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“william nikola”

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  • Bein' with You This Way

    by William Nikola ...
    Illustrated by Michael Bryant ...
    An African American girl and her friends play together and learn that despite their physical differences, they are all really the same.On a beautiful sunny day, an African American girl visits the park and rounds up a group of her friends for an afternoon of fun and playground games. As they play, this happy crew discovers that despite their physical differences - straight hair, curly hair; brown ... Read more

    $11.95 USD

  • Summer Sun Risin'

    Illustrated by Don Tate ...
    by William Nikola ...
    From sunrise to sunset, an African American boy spends an activity-filled summer day helping his family on their farm.Set on a Texas farm in the 1950s and told in Nikola-Lisa's distinctive and catchy style, this loving tribute to childhood, farm life, and family togetherness will resonate with readers of all backgrounds today. Sun-drenched paintings by Don Tate mirror the family's daily activities ... Read more

    $11.95 USD

  • Investigating Language Attitudes

    Social Meanings of Dialect, Ethnicity and Performance

    by Peter Garrett, Nikolas Coupland, Angie Williams ...
    This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering a demonstration of language attitude research in one specific and important context, the English language in Wales. In ... Read more

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  • Language in Society

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  • Linguistics at School

    Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education

    Edited by Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck ...
    Linguistics is a subject that has remained largely confined to the academy, rather than being integrated into school curricula. This is unfortunate but not surprising, as although some teacher education programs include courses on linguistics, it is not comprehensively integrated into teacher education, so it is largely absent from the curriculum. This volume brings together a team of leaders in ... Read more

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  • Theories of Translation

    by J. Williams ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Presents the most important theories in Translation Studies that have emerged over the last 50 years. Particularly innovative is the inclusion of theories from outside North America and Europe, theoretical perspectives on recent technological developments and a consideration of the nature of theory in the field. ... Read more

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  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
    In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human ... Read more

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  • Home Ground

    Language for an American Landscape

    Edited by Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney ...
    Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is ... Read more

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  • Sex in Language

    Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet forums

    by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández ...
    Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation and offence. These two ... Read more

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  • Stories and Social Media

    Identities and Interaction

    by Ruth E. Page ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how new and existing narrative genres are being (re)shaped in different online contexts. The book shows ... Read more

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  • Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes

    Chronicles of Complexity

    by Dr. Jan Blommaert ...
    Series Book 18 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the ... Read more

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