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Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 1.
Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys.
Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce explores english language, errors of usage, idioms.
The Art of Public Speaking
A practical guide to speaking before an audience, covering confidence, voice, gesture, preparation, and the organization of a speech. Examples and exercises invite readers to put the techniques into practice.
Ancient Greek II: A 21st-Century Approach
In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.
Phraseology in Action: Theoretical Insights and Practical Approaches to Idioms, Proverbs, and More
A collection of studies on idioms, proverbs and constructional expressions. The contributors examine how fixed and partly fixed expressions acquire meaning, change through use and operate across languages, with examples from English, German and other linguistic traditions.
Researching Generative AI in Applied Linguistics
Researching Generative AI in Applied Linguistics presents a sample of research on how generative AI (GenAI) performs for addressing issues in applied linguistics. The chapters are based on selected presentations from the 2024 Technology for Second Language Learning hybrid conference held at Iowa State…
New Trends in Applied Phraseology: Languages and Cultures in Comparison
Studies of phraseology connect dictionaries, translation and language teaching. Comparative case studies examine recurring expressions across languages and the practical problems involved in recording, interpreting and teaching them.
Greek primer, colloquial and constructive
John Stuart Blackie introduces Greek through examples, exercises and explanations of its grammatical forms. The primer connects language study with practical use, encouraging familiarity with words and constructions alongside formal rules.
The Presence of Minority and Indigenous Languages in Urban Naming: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Place Names 2023
Research papers on minority and Indigenous languages in urban place names. Case studies examine naming practices, cultural memory and the relationship between language and the changing identities of towns and cities.
The pronunciation of Greek; accent and quantity. A philological inquiry
John Stuart Blackie examines Greek pronunciation, accent and quantity through a philological discussion of texts and linguistic evidence. The work considers the relationship between written forms, spoken sounds and the practices of learning and teaching Greek.
The Uncommon Becomes Common: A Critical Gaze at Some Research Trends in the South African Indigenous Languages
A collection surveying research on South African Indigenous languages. Topics connect linguistics, literature, translation, teaching, folklore, music and digital media, with examples of current methods and applications.
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
Edward Sapir examines the structures and development of language, moving between sounds, grammatical forms and the ways languages change. Examples from a range of linguistic traditions support discussions of classification, culture and the uses of speech.
Soshanguve paremiology+: A multilingual approach
Research on proverbs through multilingual and interdisciplinary approaches. The chapters examine meaning, translation, cultural context and the appearance of proverbs in music and other forms of expression.
Time in East Asian Endangered Languages: Grammar, History, and Society
Studies of time and change in endangered East Asian languages. The volume brings grammatical analysis together with language history and social context to examine how speakers express and organise temporal experience.
The Subtle Meaning: An Outline of Persian ʿilm-i maʿānī
An introduction to the Persian rhetorical discipline of ʿilm-i maʿānī. The study explains its concepts and categories through textual examples, considering how expression, context and intended meaning relate to one another.
Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
A collection of Shépa oral narratives and songs from Choné in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Tibetan, Chinese and English texts document a tradition passed between generations, with discussion of its performance and cultural setting.
Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District: From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the Present Day
A linguistic reassessment of Carl Reinhardt’s nineteenth-century description of Omani Arabic. Roberta Morano revisits evidence from the Al-ʿAwābī district to examine variation and change in the vernacular.
Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
A study of intellectual exchanges among Syriac, Arabic and Hebrew linguists before the twelfth century. The author traces ideas about vocalisation and vowel sounds across the scholarly traditions of the early medieval Middle East.