Language Arts & Disciplines - General

Is human language unique in the animal world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In The Origins of Language, ten primatologists and paleoanthropologists conduct a comprehensive examination of the nonhuman primate data, discussing different views of what language is and suggesting...

CORRECTIONS: COVER- Delete "Far Eastern Publication" and replace isbn 10 with isbn 13 above barcode on cover 4. SPINE- add Yale logo on spine. CIP- update isbn 10 to isbn 13 and delete printline.Author: Vivien Hsi-Yun Lu, Hugh M. Stimson, Li Hui ChangISBN-10: 0887101828ISBN-13:...

This manual has been designed to give practice in solving the various problems which the Bible translator faces. Through drill and practice, the student will develop skill in applying the principles of translation which he has learned in Translating the Word of God by...

Ika is a Chibchan language spoken by some 7,000 persons in northeastern Colombia. This grammar was written from a typological/functional perspective, which was found to provide a good framework for writing broadly useful, descriptive grammars.Author: Paul FrankISBN-10: 0883128012ISBN-13: 9780883128015Publisher: Sil International, Global PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

How would you respond if a New Zealander invited you to a "leg-in"? Would you know what to do if someone told you to pull up a "browser"? Without some assistance, most foreigners would indeed be baffled by the intricacies of the Kiwi tongue....

This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- American Dialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by...

Writing Exceptional Missionary Newsletters shows anyone who writes personal ministry newsletters how to captivate readers. This revised edition offers more ideas for better online communication like e-mail and Facebook. It shows how to increase your letter's impact and provides tips for how often to...

Author: Tran Trong Hai, Franklin E. HuffmanISBN-10: 0877275009ISBN-13: 9780877275008Publisher: Southeast Asia Program PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1980Pages: 401Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Facsimile edition of an important witness to the impact of the Normans on the ecclesiastical culture of England. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS F [London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A.viii, folios 30-70] is unique in presenting a sustainedly bilingual [Latin and Old English] text. Palaeographicalevidence dates...

Without question, this is the definitive grammar of the Hawaiian language. Indeed it is the first attempt at a comprehensive treatment of the subject since W. D. Alexander published his concise Short Synopsis of the Most Essential Points in Hawaiian Grammar in 1864. This...

Author: Rebecca L. OxfordISBN-10: 0824818490ISBN-13: 9780824818494Publisher: National Foreign Langauge Resource CenterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/1999Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

This dictionary, with approximately 17,500 entries and 40,000 definitions, represents a major step forward in cataloging and explaining prohibited words and subjects. It is a collection of sexual slang and metaphor, prostitutes argot, homosexual slang, racial slurs, scatology, oaths, verbal weapons, and terms for...

What issues in English teacher education are sidestepped because they are too loaded to address? What aren't we talking about when we discuss classroom management, censorship, standardized tests, media literacy, social justice issues, the standards, and technology? What really matters to novices entering the...

Intended as an aid to students who have not studied Latin and Greek to organize the base word stock of English, eighty percent of which is derived from these classical tongues.Author: Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, L. J. LuschnigISBN-10: 0819125717ISBN-13: 9780819125712Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Drawing on years of classroom experience, the author provides guidance for several types of writers: beginners, writers with works in progress, those seeking other writers for critiques, and students in introductory and intermediate writing courses. A special section features three original stories by former...

Grounded in analysis of Chinese and international educational concepts and classroom techniques currently used to teach Chinese as a Second Language, and a thorough review of recent research in the field, this volume identifies the learning challenges of the language for native English speakers....

Demonstrating equitable practices and strategies that move toward culturally sustaining teaching such as translanguaging, explorations of children's literature, alternative modes of literacy assessment, photography and arts integration, student-driven poetry units, and more, this book shares the stories of four teacher-teacher dyads who worked together...

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of...

The Frankenstein we know is not Mary Shelley's creature at all. Rather it is an amalgam of over 200 years of images and dramatizations that range from the ghoulish fiends of nineteenth-century sensation dramas to Boris Karloff's movie monster to Mel Brooks's tap-dancing giant....

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of "rhythm rhymes" by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can look up words to find collections of words that have the same rhythm as the original and are useable in ways that are familiar...

Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry is a collection of thought-provoking articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective ESOL teachers in an ongoing process of reflecting on, critically examining, and investigating theory and practice. Its twofold purpose...

Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And chances are good that the progressive and revolutionary "underground" hip-hop of artists such as The Roots or Mos Def is not on the playlists of most high-school...

The Long Interview provides a systematic guide to the theory and methods of the long qualitative interview or intensive interviewing. It gives a clear explanation of one of the most powerful tools of the qualitative researcher. The volume begins with a general overview of...

Author: Jean Ormsbee CharneyISBN-10: 0803214618ISBN-13: 9780803214613Publisher: University of Nebraska PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1994Pages: 273Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.31h x 6.27w x 1.08d

For readers who wish to trace the evolution of scripts in the West from antiquity to the early modern period, and who want to read the work of their scribes, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of materials supported by 55 full-page illustrations from...

For use in intermediate and advanced courses of Italian for English-speaking students, this book reviews the basics of Italian grammar and explains in detail aspects of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of contemporary Italian.Rather than presenting the material within the single framework of a...

A flexible, high-interest program that can be used with all regulare and special students, grades 10-12. Each volume provides over 45 factual stories with related teaching materials, 15 at each level.Author: Katherine L. HallISBN-10: 0787975540ISBN-13: 9780787975548Publisher: Jossey-BassLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2004Pages: 447Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.50lbsSize: 11.00h x...

Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively...

Ch瀰 Ban! is an interactive language program of introductory Vietnamese intended for use by non-native students, as well as students of Vietnamese heritage without a solid knowledge of the language.Author: Tri C. Tran, Minh-Tam TranISBN-10: 0761837361ISBN-13: 9780761837367Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2007Pages: 298Format:...

In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka_three masters of symbolic expression_utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the Tarot's ancient associations with...

First published in 2004. This is an edited version of 'A Literary History of the Arabs', published in 1907 by the author to include more useful information and accuracies and is meant for students of ArabicAuthor: Reynold a. NicholsonISBN-10: 0700703365ISBN-13: 9780700703364Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/1995Pages:...

For those wanting to retain language abilities for research or recreation, this volume contains the Gospel of Matthew in Interlinear format and the Gospel of Mark in parallel format in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, English, German, and French.Author: T. Michael W. Halcomb, Fredrick J. LongISBN-10:...

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of...

An incredible source of information about the Chinese language and China's minority languages In this accessible and informative book, S. Robert Ramsey lucidly explains what the Chinese language is--its social and geographical situation, its history, its range of dialects, the structure of the modern...

Author: Helen VendlerISBN-10: 0674864646ISBN-13: 9780674864641Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1975Pages: 303Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Author: Howard Mumford Jones, Richard M. LudwigISBN-10: 0674499352ISBN-13: 9780674499355Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1972Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Author: David T. PorterISBN-10: 067443661XISBN-13: 9780674436619Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1966Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Author: Harry LevinISBN-10: 0674424891ISBN-13: 9780674424890Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1957Pages: 305Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Author: Stephen OwenISBN-10: 0674423402ISBN-13: 9780674423404Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1986Pages: 147Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a literary enigma. His masterworks--"The Nose," "The Overcoat," The Inspector General, Dead Souls--have attracted contradictory labels over the years, even as the originality of his achievement continues to defy exact explanation. Donald Fanger's superb new book begins...

Author: Alwin ThalerISBN-10: 0674365739ISBN-13: 9780674365735Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1947Pages: 100Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d

Author: Yuen Ren ChaoISBN-10: 0674336674ISBN-13: 9780674336674Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1948Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Author: Howard Rollin PatchISBN-10: 0674334302ISBN-13: 9780674334304Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1950Pages: 395Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d

Author: James EngellISBN-10: 0674333241ISBN-13: 9780674333246Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1981Pages: 435Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Author: Gordon N. RayISBN-10: 0674289757ISBN-13: 9780674289758Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1946Pages: 596Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.88d

Author: Gordon N. RayISBN-10: 0674289749ISBN-13: 9780674289741Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1946Pages: 703Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.41lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 2.13d

Author: Gordon N. RayISBN-10: 0674289722ISBN-13: 9780674289727Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1945Pages: 695Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.57lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 2.25d

Author: Pedro Henr厲uez-UreISBN-10: 0674186966ISBN-13: 9780674186965Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1945Pages: 351Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d