Linguistics Books
Princeton University Press Ancient Africa
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""A vital reconsideration of world history." * Publishers Weekly *"Ehret provides a vital new perspective on Africa’s significant role in the ancient world. This is an essential book on early African history that uses several types of evidence to demonstrate how different groups in Africa impacted each other and eventually the world." * Library Journal *"Ehret charts the many pathways of interconnection between Africa and the world. . . . At a time when people seem more divided than ever, it’s refreshing and rather moving to read a book which humanely reminds us of how much we all have in common."---Toby Green, Daily Telegraph"Although the ancestors of all human beings alive today lived in Africa, the continent and the history of its peoples occupy remarkably little space in histories of the ancient world. Ancient Africa goes a long way toward rectifying that. . . . This masterful, accessible summary of a brilliant historian's life's work will appeal to everyone interested in ancient world history." * Choice Reviews *"Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE is a passionate, provocative, engaging, and eye-opening account that has swept away any preconceived notions I had of a part of the world that is certainly deserving of more attention." * Ancient History *
£19.80
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in
Book SynopsisDavid Morrow and Anthony Weston build on Weston's acclaimed A Rulebook for Arguments to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Features of the book include: Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of actual arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, YouTube videos, and other sources. Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook's rules. Suggestions for further practice that outline activities students can do by themselves or with classmates to improve their critical thinking skills. Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments designed to engage students in critical thinking. An appendix on mapping arguments, a topic not included in the Rulebook, that introduces students to this vital skill in evaluating or constructing complex and multi-step arguments. Model responses to odd-numbered exercises, including commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses of selected model responses as well as further discussion of some of the substantive intellectual, philosophical, and ethical issues raised by the exercises. The third edition of Workbook contains the entire text of the recent fifth edition of the Rulebook, supplementing this core text with extensive further explanations and exercises.Updated and improved homework exercises ensure that the examples continue to resonate with today’s students. Roughly one-third of the exercises have been replaced with updated or improved examples.A new chapter on engaging constructively in public debates—including five new sets of exercises—trains students to engage respectfully and constructively on controversial topics, an increasingly important skill in our hyper-partisan age. Three new critical thinking activities offer further opportunities to practice constructive dialogue.Trade ReviewOn the first edition: "Quite simply, one of the best critical-thinking texts I have read. Unlike many critical-thinking books, there is a particular and efficacious focus on helping the reader write an argumentative essay. . . . The expository clarity is as good as it gets." —Chris Jackson, Teaching Philosophy
£30.59
The University of Chicago Press The Return of Resentment
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Everywhere we look, pundits tell us that resentment is taking the world by storm. But what is resentment? And how and when did it become so central to political life? Schneider, noted historian of early modern Europe, gives this ‘political emotion’ the long, deep contextual history it needs—and thus illuminates our own present.” * Sophia Rosenfeld, author of Democracy and Truth: A Short History *“I am deeply impressed by Schneider’s latest work—his writing is clear and cogent, and the argument he makes is compelling and convincing. He ranges over a great deal of material, yet he presents it both carefully and gracefully. The Return of Resentment bristles with ideas and is rich with insights.” * Robert Zaretsky, author of Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague *“The Return of Resentment shines a powerful light on the role of emotion in European and American politics across the past two centuries. Erudite and penetrating, Schneider's book brilliantly analyzes why resentment has returned again and again to unsettle American democracy. An indispensable guide to our time.” * Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order *“A wonderfully creative book, The Rise of Resentment takes an emotion that seems entirely of our amnesiac moment in politics and culture and demonstrates that this emotion has a rich and controversial history. Schneider moves deftly between act and idea. He shows us why resentment is so prevalent today, while illustrating what resentment is and how it works. This book is a guide to the past and an intellectual roadmap for the future.” * Michael C. Kimmage, author of The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy *"The Return of Resentment moves along a number of narrative tracks. . . its long final chapter refers to a sizable portion of the more thoughtful books in the 'what the hell is going on?' genre called forth by the past several years. Growing economic inequality, changing demographics and social norms, and algorithmic echo-chamber effects are all familiar and credible factors. Schneider goes beyond them to consider our tendency 'to think of resentment as an emotional trait of ‘others’—which is to say the embittered and angry ‘left-behind and threatened.’'" * Inside Higher Ed *"[An] impressively wide-ranging history of the concept (and, in one chapter, the practice) of resentment." * Times Literary Supplement *"This is a much-needed book, which provides us with a nuanced and historically informed understanding of resentment, from which we can learn a great deal about contemporary politics." -- Christian F. Rostbøll * Cambridge University Press *"Schneider makes a compelling case that 'the return of resentment' now poses the greatest threat to social cohesion in the US. This is intellectual and political history at its most illuminating and compelling. . . . Essential." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Sensible Resentment in the Age of Sensibility: The Eighteenth Century Chapter 2: Contentious Resentment: Acting out Resentment in the Early Modern Past Chapter 3: A Specter Is Haunting Europe: The Specter of a Resentful “People” Chapter 4: The Nietzschean Moment Chapter 5: The Rise and Decline of the “Resentment Paradigm” Chapter 6: The Uses of Resentment Chapter 7: The Two Sixties and Resentment: One Without, the Other With Chapter 8: The Return of Resentment: Anatomizing a Contemporary Political Emotion Conclusion: Thinking about Resentment Today Notes Index
£22.80
Oxford University Press Inc The Rise of English
Book SynopsisA sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of languageSpoken by a quarter of the world''s population, English is today''s lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric rise of English has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy.But the rise of English has very real downsides at times generating intense legal conflicts. In Europe, imperatives of political integration, job mobility, and university rankings compete with pride in national language and heritage as countries like France attempt to curb its spread. In countries like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, i
