Author: Johnson, Marysia Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)--a model that shifts the focus from language competence (...
Author: Kitchen, Roy Publisher: DoctorZed Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: BE THE GREAT PUBLIC SPEAKER YOU ALWAYS WISHED YOU COULD BE! No one is born with the ability to be a great public speaker. Like all things, it is learned. This practical book will help you on your jo...
Author: Miller-Ockhuizen, Amanda L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation ty...
Author: Greig, Noel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What makes a story work? "Playwriting "offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance, and contains a wealth of exercises for all individuals and groups involved in making theat...
Author: Gerke, Jeff Publisher: Writers Digest Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What's more important to a story: a gripping plot or compelling characters? Literary-minded novelists argue in favor of character-based novels while commercial novelists argue in favor of plot-based s...
Author: Fairclough, Isabela / Fairclough, Norman Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into c...
Description: In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into c...
Description: This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is pres...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is pres...
Author: Collits, Terry Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P>The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so radically differently at different times that it is tempting to talk of different Conrads. One lasting impression, however, is that his colonial nov...
Author: Huggan, Graham Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of so-called "postcolonial" writing? In "The Postcolonial Exotic," G...
Author: McLeod, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Postcolonial London" explores the imaginative transformation of London by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.Engaging with a range of writers from Sam Selvon and Dori...
Author: Donovan, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambit...
Author: Feist, Jim Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red b...
Author: Richards, I.A. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. "Principles of L...
Author: Chmara, Theresa Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering circulation and Internet use records, along with the role of the library as employer, this guide is librarians' first line of defense of the First Amendment.
Author: Chmara, Theresa Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Covering circulation and Internet use records, along with the role of the library as employer, this guide is librarians' first line of defense of the First Amendment.
Author: Chmara, Theresa Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Covering circulation and Internet use records, along with the role of the library as employer, this guide is librarians' first line of defense of the First Amendment.
Author: Griffey, Jason Publisher: ALA TechSource Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom has assembled an all-star cast of writers to explore the challenges to privacy that ongoing shifts in technology have created, and how librarians can address th...
Author: Potter, Robert F. / Bolls, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent rese...
Author: Potter, Robert F. / Bolls, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent rese...
Author: Baker, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Public Discourses of Gay Men" brings queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics, together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain...
Author: Holtzhausen, Derina R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This volume applies postmodern theory to public relations, providing an alternative lens to public relations theory and practice and developing public relations theory within the context of postmodern...
Author: Holtzhausen, Derina R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume applies postmodern theory to public relations, providing an alternative lens to public relations theory and practice and developing public relations theory within the context of postmodern...
Description: Publishing Law is a comprehensive guide to the law as it affects the publishing process. Written by the Copyright Counsel of the Publishers Association and a practising solicitor with many years exper...
Author: Jones, Hugh / Benson, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Publishing Law is a comprehensive guide to the law as it affects the publishing process. Written by the Copyright Counsel of the Publishers Association and a practising solicitor with many years exper...
Author: Thomas, Samuel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. Th...
Description: Each Routledge Q&A contains approximately fifty essay and problem-based questions on topics commonly found on exam papers, complete with answer plans and fully worked model answers. The titles are...
Author: Grainger, Nathalie Publisher: Quintessentially Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nathalie Grainger, a perfume consultant with extensive experience of client fragrance profiles and fragrance training, was commissioned by Quintessentially Perfume to compile and create this luxurious...
Description: Nathalie Grainger, a perfume consultant with extensive experience of client fragrance profiles and fragrance training, was commissioned by Quintessentially Perfume to compile and create this luxurious...
Author: Harris, Stephen J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What makes English literature English? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Har...
Author: Cobb, Michael Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Conner, and Paule Marshall are among numerous influential American writers who tended to be irreverent, if not blasphemous, in their fiction. But rather tha...
Author: Toohey, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Individual epics have been covered by many books, but few of these are easily accessible to the student of ancient literature or the general reader. Beginning with Homer and concluding with an overvie...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the co...
Description: Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the co...
Author: Grossman, Marshall Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in th...
Author: Eversley, Shelly Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity-what Zora Neale Hurston called "the real Negro"-in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the manner in which people communicate across time and space. In "English in a Postmodern World" the contributors examine both the wa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The late Margaret J. Early was a nationally renowned educator in the field of English education and reading, a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English, an author and an editor he...
Author: Booth, Char Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Char Booth, an avid library education and technology advocate, introduces a series of concepts that will empower readers at any level of experience to become better designers and presenters, as well a...
Author: Booth, Char Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Char Booth, an avid library education and technology advocate, introduces a series of concepts that will empower readers at any level of experience to become better designers and presenters, as well a...
Author: Booth, Char Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Char Booth, an avid library education and technology advocate, introduces a series of concepts that will empower readers at any level of experience to become better designers and presenters, as well a...
Author: Reid, Rob Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From humor and drama to science fiction and history, Reid makes it easy to find just the right place to begin, with unique 10-minute read-aloud suggestions drawn from 200 carefully selected titles.
