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  • Korean Slanguage

    A Fun Visual Guide to Korean Terms and Phrases

    by Mike Ellis ...
    Just in time for the 2018 Olympics, Korean Slanguage provides translations and pronunciation guides for approximately 300 English words and phrases. Just use the pronunciation guide to say them out loud, and soon you'll be speaking basic Korean words and phrases like "It's cool" (Show Not Dad) and "Are you okay?" (Quinn Send Eye Oh?). Fun and helpful illustrations paired with easy English words to ... Read more

    S$ 14.70 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Get Talking Korean in Ten Days Beginner Audio Course

    Enhanced Edition

    by Robert Vernon, Kyung-Il Kwak ...
    When travelling, do you want to journey off the English-speaking path, meet people and speak Korean easily?If so then you need to Get Talking. Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you'll learn the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak Korean in just 10 days.Practise the most frequent words and expressions for:-greeting people-eating out-taking a taxi</strong.. ... Read more

    S$ 22.55 SGD

  • How to Talk to Anyone

    92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

    by Leil Lowndes ...
    Never be at a loss for words again!Perfect your people skills with this fun, witty and informative guide, containing 92 little tricks to create big success in personal and business relationships.In How to Talk To Anyone, bestselling relationships author and internationally renowned life coach Leil Lowndes reveals the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. These extremely usable ... Read more

    S$ 11.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition (Revised and Updated)

    What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

    by Jay Heinrichs ...
    The definitive guide to getting your way, revised and updated with new material on writing, speaking, framing, and other key tools for arguing more powerfully“Cross Cicero with David Letterman and you get Jay Heinrichs.”—Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Quartet and American SphinxNow in its fourth edition, Jay Heinrichs’s Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of ... Read more

    S$ 13.18 SGD

  • Deixis in Narrative

    A Cognitive Science Perspective

    Edited by Judith F. Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, Lynne E. Hewitt ...
    This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, communicative disorders, education, English, geography, linguistics, and philosophy. The book argues for an organized representational ... Read more

    S$ 138.90 SGD

  • Ping

    The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication

    by Andrew Brodsky ...
    ‘Brimming with surprising insights and useful tips. The resource we need for avoiding misunderstandings and making genuine connections’ Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again'Full of MBA-tuned advice on how to engage online' a WST business book of the yearThe essential guide for when (and how best) to use virtual communication tools, from video to instant messaging and everything in between ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • The Apology

    by Plato ...
    In "The Apology", Plato has provided posterity with one of the most memorable portraits of his teacher Socrates. In Plato’s view, Socrates was a paragon of virtue. Perhaps the essence of his virtue can be summarized in a single word—integrity. Socrates’ dedication to the truth was so total and so unswerving that the very thought of compromising that truth was repugnant to him.In the spring of 399 ... Read more

    S$ 26.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Rhetoric

    by Aristotle ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to garner influence in the assemblies, councils, and law ... Read more

    S$ 3.47 SGD

  • Interpreters and War Crimes

    by Kayoko Takeda ...
    Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book raises new questions and provides different perspectives on the roles, responsibilities, ethics and protection of interpreters in war while investigating the substance and agents of Japanese war crimes and legal aspects of interpreters’ taking part in war crimes. Informed by studies on interpreter ethics in conflict, historical studies of Japanese ... Read more

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  • Reading Chinese Script

    A Cognitive Analysis

    Edited by Jian Wang, Hsuan-Chih Chen, Ralph Radach, Albrecht Inhoff ...
    This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also pertains to the use of phonological information. In addition, this volume contains work on syntactic and pragmatic processes during sentence reading and three chapters that examine on-line processes. A comprehensive ... Read more

    S$ 110.02 SGD

  • Gems from the Top 100 Speeches

    A Handy Source of Inspiration for Your Thoughts and Language

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    Public speaking is one of the things many fear the most. This fear is justified-Many eyes to look into and many minds to contend with. Thoughts are elusive. The catcher of powerful thoughts-the apt words-are even more elusive. Yet, you do not need to despair. By standing on the shoulders of great orators, you can also speak with facility, felicity, cogency, and potency.Great orators have produced ... Read more

    S$ 6.49 SGD

  • Storytelling with Children

    by Nancy ...
    Telling stories awakens wonder and creates special occasions with children, whether it is bedtime, around the fire or on rainy days. Encouraging you to spin golden tales, Nancy Mellon shows how you can become a confident storyteller and enrich your family with the power of story. ... Read more

    S$ 18.19 SGD

  • Learn Spanish in Your Car

    Learning Spanish for Beginners & Kids Has Never Been Easier Before! Have Fun Whilst Learning Fantastic Exercises for Accurate Pronunciations, Daily Used Phrases and Vocabulary!

