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Whether presenting their versions of real events or making up tales of adventure and discovery, children enchant us with their stories. But the value of those stories goes beyond their charm. Storytelling is an essential form through which children interpret their own experiences and communicate their view of the world. Each narrative presented by a child is a brushstroke on an evolving self-portrait - a self-portrait the child can reflect on, refer...
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In the tradition of An Exaltation of Larks and Crazy English comes a book about words guaranteed to pique the interest of word lovers everywhere. From abolitionism to zoroastrianism, ISMs make up some of the most interesting, mysterious, and obscure words in the English language. In this entertaining, engaging, and enlightening little book, word lovers will discover the true meanings of these words--along with the often bizarre etymologies, mythologies,...
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The objectives of this book are to help students develop their communicative skills in english as well as various job-related competencies. The book was designed based on teh global simulation framework in which students take on a role in a simulated center for disease control. Each unit covers different aspects of working in te simulated center, including how to apply for a job, applying for a job in the center, designing medical campaigns about...
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Ever wondered where the sayings we commonly use originate from?
Sometimes the things we say, if we really think about it, make absolutely no logical sense.
Why on earth has a cat got my tongue? Why does a wall have ears? And why the heck are my ears burning? Why would I possibly want to break a leg?
If you think you know the answers, you might be close but have no cigar and if you don't want to wake up on the wrong side of the bed or even worse,...
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Cómo crear poemas, cuentos, historias, mitos y leyendas.
El objetivo es ante todo guiar al estudiante, al profesor, al padre de familia para que descubra las capacidades creativas que todos tenemos escondidas. No vamos a pensar que van a resultar en grandes obras literarias (o... ¿por qué no?), pero sí grandes intenciones y esfuerzos.
Este libro hace referencia a esa gota inicial que puede convertirse en el inmenso río que se dirigirá hacia...
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Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. This track will cover Personal Gender Pronouns (PGPs). We'll look at what they are, give a brief overview of some important definitions, and then look at ways of sharing your pronouns and working to create a more inclusive work environment. Learning Objectives Learn what personal gender pronouns are Learn some important definitions around gender identity and pronouns Learn ways of sharing your pronouns...
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Al país de los baskos se le llama de muy diversas maneras: País Vasco, Vasconia, Baskonia, País Vasconavarro, Navarra, Euskadi o Euskal Herria, con sus adecuaciones a los diferentes idiomas. Un abanico de nombres muy sugerente pero poco útil para la identificación inequívoca del país.
A ellos hay que añadir los utilizados oficialmente para denominar las tres diferentes administraciones que se asientan en su ámbito antropológico cultural....
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A fun and informative guide to the how and why of proper names and their haphazard entry into common English language by the author of the bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and More.
Mining the English language to turn up a colorful cast of characters, Eugene Ehrlich finds the historic and literary figures who have given their names to the English language in the interest of keeping it vibrant and their names alive. In What's in a Name? Ehrlich traces...
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This book introduces the reader to a new way of approaching political discourse which is called discursive political analysis (DPA). DPA takes the political realm as the kernel and conceptualizes political discourse as a functional tool which constantly modifies the agent's position vis-à-vis structural factors to achieve or maintain political hegemony. DPA can be viewed as a complementary aspect of political analysis and addresses a wide audience...
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From apian (like a bee) to zodiac (little-animals circle), a word book that spots the animal origins of words and names
There are mice in your muscles, and blackbirds in your merlot. Behind adulation is a dog's wagging tail. Peculiar houses a herd of cattle. Grubby is crawling with bugs. Wordhound Martha Barnette collects more than 300 common (and a few not-so-common) words that have surprising animal roots. Tracing word origins back to ancient...
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From one of America's top wordsmiths, a lively survey of words from abroad that make English a truly international language.
With dry wit and remarkable erudition, Eugene Ehrlich's You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu takes us on an eye-opening tour of our ever-changing language, showing us how English has, throughout its history, seamlessly sewn words from other languages into its original fabric. The language we call our own has in fact been culled...
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Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try admiral, landscape, and marmalade, just for starters.
The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging...
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You may be what you eat, but you're also what you speak, and English food words tell a remarkable story about the evolution of our language and culinary history, revealing a vital collision of cultures alive and well from the time Caesar first arrived on British shores to the present day.
Words to Eat By explores the remarkable stories behind five of our most basic food words, words which reveal fascinating aspects of the evolution of the English...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Victor Ferreira, Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator at the Language Production Lab at the University of California at San Diego. This extensive conversation explores Victor Ferreira's research, which is focused on language production and communication, especially with regard to grammar, lexical structure and speaker-hearer interaction, and his interests...
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Este estudio lingüístico examina la frecuencia de uso del sujeto pronombre personal (SPP) en el español de Bogotá Colombia en niños monolingües entre los cinco y ocho años. Esto con el fin de determinar la presencia del sujeto tácito o explícito en sus discursos orales. La investigación analiza las variables de género edad persona gramatical tiempo verbal y discurso contexto para comprender la utilización del SPP en el español como lengua...
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This volume, written by a poet and scholar of linguistics, is a collection of poetry on serious themes. It is part of the author's Levities and Gravities project. The Levities and Gravities project aims to demonstrate the power of attention to linguistic form in poetry and to highlight the fact that poetry can feed any emotion, not just the heavy ones. This volume contains "gravities," or serious poems, but the associated levities series presents...
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"Winner of a 2016 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies" Anthony Corbeill is professor of classics at the University of Kansas and the author of Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic and Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome (both Princeton).
From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine...
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