Words Into Action

Words Into Action
Author: William Gaskill
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781848421004

Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was one of the founders of the Royal Court, whose ethos, as Christopher Hampton says in his Foreword, 'this book goes a long way towards defining'. Gaskill's acclaimed work as a director always began with the words of the playwright, and here, starting with a chapter on 'Trusting the Writer', he takes the actor through the vital steps needed to find the life of the play and then to articulate it on stage. Drawing instances from his own work in the theatre and from teaching at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he looks at action and intention, stillness and movement, sentences and rhetoric, punctuation and pauses. He pays detailed attention to staging Shakespeare's plays, and there are also chapters on masks, on language as character, and on verse and prose. Gaskill was, says Maggie Smith, 'the best teacher in the world.'

Words in Action

Words in Action
Author: Richard Briggs
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567083456

How is the biblical text understood and how does it function in the life of the reader today? Richard Briggs first provides an illuminating introduction to the nature and claims of speech art theory. This seeks to extend our understanding of both spoken and written means of communication by seeing them not as merely representational or 'reality-depicting', but as acting or causing acts to be performed through the words themselves. Briggs goes on to discuss to what extent the application of speech act theory might be helpful in the interpretation of biblical texts. In one of the first book-length explorations of this topic, he examines in detail several biblical speech acts of particular theological significance, including the confession of sin, forgiveness and teaching. Through exploring the specific ways in which the reader is drawn into the performative action of the biblical text, and how speech act theory forces the reader to look beyond language into the world which gives the language its ability to function, speech act theory is shown to offer valuable insights within today's complex hermeneutical debate. 'A very significant volume . . . ' Alan Torrance, Professor of Divinity, University of Andrews 'An excellent piece of work . . . which is thoroughly acquainted with speech act theory and takes the debate forward in a variety of creative, exegetical and theological ways.' Dr Craig Bartholomew, University of Gloucestershire

First 40 Action Words

First 40 Action Words
Author: Peri Berry
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781072703440

This amazing little book introduces your child to 40 ACTION words (verbs). But then it goes a step further and puts the same 40 words in 40 short sentences while introducing -ing, which is a very important way to describe action in English. This book activates your child's inner genius by leveraging the language wiring and logic already "pre-installed" at birth! We take the "Pixar Approach"--meaning adults will enjoy sharing these words as much as the babies will love learning by carefully selecting the right images that promote simple conversations about everyday phrases.

Action Words

Action Words
Author: Anita Ganeri
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1432958100

Provides information about verbs and how to use them properly, including identifying them, their subjects, and their different tenses.

Words in Action

Words in Action
Author: Robert Greenman
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1983
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

Flash Action Software Combo Wonder Words

Flash Action Software Combo Wonder Words
Author: Joan; Strauss Hoffman (Elizabeth)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781601591128

This workbook is a perfect combination of traditional practice partnered with today's high-tech learning. School Zone combined some of its most popular workbook titles with engaging Flash Action software to create a unique learning product that is both fun and eductional to help children be successful in school.

How to Do Things with Words

How to Do Things with Words
Author: John Langshaw Austin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 1975
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN: 019824553X

This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophicalproblems.

Moving With Words & Action

Moving With Words & Action
Author: Clements, Rhonda
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1492547905

Moving With Words & Actions will help you develop physical literacy and language literacy in your preschool and primary-grade students. The text offers more than 70 lesson plans that are aligned with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. The plans use an interdisciplinary approach and are adaptable for various settings.

You Go the Words

You Go the Words
Author: Gunnar Björling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Swedish by Fredrik Hertzberg. "To read Bjorling is to eat language"--Aase Berg. "Du gar de ord, the last collection of poems by the great Finland-Swedish Modernist poet Gunnar Bjorling...is a milestone in the annals of experimental poetics produced in our century"--Marjorie Perloff. "...Hovering in an aesthetic space somewhere between Dickinson and Celan, Oppen and Creeley, Gunnar Bjorling is a poet of the everyday and its words, as if the abyss between souls could ever be ordinary or ever anything else"--Charles Bernstein.