The United States Supreme Court famously labeled copyright "the engine of free expression" because it provides a vital economic incentive for much of the literature, commentary, music, art, and film that makes up our public discourse.
In Copyright's Paradox, Neil Weinstock Netanel explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech, revealing how copyright can impose unacceptable burdens on expression. Netanel provides concrete illustrations of how copyright often prevents speakers from conveying their message, tracing this conflict across both traditional and digital media and considering current controversies such as copying culture rampant on YouTube and MySpace, digital sampling, and the Google Book Search litigation.
This series provides for the sequential development of grammar and punctuation skills. This volume of Grammar and Punctuation presents 25 rule charts, each followed by three activity sheets for practicing the rule.
Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 3 provides rule charts and practice pages for these grammar and punctuation skills:
* parts of a sentence * kinds of sentences * conjunctions * common & proper nouns * singular, plural, & possessive nouns * pronouns & possessive pronouns * verbs * subject-verb agreement * present & past verb tenses...
Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. Combining theory and practice it covers a wide range of material in a lively and accessible style. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data. Working with Spoken Discourse is divided into three sections.
New Headway now provides a seamless syllabus progression from beginner to upper-intermediate level. It takes a clear and structured approach to grammar. Grammatical structures are introduced in context, with questions that encourage students to work out the rules for themselves. A comprehensive 'Grammar section' provides a useful reference before, during or after the lesson. Integrated skills work is an important feature of the course. Supportive Teacher's Books at each level, Teacher's Resource Books and Workbooks
An introduction to phonetics is designed to help EFL learners to achieve
native-like pronunciation:
Chapter one deals with the history of phonology and
phonetics and provides a brief overview of the impact of philosophy and
psychology on the emergence of phonology and phonetics. Chapter two defined the
notion of phoneme, describes IPA phonetic alphabet, and distinguishes between
board and narrow transcriptions. Chapter three and four provide an in-depth
account of traditional and systematic articulatory phonetics, respectively.
Chapter five discusses the place of suprasegmentals in phonology. Chapter six
seeks to explain phonemics. Chapter seven provides a brief introduction to the
rudiments of acoustic or physical phonetics. Chapter eight introduces the
reader to the notion of auditory phonetics
Edited by: englishcology - 25 October 2008
Reason: Title changed from "Phonetics" to "An Introduction To Phonetics"
