Japan Sensei : Learn Japanese phrases for your travel to Japan With Grammar Pointers at the end of each chapter to teach you how to easily build basic sentences in Japanese! Learning the Japanese language has never been so easy! Impress your friends by learning a second language from a country that is known for…
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…
A History of the German Language Through Texts PDF examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German through a wide range of texts, from medical, legal and scientific writing to literature, everyday newspapers and…
Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement “”Steampunk”” persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its modeling of attire…