Heading off on holiday or a business trip Looking for a language safety net to get yourself out of sticky situations Fed up not knowing how to order a drink or a meal Join Elisabeth Smith and her student Andy for an in-flight language lesson as they head off abroad. -Listen and learn wherever you...
Join beloved author and presenter of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth, Michael Rosen, on a journey through the year via our most weird and wonderful words. Discover the poetry of the people. What are words? They're the beginning of our stories- portals to treasured memories, to the strange sayings that...
Become a reading champion and unlock the meaning of new words with this remarkable vocabulary book. Packed full of little every day words and long twisty-turny words, this book will boost your word knowledge. Aligned to the Key Stage 2 curriculum for ages 7 - 11 Supports vocabulary, grammar,...
This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. In this story, Lindon visits his friend Jasper at his parent’s huge beach house in Martha’s Vineyard. Jasper’s family are rich but...
This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. In this story, Maya’s rich husband Joe was murdered in New York. One day, Maya sees something on her nanny camera which makes her...
This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. In this story, Katy and Charlie are very excited. Mum has tickets for the Glastonbury Music Festival and their favourite singer,...
This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. In this story, Sayuri Komachi is a librarian who recommends books and gives gifts to people. She helps them find what they are really...
This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. In this story, after Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor near his house, his friend Doctor Mortimer visits Sherlock Holmes in...
The Discursive Construction of Veganism is a linguistic exploration of the stories we tell about veganism in popular media. Negative representations of veganism dominate, however, if veganism were represented in a more positive way, more people might be inclined to consider it in the interest of...
A globe-spanning investigation into the disappearance of languages that asks: what do we lose – culturally, politically, and personally – when a language dies? Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish in the next century – along with the...
This book offers an intimate ethnographic window into the ways Chinese Muslims produce, maintain, and transmit religious, cultural, and historical knowledge through their everyday practices of heritage literacy. Sino-Muslims in China inhabit a unique landscape of religious and spiritual expression,...
A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars. An accessible...
A practice book in developing Arabic skills in reading and writing through engaging and highly illustrated exercises, designed to increase confidence in and understanding of basic Arabic. Written by bestselling authors, this book is suited for all beginners in Arabic, whether for self-study or...
Bilingual language learning is fun when books are designed with effective teaching tools in mind. We do that well with our Teach Me My FEELINGS in Samoan title. This unique book offers children the imagery, repetition, and words to recognize and learn how to describe their emotions in English and...
Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field. Introduces the main findings, methods and analytic...
An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usage. Stellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and common errors. Frank Cioffi emphasises how formal written English though only a subdialect of the...
Essential Vietnamese Grammar is designed for use by English-speakers to help them speak and write Vietnamese more naturally. The twelve chapters in this book cover the essential sentence constructions of Vietnamese-from beginning to intermediate and advanced levels. Strong emphasis is placed on the...
An intimate account of an anthropologist's relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication. Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno's experience of caring for and trying to communicate with his teenage son,...
A tour de force Alice RobertsWonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. The Language Puzzle...
What do you do when you use a metaphor? Or a simile or analogy? Can you tell the difference between a synecdoche and a metonymy? What are the secret tricks used every day by professional persuaders? In this learned little volume, illustrated by Merrily Harpur, AdinaArvatu and Andrew Aberdein...
