Thai Phrasebook: 1,001 Thai Phrases, Learn Thai Language Quick and Easy, Thai Language for Beginners Learn Thai Language Quick and Easy! 1,001 Easy to Learn Thai Words is the easy-to-reach-for phrasebook you are looking for on your travels around Thailand. You will find all the words, sayings, and phrases you need, and more to help…
The Complete Brecht Toolkit A companion piece to NHB’s best-selling The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit. A practical, hands-on guide – for actors, directors, teachers and students – to Brecht’s history and practice of theatre. The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht’s many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre – and how he put them into…
Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is \’optimal\’ if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in…
The Norton Field Guide to Writing, with Readings (3rd Edition) Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail―and now the number-one best seller. With just enough detail ― and color-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it ― this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists…
Discourse and Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models – which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables – have been challenged…