Böcker av J. R. Martin

Including texts in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, this book uses a Systemic Functional Linguistic approach to explore how language builds knowledge about the past and gives value to historical events - shaping contemporary culture. It is essential reading for researchers concerned with literacy, discourse analysis and language description.

This alternate-history steampunk western contains action, adventure, magic, and a mystery that will change the Western Native Lands forever. In 1860s Dallas, Texas, Annie Sakdavong has just graduated top of her class from college as a steam engineer but must still do an apprenticeship with a master steam engineer. No man is willing to take her, and she fears she may have to become a Sword Maiden for a merchant of her father's choosing when she runs into an African man who wants an apprentice as much as she needs a master, Issa Obasi. One of the premier steam engineers of the age, Issa wants to leave a legacy in the form of apprentices and the publication of groundbreaking research combining rune magic with steam power. These two sources of power are at odds with each other, but Issa sees there could be a better way to unite them. Their world changes when a Native American from the Western Native Lands who can walk through walls comes to steal that research and destroy Issa's laboratory during a fight. After seeking help from the police, Issa and Annie are left to fend for themselves when the police don't want to help the black man and the Asian woman with the investigation. Now, their adventure takes them to the Western Native Lands while death tolls rise and villains close in on Issa and Annie's life and work. As they get closer to the truth, will they overcome dangerous enemies and their own self-doubts to win the day?

Can you hear?The stories are calling.They're going to be a blast.Witches and genies howl in the darkness, surrounded by the flames. Can you handle the call?This collection includes imaginative stories from a diverse group of authors. Inside you'll find space operas, fantasies, and adventure. These up-and-coming authors are showing off their best work to capture your imagination and keep you guessing.The Underdogs Rise brings together talent from across the country to excite you and keep you turning pages to the end. Sci-fi and fantasy allow the most creative stories to be told. The worlds a writer builds are like no other and can give you a glimpse into what was or could be.The Underdog Press welcomes you to these pages and asks for your comments and reviews as support so that we can continue to bring you amazing stories.

La desapacición de un hombre a finales de 1936 cambia la vida a toda su familia, que se ve obligada a abandonar las tierras de su propiedad para servir a un terrateniente. En Abril de 1939, terminada la Guerra Civil Española, el hijo del hacendado regresa a casa para hacerse cargo de las tierras, coincidiendo su vuelta con una serie de desapariciones y asesinatos que involucran a varias familias del pueblo. El capitán Roberto Vega debe investigar y averiguar qué se esconde tras estos misteriosos sucesos envueltos en intrigas y engaños. ¿Son casualidades, o existe alguna relación entre ellos? Ese será el enigma que deberá resolver.

Shortlisted for the ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) Halliday Prize 2023This book is the first comprehensive account of 'body language' as 'paralanguage' informed by Systemic Functional Semiotics (SFS). It brings together the collaborative work of internationally renowned academics and emerging scholars to offer a fresh linguistic perspective on gesture, body orientation, body movement, facial expression and voice quality resources that support all spoken language. The authors create a framework for distinguishing non-semiotic behaviour from paralanguage, and provide a comprehensive modelling of paralanguage in each of the three metafunctions of meaning (ideational, interpersonal and textual). Illustrations of the application of this new model for multimodal discourse analysis draw on a range of contexts, from social media vlogs, to animated children's narratives, to face-to-face teaching. Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics offers an innovative way for dealing with culture-specific and context specific paralanguage.

Jag is one very special painted pony. Join him on his adventures as he learn about friendship and trust.¿Jag is one very special painted pony. Join him on his adventures as he learn about friendship and trust.

Suitable for practitioners, researchers and students, building up pedagogic, linguistic and social theory in steps, contextualized within teaching practice, this title presents the research of the 'Sydney School' in language and literacy pedagogy. It offers researchers tools for investigating and redesigning educational practice.

An introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics.