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With more than 200 challenging writing exercises, this title will encourage writers to push the boundaries of their fiction for exciting results. It includes unusual exercises and combines the work of writing with the thought process.

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Helps writers explore some of the most common male and female archetypes - the mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate - and learn how to use them as foundations for their own characters. This title also helps readers learn about the mythic journeys of heroes and heroines.

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Avoid sounding like a beginner with these 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written Portuguese.

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With exercises, worksheets, and step-by-step instruction on idea generation, various outlining methods, and core fiction-writing techniques of plot and character development, this guide helps writers set a deadline, create a framework for getting their project done, and walks them through the outlining and drafting process.

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An up-to-date and easy-to-follow explanation of the core concepts that are relevant to discourse analysis and the tools used by linguists to analyse it. All topics are treated in a concise way, illuminated by examples of language in use. Students will be able to do their own analysis before comparing it to commentary supplied by the author.

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Presents a fresh stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics, using examples drawn from a wide-range of languages. This work introduces the key aspects of phonetics, examining the difference between speech and writing, the physiology of speech production, basic and detailed articulation, and acoustic phonetics.

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Presents a fresh stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics, using examples drawn from a wide-range of languages. This work introduces the key aspects of phonetics, examining the difference between speech and writing, the physiology of speech production, basic and detailed articulation and acoustic phonetics.

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An interdisciplinary approach to phonology that introduces the aspects of phonology, and argues that the nature of linguistic sound systems can only be understood in the context of how they are actually used and experienced by speakers and listeners. This book includes anecdotes, examples drawn from popular culture to illustrate the points raised.

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An interdisciplinary approach to phonology that introduces the aspects of phonology, and argues that the nature of linguistic sound systems can only be understood in the context of how they are actually used and experienced by speakers and listeners. This book includes anecdotes, examples drawn from popular culture to illustrate the points raised.

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Introduces, analyzes and critiques the main areas of debate within the field of syntax. This book analyzes the major themes in syntactic research, focusing on overlooked non-generative theories and the adoption of the same concepts across different models of grammar. It also analyzes the difference between spoken and written syntax.

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Introduces, analyzes and critiques the main areas of debate within the field of syntax. This book analyzes the major themes in syntactic research, focusing on overlooked non-generative theories and the adoption of the same concepts across different models of grammar. It also analyzes the difference between spoken and written syntax.

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Covers theoretical and practical translation where style plays an important role and where the translator's options are not always straightforward. This book begins by setting out some of the basic problems and issues that arise in the study of translation. It goes on to focus on style. It is suitable for undergraduate students.

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Covers theoretical and practical translation where style plays an important role and where the translator's options are not always straightforward. This book begins by setting out some of the basic problems and issues that arise in the study of translation, such as the difference between literary and non-literary translation.

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This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars and a "primacy of identity" that values lived experience over critical thinking.

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Recent studies report that Japanese is the second most productive source of new loanwords to English.

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This learner's dictionary for students whose native language is other then English is an educational aid that provides over 3400 entries. It indicates the primary stress, the part(s) of speech, the various meanings of the word in simple English and a description of how the word is used.

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Chapter 8 surveys American poetry publishing since 1980, paying special attention to the major change during this decade: the dramatic decline in public funding for nonprofit literary enterprises.

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Alan Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. In this title, the author picks up the baton and tests the description of used language against a conversational corpus. It is of interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.