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  • Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society
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    Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society

    Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through...
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  • Multimodality in the Built Environment Multimodality in the Built Environment
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    Multimodality in the Built Environment

    This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of...
    $413.95

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  • Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms
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    Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms

    Recent SLA research recognizes the necessity of attention to grammar and demonstrates that form-focused instruction is especially effective when it is incorporated into a meaningful communicative context. Designed specifically for second-language...
    $453.39

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  • Perspectives on Literature and Translation Perspectives on Literature and Translation
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    Perspectives on Literature and Translation

    This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new...
    $388.08

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  • Analyzing Digital Fiction Analyzing Digital Fiction
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    Analyzing Digital Fiction

    Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced...
    $413.95

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  • Making Language Matter Making Language Matter
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    Making Language Matter

    Now adopted by over 40 states, the Common Core State Standards provide a clear and consistent framework for public school systems as they develop student learning goals that define the path to readiness for college, careers, and informed citizenship...
    $413.95

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  • Literacy as Translingual Practice Literacy as Translingual Practice
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    Literacy as Translingual Practice

    The term translingual highlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence. In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital...
    $413.95

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  • Reading - From Words to Multiple Texts Reading - From Words to Multiple Texts
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    Reading - From Words to Multiple Texts

    Increasing the mastery of reading and text literacy in the general population is one of the most important challenges faced by both developed and developing societies. Providing a new reference for researchers and practitioners involved in this domain,...
    $375.76

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  • Word from the Mother Word from the Mother
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    Word from the Mother

    Geneva Smitherman presents an overview of past debates on the speech of the African Americans. Enriched by her inimitable style, this evocative study explores the relationship between language and race, as well as common perceptions of African American...
    $105.32

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  • The Language of the News The Language of the News
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    The Language of the News

    The Language of the News investigates and critiques the conventions of language used in newspapers and provides students with a clear introduction to critical linguistics as a tool for analysis. Using contemporary examples from UK, USA and Australian...
    $114.10

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  • Discourse Markers Across Languages Discourse Markers Across Languages
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    Discourse Markers Across Languages

    This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written...
    $349.89

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  • The Linguistics of Political Argument The Linguistics of Political Argument
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    The Linguistics of Political Argument

    This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late...
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  • Language Processing in Discourse Language Processing in Discourse
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    Language Processing in Discourse

    This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences...
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  • Black Linguistics Black Linguistics
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    Black Linguistics

    Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual...
    $105.32

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  • Translation and Globalization Translation and Globalization
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    Translation and Globalization

    Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy...
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  • The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World
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    The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World

    Spanish is now the third most widely spoken language in the world after English and Chinese. This book traces how and why Spanish has arrived at this position, examining its role in the diverse societies where it is spoken from Europe to the Americas...
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  • Creolization of Language and Culture Creolization of Language and Culture
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    Creolization of Language and Culture

    Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des îles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised.. With reference to the main varieties of creole French, Chaudenson argues against...
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  • The Politics of Writing The Politics of Writing
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    The Politics of Writing

    Writing matters: it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only a few get to do the kind of writing that most influence this development. The Politics of Writing examines...
    $129.16

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  • Manual of Business Spanish Manual of Business Spanish
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    Manual of Business Spanish

    Manual of Business Spanish is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using Spanish.Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, it comprises five parts:* A 6000-word, two-way Glossary...
    $187.26

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  • Time in Language Time in Language
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    Time in Language

    This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse...
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  • A Survey of English Spelling A Survey of English Spelling
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    A Survey of English Spelling

    Published at a time when literacy and spelling are issues of topical concern, A Survey of English Spelling offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of this important but hitherto neglected area of the English language. The text...
    $401.63

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  • A Dictionary of Catch Phrases A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
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    A Dictionary of Catch Phrases

    A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
    $73.10

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  • You Have a Point There You Have a Point There
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    You Have a Point There

    This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend, not an enemy.
    $92.78

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  • A Modern Course in English Syntax A Modern Course in English Syntax
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    A Modern Course in English Syntax

    This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and...
    $124.13

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  • Feminist Poetics Feminist Poetics
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    Feminist Poetics

    Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular,...
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  • Reading Hindi Reading Hindi
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    Reading Hindi

    Reading Hindi: Novice to Intermediate is an innovative collection of graded readings that are both accessible in language and engaging in content, specifically designed for adult learners of Hindi.
    $101.79

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  • Classroom Research on Mathematics and Language Classroom Research on Mathematics and Language
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    Classroom Research on Mathematics and Language

    This book offers an international perspective on the current and future state of the research, focusing, in particular, on the role and use of language in mathematics school teaching and learning. It focuses on the development of a unified view of the...
    $100.31

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  • Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
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    Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

    Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices is designed for prospective or in-service Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) teachers.With contributions from leading experts in the field, readers will gain an understanding of the...
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  • En Marcha En Marcha
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    En Marcha

    En Marcha is an intensive course in Spanish for beginners. Systematic and comprehensive, it takes the student from beginner's to upper intermediate level in one year. Carefully graded exercises and expert grammatical explanations are combined with lively...
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    Basics of Ancient Ethiopic Basics of Ancient Ethiopic
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    Basics of Ancient Ethiopic

    Basics of Ancient Ethiopic by Archie Wright introduces students to the basic grammar of ancient Ethiopic (Ge'ez) while approaching the language through its wider cultural and literary context, and its historical legacy.
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  • On Expertise On Expertise
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    On Expertise

    A rhetorical account of expertise and expert status that is informed by research in allied fields, including Science, Technology, and Society studies, psychology, education, and philosophy.
    $286.46

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  • Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle
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    Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle

    The purpose of Sheriff's work is to expound Peirce's unified theory of the universe--from cosmology to semiotic--and to discuss its ramifications for how he should live.
    $60.48

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  • Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching
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    Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching

    This book deals with research and practice in online communication and communication technologies of language learning and teaching. These include all forms of computerized media using text, graphics, audio and video, with a particular focus on...
    $121.54

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  • Guide to Composition Pedagogies Guide to Composition Pedagogies
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    Guide to Composition Pedagogies

    Reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary college composition pedagogy, A Guide to Composition Pedagogies presents original essays on the most important approaches to teaching writing. Each essay is written by an experienced teacher/scholar and...
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