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Price: $41.33
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Sale: $32.80
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald R. Bear::Marcia Invernizzi::Shane R. Templeton::Francine Johnston
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 372.632
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Publication Date: 2007-05-21
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: With more than 15 years of extensive observations and experiences in real classrooms, the authors bring keen insight to this activity-based book. They advocate basing student learning on the appropriate developmental level. This philosophy is supported with more than 250 ready-to-use word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics activities presented in developmental sequence, from the Emergent through the Derivational Relation stage. For educators and school administrators.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $11.71
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frank Luntz
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Publisher: Hyperion
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
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Publication Date: 2007-01-02
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: The nation’s premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country In Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters like "The Ten Rules of Successful Communication" and "The 21 Words and Phrases for the 21st Century," he examines how choosing the right words is essential. Nobody is in a better position to explain than Frank Luntz: He has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. He’ll tell us why Rupert Murdoch’s six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because satellite was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned their message from "treatment" to "prevention" and "wellness." If you ever wanted to learn how to talk your way out of a traffic ticket or talk your way into a raise, this book’s for you.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Ball
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Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.2
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Publication Date: 1983-07-07
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Reading Level: 104
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Description: This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play’s most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details. Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright. |
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $7.29
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Manufacturer: Harcourt
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: S. I. Hayakawa::S.I. Hayakawa
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Publisher: Harcourt
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 420.143
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Publication Date: 1991-01
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Reading Level: 196
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Description: For over 50 years, LANGUAGE IN THOUGHT AND ACTION has examined language through the lens of modern semantics. With an understanding of the roles and different uses of language, one can better communicate with those around them. Like the first edition, LANGUAGE IN THOUGHT AND ACTION uses poignant and relevant examples to better explain the subtleties and nuiances of language.
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $7.30
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mardy Grothe
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 420
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Publication Date: 2002-02-26
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: When John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he wasn't just stirring the hearts of millions of young Americans, he was also engaging in a little-known form of wordplay called chiasmus. Dr. Mardy Grothe has plumbed the depths of this form for years and catalogued hundreds of examples from ancient times to the present, in Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You (title courtesy of Joey Adams). All it takes is a repeated statement with two elements transposed between them--e.g., fool and kiss--and you get a powerful, often humorous, rhetorical prop. Collected in chapters like "Chiasmus for Lovers" and "Chiastic Compliments and Insults," the wisdom of the ages shines in gems such as Cicero's "It is as difficult for the good to suspect evil as it is for the evil to suspect good." Even better is Grothe's running commentary on the form and its masters and the often-biting humor found in the classics, for instance Dr. Johnson's "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." Fortunately for us, the good doctor wasn't referring to Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You, which is as fun to read as a reference as it is to refer to a reader. --Rob Lightner
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.09
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Crystal
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 420
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Publication Date: 2007-08-06
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: "Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage of lexical exploration and discovery."
In Words, Words, Words, Crystal takes readers on a fascinating linguistic adventure, exploring the English language in all its oddity, complexity, and ever-changing beauty. Traveling from word origins and word evolution to wordgangs, wordrisks, wordplay, wordgames and beyond, Crystal shares his immense knowledge of, and equally immense delight in, language. He celebrates new words, old words, words that "snarl" and words that "purr," elegant words and taboo words, plain English words and convoluted gobbledegook, eponyms and antonyms, spoonerisms and malapropisms, and a host of other written and spoken forms and variations.
Words, Words, Words offers invaluable insight on such subjects as how to estimate the size of your vocabulary the functions of jargon when cliches are necessary the value of slang words ("the chief use of slang/is to show you're one of the gang") how to create your own "semantic field" dialect humor how to become a word detective how to keep a record of your child's words and much more!
With illuminating sidebars featuring everything from common word origins and sample definitions from the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Ambrose Bierce to a passage from Finnegan's Wake and the winning entries of The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition, Words, Words, Words will both satisfy and spark the curiosity of anyone who has ever been intrigued, befuddled, or awed by words and myriad ways we use them.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.49
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Manufacturer: Random House Reference
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sol Steinmetz
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Publisher: Random House Reference
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422
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Publication Date: 2008-03-25
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: "My favorite popular word book of the year"
-William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008
A fun, new approach to examining etymology!
Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example:
The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion."
Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish."
In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $15.50
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Manufacturer: William James & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mikael Parkvall
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Publisher: William James & Company
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Publication Date: 2008-07
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Reading Level: 480
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $0.75
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 400
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Publication Date: 1999-09-07
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: This is a unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: the media are ruining English; children can't speak or write properly anymore; and, America is ruining the English language. The tone is lively and entertaining throughout and there are cartoons from Doonesbury and The Wizard of Id to illustrate some of the points. The book should have a wide readership not only amongst students who want to read leading linguists writing about popular misconceptions but also amongst the large number of people who enjoy reading about language in general.
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Price: $33.50
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Sale: $30.15
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pierre Bourdieu
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428
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Publication Date: 1999-12-12
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should he viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence. Drawing on the concepts that are part of his distinctive theoretical approach. Bourdieu maintains that linguistic utterances or expressions can be understood as the product of the relation between a linguistic market" and it "linguistic habitus." When individuals use language in particular ways, they deploy their accumulated linguistic resources and implicitly adapt their words to the demands of the social held or market that is their audience. Hence every linguistic interaction, however personal or insignificant it may seem, hears the traces of the social structure that it both expresses and helps to reproduce. Bourdieu's account sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to considerations such as class and gender. It also opens up a new approach to the ways in which language is used in the domain of politics. For politics is, among other things, the arena in which words are deeds and the symbolic character of power is at stake. This volume, by one of the leading social thinkers in the world today, represents a major contribution to the study of language and power. It will be of interest to students throughout the social sciences and humanities, especially in sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, and literature.
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