Language Arts & Disciplines - General

You've probably already realized that storytelling is ubiquitous today and that it's hard to imagine marketing without it. In this guide, you will first get an overview of what storytelling actually is and why it is an important part of a successful marketing strategy....

This is the first book in English on Chinese-language digital media in Australia. The book comes at a time when the relationship between China and the West is at its most troubling since the end of the Cold War. Combining rich ethnographic insights with...

**Exploring the Effectiveness of Hamburger and Mind Mapping Graphic Organizers in English Language Instruction at Gulf College** by Samya AL-Shidi investigates the impact of graphic organizers on enhancing English writing skills among undergraduate students. This comprehensive study focuses on two specific tools: the hamburger...

Tomi Adeaga examines the challenges of translating African literatures into European languages, devoting care, attention and insight to the problems of translating African voices into German. This topic has been virtually ignored by scholars despite years of unevenly translated works from African into European...

This book is the first attempt made to analyse the equivocal language of the Absurd Theatre via pure linguistic models carefully employed and illustrated by a wide range of significant examples, questions, and discussions. It provides the multiple tools necessary for understanding this language...

This book is a study of music as theme and musician-characters in German fiction from the baroque to the late nineteenth century, concentrating on the novellas of the Munich professor, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-97). It also analyses Riehl's adaptation of such musical forms and...

Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and...

Many research studies show that the use of technology inside and outside classrooms makes teaching and learning more engaging and motivating. Technology can provide learners with endless opportunities and can improve the learning experience, simplify access to educational resources, enhance autonomous learning, meet individual...

With the increased necessity of using online teaching to ensure students continue to learn, it is imperative that language teachers implement computer-assisted language learning (CALL) techniques into their teaching strategies. TESOL teachers especially must continue to remain up to date on the latest research...

Writing Instruction for Generation 2.0 addresses many of the concerns teachers have about the impact of the digital world on student writing and suggests ways for teachers to approach these issues within a 21st century literacies framework. This book is not about teaching the...

Poetic Possibilities: An Original Collection Showing the Moving, Innovative, and Positive Potential of Poetry and How to Write It is exactly that. With 132 poems covering sixty styles of poetry--including eleven brand-new forms the author invented--it's a must-read for established poetry lovers and those...

Creating technology-integrated learning environments for adolescent and adult language learners remains a challenge to educators in the field. Thoroughly examining and optimizing the experience of these students is imperative to the success of language learning classrooms. Technology-Assisted ESL Acquisition and Development for Nontraditional Learners...

For hundreds of years, music has been acknowledged and appreciated for its effect on our minds, emotions, and physical well-being. The generated sound waves in music have the capacity to shatter glass, soothe our minds, stir our blood, or relax us. Quite unconsciously, we...

I want my readers to note the Preamble is the thesis statement (tells the reader who this process, descriptive, and expository essay was written for.) of the US Constitution. So, according to the rules of English grammar, any time, in the constitution, a pronoun...

This book explains the emotion concepts of the Ibans, one of the indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is an outcome of a research study, which aims to analyse the Iban emotion concepts utilizing Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), an analytical tool developed by Anna...

Rural Denmark and Its Schools is a book written by Harold Waldstein Foght in 1915. The book provides a detailed account of the educational system in rural Denmark, which was considered one of the most advanced in the world at the time. Foght, an...

First published in 1970, this work explores the literary genre of satire.This book presents a comprehensive overview the genre and provides a useful starting point for those wishing to further study satirical literature.Author: Arthur PollardISBN-10: 1138231959ISBN-13: 9781138231955Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2019Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.81h...

This historical collection contains early charters and documents that provide a glimpse into the past, offering insight into the lives of those who lived before us. From royal decrees to personal letters, this fascinating volume covers a wide range of topics and offers a...

This comprehensive rhyming dictionary provides an invaluable resource for poets, lyricists, and anyone else interested in the English language. With its innovative approach to spelling and pronunciation, this dictionary makes it easy to find the perfect rhyme for any word. With its clear and...

This book is a collection of ancient Welsh poems, attributed to the bards of the sixth century. It provides a window into the culture, history, and mythology of early medieval Wales. The book is a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Welsh literature...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This study, by a native speaker of the Dényá language-a language of Cameroon-shows how discourse structure seems to influence the use of verb forms.Author: Samson Negbo AbangmaISBN-10: 0883120070ISBN-13: 9780883120071Publisher: Sil International, Global PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/1987Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

Are far-reaching language rights defensible in a liberal society? Language Rights in French Canada explores this question in the context of a political culture long hostile to Québec's language laws, and increasingly resistant to official bilingualism across Canada. It argues for the moral validity...

Since the modern founding of sign theory by the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the field of semiotics has become increasingly prominent as a method of interdisciplinary research and study, bridging the humanities, fine arts, and natural and social sciences. It is also...

