER Enjoy many, many hours of fun and entertainment with our professionally illustrated puzzles. Avoid confusion with approved signs optimized for learning: all signs are shown as actually seen by the viewer This book series is the ultimate challenge for the truly fearless word search addicted who are looking for a n...

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Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance - Hardcover

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by Erica Dhawan (Author)An instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller The definitive guide to communicating and connecting in a hybrid world. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of "oops sorry no you go" and "can you hear me?!" Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can't make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other? Humans rely on body language to c...