    by Pro Language Learning ...
    Discover the Most Effective Way to Learn How to Speak Spanish Through Fun and Exciting Activities.Dear reader,Did you know that most people that try to learn another language are left dissatisfied and unable to converse in that language, even though they’ve spent hours and hours learning grammar and vocabulary? Do you know why that happens? Because they are using guides that teach only grammar and ... Read more

    S$ 5.46 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Far and Wide

    German Studies in Canada

    Edited by Andrea Speltz, Nikola von Merveldt, Gaby Pailer ...
    Series Book 141 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    This volume contains the refined proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), which took place at Ryerson University, Toronto, as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in May 2017. ... Read more

    S$ 77.27 SGD

  • The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

    Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts

    Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin ...
    In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to "expand the contexts" in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically. The chapters build on themes that have been touched on, anticipated, and promised in earlier volumes in the series. The study of child language has been situated in the disciplines of psychology and linguistics, and has been most responsive to ... Read more

    S$ 72.88 SGD

  • Promoting Social Interaction for Individuals with Communicative Impairments

    Making Contact

    by Hilary Kennedy, Martyn Jones, Phoebe Caldwell, Pete Coia, Paul Hart, Jane Horwood, Michelle O'Neill, Raymond MacDonald, Clifford Davies ...
    All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with others, and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people who have some type of communication impairment.The contributors look at a wide range of approaches, including intensive interaction, co-creative communication, sensory integration and music therapy, for a variety of impairments, ... Read more

    S$ 43.15 SGD

  • Methods for Studying Language Production

    Edited by Lise Menn, Nan Bernstein Ratner ...
    In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly important research area, a panel of highly productive language researchers share and evaluate methods of eliciting and analyzing language production across the life span and in varying populations. Chapters address a wide variety of historical and evolving ... Read more

    S$ 152.65 SGD

  • Mastering the Four Arguments

    The Classical Art of Persuasive Writing

    by Gregory Roper ...
    Learning to think well means learning to argue well. But it’s not easy: Teachers often say they spend more time teaching students how to write than covering their subject, and students often wonder what all the fuss is about. What’s the point when AI has all the answers anyway?The truth is that writing persuasively has never been more important. In Mastering the Four Arguments, Dr. Gregory Roper ... Read more

    S$ 29.75 SGD

  • Perspectives on Sentence Processing

    Edited by Charles Clifton, Jr., Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner, Charles Clifton ...
    One of the liveliest forums for sharing psychological, linguistic, philosophical, and computer science perspectives on psycholinguistics has been the annual meeting of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Documenting the state of the art in several important approaches to sentence processing, this volume consists of selected papers that had been presented at the Sixth CUNY Conference. The ... Read more

    S$ 45.37 SGD

  • Randromania im Fokus

    Gesprochenes Galicisch, Portugiesisch und Rumaenisch

    by Aurelia Merlan ...
    Series Book 22 - Romanistische Arbeiten interkulturell und interdisziplinaer
    Der Sammelband enthält ausgewählte Beiträge der Tagung Randromania im Fokus. die im April 2018 am Institut für Romanische Philologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München stattgefunden hat. Berücksichtigt wurden die drei am westlichen und östlichen Rand der Romania situierten Sprachen Galicisch, Portugiesisch und Rumänisch. Eine Reihe von Beiträgen fällt in den Bereich der diatopischen, ... Read more

    S$ 126.21 SGD

  • Romaniae Pontes

    Beitraege zur Sprache in der Gallo- und Iberoromania

    Edited by Anna-Susan Franke, Vicente Álvares Vives ...
    Der Sammelband umfasst (sprach-)wissenschaftliche Beiträge der Romanistik aus den Bereichen Lexikologie und -graphie; Philologie; Semantik, Pragmatik und Grammatik; Etymologie und Entlehnungen. In diesen Themenkomplexen hat sich Jutta Langenbacher-Liebgott durch ihre Forschung und ihr Wirken an der Universität Paderborn in der internationalen Romanisten-Community fest etabliert. Zudem arbeiten in ... Read more

    S$ 126.43 SGD

  • Language and Communication in Mental Retardation

    Development, Processes, and intervention

    by Sheldon Rosenberg, Leonard Abbeduto ...
    Series series Topics in Applied Psycholinguistics Series
    Research on language and communication development and intervention in persons with mental retardation has been conducted at a fast and furious pace during the last two decades. Past attempts to summarize this research have been rather restricted, focusing on a single, narrowly defined substantive domain such as lexical development, or of a single etiology such as Down Syndrome.This volume, in ... Read more

    S$ 46.75 SGD

  • Get Started in Thai Absolute Beginner Course

    Enhanced Edition

    by David Smyth ...
    Do you want a solid foundation to your Thai studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Thai in no time. Through authentic conversations, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will learn the Thai you need to communicate naturally ... Read more

    S$ 42.94 SGD

  • Mind, Code and Context

    Essays in Pragmatics

    by T. Givon ...
    Series series Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics Series
    Scholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism, all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics.This book's ... Read more

    S$ 79.76 SGD