Achille Serrao, who writes in the dialect of Caivano, a small town in Campania, in this book deals with his own anxiety of influence vis-à-vis the great melodic tradition of Neapolitan poetry, exemplarily represented by Salvatore Di Giacomo, by reclaiming instead another, antimelodic, anti-subjective...

A fun-to-read interdisciplinary Festschrift for a remarkable woman, this book belongs in the personal and institutional libraries of teachers, philosophers of education, socio-linguists, philosophers of love and sexuality and philosophers of language, Germanistik and Classics scholars, and those looking for practical wisdom and entertainment...

Irony can provide a means to communication, catharsis, and freedom that a person needs in order to survive in a world of permanent chaos and oppression. Ironic Samuel Beckett offers an unorthodox look at Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days from the perspective...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

In this comprehensive resource, master teacher Maria Walther describes the teaching shifts needed to help students meet the rigorous demands of the new standards, showing teachers how they can build upon good practice already in place and take it up a notch to address...

Alive to Language encourages teachers to question and extend their knowledge of how language works by examining the concepts of language-in-use and associated systems, language variety, change, and the interaction between language and power.Author: Valerie Arndt,Paul Harvey,John NuttallISBN-10: 052156882XISBN-13: 9780521568821Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Course (EMSA) is the premier introduction, for the English-speaking student, to the active written language of the contemporary Arab world. Expressly designed for the beginning student, the course is written by a team of Arabic language teachers consisting of...

Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL(R) Test: iBT Listening, by Deborah Phillips, gives students all the tools they need to succeed on the Listening section of the new TOEFL(R) integrated-skills test. Providing both a comprehensive listening-skills course and a wealth of practice for the...

Author: Karen Lourie BlanchardISBN-10: 0131841882ISBN-13: 9780131841888Publisher: Pearson PTR InteractiveLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Format: Paperback

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SEMIOTIC AND COGNITIVE STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARINO Semiotic Efficacity and the Effectiveness of the Text. From Effects to Affects. Edited by Isabella Pezzini I. Pezzini, Introduction: Semiotic efficacity, meaning effects and textual effectiveness; R. Pellerey, La semiotique, les actions et...

This concise collection contains English translation of 50 Chinese proverbs, 40 extracted verses from the Classic of Poetry (Shi Jing), 30 Chinese couplets, and four Chinese poems on four cardinal vices in life. It aims for cultural understanding and exchange and to let Chinese...

The essence of ancient views related to the image of a bird in oral and written literature, the basis of historical-mythological origin, the poetic and gradual interpretation of religious views related to birds in myth-ritual folklore-written literature, the principles of representation are determined; Poetic...

Roger Burggraeve is professor-in-ordinary at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he teaches moral theology and is chairperson of the Center for the Study of the Theology of Peace. Marc Vervenne lectures at the Catholic University of Leuven in the field of Old Testament...

This volume presents the papers given at an international conference on "Functional Aspects of Egyptian Ceramics within their Archaeological Context", which was held from 24th to 25th July, 2009 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK. The aim of this...

In this volume we present the proceedings from the fourth international Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST IV, November 5-8, 2003), which focussed on a critical investigation of the place and role of religious experience in the legitimation structures of contemporary theological thinking patterns....

The Liar paradox arises when we consider a sentence that says of itself that it is not true. If such self-referential sentences exist - and examples like This sentence is not true certainly suggest this -, then our logic and standard notion of truth...

The present study discusses the symbiotic relationship between Augustine's hermeneutical insights and Christology. It focuses on the first three books of De doctrina Christiana in their given sequence. Since Augustine's hermeneutics implies a Christological epistemology, the author approaches De doctrina Christiana through Augustine's early...

The book consists of two parts, a theoretical and an empirical section. In the theoretical section the reader is thoroughly introduced to the wide field of aphasiology. Different causes of aphasia are described and illustrated in some detail. The discussion of the different aphasia...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 3, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Englische Literaturwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: This paper will deal with how American culture changed and grew near the end of...

Based on official documents published in the 1980s, this study in comparative strategy presents a dictionary of key terms in the strategic doctrines of the nuclear powers China, France, Great Britain, Soviet Union and the United States. It provides definitions of concepts such as...

Issues of language planning and minority nationalism or micronationalism are becoming increasingly important in a globalized world. Yet minority language planning in Italy and its relation to minority nationalism has so far attracted relatively limited academic attention, despite the particularly interesting changes that have...

Teaching teenagers offers a range of challenges, but also comes with exciting and rewarding opportunities for both teachers and students. Taking Your Language Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level explores what it is like to be a teacher of teenagers, delving into the...

20 weeks of lesson help your students at the junior grade level, to improve and strengthen their phonetic and word attack skills which will enable them to have strong reading, spelling, and language skills. Each concept occupies a separate section in the book which...

In this captivating collection of essays, drawn from over two decades of columns published in the El Paso Times (1998-2019), the author weaves a rich tapestry of reflections on language, art, travel, and the human experience. With wit and insight, these essays celebrate the...