The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar—an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. Now in its 18th edition! More than 1.75 million copies sold! Much has happened in the years since the publication of the seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. The world has transformed, and the Manual has risen to meet the moment.

The eighteenth edition of this classic guide for writers, editors, and publishers is the most exten...

For every kind of writer you need to be.

In Conversation with Exercises starts with the idea that good writing isn’t a single, static thing. This rhetorically-driven, genre-based handbook prepares college writers to write in different ways for different courses, professional contexts, and civic and everyday scenarios. It helps them to be every kind of writer – one who slips in and out of a range of roles, writing situations, and conversations. It gives novice writers the versatility and c...

Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction embraces the full range of diverse gender identities and expressions to explore how gender influences communication, as well as how communication shapes our concepts of gender for the individual and for society at large.

Attitudes towards spoken, signed, and written language are of significant interest to researchers in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication studies, and social psychology. This is the first interdisciplinary guide to traditional and cutting-edge methods for the investigation of language attitudes. Written by experts in the field, it provides an introduction to attitude theory, helps readers choose an appropriate method, and guides through research planning and design, data colle...

The Integrated Chinese Volume 3 Workbook is designed to be used alongside the Volume 3 Textbook. Equal emphasis is given to the core language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In Volume 3, both simplified and traditional characters are shown side-by-side.

New to the 4th Edition:

New pinyin and tone exercises in each lesson for pronunciation practice

Extra writing exercises

Lesson opener checklists that let students track their learning

Exercises are labeled as interpretive,...

The Ruslan 2 course book (160 pages in full colour) continues the exciting Ruslan 1 story line with Ivan, Lyudmila, Peter and Vadim. There are 10 lessons with lively dialogues, clear grammar explanations, lots of reading, listening and writing exercises and language games for the classroom or for online training. Ruslan 2 takes you to a very good GCSE level, and is easily equivalent to the Council of Europe A2 standard.

Es ist spontane Entscheidung. Die Fahrkarte von Moskau nach Berlin kostet nur 96 Rubel, er braucht kein Visum, und außerdem lockt das Abenteuer - kurzerhand packt Wladimir Kaminer seine Sachen und reist im Sommer 1990 nach Deutschland. Berlin erweist sich schnell als ganz besondere Stadt. Hier trifft Wladimir seine zukünftige Frau Olga, ruft die Russendisko ins Leben und bringt sich mit dem russischen Lehrbuch "Deutsches Deutsch zum Selberlernen" eine neue Sprache bei. Mit hintergründigem ...

This new Sogang Korean series is an updated version of its predecessor with the following changes:

- new Grammar textbook

- Information on social and cultural context updated and modernized

- New illustrations and more effective layout

- Complete guide for Korean language learning, covering grammar, reading, speaking, listening and writing

Description:

The objective of this book is to assist readers to improve their communication skills in the Korean language. The format of the textbook and t...

Taal is wat en wie we zijn, willen zijn. We drukken onze identiteit uit in taal, onze stemming, onze meningen. Taal verandert, is constant in beweging. In Het Nederlands van nu onderzoekt Hedde Zeijlstra op speelse manier de tegenwoordige taalstand. Al lijkt het Nederlands dat nu wordt gebruikt op de taal van 20 of 50 jaar geleden, de taal is anders - van betekenis, van vorm en van klank.

Het zijn de drie onderwerpen die hij in drie bij Wereldbibliotheek te verschijnen boeken behandelt. In kor...