£15.08
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Learn Latin
Book SynopsisPeter Jones was co-founder of The Friends of Classics, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, and one of the best-known figures in the teaching of the Classics. He regular contributed to national newspapers (The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and TLS), and the author of highly successful books such as Learn Latin, Learn Ancient Greek and the Classics in Translation (also published by Bloomsbury).Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. amo, a mas, amat . . . The world of Rome: From Romulus to Empire Word play: Romans in Britain 2. More verbs: moneo, rego, audio, capio The world of Rome: From rape to republic Word play: Anglo-Saxons and Normans 3. Nouns: Corinna and Delia Carmina Burana The world of Rome: The first Roman emperor Word play: The Norman influence 4. Nouns: William, Harold and the great 'I am' The world of Rome: The Roman Empire Word play: The 16th-20th centuries 5. Prepositions, prohibitions and possum The world of Rome: The rape of Lucretia Word play: prefixes and suffixes 6. Nouns: the third declension The world of Rome: the treacherous schoolmaster Word play: False derivations 7. Giving orders and learning plurals Bayeux Tapestry The world of Rome: Hannibal crosses the Alps Word play: Spelling conventions 8. The perfect active and vocatives Bayeux Tapestry, Carmina Burana The world of Rome: The grandest old Roman Word play: tense and aspect CONTENTS 9. Personal pronouns and the dative case Martial The world of Rome: The Ides of March Word play: Word order and case 10. More datives and eo StJohn 12, St Luke 6 The world of Rome: An emperor's legacy Word play: Augustus 11. The imperfect active StJohn 1, adeste fideles, St Luke 2 The world of Rome: Worshipping strange gods Word play: Gerundives 12. Perfects and participles StJohn 19 The world of Rome: Dealing with Christians Word play: '-ant' or '-ent'? 13. vola, nolo, malo: the ace. and inf. The world of Rome: Caesar in Britain Word play: Se-xy stuff 14. The perfect passive Catullus 85, 70 The world of Rome: Roman democracy Word play: Latin roots, modem meaning 15. The ablative and adjectives The world of Rome: Women's liberation Word play: Family mottoes and the ablative 16. The genitive Catullus The world of Rome: Citizenship Word play: pes, foot 17. The pluperfect active and more passives The world of Rome: Slavery Word play: Indo-European 18. The subjunctive The world of Rome: Slave makes good Word play: ancient concepts, modern language 19. The Bayeux Tapestry and Carmina Burana Word play: Doublets 20. Catullus 87 and StJohn 19-20 Word play: Zeus Grammatical Summary Verbs Nouns Adjectives Recorded Vocabulary Latin-English English-Latin Grammatical Index
£19.79
John Wiley & Sons Japanese For Dummies Audio Set
Book SynopsisWant to speak Japanese? Don't have a lot of time? Japanese For Dummies Audio Set is designed to help you learn quickly and easily at home or on the road. From basic greetings and expressions to grammar and conversations, you'll grasp the essentials and start communicating right away.
£15.89
Oxford University Press Multilingualism
Book SynopsisThe languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can''t we all speak one language, like English or Esperanto? And what makes a person bilingual? Multilingualism, language diversity in society, is a perfect expression of human plurality. About 6,500-7,000 languages are spoken, written and signed, throughout the linguistic landscape of the world, by people who communicate in more than one language (at work, or in the family or community). Many origin myths, like Babel, called it a ''punishment'' but multilingualism makes us who we are and plays a large part of our sense of belonging. Languages are instruments for interacting with the cultural environment and their ecology is complex. They can die (Tasmanian), or decline then revive (Manx and Hawaiian), reconstitute from older forms (modern Hebrew), gain new status (Catalan and Maori) or become autonomous national languages (Croatian). Languages can even play a supportive and symbolic role as some territories pursue autonomy or nationhood, such as in the cases of Catalonia and Scotland.In this Very Short Introduction John C. Maher shows how multilingualism offers cultural diversity, complex identities, and alternative ways of doing and knowing to hybrid identities. Increasing multilingualism is drastically changing our view of the value of language, and our notion of the part language plays in national and cultural identities. At the same time multilingualism can lead to social and political conflict, unequal power relations, issues of multiculturalism, and discussions over ''national'' or ''official'' languages, with struggles over language rights of local and indigenous communities. Considering multilingualism in the context of globalization, Maher also looks at the fate of many endangered languages as they disappear from the world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of ContentsREFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX
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Pearson Education Elements of Style The
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFOREWORD. INTRODUCTION. I.ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE. 1.Form the Possessive Singular of Nouns by Adding 's. 2.In a Series of Three or More Terms with a Single Conjunction, Use a Comma after Each Term except the Last. 3.Enclose Parenthetic Expressions between Commas. 4.Place a Comma before a Conjunction Introducing an Independent Clause. 5.Do Not Join Independent Clauses with a Comma. 6.Do Not Break Sentences in Two. 7.Use a Colon after an Independent Clause to Introduce a List of Particulars, an Appositive, an Amplification, or an Illustrative Question. 8.Use a Dash to Set Off an Abrupt Break or Interruption and to Announce a Long Appositive or Summary. 9.The Number of the Subject Determines the Number of the Verb. 10.Use the Proper Case of Pronoun. 11.A Participial Phrase at the Beginning of the Sentence Must Refer to the Grammatical Subject. II.ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION. 12.Choose a Suitable Sesign and Hold to It. 13.Make the Paragraph the unit of Composition. 14.Use the Active Voice. 15.Put Statements in Positive Form. 16.Use Definite, Specific, Concrete Language. 17.Omit Needless Words. 18.Avoid a Succession of Loose Sentences. 19.Express Coordinate Ideas in Similar Form. 20.Keep Related Words Together. 21.In Summaries, Keep to One Tense. 22.Place the Emphatic Words of a Sentence at the End. III.A FEW MATTERS OF FORM. IV.WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY MISUSED. V.AN APPROACH TO STYLE (WITH A LIST OF REMINDERS). 1.Place Yourself in the Background. 2.Write in a Way That Comes Naturally. 3.Work From a Suitable Style. 4.Write with Nouns and Verbs. 5.Revise and Rewrite. 6.Do Not Overwrite. 7.Do Not Overstate. 8.Avoid the Use of Qualifiers. 9.Do Not Affect a Breezy Manner. 10.Use Orthodox Spelling. 11.Do Not Explain Too Much. 12.Do Not Construct Awkward Adverbs. 13.Make Sure the Reader Knows Who is Speaking. 14.Avoid Fancy Words. 15.Do Not Use Dialect Unless Your Ear Is Good. 16.Be Clear. 17.Do Not Inject Opinion. 18.Use Figures of Speech Sparingly. 19.Do Not Take Shortcuts at the Cost of Clarity. 20.Avoid Foreign Languages. 21.Prefer the Standard to the Offbeat. Afterword. Glossary.
£18.54
Hippocrene Books UkrainianEnglish Phrasebook Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis language guide includes fifteen chapters of situational phrases covering travelling by rail, trolley, bus; coping with emergencies; shopping; and other daily life adventures. Each Ukrainian phrase is accompanied by an English translation and phonetic pronunciation based on North American speech.
