Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

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Esports and the Media: Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society - Hardcover

$111.76

by Angel Torres-Toukoumidis (Editor)This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world. Chapters offer a coherent response to the following questions: What role do esports play in the entertainment industry? What communication skills can be learned through esports? What do the media gain from broadcasting ...

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The Confidence to Write: A Guide for Overcoming Fear and Developing Identity as a Writer - Paperback

$61.00

by Liz Prather (Author)"I can't write." How often do we hear this every day from students at all different skill levels? What is it about writing that causes such self-doubt, disabling procrastination, and fear of failure? "So many students do not identify writing as a positive experience or identify themselves as writers," Liz Prather says. "We rarely talk about the social-emotional resilience needed around the act of writing." In The Confidence to Write, Liz argues that we can help stud...

Literacy for Digital Futures: Mind, Body, Text - Paperback

$89.08

by Kathy A. Mills (Author), Len Unsworth (Author), Laura Scholes (Author)The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated.In today's world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood ...

The Business Communication Profession: Essays on the Journeys of Leading Teacher-Scholars - Paperback

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by Janis Forman (Editor)This book provides a unique orientation to the present, past, and future of the field of business communication by collecting reflective essays from some of its most influential scholars, teachers, and leaders. Through a series of essays that bridge personal narrative and critical analysis, this book mentors a new generation of students, teachers, and professionals as they encounter the challenges and opportunities of business communication and shape the future of the...

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Utahisms: Unique Expressions, Inventions, Place Names & More - Paperback

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by David Ellingson Eddington (Author)Utahisms: Unique Expressions, Inventions, Place Names and more ranges from the characteristic to the bizarre The Beehive State's iconic vistas are singular and distinctive. So too are its colloquialisms, peculiar place names and landmark firsts. Confusion from local dialect ultimately thwarted a would be robber in Salt Lake City. The proper pronunciation of Tooele might surprise visitors, while residents still debate its origins. And, phrases once thought ...

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by Nancy Campbell (Author)"A delightful compendium that brings together language, culture and adventure through frozen landscapes as it shares the meanings behind 50 words for snow, gathered from around the globe." --The Herald Snow. Every language has its own words for the magical, mesmerizing flakes that fall from the sky. In this exquisite exploration, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings of fifty words for snow. In Japanese we encounter yuki-onna--a 's...

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High Attention Reading: Preparing Students for Independent Reading of Informational Text - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Hale (Author) High Attention Reading offers a new way to get students of all reading levels to independently read informational texts with more effort, attention, and stamina. Hale argues that increasing the number of informational texts children read is important but not enough to achieve this goal. In order to prepare students for the reading demands of high school, it is essential that we provide strategic scaffolding for the habits of mind required to read this genre at a hig...

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Words Worth Using: Supporting Adolescents' Power with Academic Vocabulary - Paperback

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by Dianna Townsend (Author), Gina Cervetti (Foreword by)Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. The author argues that "words worth using" must matter to adolescents' authentic work in the disciplines and connect to their lived experiences. Rather than using a model of vocabulary instruction that positions students as passive recipients who must simply memorize definitions, Townsend outlines a metalinguistic approach that shows students ho...

Coordination and the Syntax - Discourse Interface - Hardcover

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by Daniel Altshuler (Author), Robert Truswell (Author)This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. The theoretical breadth of the volume makes it the most complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date: at first glance, it appears to be a syntactic matter, but the survey raises theoretical and empirical questions not just for syntax, but also across semantics, pragmatics, and disco...

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by Santosh Kalwar (Author)Pinky and Winky is a children's story inspired by Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" characters. This is a short story about Mowgli, an orphan boy and Mowgla, who destroys human peace of animals' lives in the deep forests. Pinky and Winky are two rabbits who live in big and beautiful woods. They were pleased with their lives until Mowgla came into their lives. Also, there is Sher Khan, and many conflicts happen between these fantastic characters. Number of Pages: 40...

The Evolution of Mathematics: A Rhetorical Approach - Hardcover

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by G. Mitchell Reyes (Author)Applies contemporary rhetorical analysis to mathematical discourse, calling into question the commonly held view that math equals truth. Explores how mathematical innovation has historically relied on rhetorical practices of making meaning, such as analogy, metaphor, and invention. Author Biography G. Mitchell Reyes is Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Lewis and Clark College. He is coeditor of Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnationa...

