Language Arts & Disciplines - General

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit den Werken von Jackie Kay unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Identitätskonstruktion ihrer Charaktere. Jackie Kay wurde 1961 als Tochter einer Schottin und eines Nigerianers geboren und von einem wei en Ehepaar aufgezogen. Diese Biographie lässt bereits erahnen, dass sie in...

The image of the 'implicit author' projected in the fictional universes of Reinaldo Arenas' literary works is distinctively dual in nature. The texts written in Cuba, when the author suffered ostracism and prosecution by the Castro regime, construct the image of a boundless, irreverent,...

Charles Ferrar Browne, also known as Artemus Ward, was arguably the first humorist in the United States with a national reputation. Even Mark Twain himself called Ward "America's greatest humorist" and described his 1863 "Babes in the Wood" lecture as the funniest thing he...

This book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of "racial democracy" in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a paradise to escape segregation and violence in the 1920s since Brazilian government exports this idea about...

This study concerns literary translation strategies, specifically applied to the translation of Beatles - a contemporary Norwegian novel. The novel concerns the cross-cultural impact of the "Beatles" and the production of culture, and its impact on young people internationally, in a dawning age of...

Author: Ogone John Obiero,Daniel Ochieng' OrwenjoISBN-10: 3639097483ISBN-13: 9783639097481Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2008Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

As is widely known, Japanese and Chinese not only share the common logographic orthography called "kanji" or "hanzi" respectively, but also share a number of kanji compounds as cognates, many of which share the same or similar meaning. The major objective of this research...

The first part of this book looks at how the instructor's identity, whether students construct it as academically or culturally authoritative or both, plays an active role in the interpretation of multicultural literary texts. To encourage students' direct engagement with a text and its...

This book discusses one of the most powerful tools of Soviet propaganda - "political" caricatures, which were published in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda. The main focus of the work is the stereotypical image of Israel in Soviet caricature as well as the most...

The evolving messages about the masculine role are worth studying and examining in dramatic literature to see through popular documents just how the male role is portrayed. How has the male image changed in dramatic literature in the last half of the twentieth century?...

Author: Analia ArevaloISBN-10: 3639074394ISBN-13: 9783639074390Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2008Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Does our choice of words and use of language somehow sabotage respect due to women for the work they do? Can the analysis of words for women's work at home, or for the family, explain or reveal attitudes? This book is about Japanese words,...

This book will not offer another definition of composition or writing. It is the position of this study that writing is writing. This book, rather, seeks to offer a phenomenological perspective on how the teaching of composition should be approached by presenting phenomenological rhetoric...

With the current global economy crashing, war and conflict arising from questionable choices in governmental circles, not to mention the suppression of freedoms, high unemployment and rising taxes, this book is as relevant today as it was during the Renaissance. This text highlights the...

Author: Paul R. WeldonISBN-10: 3639052390ISBN-13: 9783639052398Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2008Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Space-People-Language is an in-depth qualitative study that uses grounded theory and teacher research to describe and analyze a place-based composition assignment experienced by a first year writing class. Results of this study suggest a grounded theory that accounts for participants using interconnecting spatial, social,...

This corpus-based study reveals facts about the proportion and structure of the English Tough Construction. Firstly, the overall ratio of TC pattern to Extraposition pattern is 3.5:6.5 when the tough adjectives simply occur with a subordinate to-infinitive clause. And then the ratio of TC...

Translation is a fact of life. It happens in as many ways as there are colours in the rainbow. And once we see it, we can never go back to not seeing it. Meaning (making), understanding (the 'right' and the 'wrong' things), relating (to...

The book is primarily shaped as an introduction to fictional worlds theory. It critically examines all the scholarly sources regarding the theory, its inspiration and application: namely logic, semantics, aesthetics, and linguistics, as well as intertextuality, transduction, and fictional and historical narration.Author: Wojciech H....

New Light on some Obscure Words and Phrases in the Works of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

Library School Rules - 1. Card Catalog Rules; 2. Accession Book Rules; 3. Shelf List Rules is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

An Essay on the Scoto-English Dialect - Part I.: Along with Some French and German Theses... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

Howe's Science of Language or Seven Hour System of Grammar is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

Inquiries Concerning the Structure of the Semitic Languages - Part II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf's novels and her critical...

Beyond the well-known reading and spelling difficulties, dyslexic individuals exhibit marked phonological disorders, poor lexical retrieval and problems in the comprehension and production of grammatical structures that are particularly expensive in terms of processing costs. To account for these difficulties, the author presents an...

This open access book reconfigures Energy Transition as a global discourse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. Focusing on modelling both as a cultural...

First Settler Theory rejects language replacement, invasion, ethnic cleansing, the wave of advance, or any other mechanisms proposed by Indo-European scholars to explain their theory. Prehistoric languages will continue to be spoken, each in its particular defined area, as long as their communities and...

"When is the last time you had to fight someone under the influence of weed? It provides an alternative to alcohol." - Marijuana is Safe So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? "If he would cheat with you, he would cheat on you."...

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFEBy Théophile GautierWith poems translated by Guy ThorneCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who...

Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural Ireland. It is also a vigorous contribution to the...

Job Jindo applies recent studies in cognitive science and explores how we can view metaphor as the very essence of poetic prophecy-namely, metaphor as an indispensable mode to communicate prophetic insight.Author: Job Y. JindoISBN-10: 1575069369ISBN-13: 9781575069364Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x...

This book is filled with reproducible mini-units, literature units, mind-stretching interdisciplinary activities, clip art, and ideas to motivate students and help develop critical and creative thinking. This book also contains an activity for each day of the month. Topics include Labor Day, Grandparents Day,...

Here is everything you need to teach your students about endurance, courage, and resolving conflict while providing an understanding of the sacrifices made by Canadian soldiers in the wars. A variety of language art activities - picture matching, vocabulary exercises, riddles and puzzles, reading...

Most of these poems were written during a period of mania around the time of the two-year anniversary of the psychotic break I had in which I shot myself in the back. There are many thematic elements in these poems, which are very metaphorical...

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man]-for this reason, ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title (not to...

For anyone who likes words, books and the idea of being a writer. Lehman is the creator of The Writer in You Weekend Seminars and the founder/original publisher of Rosebud, a magazine for people who enjoy good writing.Author: Jack LehmanISBN-10: 1533614369ISBN-13: 9781533614360Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Author: Zhong ChenISBN-10: 1524534099ISBN-13: 9781524534097Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2016Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet, Goethe. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual,...

Author: Joseph SchallerISBN-10: 1514472031ISBN-13: 9781514472033Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2016Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Author: Jimmy PrajapatiISBN-10: 1508712239ISBN-13: 9781508712237Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2015Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.33d

This is a story in the Arthurian tradition, written by an anonymous poet probably sometime in the fourteenth century of the Common Era. It survives in a single manuscript copy in the British Museum. Author, poet and artist Marilyn Peck translated the poem from...

This book explains the image of nakedness (gymnos) taken by Paul in the Corinthian correspondence to refer to the state of human being during death. Through an academic approach, but simple language, the author explains the biblical monist understanding of human being. He takes...

This book is essentially a sequel to Francis A. Andrew's earlier book, "Who Said English Grammar Was Boring?" The "sequel" begins by devoting a few chapters to some grammar points and continues with explanations and examples of twenty three essay types. As well as...

The world of education is full of grammar books. For most teachers and students of foreign languages, grammar books are generally dry and dusty and only to be consulted on a reference basis. However, Who Said English Grammar Was Boring is not your conventional...

How, why, and whence does a word gain advent into the English vocabulary? That question has hundreds of thousands of vivid, sometimes funny answers. In At the Wording Desk, author Bill Casselman, one of Canada's leading etymologists, shares a collection of some of the...

Dark Eyes and Other Poems is a collection of poems that reflects love, death, hope, patriotism, frustrations and other intricacies of life.Author: R. Udaya BhanuISBN-10: 1490703241ISBN-13: 9781490703244Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2014Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.19dReview Citation(s): Foreword 04/28/2014BlueInk Review 03/18/2014Kirkus...

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...

This book contains a selection of non-academic materials on a wide range of topics related to Malaysian culture. Several of them deal with traditional Malay theatre genres, particularly mak yong, recognised by UNESCO as an item of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity...

This compilation, Horizon Above and Beyond, is the outcome of the hard efforts of past two years. Unlike other projects or approaches that attempt to pool out literature and language from each other, the following text has attempted not to catalog either the text...