£9.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd On Certainty
Book SynopsisWritten over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G E Moore's defence of common sense, this volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.
£23.70
Penguin Books Ltd The English Language
Book SynopsisThis is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on ''The effect of technology'' on the English language. ''Illuminating guided tour of our common treasure by one of its most lucid and sensible professionals'' The Times ''A splendid blend of erudition and entertainment'' THESTrade Review'A splendid blend of erudition and entertainment' THESTable of ContentsThe English language today - pidgins and creoles. Part 1 The structure of English: grammar - grammar and you; vocabulary - how large is your vocabulary?; pronunciation - received pronunciation; spelling - spelling reform. Part 2 The uses of English: language variety - trucker talk; English at play - sound symbolism; the effect of technology - texting; personal English - statistical laws. Part 3 The history of English: old English - casting the runes; middle English - the origins of modern standard English; early modern English - words then and now; English around the world - British and American English; English today - plain English; English tomorrow; appendices.
£10.44
The University of Chicago Press Fashion Culture and Identity
Book SynopsisA consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Do Clothes Speak? What Makes Them Fashion? 2: Identity Ambivalence, Fashion's Fuel 3: Ambivalences of Gender: Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Boys 4: Ambivalences of Status: Flaunts and Feints 5: Ambivalences of Sexuality: The Dialectic of the Erotic and the Chaste 6: Fashion as Cycle, Fashion as Process 7: Stages of the Fashion Process 8: Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation 9: Conclusion, and Some Afterthoughts References Index
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Taylor & Francis Greek
Book SynopsisGreek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language has become firmly established as the leading reference guide to modern Greek grammar. With its detailed treatment of all grammatical structures, its analysis of the complexities of the language and its particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty, it is the first truly comprehensive grammar of the language to be produced. It provides a study of the real patterns of use in contemporary GreekThis second edition continues to focus on the Greek spoken and written by native speakers today. Taking account of recent changes to the Greek language, this new edition features: Significantly expanded material on many areas, including syntax and phonology A new chapter on derivational morphology and other word formation processes including compounding and acronym formation Examples drawn from everyday spoken usage as well as official, journalistic and online discouTrade Review' - Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language has been written by three distinguished scholars of the Greek language and literature.''This book will stand for a long time as a state-of-the-language document ... Strongly recommended.' - The Anglo-Hellenic Review'Thorough in its classifications, exhaustive in presentation and meticulous ... a timely contribution to an embarrassing gap in the Anglophone market.' - Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 23 (1999) Table of ContentsPart I: The Sound and Writing Systems. Part II: Morphology. Appendices. Glossary of Grammatical Terms. Index. Addenda
£61.74
John Wiley and Sons Ltd IndoEuropean Language and Culture
Book SynopsisThis revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field.Trade ReviewPraise for the Previous Edition: "Superb … [Fortson's] short general discussions of the histories and ecologies of the individual languages are the best I have ever read." (Recensiones - Salesianum, 2008) "I would like to conclude by stressing that this is an excellent textbook. I have taught from it, and the students in my class not only learned a great deal from it, they also seemed to enjoy the book almost as much as I did." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) "Finally, there is a reliable, engaging and accessible presentation of the communis opinio. And there are even exercises! … Fortson has produced an excellent book that fulfills its goals admirably. I hope it will inspire a renaissance of Indo-European linguistics in English speaking countries." (Journal of the American Oriental Society)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xii Preface to the Second Edition xvi Acknowledgments xvii Guide to the Reader xix 1 Introduction: The Comparative Method and the Indo-European Family 1 The Study of Language Relationships and the Comparative Method (§§1.1–12) 1 Indo-European Historical Linguistics (§§1.13–19) 8 Conclusion (§§1.20–22) 14 For Further Reading 15 For Review 16 Exercises 16 2 Proto-Indo-European Culture and Archaeology 18 Introduction (§§2.1–2) 18 Society (§§2.3–16) 19 Religion, Ritual, and Myth (§§2.17–36) 25 Poetics (§§2.37–45) 32 Personal Names (§§2.46–49) 38 Archaeology and the PIE Homeland Question (§§2.50–73) 39 For Further Reading 49 For Review 50 Exercises 50 3 Proto-Indo-European Phonology 53 Introduction (§3.1) 53 Consonants (§§3.2–25) 53 Vowels (§§3.26–32) 66 Phonological Rules (§§3.33–44) 69 For Further Reading 72 For Review 73 Exercises 73 4 Proto-Indo-European Morphology: Introduction 75 The Root and Indo-European Morphophonemics (§4.1) 75 The Root (§§4.2–11) 76 Ablaut (§§4.12–19) 79 Morphological Categories of PIE (§§4.20–24) 83 For Further Reading 85 For Review 85 Exercises 85 5 The Verb 88 The Structure of the PIE Verb (§§5.1–10) 88 Personal Endings (§§5.11–18) 91 The Present Stem (§§5.19–44) 95 The Aorist Stem (§§5.45–50) 101 The Perfect Stem (§§5.51–53) 103 Moods (§§5.54–57) 105 Non-finite Verbal Formations and Other Topics (§§5.58–63) 107 For Further Reading 110 For Review 110 Exercises 110 6 The Noun 113 Introduction (§§6.1–3) 113 Athematic Nouns (§§6.4–42) 114 Thematic Nouns (§§6.43–67) 126 The Collective and the Feminine (§§6.68–71) 131 Adjectives (§§6.72–81) 134 Nominal Composition and Other Topics (§§6.82–87) 136 For Further Reading 137 For Review 138 Exercises 138 7 Pronouns and Other Parts of Speech 140 Pronouns: Introduction (§7.1) 140 Personal Pronouns (§§7.2–8) 140 Other Pronouns and the Pronominal Declension (§§7.9–14) 143 Numerals (§§7.15–22) 145 Adverbs (§§7.23–25) 147 Prepositions and Postpositions (§7.26) 148 Conjunctions and Interjections (§§7.27–30) 149 For Further Reading 150 Exercises 151 8 Proto-Indo-European Syntax 152 Introduction (§§8.1–5) 152 Syntax of the Phrase (§§8.6–11) 154 Syntax of the Clause (§§8.12–30) 156 Phrase and Sentence Prosody and the Interaction of Syntax and Phonology (§§8.31–36) 165 For Further Reading 168 For Review 168 Exercises 169 9 Anatolian 170 Introduction (§§9.1–4) 170 From PIE to Common Anatolian (§§9.5–14) 172 Hittite (§§9.15–44) 174 Luvian (§§9.45–58) 185 Palaic (§§9.59–61) 192 Lycian (§§9.62–70) 193 Lydian (§§9.71–75) 195 Carian, Pisidian, and Sidetic (§9.76) 198 For Further Reading 198 For Review 199 Exercises 199 PIE Vocabulary I: Man, Woman, Kinship 200 10 Indo-Iranian I: Indic 202 Introduction to Indo-Iranian (§§10.1–4) 202 From PIE to Indo-Iranian (§§10.5–19) 203 Indic (Indo-Aryan) (§§10.20–22) 206 Sanskrit (§§10.23–51) 207 Middle Indic (§§10.52–57) 219 Modern (New) Indo-Aryan (§§10.58–63) 221 For Further Reading 223 For Review 224 Exercises 224 PIE Vocabulary II: Animals 226 11 Indo-Iranian II: Iranian 227 Introduction (§§11.1–8) 227 Avestan (§§11.9–27) 228 Old Persian (§§11.28–36) 236 Middle and Modern Iranian (§§11.37–53) 241 For Further Reading 245 For Review 245 Exercises 246 PIE Vocabulary III: Food and Agriculture 247 12 Greek 248 Introduction (§§12.1–8) 248 From PIE to Greek (§§12.9–53) 252 Greek after the Classical Period (§§12.54–57) 263 The Philology of Homer and Its Pitfalls (§§12.58–67) 264 For Further Reading 270 For Review 271 Exercises 271 PIE Vocabulary IV: The Body 273 13 Italic 274 Introduction (§§13.1–5) 274 From PIE to Italic (§§13.6–23) 277 Latino-Faliscan (§13.24) 281 Latin (§§13.25–53) 282 Faliscan (§§13.54–55) 294 Sabellic (Osco-Umbrian) (§§13.56–66) 296 Umbrian (§§13.67–74) 298 South Picene (§§13.75–76) 300 Oscan (§§13.77–80) 302 Other Sabellic Languages (§13.81) 303 For Further Reading 304 For Review 304 Exercises 305 PIE Vocabulary V: Body Functions and States 307 14 Celtic 309 Introduction (§§14.1–3) 309 From PIE to Celtic (§§14.4–11) 310 Continental Celtic (§§14.12–19) 312 Insular Celtic (§§14.20–27) 316 Goidelic: Old Irish and Its Descendants (§§14.28–50) 319 Scottish Gaelic and Manx (§§14.51–52) 327 Brittonic (§§14.53–56) 328 Welsh (§§14.57–61) 329 Breton (§§14.62–68) 331 Cornish (§§14.69–72) 334 For Further Reading 335 For Review 335 Exercises 335 PIE Vocabulary VI: Natural Environment 337 15 Germanic 338 Introduction (§§15.1–4) 338 From PIE to Germanic (§§15.5–35) 339 Runic (§§15.36–39) 348 East Germanic (§15.40) 350 Gothic (§§15.41–48) 353 West Germanic (§§15.49–51) 356 Old English (§§15.52–64) 357 Middle and Modern English (§§15.65–69) 362 Old High German (§§15.70–81) 365 Old Saxon (§§15.82–85) 370 Dutch and Frisian (§§15.86–88) 371 North Germanic: Old Norse and Scandinavian (§§15.89–108) 372 For Further Reading 378 For Review 379 Exercises 379 PIE Vocabulary VII: Position and Motion 381 16 Armenian 382 Introduction (§§16.1–10) 382 From PIE to Classical Armenian (§§16.11–41) 385 Middle and Modern Armenian (§§16.42–47) 393 For Further Reading 397 For Review 397 Exercises 397 PIE Vocabulary VIII: Material Culture and Technology 399 17 Tocharian 400 Introduction (§§17.1–6) 400 From PIE to Tocharian (§§17.7–33) 402 For Further Reading 412 For Review 412 Exercises 412 PIE Vocabulary IX: Form and Size 413 18 Balto-Slavic 414 Introduction (§18.1) 414 From PIE to Balto-Slavic (§§18.2–18) 415 Slavic (§§18.19–39) 419 Old Church Slavonic (§§18.40–42) 426 Modern Slavic Languages (§§18.43–55) 428 Baltic (§§18.56–67) 432 Lithuanian (§§18.68–74) 435 Latvian (§§18.75–76) 439 Old Prussian (§§18.77–79) 440 For Further Reading 442 For Review 443 Exercises 443 PIE Vocabulary X: Time 445 19 Albanian 446 Introduction (§§19.1–5) 446 From PIE to Albanian (§§19.6–29) 448 For Further Reading 456 Exercises 457 PIE Vocabulary XI: Utterance 458 20 Fragmentary Languages 459 Introduction (§§20.1–2) 459 Phrygian (§§20.3–9) 460 Thracian (§§20.10–11) 463 Macedonian (§20.12) 464 Illyrian (§§20.13–15) 464 Venetic (§§20.16–20) 465 Messapic (§§20.21–22) 467 Sicel and Elymian (§20.23) 469 Lusitanian (§20.24) 469 For Further Reading 469 Exercises 470 PIE Vocabulary XII: Basic Physical Acts 471 Glossary 472 Bibliography 477 Subject Index 490 Word Index 510
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McGraw-Hill Education Spanish for the Rest of Us
Book SynopsisIf youâre more interested in conversing with Spanish-speaking friends and colleagues and less interested in memorizing grammar rules, this is the guide for you!William C. Harvey knows that not every student of the Spanish language wants to translate Don Quixote! In fact, a great many of us just want a working knowledge of it so we can to communicate with Spanish speakers at work and in social situations.In Spanish for the Rest of Us, Harvey skips the idea of memorizing grammar rules to focus on everyday, practical Spanish. He emphasizes the most-often-used Spanish words and phrases, and includes numerous language-learning tips that provide a short-cut to effective communication.This lively, informal program is supported by audio recordings (online and mobile), streaming through McGraw Hillâs Language Lab appâwhich also provides flashcards and pronunciation for all vocabulary lists.Spanish for the Rest of Us features:A supe
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Portuguese Phrases For Dummies
Book SynopsisThis guide is the perfect portable language resource for students of Portuguese as well as travelers to Brazil who want to pick up basic language skills. It covers pronunciation, basic grammar, and numbers and highlights the most common and useful phrases for small talk, meals, leisure activities, business, and emergencies.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 2 Conventions Used in This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Chapter 1: Say It How? Speaking Portuguese 5 Exploring the Roots of Portuguese 6 Reciting Your ABCs 8 Conquering Consonants 9 The letter C 10 The letter D 10 The letter G 11 The letter H 11 The letter J 12 The letter L 12 The letters M and N 12 The letter Q 13 The letter R 13 The letter S 14 The letter T 14 The letter W 14 The letter X 15 Exercising Your Jowls with Vowels 15 The letters A and à 15 The letters E and Ê 16 The letter I 16 The letters O and Ô 17 The letter U 17 Chapter 2: Grammar on a Diet: Just the Basics 19 Constructing Simple Sentences 19 Nouns 20 Adjectives 20 Articles 21 Pronouns 22 Verbs 23 The Simple Tenses: Present, Past, and Future 24 Present tense 25 Past tense 27 Future tense 28 Conjugating the tenses 29 Connecting It All Together 32 Making Contractions: It’s a Cinch! 