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by Judith Wells Lindfors  Publisher Comments This fascinating exploration of children's inquiry -- what it is, how it develops, and how it contributes to children's learning -- will help teacher educators and elementary teachers to understand, appreciate, and foster children's inquiry in classrooms.... (read more)  Your price $52.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Susie Dent Publisher Comments This new edition of The Language Report covers all aspects of contemporary English as an evolving and mutating language. Slang, text, music, politics, idioms, and the media all contribute to changing the English we speak. This volume aims to chronicle... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anita Puckett Publisher Comments Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian community. Through careful analysis of conversations in casual yet commercial contexts, she finds that... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Bignell Publisher Comments Media Semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Theresa (ed.) Perry Publisher Comments 'When the Oakland school board issued a resolution calling for schools to acknowledge the reality of black English in the classroom, a huge national outcry and media frenzy arose. The debate about \"Ebonics\" made national headlines, quickly became... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Olsher Publisher Comments "Words in Motion is a practical writing text in which students learn to enjoy writing as a process of creating, sharing, and revising while working together in pairs and groups. Students are given the opportunity to experience many different types of... (read more) Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Natsuko Tsujimura Publisher Comments The new edition of An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics gives an updated, comprehensive account of Japanese linguistics, covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language change, dialect variation, and gender differences.... (read more) List Price $66.95 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamara M. Green Book News Annotation Green (classics, City U. of New York-Hunter College) updates again her textbook for a college course that is increasingly important as fewer students study the classical languages themselves, and increasingly hard to find as curricula continue to be... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $30.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J. White Publisher Comments A learned and lively collection of more than 1,000 surprising and intriguing words that English has borrowed from other languages, along with their often tantalizing histories and etymologies. The word book for people who speak foreign languages every... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer Publisher Comments Classic and contemporary exercises and readings are presented in the workbook/reader. They are chosen because of the way they illuminate or expand on the basic concepts introduced in the text, and they range from beginning to intermediate in skill level.... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $37.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond D. Kent Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index.... (read more) List Price $79.10 Your price $64.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Connie C. Eble Publisher Comments Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Joseph Gumperz Publisher Comments This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate.... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price $44.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendy Leeds-hurwitz Publisher Comments Communication is, among other things, about the study of meaning -- how people convey ideas for themselves and to one another in their daily lives. Designed to close the gap between what we are able to do as social actors and what we are able to describe... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price $26.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald Knowles Publisher Comments This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W P Robinson Publisher Comments This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Rowe Publisher Comments Key Benefit: Well-balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology. Key Topics: Introductory linguistics with attention to linguistic anthropology takes a problem-centered approach.Market... (read more) List Price $61.35 Your price $42.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven E. Weisler Publisher Comments In this introductory-level linguistics text, Steven E. Weisler and Slavko Milekic develop a theoretically motivated analysis of language with an emphasis on grammar construction and argumentation. They introduce the theory of language, sounds, words... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by American Heritage Dictionary Publisher Comments Part of the Good Beginnings series of full-color board books which will intrigue children and at the same time help them build vocabulary. The words have been chosen for their age-appropriateness by the editors of the American Heritage(R) dictionaries... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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