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second SeriesIn Essays: Second Series (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author brought together a series of writings that laid out many of the fundamental concepts of the philosophical system that has come to be known as Transcendentalism. This book contains, "The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts, "N...

Maternal Journal: A Creative Guide to Journaling Through Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond - Paperback

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by Laura Godfrey-Isaacs (Author), Samantha McGowan (Author)Maternal Journal is filled to the brim with ideas, support and inspiration to create your very own journal through your pregnancy, birth and parenthood. This easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated book will help you explore your creative voice and develop a regular journaling practice using artistic tools and techniques that fit in with everyday parenting. Inside, you will find more than 80 unique guided journal exercises created by ...

Teaching the Annotated Bibliography: A Resource for Instructors, Librarians, and Other Academic Professionals - Hardcover

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by Cynthia A. Cochran (Author), Luke Beatty (Author)This book informs instructors and librarians about the history, aims, and pedagogical uses of the annotated bibliography. A companion to the authors' Writing the Annotated Bibliography, this text enables instructors to better understand the annotated bibliography not only as a tool for research and composition but also as a valuable pedagogical tool. It provides practical guidance along with assignments, lesson plans, assessment rubrics, and...

Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism: A Study in Quantitative Reporting - Paperback

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by Alessandro Martinisi (Author), Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando (Author)This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.Author BiographyAlessandro Martinisi is Lecturer at ...

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Spanish Workbook for Dummies - Paperback

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by Gail Stein (Author) Habla español? Improve your Spanish with Dummies Spanish Workbook For Dummies is full of clear explanations and hundreds of practice activities for beginning Spanish learners. You'll learn how to express yourself, ask questions, talk about the past, and construct simple sentences--en español. As you work through the book, complete practice exercises, get lots of writing opportunities, and have tons of fun. Then check your work, with answers and explanations at the end o...

Mocombe's Kreyol Reading Room: Òtograf Lang Kreyl Ayisyen - Paperback

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by Paul C. Mocombe (Author), Tiara S. Mocombe (Author)Mocombe's Kreyol Reading Room: Òtograf Lang Kreyl Ayisyen highlights the grammar rules of Haitian Kreyol, as outlined by Akademi Kreyl Ayisyen (AKA), to be used as a teaching (pedagogical) tool in elementary and adult classes. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2022

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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home - Paperback

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by Jami Attenberg (Author)Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity--and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg--described as a "master of modern fiction" (Entertainment Weekly) and the "poet laureate of difficult families" (Kirkus Reviews)--reveals the defining moments that pushed ...

Digital Grooming: Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime - Paperback

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by Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (Author)Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing concern among governments and media corporations alike. In Digital Grooming Nuria Lorenzo-Dus analyzes manipulation practices in digital spaces that are situated at, or beyond, the boundaries of law. Lorenzo-Dus identifies and examines in detail the online discourse of adults luring children for sexual abuse and exploitati...

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by Julien Brühl (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 7,6, University of Amsterdam, language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the well-known clothing company Brandy Melville (BM) and its future. On the one hand, the label is relatively trendy in younger age groups, and the concept of "one-size-fits-all" is unique compared to competitors in the segment. On the other hand, several news repo...

Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change: Language Variety and Ideology in Advertising - Paperback

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by Joan O'Sullivan (Author)Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change demonstrates how particular styles and varieties of language are chosen and represented in the media, to reveal changing language ideologies and sociolinguistic change. Drawing on a corpus of ads broadcast on an Irish radio station between 1977 and 2017, this book shows how corpus linguistic tools can be creatively employed, in conjunction with frameworks and concepts such as audience and referee design a...

Making Nonprofit News: Market Models, Influence and Journalistic Practice - Paperback

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by Patrick Ferrucci (Author)Making Nonprofit News examines the essence of nonprofit journalism on multiple levels of analysis, explaining how individuals, routines, organizational makeup and outside institutions all affect news production at nonprofit news organizations. The book argues that the market model itself - not simply the journalism industry - impacts news workers, news content and outside influence on the organization. Essentially, nonprofit journalism organizations are influenced ...

