Mechanisms of Language Acquisition (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition)
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Project-Based Learning Tasks for Common Core State Standards, Grades 6 - 8
by Schyrlet Cameron
Do you want a solid foundation to your Gujarati studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Gujarati in no time. Through authentic conversations, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will learn the Gujarati you need to communicate naturally in everyday situations - from booking a hotel room to talking about friends and family....
Childhood Bilingualism
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Battle Exhortation (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
by Keith Yellin
Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition (Revised and Updated)
by Jay Heinrichs
The definitive guide to getting your way, revised and updated with new material on writing, speaking, framing, and other key tools for arguing more powerfully “Cross Cicero with David Letterman and you get Jay Heinrichs.”—Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Quartet and American Sphinx Now in its fourth edition, Jay Heinrichs’s Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by history’s greatest professors, ranging from Queen Victoria and Winston Ch...
Rick is hungry, but his carrot has disappeared! Who has taken it? Come along on the mission to find it. This picture book targets the /r/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children's speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by paren...
Argumentation and the Decision Making Process
by Richard Rieke and Malcolm O. Sillars
This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 2, an exciting series created for speech language therapists and pathologists, parents and caregivers, teachers and other professionals working with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development. The guide contains detailed notes to support the effective use of all of the picture books in the series, targeting the following sounds: /v/, /z/, /sh/, /ch/, /h/, /y/, /j/, /r/, /l/, /w/, /r/ blends and /l/ blends. Speech Bubbles...
In this latest issue of the award-winning "Free Speech Yearbook, "Nadine Strossen writes on "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Accommodating Free Speech and Gender Equality Values"; Trevor Parry-Giles discusses "Parliament, Puritans, and Protestors: The Ideological Development of the British Commitment to Free Speech "; Marouf Hasian, Jr., considers "The Rhetorical Turn in First Amendment Scholarship: A Case Study of Holmes and the Marketplace of Ideas "; Hosoon Chang investigates "The First A...
Level: KS2 Subject: Verbal Reasoning Suitable for the 2020 tests Covering all required Verbal Reasoning Key Stage 2 curriculum content, this book offers clear assessment testing and includes advice from teachers on how best to use the tests in order to move up to the next level. Verbal reasoning assesses a child's ability to see patterns and relationships at sentence, word and letter level. This Verbal...
Good Speech for the American Actor
by Edith Skinner and Timothy Monich
A Good Talk is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities - conversation. Drawing on over forty years of experience in American letters, Menaker pinpoints the factors that drive and enliven every good conversation: the vagaries (and joys) of subtext; the deeper structure and meaning of conversational flow; the subliminal signals that guide our disclosures and confessions; and the countless other hurdles we must clear along the way. Moving beyond self-help musings a...
The classic voice-training book for actors, teachers of voice and speech and anyone interested in vocal expression – by a pre-eminent voice teacher, actor and director. Fully revised and expanded edition. Linklater's approach is to liberate the voice you have rather than apply vocal techniques from the outside. Her basic assumption is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing whatever emotion, mood or thought he/she experiences. This edition incorporates vocal exercises developed o...
Loose-Leaf Version for Reflect & Relate
by Steven McCornack and Kelly Morrison
The computational approach of this book is aimed at simulating the human ability to understand various kinds of phrases with a novel metaphoric component. That is, interpretations of metaphor as literal paraphrases are based on literal meanings of the metaphorically used words. This method distinguishes itself from statistical approaches, which in general do not account for novel usages, and from efforts directed at metaphor constrained to one type of phrase or to a single topic domain. The m...