E-book Write Yourself: Creative Writing and Personal Development (Writing for…

Write Yourself is a complete introduction to facilitating creative writing for therapy or personal development, both with individuals and groups. Clear and practical, and with a strong theoretical base, it is also an essential handbook for individuals embarking on their own personal writing journeys. Topics covered include the nature, values and principles of therapeutic creative writing, how t…

E-book The Writing of Disaster - Literary Representations of War, Trauma and …

In the past few years a number of book-length English-language studies of the cultural dimensions of disasters in modern Japan have appeared in print.2 The question arises: Why do we need another? The reason is that none of these books concentrates solely on literature, as this book does, and only a few of the volumes treat the disaster spawned by World War II—the most destruc-tive military c…

E-book Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere : A Postcolonial Programme

In April 2017, scientists took to the streets in a historically unprecedented Global March for Science. The event was seen as symbolic of a crisis in the relationship of science and society. This book considers the Global March for Science from a postcolonial perspective to inquire into the toolkit that the academic field of Science & Technology Studies (STS) has to offer. It argues that new co…

E-book A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

How can there be so many different languages in the world while the abilityto use language seems to be fundamentally the same for every human being?This is without doubt one of the core questions of linguistics, and it is thisBig Question that is hidden behind the smaller questions in this book. Tostudy the variation and the underlying linguistic system in a scientific way,we ideally want to ha…

E-book The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek : Linguistic Prehist…

Author(s) van Beek, Lucien Collection Dutch Research Council (NWO) Language English Show full item record Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new scenario of language change in the epic tradition.; Readership…

E-book Old Church Slavic : Grammar and Dictionaries

This is a difficult book. For specialists in Slavic linguistics, the familiar material of Old Church Slavic appears under shockingly novel light. For theoretical linguists, this work presents a construct unlike any other with the word grammar in the title. For all readers, the grammar is difficult because the complex formal appa-ratus is stated declaratively, not procedurally, and thus its vali…

E-book Creating Standards : Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript …

Manuscripts originate from literacy practices embedded in numerous social domains, such as education, administration, religion and trade. Expressed in spoken and written languages, various social activities prompt the development of organising principles and structures, which in turn serve as models for the agents and participants of literacy practices. The…

E-book Formulaic Language : Theories and Methods

Of the many types of multiword expressions identified in the literature, the cur-rent study focuses on a small, structurally defined set of possible prefabricatedsequences (prefabs), in particular, attributive adjective-noun sequences as usedin American English conversation. The paper examines the role of frequency of One source of interest in multiword expressions (MWEs) derived from corpusstu…

Espanol Para Indonesios (Nivel Basico = Tingkat Pemula)

Di era globaliasi ini, menimba ilmu pengetahuan di perguruan tinggi sudah menjadi hal yang wajar. Bahkan sekarang ini semakin banyak orang Indonesia yang meneruskan pendidikan ke tingkat strata 2 dan strata 3 ke luar negeri. Negara-negara seperti Inggris, Prancis, Jerman, Jepang, dan Spanyol menjadi tempat tujuan untuk menimba ilmu. Namun, ada kalanya kita tidak dapat melanjutkan sekolah ke lua…

Kamus Seri Tiga Bahasa : Inggris Spanyol Indonesia

Arus informasi yang semakin meluas antar negara membutuhkan kemampuan memahami bahasa asing secara lebih mendalam. Seperti kita ketahui, bahasa Inggris merupakan salah satu kunci berkomunikasi di dunia internasional. Akan tetapi, komunikasi ini akan lebih baik jika didukung oleh kemampuan bahasa asing lainnya. Bahasa Spanyol merupakan salah satu bahasa yang populer dan banyak diminati di seluru…

E-book Driving and Embracing Change: Learning and Teaching Languages and Comm…

When considering the title of this book, we, as its editors, had to reflect on the notion of change. Change is constant and inevitable, but fundamental changes do not happen overnight. Such changes result from actions and measures that address deep, complex and interrelated systemic issues, and thus require a shift in mindset. Fifty years ago, Gregory Bateson (1972/2000), an early advocate for …

Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia

Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia ini merupakan usaha yang bertujuan mencakup sebagian besar kata dan ungkapan Bahasa Indonesia yang paling umum dipakai. Kita semua mengetahui Bahasa Indonesia merupakan bahasa resmi Nasional. Dalam perkembangannya Bahasa Indonesia banyak mendapat pengaruh atau masukan dari bahasa ibu/daerah dan bahasa asing. Kamus ini mengandung kosa kata dengan frekuensi yang tingg…

