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Language, Religion and Politics in North India
Paul R. Brass
Paperback - $53.95
This book is recognized as a classic study both of the politics of language and religion in India and of ethnic and nationalist movements in general. It received overwhelmingly favorable reviews across disciplinary and international boundaries at fir ...
Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English Teacher's Book
David Brazil
Paperback - $46.95
This book encourages learners to examine the sound system of English in the context of connected speech and describes how intonation works in practice.
Better Spelling : Fourteen Steps to Spelling Improvement
James I. Brown
Paperback - $104.95
For more than 20 years, "Better Spelling" has provided a focused, successful approach to spelling. Students learn to identify common spelling errors and to apply straightforward rules to correct these errors. The text is split into auditory-centered ...
Feminism and Linguistic Theory
Deborah Cameron
Paperback - $102.95
Feminism, as a movement for social change, has always recognized the significance of language in both theory and practice. In the new feminist scholarship of the past two decades, theories about language have played an important part in attempts to u ...
Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets
George L. Campbell
Hardcover - $285.95
This is a handy reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. Forty alphabets are presented and discussed, with entries ranging from the mainstream, such as Amharic, Chinese and Thai; to the more obscure, Buginese and Cree.
Story of the Alphabet
Edward Clodd
Paperback - $37.95
Writing began as a pictorial record, then the pictures became representations of an idea and writing became symbolic. In the final stages of its evolution, the symbols represented a sound. This evolution is set forth within this volume, with emphasis ...
The Story of A : The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter
Patricia Crain
Paperback - $57.95
Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American ...