In this eighteenth supplement of American Writers, we offer eighteen articles on writers of fiction, drama (including film), and poetry (including song lyrics, in the case of Bob Dylan). Each of the writers discussed is accomplished, having made a major contribution to one or more of the genres of literature, and none of them has yet been featured in this series.
A Guide to Doing Statistical Analysis in Second Language Research Using SPSS
This valuable book shows second language researchers how to use the statistical program SPSS to conduct statistical tests frequently done in SLA research.
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations
Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals.
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