Kamus Umum Bahasa Indonesia

Keperluan akan adanya kamus Bahasa Indonesia yang dapat memberikan pedoman praktis bagi masyarakat makin terasa, lebih-lebih karena perkembangan bahasa Indonesia kita pesat dan karena pemakai bahasa nasional kita itu kian tinggi kesadarannya akan pentingnya kecermatan dalam berbahasa. Hal ini pastilah disadari pula oleh penulis ketika beliau menyebutkan dalam kata pengantar yang diarahkan kepad…

E-book Reflexively Speaking : Metadiscourse in English as a Lingua Franca

Ten years ago, I remarked on the surprisingly small proportion of metadiscoursestudies that investigated spoken discourse compared to the total amount of meta-discourse research (Mauranen 2012). This is still true, even though much more re-search has been devoted to spoken discourses since then. The proportional gapremains enormous. If we look for studies addressing not only speaking in general…

E-book Learners in Transition : Chinese Students’ Journeys from EFL to ESL …

It may be necessary here to give a very brief sketch of Confucian thought and its paramount influence on Chinese culture. Confucius (551–479 bc) lived during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 bc), which was an unprec-edented era of cultural flowering amidst conflict and civil strife in the history of China. As the “First Teacher of China” (Jin & Cortazzi, 2006), …

E-book Thick Evaluation

magine I tell you that Maddy is bad. Perhaps you infer from my intonation, or thecontext in which we are talking, that I mean morally bad. Additionally, you willprobably infer that I am disapproving of Maddy, or saying that I think you shoulddisapprove of her, or similar, given typical linguistic conventions and assuming I amsincere. However, you might not get a more detailed sense of the parti…

E-book Bahasa Spanyol Bahasa Sahabatku

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E-book Easy French Step-by-Step

Easy French Step by Step proves that a solid grounding in grammar basics is the key to mastering a second language. You are quickly introduced to grammatical rules and concepts in order of importance, which you can build on as you progress through the book. You will also learn more than 300 verbs, chosen by their frequency of use. Numerous exercises and engaging readings help you quickly build …

E-book Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to French as it is written and spoken today.

E-book Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction

Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction considers a subject that falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which fascinating discoveries and important problems are found. Beginning with the oldest, ‘arts’ end of the subject, it moves chronologically through to the newest research — the ‘science’ aspects. Themes included are: the prehistory of languages and their common…

E-book Languages: A Very Short Introduction

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different l…

E-book Oxford Latin Course

Horace's day than with an Englishman of the Middle Ages. Lastly, to read and understand Latin, you need to think clearly; this is a skill which is essential in all academic subjects and, indeed, in the whole of life. It would be wrong to pretend that Latin is easy but we hope our course will make the process of learning it both interesting and enjoyable.

E-book The Study of Language

We don’t usually think of speaking as similar to chewing, licking and sucking, but, like speaking, all of these actions involve movements of the mouth, tongue and lips in some kind of controlled way. So, perhaps this connection is not as improbable as it first sounds. It is an example of the type of observation that can lead to interesting speculations about the origins of spoken language. Th…

E-book Simplified Signs : A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Popu…

Many children and adults experience considerable difficulty producing or understanding a spoken language despite having adequate hearing levels. Some of these persons may benefit from learning a full and genuine sign language, such as one of the sign languages used by members of a Deaf1 community. They may acquire a substantial vocabulary of signs and learn to combine them into complex s…

E-book Inquisitive Semantics

Inquisitive semantics is a new semantic framework mainly intended forthe analysis of linguistic information exchange. Information exchangecan be seen as a process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitivesemantics provides a new formal notion of issues, which makes itpossible to model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis oflinguistic information exchange in a more refined and m…

E-book Getting Others to do Things : A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments

Research in the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, and inter-actional linguistics is perhaps closest to the approach taken here, for a few rea-sons. One is that the empirical source of data is recordings of informal interaction.Another is that the units of analysis are not clauses or sentences but moves in con-versational sequences (Wootton 1981;1997;Lindström 2005;Vinkhuyzen &…

E-book Seri Bahan Ajar: Bahasa Rusia

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E-book Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

Just as plant and animal lineages are not uniformly distributed around the world, the same is true for the distribution of language families. As of 2017 the Ethnologue list includes around 50 distinct language families covering 7099 living languages, some of which, like Austronesian, have spread over a huge geographical range while others, like Amuric, have only a single living member (i.e., Ni…

E-book Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi

The physical seclusion of the village and the social aloofness of the Kanashicommunity have contributed to the maintenance of its traditional culture and lan-guage,butrecentdevelopmentsarethreateningthetraditionallifestyle,includingthe language, where especially contact with Hindi4is becoming an integral partof the villagers’ daily lives. This is the latest episode in a long history of contin…

E-book German: An Essential Grammar

German: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern German. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of German in short, readable sections. Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities …

