Angela Goddard Libri

This textbook offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on language and technology. Written in a clear style, it combines practical activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and suggestions for further study.

What hopes do you have for the future? Who do you long to become? This warm, inspiring book encourages boys to shape a world so much gentler and brighter than before.  Playful rhymes and tender illustrations invite them to notice nature, embrace their emotions, and use wise words as their weapons. Whether they’re dynamic dazzlers or marvelous mud sculptors, this book is an opportunity to imagine all the incredible adventures up ahead. A perfect gift for baby showers, graduations, and other celebrations, Songs for Our Sons is a book boys will treasure throughout their lives.

Focusing on language analysis, this essential textbook provides readers with tools to conduct in-depth, context-sensitive examinations of various spoken, written, and multimodal texts. It serves as a versatile resource suitable for different courses and educational levels, featuring a diverse collection of real-life texts from around the globe. The book includes practical activities for students and is supported by a companion website, making it a vital resource for those studying English Language and Linguistics.

Explores the relationship between language and our ideas about men and women. This title challenges commonly expressed views on the subject of language and gender. It highlights the individuals role in the expression of gender stereotyping. It includes a range of text types as diverse as personal ads and wildlife documentary.

A perfect craft book to complement the indoor houseplant trend, The No Kill Garden teaches readers to create today's hippest plants--including succulents, cacti, cut flowers, and ferns--using the techniques of papercrafts, felting, knitting, and crochet.

Drawing on literary and linguistic theory for analysis of texts, this book covers all aspects of advertising language, from the interrelation of language, image and layout to the discourse between 'reader' and advertisement.

Doing English Language provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of English Language studies for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject. This book is divided into three main sections covering definitions, models and applications and will address the fundamental questions about studying language.

The only textbook that supports the Oxford AQA International A Level English Language (9670) specification, for first teaching in September 2017. Written by experienced authors & linguistic experts it fully prepares students for exam success & further study.

Humans are social animals and through conversation, written communication, symbols and other expressions are constantly interacting with each other. 'Discourse' is an accessible and engaging introduction to the analysis of those interactions and the many forms, expressions and meanings they can take. The book draws on a range of international case studies and examples from literature, political speech, advertising and newspaper articles to address key questions such as: What is discourse? Why are there different approaches to understanding discourse? What issues affect the collection and management of discourse? How can discourse be represented?