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This book is designed to help parents help their children to become lifelong lovers of literacy (reading and writing). The book is also written to help professors and graduate students become aware of the need for children to learn to love literacy.

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This introduction to Homer assumes no prior knowledge of Greek. The first six sections deal with the elements of grammar that are a necessary preliminary to study. From the seventh section onwards the course proceeds through the "Odyssey", Book Five, with grammatical explanations and exercises.

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This introduction to linguistics for the absolute beginner focuses on the core topics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Theoretically-neutral, each essential topic is covered in depth and the author's engaging style encourages interaction from students by using regular short questions to check comprehension.

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(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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Examines Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, and exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. This book considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and to create appropriate contemporary disciplines.

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Examines the nature, characteristics, content, and reception of public rhetoric in various cultures.

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This title provides an approach to three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show what semiotics had always had to marginalize, forget or not see in the quest to professionalize itself.

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Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories by J. David Pleins is an innovative study reference for both introductory and advanced students of Hebrew, to help them remember vocabulary based on logical categories of related words. It includes over 175 word grouping categories including pottery, ships, birds, jewelry, seasons, and many more.

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In this text, Hebrew language scholars outline views on the phenomenon of variation in biblical Hebrew and its significance for biblical studies. An important question that is addressed is whether "late biblical Hebrew" is a distinct chronological phase within the history of biblical Hebrew.

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This new educational tool offers librarians and teachers an effective approach to motivate struggling students to read. It incorporates information on each genre, followed by a list of books related to that genre, a summary of each book, and lessons and activities, making reading interactive and fun!

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By reviewing and discussing both the nature of bilingualism and the nature of standardized testing and by presenting a detailed agenda of the questions that must be answered the authors hope to influence existing and future policies which govern the use of tests and test results.

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.

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A guide to researching systemic functional linguistics. Suitable for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics, it includes a comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; and, a bibliography of key readings.

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A guide to researching systemic functional linguistics. Suitable for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics, it includes a comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; and, a bibliography of key readings.

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Grammar, the structure of a language, is often the subject of confusion. The Bloomsbury Grammar Guide is an easy-to-use handbook which provides the answers.

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Provides an examination of the Hebrew word BMH in biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. This book focuses on its likely Semitic and unlikely Greek cognates, pertinent literary, compositional, and text-critical matters, and the ideological and iconographical ambiance of each occurrence.