by Julian Treasure Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening? Renowned five-time TED Talk speaker and author Julian Treasure reveals how to speak so that people listen — and how to listen so that people feel heard. As this leading sound expert demonstrates via...
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by Liz Hamp-Lyons, Ben Heasley Study Writing is an ideal reference book for EAP students who want to write better academic essays, projects, research articles or theses. The book helps students at intermediate level develop their academic writing skills and strategies by: * introducing key concepts in academic...
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by Catrine Carpenter For those who find learning a new language daunting, the Teach Yourself Beginner’s Language Series is just what the language teacher ordered. Each friendly and practical course introduces the new language without overwhelming the learner and includes: . Lively dialogues and exercises . ....
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by Veronique Mazet French Grammar For Dummies is a logical extension and complement to the successful language learning book, French For Dummies. In plain English, it teaches you the grammatical rules of the French language, including parts of speech, sentence construction, pronouns, adjectives, punctuation, stress and verb tenses, and moods. Throughout...
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By Margaret Lang, Isabelle Perez This new edition of the Modern French Grammar is an innovative reference guide to French, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. Divided into two parts, Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives and Part B...
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by Andrew Crofts The Freelance Writer’s Handbook will appeal to all aspiring writers, whether they want to write as a full time profession, or simply to supplement their existing income through writing. This inspiring guide will also benefit professional writers and journalists who want ideas on how to...
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By: Thomas Holtgraves This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves together research from philosophy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, pragmatics, and artificial intelligence. In this way, it...
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Edited by: Rainer Schulze • Hanna Pishwa This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects...
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By: Marklen E. Konurbaev This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science...
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