33 To Me, to You: Indirect Objects 34 Commanding an Audience 35 Getting Possessive 35 Chapter 3: Numerical Gumbo: Counting of All Kinds 39 Numbers to Know: When Everything Counts 39 The Big Countdown: Ordinal Numbers 41 Telling Time 42 Monday, Tuesday: Weekdays 44 Tracking the Calendar: Months and Dates 46 Naming the months 46 Picking a date 47 Money, Money, Money 48 Currency and prices 49 Getting money from banks and ATMs 50 Measuring Distances and Other Stuff 52 Chapter 4: Making New Friends and Enjoying Small Talk 55 A Few Ways to Say Hello and Goodbye 56 Introducing Yourself 58 First Names, Last Names, and Nicknames 59 Knowing Who, What, and Where 61 “Where Are You From?” 62 Describing the World around You 66 Describing permanent qualities: Ser 66 Describing temporary qualities: Estar 70 Speaking about Speaking 71 The Good, the Bad, and the Humid: Weather 73 Figuring Out Family Connections 75 Giving Out Your Contact Information 76 Chapter 5: Enjoying a Drink and a Snack (or Meal!) 79 Bom Apetite! Enjoy Your Meal! 79 At the Restaurant: Trying Local Foods 81 Ordering at a restaurant 82 Ordering a drink 85 First foods up: Salads and condiments 86 On to the main course 88 Basking in Brazilian barbeque 89 Doing dessert 90 Paying the bill 91 Chapter 6: Shop ’Til You Drop 95 Finding Places to Shop 95 Out for the Perfect Outfit 96 Skirts and shirts: Which to choose 97 Trying it on 99 Exploring Brazilian Treasures 101 Shopping for Food and Necessities at the Market 103 Getting some practical items 103 Shopping at the outdoor market 104 Making Comparisons and Expressing Opinions 105 Paying for Your Purchases 106 Chapter 7: Making Leisure a Top Priority 109 Talking about Going Out 110 Inviting someone and being invited 110 Asking what the place or event is like 111 Asking People What They Like to Do 113 Taking in Brazil’s Musical Culture 114 Playing an instrument 114 Dancing around and singing out loud 116 Exploring Carnaval in Brazil 117 Exploring Art Galleries and Museums 118 Going to the Movies 119 Hanging Out at the Beach 120 What to take to the beach 121 Talking about beach safety 123 Expressing beauty: “It’s so beautiful!” 124 Getting Out for a Walk (or a Hike) 125 Playing Soccer — Brazil’s National Pastime 127 Falling in Love — in Portuguese 128 Chapter 8: When You Gotta Work 131 Picking Up the Phone 131 Saying hello and goodbye 132 Making a call 133 Dealing with verbal mush 135 Talking in the past 137 Talking about Work 138 Dealing with Computers 142 Chapter 9: I Get Around: Transportation 145 On the Move: Transportation 146 Making a plane reservation 146 Taking buses 150 Hailing táxis 150 Renting a car 152 Onde? Where? The Question for Going Places 154 Understanding Spatial Directions 157 Navigating Cityscapes 159 Over Here, Over There 162 How Far? Perto ou longe? 163 Chapter 10: Finding a Place to Lay Your Weary Head 165 Finding a Place to Live 165 Checking Out the Hotel or Pousada 167 Deciding where to stay 167 Making reservations 169 Checking in and checking out: Registration procedures 170 Talking about Sleep 171 Chapter 11: Dealing with Emergencies 175 Stick ’em Up: What to Say If You’re Robbed 176 Asking for and receiving help 176 Reporting a problem to the police 178 Handling Health Emergencies 179 Getting sick 180 Handling broken bones and other injuries 183 Discussing Legal Problems 185 Chapter 12: Ten Favorite Brazilian Portuguese Expressions 187 Que saudade! 187 Fala sério! 187 pra caramba! 188 Lindo maravilhoso! 188 É mesmo? 189 Um beijo! or Um abraço! 189 Imagina! 189 Pois não? 190 Com certeza! 190 Fique tranqüilo 190 Chapter 13: Ten Phrases That Make You Sound Like a Local 191 Né? 191 Tá 192 Ah é? 192 Então 192 Sabe? 192 Meio 193 Ou seja/E tal 193 Cê Instead of Você 193 Pra Instead of Para a 194 Tô instead of Estou 194 Index 195
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Oxford University Press The English Language
Book SynopsisThe English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today, and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements, or evidence of slipping standards. What is the future for the English language? Will Standard English continue to hold sway, or we are witnessing its replacement by newly emerging Englishes?ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewA lively and erudite introduction to the richness and variety of our language from one of the world's leading experts on English usage and its history. Professor Horobin does more than survey he argues for an open and welcoming approach to the diversity of the vernacular, to the debates on grammar and standards, and to the challenges of change and variation in our own lives. A book for students, teachers, and all lovers of language alike. * Seth Lerer, author of History of the English Language *Intelligent, witty, and engaging, the book is for anyone who is interested in how English became what it is today and who is wondering where it will go next. * Tim William Machan, University of Notre Dame *Review from previous edition Simon Horobin's marvellous How English Became English ... should be handed to every pedant you know. * Jonathan Wright, Books of the Year 2016, Catholic Herald *In this concise narrative of the history of the English language, Horobin analyzes historical context just enough to unfurl the object called 'English.' * Library Journal, starred review *A happy mixture of scholarship, clear writing, and humour * Kirkus *There's a lot of detailed information in this succinct book and it's very readable * Susan Elkin, Independent on Sunday *informative and entertaining new book * Oliver Kamm, The Times *Horobin is ... on a laudable and ... interesting mission to educate the wider public. * Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Guardian *We all have our hobbyhorses when it comes to the finer points of English grammar. Simon Horobin's witty book provides the antidote to our pedantry. * Jonathan Wright, Herald *Horobin's succinctness is impressive * Times Literary Supplement *Distilling an inexhaustible topic into 170 short pages. Horobin gives an unstuffy guide to the descent, dialects and global diversification of English. Pragmatic rather than pedantic, he eschews grammarian finger-wagging in favour of some pointers on why we still care about getting it 'right'. * Oxford Today *this book was as good as expected * The Bookbag *Horobin clearly loves the English language, but unlike many self-proclaimed language experts, he is not fearful of what the future of English may hold ... How English Became English reminds me what it was that I found so fascinating about the English language. * Jenny Hallquist, Babel *Table of Contents1: What is English? 2: Origins 3: Authority 4: Standards 5: Varieties 6: Global English 7: Why do we care? References Further Reading Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Why They Cant Write
Book SynopsisAn important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement thatwhen it comes to the writing skills of college studentswe are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform writing-related simulations, which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, aTrade ReviewThat title sounds as if it will be a grumpy polemic, but it's actually an inspiring exploration of what learning to write could be, framed by an analysis of why it so often is soul-destroying for both students and their teachers.—Barbara Fister, Inside Higher EdArticulates a set of humanist values that could generate rich new classroom practices and, one hopes, encourage teachers, parents, and policymakers to rethink the whole idea of School and why it matters to a society. Warner is pragmatic, not programmatic, and hopeful without being naïve . . . I hope teachers, parents, and administrators across the United States read his trenchant book. We are the reformers we have been waiting for.