The need for increased awareness of the necessity and function of incorporating into ESL curriculum commonly used English language idioms, clichés, colloquialisms, proverbs, slang words, and expressions is crucial. ......
This volume represents the first book-length corpus-based contrastive studies of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet distinctly different world languages in the 21<SUP>st<......
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Negotiating in the Press offers a new interpretation of an otherwise dark moment in American journalism. Rather than emphasize the familiar story of lost journalistic freedom during World War I, Joseph R. Hayden describe......
Despite nearly universal critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the psychological sources of these poems' remarkable energy. In this grou......
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, HemingwayAt public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a v......
The perfect guide to signing for everyone!Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL) will quickly......
Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally R. Munt asks why the form has proven so attractive as a vehi......
Die Rechtschreibreform für die Ohren!Ein Grammatik- und Rechtschreibbuch, das es aus den Zwiebelfischkolumnen von SPIEGEL Online zum Überraschungsbestseller bringt. Ein Buch über die deutsche Sprache - muß das kein B......
Lernziele:Die Teilnahme an Seminaren zur jiddischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft, eigene Lektüre und Forschung. Konzeption: Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die hebräische Schrift wird in 18 Lektionen die Standar......
Wo befinden wir uns, wenn der Human Resources Manager den City Call auf seinem Handy beendet und am Service Point nach dem Rail & C Fly-Ticket fragt? Klar: In Deutschland natürlich. Haben wir das wirklich nötig: all di......
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