This lively introduction to the study of language explores American English and its place within contemporary society, highlighting the role of language in our daily lives. Beginning with a definition of language, the text unpacks the basic concepts used in linguistics, placing them in the context of real-life situations. Using examples from popular culture, the authors show how the study of language is relevant to students' experience. Teachers and students will appreciate the book's innovative structure, designed to build an understanding of how different aspects of language work together. A variety of exercises - individual, group, discussion, research - is provided to support every teaching style. Imaginatively organised and fun to use, American English is the ideal guide to language study for students taking the subject as a general education requirement, beginning undergraduates in linguistics, and future teachers of English.
This memoir is about a life filled with joy and adventures, but also so many mistakes that its author thinks it could be classified as a "How not to do book." Personal and unique observations compiled through world travel, raising a family, work, love, loss and just living each day are intimately disclosed on every page. A product of the great American post war proud middle class, Deborah believes anything is possible, until it's not, and even then hangs on for the ride. What happens? Let her tell you.
A timely resource, this text will help prospective and practicing teachers develop lessons to meet the benchmarks enumerated in the Common Core State Standards for the English Language Arts: language, reading, speaking and listening, and writing.
In this third and final book in Deborah Sweaney's Missouri Trilogy, the author follows four generations of women in her family. She re-creates their day-to-day worldls as they are impacted by the events of their times...Whether it was through passed-down recipes or ways of dealing with life's tragedies, the four generations of women learned from those who came before them. Often they turned to their gardens where they found peace and joy in seeing a small seed become a healthy plant. All learned the lesson that gardening, like life, is not at all passive. It requires hard workd and even at that leaves the gardener to the fate of foces outside her own control" -- back cover.
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