—Ryan Boyd, University of Southern California, LA Review of BooksWhy They Can't Write dissects the underlying causes of why so much writing instruction fails in the American system and it provides tested, practical solutions for doing better. The book is more than a how-to-teach guide, however. It diagnoses several important structural problems in American education, including standardized testing, the allure of educational fads, the abuses of technology-driven solutions, and cruel working conditions for teachers.—Danny Anderson, Sectarian ReviewI wanted direction on how to better teach writing, and I got it—sample assignments that I can tweak to fit my classroom and discipline in marvelous ways. But I got so much more. I closed the book feeling energized and motivated to go back to the classroom and make changes. In fact my first reaction, as I finished, was 'I have to go write about this!' Which so perfectly encapsulates so much of what John would like to see us do as learners that I couldn't help but laugh.—Cate Denial, Director, Bright Institute, Knox CollegeWhat is to blame for students' bad writing? According to Warner, the entire context in which it is taught. He rails against school systems that privilege shallow "achievement" over curiosity and learning, a culture of "surveillance and compliance" (including apps that track students' behaviour and report it to parents in real time), an obsession with standardized testing that is fundamentally inimical to thoughtful reading and writing, and a love of faddish psychological theories and worthless digital learning projects.—Irina Dumitrescu, University of Bonn, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I: IntroductionOur Writing "Crisis"Johnny Could Never WriteThe Writer's PracticeThe Five-Paragraph EssayPart II: The Other NecessitiesThe Problem of AtmosphereThe Problem of SurveillanceThe Problem of Assessment and StandardizationThe Problem of Educational FadsThe Problem of Technology HypeThe Problem of FolkloreThe Problem of PrecarityPart III: A New FrameworkWhy School?Increasing RigorThe Writer's PracticeMaking Writing Meaningful by Making Meaningful WritingWriting ExperiencesIncreasing ChallengesPart IV: Unanswered QuestionsWhat about Academics?What about Grammar?What about Grades?What about the Children?What about the Teachers?In ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesIndexAbout the Author
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McGraw-Hill Education The Ultimate French Review and Practice Premium
Book SynopsisGain the grammar skills you need to communicate more confidently in French!Developing a solid grasp of grammar is key to mastering any foreign language, and in the bestselling The Ultimate French Review and Practice, Fifth Edition, designed for advanced beginners through advanced learners, you'll find a comprehensive grammar review of all the elements of French grammar with clear, concise explanations. And more than 400 exercises (with answer key), contextualized with scene-setting instructions in French, will provide you with all the practice you need to master French grammar and vocabulary, thereby improving your conversational and written communication.A section of review exercises will enable you to test your understanding of key concepts presented in the book and enhanced Notes Culturelles will deepen your appreciation of the French language and Francophone culture. A major feature of this fifth edition of The Ultimate French Review and Pra
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McGraw-Hill Education Italian Verb Drills Premium Fifth Edition
Book SynopsisExpand your Italian verb mastery with the best review and practice workbook for beginning to intermediate learnersânow with extensive support from the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app! Confident use of verbs is an essential foundation for learning Italianâand also one of the most difficult to master. Italian Verb Drills helps you overcome these obstacles, and lays the foundation with clear explanations and rigorous practice. Written with beginning and intermediate-level learners in mind, it provides numerous examples that demonstrate how the Italian verb system works, along with review and mastery exercises to reinforce learning. With extensive support from the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app, you can also access flashcards, an auto-fill glossary, and a variety of exercises to get you up to speed with valuable immediate feedback.Boost your mastery of the Italian language with Italian Verb Drills, Premium Fifth Edition:Drills f
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific
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Vintage Publishing Writing Degree Zero Elements of Semiology
Book SynopsisSemiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. Writing Degree Zero is Barthes'' introduction to his field of study, the basic definitions required in the analysis of speech, language, writing and style, delivered with a poet''s insight from one of France''s most famous literary critics .In Elements of Semiology Barthes presented a concise scientific definition of Saussurean linguistics and their aftermath. Published in 1967, this is a key text in the study of ''structuralism'', which at that time was a relatively new critical movement rapidly gaining an international following.Trade ReviewNo one addresses himself to language so persistently or ingeniously as Barthes * Independent on Sunday *[Writing Degree Zero is] a sweeping account of French literature...cemented Barthes' presence on the academic scene * Washington Post *A writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination * New York Times *
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Cornerstone Simply English
Book SynopsisWhat is the difference between amend and emend, between imply and infer, and between uninterested and disinterested? When should one put owing to rather than due to? Why should the temptation to write actually, basically or at this moment in time always be strenuously resisted? This book deals with these questions.Trade ReviewFascinating ... a trove of riveting facts. * Daily Mail *It’s a bracing read. Heffer takes no linguistic prisoners. This is a useful, well-constructed and often absorbing book. * Spectator *Simply English is much more readable than a reference book has a right to be ... basically Simply English is rather good. * Observer *Advice that will change for ever the way you use certain words. * New Statesman *Easy to use and terribly hard to put down ... Essential. * The Field *
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Oxford University Press The Study of Bilingual Language Processing
Book SynopsisThis book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. It begins with a chapter identifying the most important characteristics of this research, and then explores key topics including lexico-semantic representation, cross-language priming, selective lexical access, and code-switching.Table of ContentsPreface List of figures and tables List of abbreviations 1: Introducing bilingual processing research 2: Lexico-semantic organization in bilinguals 3: Cross-language priming 4: Selectivity in bilingual lexical access 5: Language switch and control in bilinguals 6: Bilingualism beyond lexical representation and processing References Index
