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The Language of Humour
This work examines the importance of the social context for humour and explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy. The book also includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive Anderson.
English Language Knowledge for Secondary Teachers
If teachers are to successfully develop their students English language skills it is vital that they overcome any existing lack of confidence and training in grammar and language concepts. This text equips secondary teachers with the knowledge they need to teach language effectively. It clearly explains the essential concepts for language study, introduces the terminology needed for 'talking about language' and shows how this knowledge can be applied to the skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image
In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ‘Goethe’s Elective Affinities,’ and his work on The Arcades Project from 1927 up until his death in 1940. The two periods of Benjamin’s writing share a conception of the image as a potent sensuous force able to provide a frame of existential meaning. In the earlier period this function a...
The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy
Ross argues that the thinking of Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy must be understood as ways of addressing the problem of presentation as framed by and inherited from Kant's Critique of Judgment.
Speech and Language
This book demonstrates how students can apply what they have learned to bridge the gap between theory and therapy as they begin their professional practice. The authors argue that the only way to be ready to face the demands of professional practice and life-long learning is to acquire a thorough understanding of the process and practice of clinical work. Fully revised, this second edition incorporates: new standards of service delivery and clinical competencies registration of the profession under the Health Professions Council collaborative working with shared client programmes and records client-centred philosophy and social models of intervention The authors emphasize the need to have a sound knowledge of what the profession is and who it encompasses; the awareness of the concepts that underpin decision-making, planning and choice of activities; and understanding of the philosophies that drive the choice of working practices.
Non-Dieting
FREEDOM FROM EATING AND BODY IMAGE STRUGGLES Is your relationship with food and your body a source of pain? Do you feel stuck in cycles of restricting food and overeating, or other disordered eating patterns? Is your sense of worth tied to the scale? Do you wonder and obsessively worry about how your body looks? Are you experiencing health problems related to the stressful dieting lifestyle? Are you tired of living this way? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Eating and body image expert Alison Ross, LMFT, explains how our tricky food and diet culture triggers body image problems and locks in disordered eating patterns. And she teaches you how to break free of the dieter's shame-based mindset while strengthening your emotion and eating regulation abilities so you can settle into a healthy relationship with food and your body.
Silence and its Derivatives
This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others. The contributions engage with the historical shifts in how silence and silencing have been viewed, conceptualized and recorded throughout the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, then present a series of case studies from disciplines including linguistics, history, literature and culture, and geographical settings ranging from Argentina to the Philippines, Nigeria, Ireland, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam. Through these examples, the authors underline the thematic and methodological contact zones between different fields and traditions, providing a stimulating and truly interdisciplinary volume that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities.
Social Development
Published in cooperation with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology To some degree, the issues raised by social psychologists and developmentalists overlap, each of them offering unique possibilities by which to explore questions of interest. Social Development addresses this issue and attempts to foster an awareness of the interesting research on the interface of social and developmental psychology. Written by a cast of leading researchers, this volume provides a multi-level perspective on the common boundaries between social and developmental psychology with an eye toward synthesizing research from many fields including personality, education, social work, and family studies. T...
Orion's Shadow
Nobody knows exactly what it does or how, but they're still willing to to murder to possess it.
The New Recruit
The New Recruit is a story about a young girl who is devastated when her father leaves the family home. Hurt by the past and unsure of the future, she retreats into her own bruised world, but through the help and understanding of Sharon, her one true friend, Susan slowly begins to heal. She was encouraged by Sharon to make music in the safe and happy environment of other young children, all intent on making their band the very best. The Victory Cadet Marching Band is a newly formed band in a small town, and all those involved are passionate about it and none more so than the bands hardworking owner and teacher, Ross Mills, who sees in Susan a gifted and natural young trumpet player; she is given the chance to suppress the past and look forward to the future with a newfound confidence. The story is set in the early 1960s, a time when two young girls could walk in safety in the evening without fear and where families could share simple pleasures and vehicles did not clog streets and pavements and in every city, town, village, there was at least one band. The Victory Cadet Marching Band was such a band.