E-book More Chinese for Kids Flash Cards Simplified Character Edition

he Tuttle MORE Chinese for Kids Flash Cards (Simplified Character Edition) kit is an introductory Mandarin language learning tool especially designed to help children from preschool through early elementary level acquire basic words, Chinese characters, phrases, and sentences in Chinese in a fun and easy way. The flashcards can be used as a learning tool in a classroom setting, at home, or a…

E-book Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters: HSK Level A (1 -3)

This user-friendly book is aimed at helping students of Mandarin Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters. At last--there is a truly effective and enjoyable way to learn Chinese characters! This book helps students to learn and remember both the meanings and the pronunciations of over 800 characters. This otherwise daunting task is made easier by the use of techniques based on the psych…

E-book A Grammar of Akajeru : Fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dia…

The primary sources for this work are the fragments of Akajeru (words, phrases and some short sentences) contained (passim) in the pages of Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown’s monograph The Andaman Islanders (1922), which gathers the results of his anthropological research carried out on the Andamans between 1906 and 1908. Although the languages of the archipelago wer…

E-book First 1000 Words in Arabic

This is an introduction to 1000 common words in classical Arabic. Arranged thematically, many of the pages show an everyday scene, surrounded by pictures of objects from the scene with their Arabic names. An Arabic/English dictionary of all the words is included.

E-book Ngomong Mandarin, Ngobrolin China

Perkembangan China yang begitu pesat, didukung kuatnya pengaruh globalisasi, membuat kebutuhan menguasai bahasa Mandarin tidak terhindarkan lagi. Bahasa ini kian populer dipelajari hampir semua kalangan, baik komunitas Tionghoa maupun komunitas lain, untuk pergaulan, pendidikan, dan bisnis. Ngomong Mandarin, Ngobrolin China disusun oleh Penulis yang mengantongi berbagai prestasi di dalam dan lu…

E-book Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese

Learn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy—a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension. Chinese is one of the oldest written languages, and one of the most difficult to master, especially for Westerners. With Chineasy, learning and reading Chinese has never been simpler or more fun. Breaking down the Great Wall of La…

E-book Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understandi…

Learn Old English (Anglo-Saxon) with this best-selling course from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Equally suited to general reader, historian and student of literature, this new edition teaches vocabulary and grammar through original texts, with audio support, traces the roots of modern English words, and explores the Anglo-Saxon cultural context through poems, prose and…

E-book The Oxford History of English

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Ind…

E-book Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hierog…

Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of twenty-five essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. The combination of grammar lesson…

E-book German Visual Phrase Book: See it / Say it / Live it

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E-book Spoken World: Greek

This simple and effective introduction to Greek teaches everything one needs to speak, understand, read, and write in Greek. This program assumes no background in the language, and it explains each new concept clearly with plenty of examples, making it ideal for beginners or anyone who wants a thorough review.

E-book Turkish Phrasebook & Dictionary

A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and with Collins Gem phrasebook and dictionary, the right word will always be at your fingertips. This indispensable language guide covers the topics and phrases that crop up everyday when traveling, from finding a hotel to choosing wine. It includes travel information and tips, a 3,000 word dictionary, a comprehensive menu …

E-book Streetwise Mandarin Chinese: Speak and Understand Everyday Mandarin Ch…

Uncover the everyday Mandarin Chinese as it's spoken on the streets and in the alleys of China. With the help of Streetwise Mandarin Chinese, you'll get clued in on the frequently used idioms, colloquialisms, and slang currently used by Chinese speakers of all walks of life. The accompanying audio recordings include thirty dialogues performed by native speakers that bring the language of the st…

E-book Bahasa Belanda Sebagai Bahasa Sumber: Tata Bahasa Ringkas

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E-book Learn Dutch In 7 Days

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E-book Tagalog: A Complete Course for Beginners

This simple and effective introduction to Tagalog will teach you everything you need to speak, understand, read, and write in Tagalog. This program assumes no background in the language, and it explains each new concept clearly with plenty of examples, making it ideal for beginners or anyone who wants a thorough review.

E-book A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners

The only up-to-date frequency dictionary of Spanish currently available, this is an invaluable tool for all learners of Spanish that provides a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America, the Dictionary provides a detailed frequency-based list,…

E-book Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore : A Cognitive Linguistic P…

The present study focuses on folk stereotypes of interconnections between the phys-ical and the metaphysical worlds in Polish language and culture. It takes as its point of departure relations between three concepts: lud (the folk), kultura ludowa (folk culture) and religijno?? ludowa (folk religiosity/folk religious practices). The terms have long stirred heated debate and controversy …

E-book The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Choson Korea

The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within families, and written culture created room for a…

E-book Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

Introducing Italian culture and people through the medium of the language used today, Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook provides readers with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations. Presenting twenty-three individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts, Basic Italian is an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in one, easy to follo…