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Colloquial Latvian
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This new edition of Colloquial Latvian has been completely rewritten to make learning Latvian easier and more enjoyable than ever before!
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Latvian. No prior...
Colloquial Lithuanian
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date!
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Lithuanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN...
Complete Book of Esperanto
Esperanto Lessons, Tests and Answers on your Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language. A highly regular grammar makes Esperanto much easier to learn than most other languages of the world, though particular features may be more or less advantageous or difficult depending on the language background of the speaker. Parts of speech are immediately...
Colloquial Lithuanian
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date!
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Lithuanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN...
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these...
Psycholinguistics
Language, Mind and World
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought?
This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and culture....
by Margaret Macintyre Latta, Elaine Chan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Written for prospective and practicing visual arts, music, drama, and dance educators, Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners offers guidance for engaging ELLs, alongside all learners, through artistic thinking. By paying equal attention to visual art, music, drama, and dance education,...
A Thesaurus of African Languages
A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa With an Appendix on Their Written Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number of sets and subsets within which the relationship of languages to one another is locally apparent and uncontroversial. The volume presents the languages...
by Andreas Willi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outline in full the developments which led from the remotest recoverable stages of the Indo-European proto-language to the complex verbal system encountered in...
Les Bons Mots
How to Amaze Tout Le Monde with Everyday French
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Les Bons Mots will help you add the piece de resistance to any conversation.
Les Bons Mots is an eminently browsable reference that is designed to help English speakers use those witty and wise sayings for which the French are so justly famous. Eugene Ehrlich has created a reference work that...
Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling
Ideologies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and...
Bad Language
Are Some Words Better Than Others?
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Is today's language at an all-time low? Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English? Is slang like my bad or hook up improper? Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell? Can you write Who do you trust? rather than Whom do you trust? Linguist Edwin Battistella...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the past few years tablet computing has seemingly emerged from nowhere to spark exciting conversations about the future of academic library use and instruction, touching on everything from textbooks to reference services. Electronic discussion lists and boards, conference presentations, and journal...
ZOUNDS!
A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
From Geronimo! to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragonés show you interjections like you've never seen them before.
Often thought of as unnecessary verbal fringe or simply linguistic decoration, interjections (ahem, howdy,...