How number words came about? This book offers a trenchant answer to the question, explaining number conception and application slot by slot through...

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all ...

"The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium--print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange--means that it may transfer into new t...

This book honours a Danish linguist central to the field of foreign language pedagogy in her country and is arranged in four sections that reflect ...

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and prac...

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and prac...

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) occurs in 6.3% of children, twice as much in males than females. Deficits in phonology may include difficulties ...

The first part of this study presents a broad outline of the establishment of the parts of speech, with special emphasis on prepositions, in Ancien...

79 articles in English, French, German and Italian from a congress held in Copenhagen from the 23th-29th August 1992. All the papers deal with subj...

The only book in the style and form of the traditional word Thesaurus, Lauther's Punctuation Thesaurus fill the gap for the punctuation system of t...

This book presents a methodology for introducing an interactive system in classrooms that makes it possible to save considerably in production cost...

Reading at Risk presents the results from the literature segment of a large-scale survey, the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted...

This book presents findings from the Reading First Impact Study, a congressionally mandated evaluation of the federal government's $1.0 billion-per...

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an assessment of the reading comprehension of students in their fourth year of scho...

Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition provides a refreshing approach for the standard Latin composition course offered at the college l...

Language ability is not only universal, but of vast potential, and related to numerous other cognitive and social functions. This book explores ind...

This book examines for the first time what students have read and studied in the disciplines of English and literary studies at Australian schools ...

This new translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric , noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle ser...

This new translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric , noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle ser...

Bill Trevillian is as ruggedly handsome as he is bold and brave. Kip Lee is as strikingly beautiful as she is fiery and fearless. And they've got s...

Bob Sherman has a strength of character and purpose that would make Spencer Tracy. But signing on to the crew of the yacht Bonito, he'll need every...

Although learning English as a second language is ubiquitous across schools worldwide, it can be particularly challenging in classrooms with a ling...

The book contains 53 articles by the author from working papers of limited distribution. 4 articles are on Eskimo, while the bulk covers a variety ...

This book focuses on the analysis of communication within and between cultures. Topics presented herein include various social or human sciences wh...

Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branc...

More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still cannot even render German ...

Every man walks with a shadow . . . but what happens when he acquires a second one? Just ask Brazos-a dead ringer for Jack Palance who's a cold-blo...

Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from...

He's handsome. He's charming. He's a total gentleman … and he's totally outgunned and outnumbered. He's Michael Patrick Obañon. He is faced with...

When it comes to flying gliders, ace pilot Breeze Callaghan is as smooth as they come. He perfects a skill that will prove vitally important for de...

This book is devoted to comparisons of the linguistic situation established by English and Scots in Lowland Scotland, with situations observed in t...

Sociolinguistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the ways in which language is integrated with human society, specifically, with reference...

One of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of Indo-European phonology, this book brings together leading linguists working in Indo-European...