Author: Crystal Elizabeth Nicholson
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9780953171569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Noel Streatfeild
Publisher: Fontana Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780006712381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Suddenly there were no secrets anymore. Everyone knew there was going to be a war, which meant that all children in danger areas like London were to be sent to the country. Then on Friday 1st September 1939, it happened. As war was about to be declared, Laura, Andy and Tim Clark with their name and address pinned to them, joined the straggling procession of evacuees to the station. Operation Pied Piper was under way.
Author: Noel Streatfeild
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780394831473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rather than stay with a new family, three young evacuees try to return to their home in London after their country host dies suddenly.
Author: Sean Zdenek
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-12-23
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 022631278X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The work of writing closed captions for television and DVD is not simply transcribing dialogue, as one might assume at first, but consists largely of making rhetorical choices. For Sean Zdenek, when captioners describe a sound they are interpreting and creating contexts, they are assigning significance, they are creating meaning that doesn t necessarily exist in the soundtrack or the script. And in nine chapters he analyzes the numerous complex rhetorical choices captioners make, from abbreviating dialogue so it will fit on the screen and keep pace with the editing, to whether and how to describe background sounds, accents, or slurred speech, to nonlinguistic forms of sound communication such as sighing, screaming, or laughing, to describing music, captioned silences (as when a continuous noise suddenly stops), and sarcasm, surprise, and other forms of meaning associated with vocal tone. Throughout, he also looks at closed captioning style manuals and draws on interviews with professional captioners and hearing-impaired viewers. Threading through all this is the novel argument that closed captions can be viewed as texts worthy of rhetorical analysis and that this analysis can lead the entertainment industry to better standards and practices for closed captioning, thereby better serve the needs of hearing-impaired viewers. The author also looks ahead to the work yet to be done in bringing better captioning practices to videos on the Internet, where captioning can take on additional functions such as enhancing searchability. While scholarly work has been done on captioning from a legal perspective, from a historical perspective, and from a technical perspective, no one has ever done what Zdenek does here, and the original analytical models he offers are richly interdisciplinary, drawing on work from the fields of technical communication, rhetoric, media studies, and disability studies."
Author: Edward D. Hill
Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781896182933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Virginia Russell
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1996-03-16
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1459717252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On an icy evening in December, Kimberley Jamieson's world is shattered by a careless drunk driver who skids into her mother's car. In the three months since the accident, Kim has turned away from her old pursuits — she quit swimming, then the orchestra, and now she's even skipping school. Kim's father is no help either; a policeman constantly on call, he cannot spare a moment to listen. The road to recovery seems endless. Slowly, Kim does get back in step with the help of her friends. Mike, a gangly sleuth for the local paper is hot on the trail of a breaking story involving a runaway boy, a scoop which even makes the pages of the Vancouver Sun! Even Sylvia, a friend of her mother's recently returned to Ladner, draws Kim out of her own world and helps her to heal. Slowly ... step by step ... Kim finds that life can go on, that she can revisit the local sites she shared with her mother — the dike paths along the river and the Reifel bird sanctuary.
Author: Luna Filipovi?
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2007-12-06
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9027291225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that affect habitual presence or absence of information in motion expressions crosslinguistically as well as “pattern clashing” in translation. This fresh look at issues regarding linguistic typology, lexical and construction meaning and spatio-temporal construals in language and experience results in a more finely grained classification of verbalized motion events. The study offers an eclectic overview of different theoretical approaches and insists on theoretically unbiased set of tools and principles that can be used in studies of any cognitive domain in any language. It provides an in-depth discussion of current issues in cognitive linguistics in particular and suggests systematic implementation of the research findings in applied and interdisciplinary studies of language.