Talking about: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference - Hardcover

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by Elmar Unnsteinsson (Author)Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech art theory, Unnsteinsson develops a compelling theory of singular reference which avoids well-known puzzles and objections. The theory, called Edenic intentionalism, is grounded in a mechanistic perspective on explanation in cognitive science and a new Gricean account of speaker meaning and speaker reference. Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference develops an account of the mental state of i...

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Language, Writing, and Mobility: A Sociological Perspective - Hardcover

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by Florian Coulmas (Author)This book explores the interaction between three key aspects of everyday life--language, writing, and mobility --with particular focus on their effects on language contact. While the book adopts an established view of language and society that is in keeping with the sociolinguistic paradigm developed in recent decades, it differs from earlier studies in that it assigns writing a central position. Sociolinguistics has long concentrated primarily on speech, but Floria...

Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an Unnative Language - Paperback

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by Joseph Errington (Author)In 1928, members of a young subaltern Indonesian elite pirated the language of the Dutch empire, bringing the Indonesian language into being along with its nation. Today, Indonesian is the language of two hundred and forty million citizens but is the "native" language of no one. Through rich analysis focused on the interplay of language varieties in two remote Indonesian provinces, Other Indonesians describes the unique language dynamic which has enabled the develo...

Functional Heads Across Time: Syntactic Reanalysis and Change - Hardcover

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by Barbara Egedi (Editor), Veronika Hegedüs (Editor)This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. Structural developments are explained in terms of the reanalysis of parts of the functional sequences in the clausal, nominal, and adpositional domains, through changes in parameter settings and feature specifications. The chapters discuss 'microdiachronic' synt...

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Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms - Paperback

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by Anatoly Liberman (Author)Three centuries of English idioms--their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the first truly all-encompassing etymological guide to both their meanings and origins. Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly short history of...

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Words Matter: Writing to Make a Difference - Paperback

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by Mary Kay Blakely (Author), Amanda Dahling (Author)Newspapers and magazines have been steadily shrinking, and more and more former subscribers have gone to digital and internet sources for the news. Yet it has become increasingly clear that "short takes" don't satisfy many readers, who still long for nuanced, long form journalism. By providing examples of classic magazine articles by professional writers, all of whom are graduates of the Missouri School of Journalism, this book fulfills the...

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What Wars Leave Behind: The Faceless and the Forgotten - Paperback

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by J. Malcolm Garcia (Author)They bear labels instead of names--noncombatant, unintended victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. And when soldiers, media, and profiteers move on to the next conflict, they stay behind to cope amid the wreckage. They have stories to tell to anyone who will pause long enough to hear them.In What Wars Leave Behind, J. Malcolm Garcia reveals the people and pain behind the statistics. He wr...

Journalism Between Disruption and Resilience: Reflections on the Norwegian Experience - Hardcover

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by Birgit Røe Mathisen (Author)Following recent developments in digital technologies, financial crises, and changes in audience preferences, this book addresses the critical challenges and disruptions facing the profession of journalism: an arguably precarious industry suffering from employment insecurity, individualization, and loss of autonomy. Drawing on research from the Norwegian and Nordic media landscape, Journalism Between Disruption and Resilience elaborates on how boundary struggles...

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The ELT Grammar Book: An Instructor-Friendly Guide for English Language Teachers - Paperback

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by Michael C. Berman (Author), Richard Firsten (Author), Eileen Cotter (Editor)Author BiographyRichard Firsten, author of The ELT Grammar Book, has been in the ELT field since 1969. Starting with the Peace Corps, He has been an instructor, teacher trainer, and program administrator in the United States and other countries. A noted ELT author, Mr. Firsten has written 15 books and has been a columnist for TESOL and AzarGrammar.com. Number of Pages: 517 Dimensions: 1.2 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Da...

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Statistics Behind the Headlines - Hardcover

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by A. John Bailer (Author), Rosemary Pennington (Author)How do you learn about what's going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to know to be a critical consumer of the news you read? If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news consumption skills, this book is for you! It reflects a long-term collaboration between a statistician and a journalist to shed light on the statistic...