Lanugage & Writing

Written by a team led by a world authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has established itself as a rich educational experience for both native- and non-native-speaking students. This engaging and stimulating coursebook enables st...

Newly married Tara struggles through the formative years of advocacy, attempting to balance her roller coaster professional and personal life. She soon discovers that material success matters, yet selfless pursuits often yield greater satisfaction...

The book combines general rules of English language for common users as well as complex issues for expert philologists. It contains the chief peculiarities of English language and delineates the growth and significance of those features in its str...

English has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are generally considered a passport to success as they open floodgates of opportunities for the person who acquires them. Grammar is ...

Phonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the growing relevance of communication skills in different walks of life has turned it into an indispensable subject that has the poten...

Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing ...

Mr. Utterson goes for a walk with his friend and relative Mr. Enfield, who tells a sad story in which a brute of a man knocks down a little girl, everyone yells at him, and he provides to pay a lot of money and brings a large cheque drawn from Dr....

What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!) in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. This dictionary uncovers the meanings of my...

This is the first analysis of Gandhi's dressing style in terms of communication theory and an exploration of the subliminal messages that were subtly communicated to a large audience. Peter Gonsalves chooses three famous theorists from the field o...

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Beginning at the 'arts' end of the subject with the common origins of languages, and finishing...

A concise explanation of a key element of the English language: verbs and tenses Helps you avoid mistakes with tips and examples of common errors Gives examples from spoken and written English Written by grammar expert Jon Hird, who teaches Englis...

The latest edition of Nelson spelling pupil books provide full coverage of the core spelling and punctuation curriculum.

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think We know what reading is, it remains in many ways a mysterious process, or set of processes. The eff...

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our la...

How do you approach an essay or discussion question? How do you review what claims others have made and offer counter-claims? And how do you weigh up the strengths and weaknesses of your own argument before putting together a persuasive conclusion...

This edited collection is about the application of English grammar and specialises in 'functional' and'corpus' approaches, approaches which are increasingly recognised as providing significant insights into English language in action. It aims to s...

Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The answers can be found in this essential companion to any popular dictionary. With over 17,000 entrie...

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Intro...

The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we ...

This is a revised edition of the teach-yourself workbook on phrasal verbs, with a new easier-to-use design and layout, more exercises, more synonyms and opposites and new review pages.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 15,125 Bestseller

About the Book How to Write is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal. Broken down into short topic-based chapters on everything from beginning to revising, it demystifies the...

An informative read about the incredible journey of the independent documentary film movement in India. Filming Reality explores the independent documentary film movement in India post-1970s, when it began to acquire an identity of its own and m...

The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived...

Journalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eighteenth century. Western journalists had found them...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? These are some of the questions considered in this Very Short Introduction. By examining...

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’ The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a bril...

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is also known as Manak Hindi (Devanagri: मानक हिन्दी). It is the primary official language out of 22 official languages of the Republic of India. The standard Hindi is based on the dialect o...

The third edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source covering every aspect of the wide-ranging field of linguistics. In 3,250 entries this dictionary spans grammar, phonetics, semant...

Effective Academic Writing, Second Edition provides the tools necessary for successful academic writing: -Step-by step Writing Process guides and refines writing skills.-Timed Writing practice prepares students for success on high-stakes tests.-On...

Over 3,500 key words and phrases presented in context 180 topics including the news, technology and the environment Sections on essay writing and spoken English Covers vocabulary for Cambridge exams and IELTS 'Cover and check' card makes it easy f...

Effective Academic Writing, Second Edition provides the tools necessary for successful academic writing: -Step-by step Writing Process guides and refines writing skills.-Timed Writing practice prepares students for success on high-stakes tests.-On...

The classic book, Great Expectations by Dickens There's a reason why Great Expectations is one of the best books of all time. If you haven't read this classic, then you'd better pick up a copy of Great Expectations by Dickens today

About the Book How RTI changed the face of investigative journalism in India, forever… The RTI Act has helped investigative journalism in getting information that otherwise would have been almost impossible to unearth despite legal provision...

Management of Information in LIS: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive textbook that delves into the core principles of information management in Library and Information Science (LIS). It covers the classification, cataloguing and indexing of in...

Basics and Foundations of LIS is a comprehensive textbook that delves into the core principles of Library and Information Science (LIS). It offers a deep understanding of the subject, covering key topics like the historical evolution of library sc...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘science of translating’ though there are scientific theories of translation. In this revised and enlarged edition of A ...

In an era of globalization, mastering English language has assumed great significance. Communication in English has become an essential skill for the second language learners. To speak English accurately with correct pronunciation, a fair knowledg...

The proposed book explains the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system of classification of books in libraries. Pertinent topics like Rules of Classification, Use of Standard Subdivisions, Use of Tables 2, 3, 4, and 5, and Multiple Syntheses hav...

Pedagogical linguistics deals with linguistics, phonology, phonetics, semantics, error-analysis, syllabus-design, preposition, spelling patterns, etc. In this book, linguistics and teaching of English have been combined in applied linguistics or p...

We are living in an age of ‘Information Explosion’. Large amount of information is being generated every moment. This has led to harnessing the use of information services to serve the diversified users in the field of library and information scie...

Libraries provide the real and virtual spaces in communities for the free and open exchange of ideas fundamental to democratic participation and civil society. This book talks about new dimensions in libraries like cloud computing, e-resources, IC...

Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded sinc...

Each of the 180 grammar topics is organized into 2-page sections Explains how the grammar for each topic is used and how to avoid mistakes Includes a tip to help students sound more natural Covers the topics students need to know for the Cambridge...

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introd...

साधारण भारतीयों के मन में जिन्ना की छवि एक निहायत नीरस, अन्तर्मुखी, तार्किक, अधार्मिक, भावना-शून्य, मनहूस, हिसाबी, सिर से पैर तक पश्चिमी सभ्यता में रँगे, चोटी के वकील के साथ एक अपराजेय राजनीतिक सौदेबाज़ की रही है। जिन्ना के व्यक्तित्व की इन विशेषता...

Thinker, spiritual leader, mystic, poet, and nationalist, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was one of modern India's most intriguing and enigmatic leaders. Educated in Cambridge, he returned home to a fiery career as an extremist nationalist. When he was...

Thisa collection of essays examines in depth the cultural politics of translation as well as specific linguistic issues, and the close relationship between the two.