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Language Planning and Social Change
1990 || Paperback || Robert L. Cooper || Cambridge University Press
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization.
Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew...
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Representing Reality
Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
1996 || Paperback || Jonathan Potter || SAGE
How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. This work offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions.
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The Second 100 Japanese Kanji
(JLPT Level N5) The quick and easy way to learn the basic Japanese kanji
2024 || Paperback || Eriko Sato || Tuttle Publishing
The Second 100 Japanese Kanji adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome the initial difficulty of reading kanji and writing kanji and quickly master the basic Japanese characters that are fundamental to this language.
Everyday English, 1500-1700
A Reader
1998 || Paperback || Bridget Cusack || Edinburgh University Press
This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal English of the Early Modern period. The book is organised into eight thematic sections: private diaries; personal daybooks and accounts; autobiographical material; letters; personal documents (wills and contracts); official documents by naive writers; records of spoken evidence given in court; and records of speech forming the basis of Court cases. Texts are arranged by type and ea...
The Little, Brown Handbook / 14th Global edition
2022 || Paperback || H. Fowler e.a. || Pearson
For courses in English Composition. The platinum standard of handbooks - unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool designed to help readers find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, this meticulous handbook combines comprehensive research and documentation with grammar coverage that is second to none.
Incorporating detailed discussions of critical reading, m...
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Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture
A Multimodal Introduction
2021 || Paperback || Lyndon Way || SAGE
Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field.
Science Research Writing For Non-native Speakers Of English
A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English
2009 || Paperback || Hilary Glasman-deal || Imperial College Press
This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It can also be used by English speakers and is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted.
The book guides the reader through the process of writing ...
A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian / 2nd revised edition
Akkadian-English
2000 || Paperback || Jeremy Black e.a. || Harrassowitz Verlag
Akkadian, comprising the Babylonian, Assyrian and Old Akkadian dialects, is the earliest known Semitic language, attested from the middle of the 3rd millenium B.C. until the time of Christ. It was widely adopted in the ancient Near East as a written vehicle for scholarship, literature, legal and diplomatic affairs. It is the language of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Code of Hammurapi, the inscriptions of the kings of Assyria and Babylonia and countless legal and administrative documents.
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The Translation of Children's Literature
A Reader
2006 || Paperback || Gillian Lathey || Channel View Publications
Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translation of children's books has increased at a rapid pace. Research across a number of disciplines has contributed to a developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. The purpose of this Reader is to reflect the diversity and originality of approaches to the subject by gathering together, for the first time, a range of journal articles and chapters on translation for childr...
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New Contemporary Chinese: Textbook 1
2023 || Paperback || Wu Zhongwei e.a. || Sinolingua
New Contemporary Chinese, a complete textbook series, is tailored for adult learners of the Chinese language. The series includes four volumes, with each volume consisting of a Textbook, an Exercise Book and the corresponding Teacher's Book, Supplementary Reading Materials, Testing Materials, Character Writing Workbook, and multimedia teaching resources. Volume 1 and Volume 2 each contains a Character Book. New Contemporary Chinese aims to develop the learners' comprehensive abilities of list...