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Changing the Way We Teach
Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants draws on eighteen case studies to illustrate the critical role writing plays in overcoming graduate student…
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Greek to Me
“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” —Vivian Gornick, A rapturous memoir of falling in love with a language. Norris…
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Heavens to Betsy!
He’s as mad as a hatter!Whether it’s like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we’ve never really known…
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Horsefeathers
From “mad as a wet hen” to “corn dodger” and “hobgoblin,” Charles Funk’s collections of curious words and expressions are a treasure trove of word origin. If you’ve ever wondered…
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Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century
This is the third volume in a pioneering series of authoritative studies on the social history of the Welsh language. It contains fourteen chapters, all written by acknowledged experts in…
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Language and Education in Japan
This is the first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Language and Education in Japan offers the first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on…
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Language, Economy and Society
In this new edition the authors present new sets of language data both for individuals and for households in Wales and examine the impact of migration on the language, the…
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Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
Just as the majority of books about computer literacy deal more with technological issues than with literacy issues, most computer literacy programs overemphasize technical skills and fail to adequately prepare…
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Multimodality and Genre
This book presents the first systematic, corpus-based, and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and analysis of multimodal documents. Analysing Multimodal Documents presents the first systematic, corpus-based, and…
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Native Languages of the Southeastern United States
Of the numerous Native languages and dialects spoken across this region a few centuries ago, only a handful remain today. Native Languages of the Southeastern United States presents a comprehensive…