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Oxford University Press Depression
Book SynopsisWhat is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be?Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focussing on the descriptions and understanding of these disorders today. Jan Scott and Mary Jane Tacchi look at the introduction of modern treatments for people suffering from depression, recounting the stories behind the development and introduction of antidepressants and mood stabilizers. They examine the symptoms and signs of the different disorders, as well as the association between physical disorders and depression. Exploring the importance of depression and bipolar disorder in society, they also look at the link between creativity and mood disorders. Scott and Tacchi conclude by discussing treatments and the future for those with depression.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewIts biggest strengths are its clear writing-style, succinct delivery, and scope. The authors have endeavored to capture the broad range of issues surrounding depression within a little over 100 pages, and have arguably succeeded, without much loss of depth or accuracy. * Daniel J. Dunleavy, Metapsychology *Table of ContentsPREFACE; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Writing and Script
Book SynopsisWriting is a defining marker of civilisation; without it there could be no accumulation of knowledge. Andrew Robinson tells the fascinating story of the history of writing, considering its development, and examining the enormous variety of writing and scripts we use today.Trade ReviewUser-friendly survey. * Steven Poole, The Guardian *Table of Contents1. Writing and its emergence ; 2. Development and diffusion of writing ; 3. Disappearance of scripts ; 4. Decipherment and undeciphered scripts ; 5. How writing systems work ; 6. Alphabets ; 7. Chinese and Japanese writing ; 8. Scribes and materials ; 9. Writing goes electronic ; Chronology: 3300 BC to AD 2000 ; References ; Further reading ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press Logic Language and Meaning Volume 2
Book SynopsisAlthough the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.
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MIT Press Ltd Categories We Live By
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of how humanity’s compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience.The minute we are born—sometimes even before—we are categorized. From there, classifications dog our every step: to school, work, the doctor’s office, and even the grave. Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek patterns, organization, and control. In Categories We Live By, Gregory L. Murphy considers the categories we create to manage life’s sprawling diversity. Analyzing everything from bureaucracy’s innumerable categorizations to the minutiae of language, this book reveals how these categories are imposed on us and how that imposition affects our everyday lives.Categories We Live By explores categorization in two parts. In part one, Murphy introduces the groundwork of categories—how they are created by experts, imperfectly captured by language, and employed by rules. Part
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Second Language Acquisition
Book SynopsisWhether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summarieTrade ReviewThis volume is impressive in many ways, including its state-of-the art coverage of the field, the scope and depth of the material reviewed, and its engaging and accessible style of delivery...the strengths of this book cannot be overstated...This volume is sure to soon become a standard SLA text in the field of applied linguistics.Nina Spada - OISE University of TorontoLourdes Ortega has succeeded admirably in her goal of helping students construct personal understandings of the interdisciplinary field of SLA. She is thorough in presenting the most up-to-date research bearing on the important controversies in SLA and does so with an engaging, personable, reader-friendly style that invites students to stay focused on the broader meanings of the research findings.Professor Mark Sawyer, Kwansei Gakuin University, JapanMy students thoroughly enjoyed this text. It provides a thorough and yet accessible overview of major theories and trends in the field. I believe it is destined to become the standard text for survey courses on SLA.Linda Harklau, University of Georgia, USA Ortega has ... provided an invaluable source of information and reference for novice and seasoned researchers. This book will be of use to researchers from different corners of the world who share an interest in uncovering SLA. Ammar Ahlem, McGill University, The Canadian Modern Language Review, Volume 66, Number 3, March 2010, pp.467-469Understanding Second Language Acquisition is an eminently useful, thorough and elaborate overview of the most important debates in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). [It] is laid out in a well-organised and well structured manner. The language used is engaging and straight forward and the arguments are all cogent, coherent and at the appropriate level for the intended audience. ...all universities with a TESOL, Modern Foreign Languages and/or Applied Linguistics group would find this book extremely valuable. BAAL NewsParvaneh Tavakoli - London Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. AgeChapter 3. Crosslinguistic influencesChapter 4. The linguistic environmentChapter 5. CognitionChapter 6. Development of learner languageChapter 7. Foreign language aptitudeChapter 8. MotivationChapter 9. Affect and other individual differencesChapter 10. Social dimensions of L2 learning
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Little, Brown Book Group The Happiness Dictionary
Book Synopsis''A delightful compendium'' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn''t quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Indeed, without such a word, it''s difficult to remember or understand the feeling, and to talk about it with other people. This applies to all aspects of life, but most of all to that most sought-after of feelings, happiness, where our ability to both experience and understand it is limited by the words at our disposal.However, all is not lost. Even if English has not created a word for a specific feeling, another language probably has. These are known as ''untranslatable'' words, because they lack an exact equivalent in another language. By discovering and learning these words, the boundaries of our world expand accordingly. These words allow us to give voice to feelings that we''ve probably experienced, but have previously lacked the ability to conceptualise. They may even allow us to encounTrade Reviewa delightful book * Daily Mail *[a] delightful compendium * Evening Standard *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive account of the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and demonstrates multiple linguistic methods through which it exposes and demystifies ideologies that are present in institutional discourse. The book enables readers to critique the complexities of the relationship between language and power to expose the ideological operation of discourse. Proceeding from a theoretical grounding for CDA in contemporary society, the book comprises analysis of a wide range of discourse examples, including the news media, political speeches, public service leaflets and social media. Readers are guided through a diverse range of models in CDA in order to scrutinise and assess the role of language in society and to consider and challenge the principles of powerful networks, institutions and organisations.