Inleiding tot de Latijnse syntaxis is een beknopt, op moderne wetenschappelijke inzichten gebaseerd overzicht van de Latijnse syntaxis, opgezet als cursusboek. Op een heldere manier worden aan de hand van aansprekende voorbeelden de belangrijkste kenmerken van de Latijnse zinsgrammatica behandeld. Hierbij ligt de nadruk meer op het verwerven van in

'Actieve hand, complexe beweging, dominantieconditie, fonotaxis, gebonden morfeem, hanteerclassifier, lexicaal gebaar, niet-manuele modificeerder, orale component, pro-drop, enzovoort, termen waarvan u de betekenis vindt in dit woordenboek van de gebarentaalwetenschap.Dit boek is het eerste lexicon van gebarentaalwetenschap, in Nederland en wereldwijd. Het Lectoraat Dovenstudies van de Faculteit Educatie van de Hogeschool Utrecht heeft, met vereende krachten een meesterwerk tot stand gebracht...

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. The book's expansive historical purview illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds, drawing on the ideas of some of history's greatest thinkers and th...

Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics. A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languages. Explores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and sounds. Introduces psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues, including language acquisition, neu...

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic.

From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides; composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms; and, English-Greek glossaries.

This bestselling textbook, now fully updated, introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. It covers interpreting in all its varied forms, from international conference to community-based settings, in both spoken and signed modalities.

This updated fourth edition presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary guide to social media communication. Examining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube, the book analyzes social media's use in journalism, public relations, advertising, and marketing.

The best tool for practicing language awareness

The best tool for practicing language awareness. The Everyday Writer with Exercises is an open invitation to develop awareness about the language we choose and use to write about topics we care about. Andrea Lunsford, with new contributing authors, offers a student-friendly companion that builds the skills, habits, and strategies college writers need to make decisions—to make something happen in the world—every day. They invite us to learn, ...