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Asher the thresher shark is very shy. Will it stop him from being a hero? This picture book targets the /sh/ 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 parents, teachers or caregivers....

Este volumen recoge una seleccion de las comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional sobre Descortesia y violencia verbal en espanol, organizado por el Grupo de investigacion "Argumentacion y persuasion en Linguistica" en la Universidad de Sevilla durante los dias 5 al 7 de noviembre de 2008. Los estudios aqui presentados se caracterizan, pues, por describir en diferentes corpora como el lenguaje se utiliza para crear una relacion social armonica, o, por el contrario, para producir...

Exam Board: CEM Level & Subject: 11+ English & Verbal Reasoning Suitable for the 2022 tests Practice for your 11+ test in short, quick question bursts Making sure your child is ready for the 11+ CEM Assessment Tests by familiarising them with the real thing will help them do their very best in the 2022 11+ tests. The Collins 11+ Quick Practice Test range gives children plenty of opportunity to test them...

PUBLIC SPEAKING: CONCEPTS AND SKILLS FOR A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 8e equips you with the training and tools to be an effective public speaker and listener in a world of constant cultural, political, and technological changes. The book combines 2,500-year-old principles with up-to-date research into concepts, skills, theories, applications, and critical-thinking proficiencies essential for successful listening and speaking. Giving you a heightened awareness of and sensitivity to your audience, discussi...

Scholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism, all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics. This book's treatment of pragmatics as an analytic method focuses on the central role of context in determining...

Im Spanischen ist eine zunehmende Zahl von Substantiv-Substantiv-Verbindungen festzustellen. Diese befinden sich in einem Grenzbereich zwischen Wortbildung und Grammatik. In dieser Arbeit werden spanische Substantiv-Substantiv-Verbindungen auf der Basis der semantischen Relationen zwischen den Konstituenten untersucht und klassifiziert, dabei spielt die Pragmatik und die Einbettung der Konstruktionen in ihren Kontext eine wichtige Rolle. Es wird auch auf die Frage eingegangen, ob die Konstruktio...

The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish, and Modern Spanish literary works, this book demonstrates how language is dynamic and susceptible to change. The past forms considered here include the preterit, the imperfect, the imperfect progressive with estar (temporal to be), the present perfect, the imperfect progressive with other auxiliary verbs, the preterit progressive with estar,...

First published in 1985, this book studies several common items in English conversation known variously as 'discourse particles', 'interjections', 'discourse markers', and, more informally, 'hesitations' or 'fillers'. While the analysis primarily focuses on 'like', 'well' and 'you know', the larger concern is the entire set of items of which these are members and as such 'I mean', 'now', 'oh', 'hey', and 'aha' are also examined. These discourse particles are analysed at length and then a framewo...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Letters of Note comes a collection of 75 of history's most interesting, profound, and sometimes unknown speeches from a range of scintillating personalities such as Frederick Douglass, Justin Trudeau, Albert Einstein, Meghan Markle, Barbara Jordan, and Ursula K. Le Guin.   This thoughtfully curated and richly illustrated collection celebrates oratory old and new, highlighting speeches we know and admire, while also shining a light on profound dr...

A contemporary approach to persuasion that emphasizes the influence that media has had on persuasive practices. While drawing heavily from rhetorical theories as a foundation for the book, essential social science behavioral theories are used liberally to complement the discussion.

This appealing compendium includes classic toast, from the sentimental to the bawdy and tongue-in-cheek.

How we speak, what we speak and the impact of the spoken word is the story Patsy Rodenburg tells in this companion volume to her bestselling first book, The Right to Speak, her "Owner's Manual of the Voice." Rodenburg's humane attitude toward her reader and her keen awareness of the anxiety of amateur speakers set this work apart from other books on the voice. She first addresses each of the obstacles which prevent access to language and offers ways to overcome them. Part Two includes "Working w...