Language Arts Books

Creative Journal Writing : The Art and Heart of Reflection (Paperback)

Winner of the COVR Award for Book of the Year (2007) From the #1 creativity publisher in the country comes our latest creativity bestseller--Creative Journal Writing--the ultimate book for those who are looking to use this powerful tool to heal expand... more

I SPY Little Letters

Filled with fun photos from the original I Spy series, the I Spy little board books build reading and recognition skills.Preschoolers can search for letters galore, as well as other intriguing toys and trinkets! Picture clues and rhyming riddles guide... more

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics: Semantics in Acquisition (Paperback)

A good deal of work in language acquisition has been devoted to children s interpretation of sentences that contain the universal quantifier e. g. every in English. It has been observed in several experimental studies and across several languages that... more

Ica Handbook The Handbook of Communication History (Hardcover)

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas social practices and media of communication as they have developed across time cultures and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and... more

Building the Reading Brain Prek-3 (Paperback)

Discover how children s brains change as they develop early reading skills! Moving through skills acquisition from birth to age eight this updated edition of the best-selling book gives educators a clear picture of how children acquire and develop... more

Oxford Handbooks The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (Hardcover)

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families.... more

Routledge Communication Managing Interpersonal Conflict: Advances Through Meta-Analysis (Hardcover)

Managing Interpersonal Conflict is a systematic review of conflict research in legal institutional and relational contexts. Each chapter represents a summary of the existing quantitative social science research using meta-analysis with contexts ranging... more

Phasal Analysis: Analysing Discourse through Communication Linguistics (Hardcover)

Phasal Analysis offers an easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts. more

Interface Explorations [Ie]: The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks (Hardcover)

The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax... more

Bloomsbury Studies in Translation: Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture (Hardcover)

Self-Translation: Brokering originality in hybrid culture provides critical historical and interdisciplinary analyses of self-translators and their works. It investigates the challenges which the bilingual oeuvre and the experience of the... more

Routledge Communication The Global Journalist in the 21st Century (Hardcover)

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics education socialization professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global... more

Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics: The Syntax of Mauritian Creole (Paperback)

Creole languages have in recent years become a valuable source of data for current theories of syntax and theories of child/adult language acquisition. However grammars of these languages particularly those couched within theoretical frameworks of one... more

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics: Case Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension (Hardcover)

Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules situational knowledge and general world knowledge. A central role in this process is played by the argument... more

Communication in Small Groups: Theory Process and Skills (Paperback)

COMMUNICATION IN SMALL GROUPS: THEORY PROCESS SKILLS expertly balances theory and processes with practical skill development. Drawing on their extensive and varied experience as active researchers lecturers and communication consultants the authors... more

Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung (Hardcover)

Als Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung werden Reanalyse-Vorgänge behandelt bei denen sprachliche Einheiten auf der Skala der Konstruktionsebenen ‒ Phonologie Morphologie Lexik ‒ aufsteigen ( Degrammatikalisierung ) und sich von... more

Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics: The Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Markers (Hardcover)

Examining the syntax and semantics of discourse markers this book employs a syntactic approach to describe discourse markers in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) relevant in a theory of discourse because it provides a framework in which all... more

Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics: Handbook Computational Linguistics (Hardcover)

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts methodologies and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). Features contributions by the top researchers in the field reflecting the work... more

Phonology and Phonetics [Pp]: Lexical Representation: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Hardcover)

This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words. The focus of the volume is on the nature and structure of word forms and morphemes the processes operating... more

Cognitive Linguistics Research: Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches (Hardcover)

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics the current volume explores the uses of quantitative in particular corpus-driven techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax (Paperback)

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume we... more

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm]: Control Into Conjunctive Participle Clauses: The Case of Assamese (Hardcover)

The book explores Adjunct Control in Assamese an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India by about 15 million people. The author works within the Minimalist Program of syntactic theory. Adjunct Control is a relation of co-referentiality between two... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation (Hardcover)

This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates--and forges links between--two influential theories of phrase structure:... more

Voice in Political Discourse: Castro Chavez Bush and Their Strategic Use of Language (Hardcover)

Politicians enact three main roles in political discourse - narrator interlocutor and character - to achieve specific goals. This book explains these roles and how they constitute discursive strategies correlating with political aims. In short:... more

IFLA Publications: Newspapers: Legal Deposit and Research in the Digital Era (Hardcover)

This volume comprises contributions of three conferences on legal deposit in a digital environment on web harvesting and archiving as well as newspapers in the geographical context of the Mediterranean. The main focus is on how to acquire preserve and... more

Linguistische Arbeiten: Compound Stress in English: The Phonetics and Phonology of Prosodic Prominence (Hardcover)

This volume addresses several claims about the two prominence patterns found in English nominal compounds in a rigorously empirical way. Listener proficiency to identify these patterns is investigated and the acoustic properties that distinguish the... more

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistic A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure Book 23 (Hardcover)

In this volume Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance the author... more

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy: Compositionality Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore (Hardcover)

This book feature papers by top scholars in honor of renowned philosopher of language Ernie Lepore. It examines questions central to the study of the contemporary philosophy of language. more

Topics in English Linguistics: Studies in the History of the English Language V: Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches (Hardcover)

This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection half are based on grammar and syntax half on lexical developments. The volume highlights... more

Formulaic Language and Second Language Speech Fluency: Background Evidence and Classroom Applications (Hardcover)

This volume presents a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of formulaic language (multi-word units believed to be mentally stored and retrieved as single units) and its role in fluent speech production. Focusing on second language speech the book... more

Relational Communication : Continuity and Change in Personal Relationships

Relational Communication: Continuity and Change in Personal Relationships more

Bloomsbury Companions: Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis (Hardcover)

Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics. This companion offers a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research... more

Educational Linguistics: Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes: Issues and Prospects (Paperback)

I first used the Internet in fall 1993 as a Fulbright Scholar at Charles University in Prague. I immediately recognized that the Internet would radically transform second language teaching and learning and within a year had written my first book on the... more

Interface Explorations [Ie]: Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments (Hardcover)

This is the first volume dedicated to the study of formal features and the expression of arguments within Phase Theory the latest model of syntactic theorizing within the Minimalist Program. The collection addresses the nature of formal features and... more

Corpus and Discourse: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (Hardcover)

Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT presents a compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching. Starting with an overview of research in the field of corpus linguistics and... more

Perspectives on Formulaic Language: Acquisition and Communication (Hardcover)

Formulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms collocations lexical bundles phrasal verbs and so on. Study in this area has grown over the past fifteen years despite the fact that there are no academic journals or... more

Corpus and Discourse: Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis (Hardcover)

Academic vocabulary is in fashion as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of academic vocabulary and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec (Hardcover)

BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec (henceforth CM). CM is an Otomanguean language currently spoken by roughly 2000 people (Small 1990) in the... more

Cognitive Linguistics Research: Historical Cognitive Linguistics (Hardcover)

The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly those which involve... more