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My Best Reading 1: e-book
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My Best Reading 1: e-bookMy Best Reading offers a six-level reading comprehension series that builds on school curriculum (Science, Social studies, Art, etc.) knowledge through fiction and non-fiction.
 
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Tags: Reading, studies, Social, knowledge, through
CARD - Ender 02. Speaker For The Dead
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CARD - Ender 02. Speaker For The DeadEnder Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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Tags: Ender, Wiggin, alien, Speaker, Scott, intellect, casting, characters, social
Pragmatics: An Introduction
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Pragmatics: An IntroductionThis is a succinct introduction to the burgeoning field of pragmatics, the study of language from the point of view of its users, of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction, and the effects their use of language has on other participants in an act of communication. Pragmatics reviews the work of Austin, Grice, Searle, Sacks and others and examines the implicit meaning of the irregularities of everyday conversation; and the social importance and the societal determination of even the least consciously proffered "act of language".
 
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Tags: language, social, Pragmatics, examines, meaning
The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare
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The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of ShakespeareThe crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith.
As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in confronting the uncertainties and unresolved traumas of Elizabethan Protestant England. Shakespeare and his contemporaries—audiences as well as playwrights—reshaped popular drama into a new form of embodied social, critical, and affective thought. 
 
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Tags: Reformation, Shakespeare, crises, social, drama
Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach
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Introducing Multilingualism: A Social ApproachIntroducing Multilingualism is a brand new, comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism.

Adopting a compelling social and critical approach, Jean-Jacques Weber and Kristine Horner guide readers through the established theories about multilingualism. The book covers language as a social construct, language contact and variation, language and identity and the differences between individual and societal multilingualism.


 
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Tags: language, multilingualism, Introducing, Multilingualism, social