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Metaphor in Educational Discourse
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 160.00Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotskys theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent framework for investigating how teachers and learners negotiate figurative language in order to promote development in the classroom setting. In what is likely to... more...
Teaching Languages to Young Learners
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 31.00This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language. more...
Metaphor and Reconciliation
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, ?walking the footsteps of the bombers? as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge but to try to understand his motivations and perspective. Her preparedness to meet Pat Magee opened... more...
Shadow Mothers
University of California Press 2011; US$ 24.95Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the ?shadow mothers? they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews... more...
Researching and Applying Metaphor
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00This book demonstrates how metaphor needs to be researched using multiple methods of investigation. more...
Metaphor Analysis
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 34.00Using as a basis the discourse dynamics approach to metaphor developed by the editor, the book explores links between theory and empirical investigation, exemplifies data analysis and discusses issues in research design and practice. Particular attention is paid to the processes of metaphor identification, categorisation and labelling, and to the use... more...
Bringing creative teaching into the young learner classroom
Oxford University Press 2010; US$ 14.35Personalize your English lessons for young learners with new ideas for motivating children to speak English, encouraging learner autonomy and self-assessment, and getting the most out of your coursebook. more...
Confronting Metaphor in Use
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have... more...
Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 143.00It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of investigation. This book starts by describing the nature... more...
Architectural Variability in the Southeast
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 32.95Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast... more...
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