According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a “keyword” is “a word that is of great importance or significance.” On the web, "keywords" organize vast quantities of complex information. Keywords for American Cultural Studies offers these features and more to its readers, providing indispensable meditations on terms and concepts used in cultural studies, American studies, and beyond.
This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction also offers a rich resource of real life examples, case studies, and exercises. Authors Susan Pape and Sue Featherstone have drawn on their considerable shared experience to provide a solid and engaging grounding in the principles and practice of feature writing.
This book features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you through a rich journey of some of the best literature to grace our shelves. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide seeks to answer two main questions: ‘Which book should I read?’ and ‘Which book should I read next?’ The bulk of the text consists of articles on more than 400 authors, describing the kind of books they wrote, listing titles and suggesting books (by the same authors and by others) which might make interesting follow-ups. Scattered through this guide are over a hundred Read on a Theme menus of suggested reading. These are straightforward lists of between six and twelve books of a similar kind, from Adolescence to The Wilderness. There are also eleven double-page features, Startpoints, each of which covers a particular category of reading, with a large number of suggestions and follow-ups. In alphabetical sequence, they are: Autobiography, Biography, Crime, Historical Novels, History, Letters and Diaries, Poetry, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Science for Everyone, Thrillers and Travel. At random points you will also find Literary Trivia lists, ranging from Five Authors Who Were Jailbirds to Ten Fictional Places. These have no particular connection to the entries and are intended solely as (hopefully) entertaining interludes. The book concludes with several lists of winners of major literary prizes, including the Man Booker and the Pulitzer.
This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been seen as a set characterizing all possible phonological distinctions and as an integral part of Universal Grammar, the innate language faculty underlying successive versions of Chomskyan generative theory. The usefulness of distinctive features in phonological analysis is uncontroversial, but the supposition that features are innate and universal rather than learned and language-specific has never, until now, been systematically tested. In his pioneering account Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost six hundred of the world's languages drawn from a variety of different families.
How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those features developed into designs for human language. The result - what Loritz calls an adaptive grammar - gives a unified explanation of language in the brain and contradicts directly (and controversially) the theory of innateness proposed by, among others, Chomsky and Pinker.
