Walking the Talk: How Transactional Analysis is Improving Behaviour and Raising Self-Esteem
Helping teachers to counter challenging behavior, absenteism and bullying, this book shows how Transactional Analysis can benefit the individual, class and whole school across the early years, primary and secondary phases.
Walk the Talk includes an introduction to TA concepts and a map to direct readers around the book, case studies that highlight how TA can be implemented in an educational environment, time saving photocopiable resources and examples of howTA has been successfully used in other contexts.
Cognitive Linguistics in Action: From Theory to Application and Back
The book gathers papers delineating new perspectives for Cognitive Linguistics research. While prominent scholars demonstrate how application can inform theory, their younger colleagues prove the value of CL methodologies in novel applications. The book is also of use to scholars of other disciplines, such as discourse and translation studies, theology, rhetoric, speech therapy and so forth.
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Word Stress and Sentence Accent
The materials contained in this booklet have been designed to meet the needs of the students who are taking the last courses in English phonetics at teacher-training level. It intends to offer the latest theory available in a way which is accessible to students, together with plenty of practice material for marking and reading.
From Library Journal In the late 1950s, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics by proposing that the infant's ability to learn language cannot be explained by simple learning principles but is dependent upon the existence of complex, innate mental structures. Jackendoff explains the current state of Chomskyan theory by organizing his book around the question "What do we need in order to be able to talk?" In order to find an answer, he reviews fascinating material from developmental psychology, neurology, and the cognitive sciences as well as linguistics.
Everyone knows the value of the simile to give vividness and color to his style of expression. Yet no use of ornamentation in the written or spoken language is subject to such dangers and abuses as the simile. In this book the author tells you how to use the simile, the form and kind to use, and when to avoid it through risk of artificiality and the danger of becoming trite and obvious. He tells you, also, how many of the world's keenest minds have employed the simile successfully, and under the three headings: PROSE, POETRY and BIBLE he gives thousands of the choicest similes in all English literature.