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Power in Language: Principles of Critical Discourse AnalysisChapter 2. Power in Language: Practice of Critical Discourse AnalysisChapter 3. Beginning Analysis: Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics Chapter 4. Developing Analysis: Evaluation in Text Chapter 5. Strengthening Analysis: Cohesion and Coherence in TextChapter 6. Voices in Discourse: Media Sources and Institutional PracticesChapter 7. Social Actors: Representing ParticipantsChapter 8. Politics and Power: Analysing Political LanguageChapter 9. Political Rhetoric in a PandemicChapter 10. Multimodal Critical Discourse AnalysisChapter 11 Social Media Language and PowerChapter 12. Critical Discourse Analysis: Detractors and Defenders
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Pragmatics
Book SynopsisRoutledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections introduction, development, exploration, and extension that offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to gradually build on the knowledge gained.Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling textbook: Covers the core areas of the subject: speech acts, the cooperative principle, relevance theory, corpus pragmatics, politeness theory, and critical discourse analysis Has updated and new sections on intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics, critical dTrade ReviewPragmatics is no longer just a subject of philosophical enquiry and is now firmly established as the investigation of the real world of everyday language use in all its variety and media of communication. This book gives the most up-to-date introduction to a fast-moving field. Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, and Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. Table of ContentsContents cross-referenced List of illustrations Acknowledgements A Introduction: concepts in pragmatics 1 Context and structure 2 Speech act theory 3 Cooperative principle 4 Politeness and impoliteness 5 Corpora and communities 6 Critical discourse analysis 7 Intercultural pragmatics 8 Pragmatics and language learning B Development: studies in pragmatics 1 Analysing context 2 Using speech acts 3 Understanding implicature 4 Analysing politeness and impoliteness 5 Analysing markers 6 Detecting hidden values 7 Studying intercultural pragmatics 8 Teaching pragmatics C Exploration: data for investigation 1 Contexts in writing 2 Culture and indirectness 3 Flouting and violating 4 Politeness and impoliteness 5 Variation and multimodal corpora 6 Language and power 7 Understanding each other 8 Pragmatics online and learning D Extension: readings 1 Conversation analysis and ELF (Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger) 2 Speech acts and conversation analysis (J. César Félix-Brasdefer) 3 Relevance and emotion (Baiyao Zuo and Wen Yuana, Francis Y. Lin, and Richard P. Cooper) 4 Impoliteness and rudeness (Jonathan Culpeper) 5 Corpora and language teaching (Lynne Flowerdew) 6 Multimodal critical discourse analysis (Steve Buckledee and David Machin) 7 African face needs (Karen Grainger, Sara Mills, and Mandla Sibanda) 8 Pragmatic development, ELF, and TBLT (Neil Murray and Marta González-Lloret) References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Emirati Arabic A Comprehensive Grammar Routledge
Book SynopsisEmirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from native Emirati Arabic speakers and is thoroughly discussed providing both accessible and linguistically informed grammatical description.This book is a useful reference for students of Gulf Arabic and/or Modern Standard Arabic or other Arabic dialects with an interest in the dialect spoken in the UAE, researchers interested in Arabic language and linguistics as well as graduate students and scholars interested in Arabic studies.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of TablesList of FiguresList of Abbreviations1 Introduction1.1 Emirati Arabic1.2 Triglossia in the UAE1.3. The Descriptive Approach to Emirati Arabic1.4 Transcription1.5. Glossing1.6. AbbreviationsFurther Reading2 Sounds of Emirati Arabic2.1 Consonants2.2 VowelsFurther Reading3 Phonological Processes3.1 Feature-Level Processes3.2 Segment-Level Processes3.3 Suprasegmental Processes and PhonotacticsFurther Reading4 Morphology and Word Formation4.1 Non-Linear Morphological Processes4.2 Affixation4.3 Reduplication4.4 Compounding4.5 Loanwords4.6 Acronyms, Abbreviations and Blending4.7 Back Formation4.8 ConversionFurther Reading5 Syntactic Categories and Parts of Speech5.1 Nouns5.2 Verbs5.3. Adjectives5.4 Adverbs and Adverbial Expressions5.5 Prepositions5.6. Quantification: Numerals and Quantifiers5.7 Complementizers5.8 PronounsFurther Reading6 The Noun Phrase6.1 Definiteness6.2 Possession6.3 Appositives6.4 Nominal modifiers6.5 Agreement in the Noun Phrase6.6 Demonstratives6.7 Word Order in the Noun PhraseFurther Reading7 The Verb Phrase7.1 The Copular Structure7.2 State Verbs7.3 Experiencer Verbs7.4 Unergative Verbs7.5 Unaccusative Verbs7.6 Ditransitive Verbs7.7 Existential and Possessive Predicates7.8 Raising Predicates7.9 Control Verbs7.10 Reflexive Verbs7.11 Complex Predicates7.12 Causative Verbs7.13 Passive Verbs7.14 Complement-taking VerbsFurther Reading8 Aspect8.1 The Perfective Aspect8.2 The Imperfective Aspect8.3 Participles8.4 Lexical Aspect8.5 Grammatical AspectFurther Reading9 Mood and Modality9.1 Deontic Modality9.2 Epistemic Modality9.3 Dynamic Modality9.4 Modal Adverbs9.5 Verbs Expressing Modality9.6 Evidential Modality9.7 Imperatives9.8 Counterfactuals9.9 Hortatives9.10 OptativesFurther Reading10 Negation10.1 Verbal Negation10.2 Non-Verbal Predicate Negation10.3 The Negative Particle لا laa ‘no’10.4 The Negative Prefix -لا laa- ‘not’ and -غير ɣeer- ‘non-’10.5 Negative Imperatives10.6 Negative Coordination10.7 Negation in Ellipsis10.8 Negative Polarity Items10.9 Negative ConcordFurther reading11 Word Order11.1 Subject-Verb (SV) and Verb-Subject (VS)11.2 Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)11.3 Double Object Constructions11.4 Word Order PermutationFurther reading12 Relative Clauses12.1 Restrictive Relative Clauses12.2 Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses12.3 Free Relative Clauses12.4 Noun Complement ClausesFurther Reading13 Questions13.1 Yes-No Questions13.2 Wh-Questions13.3 Echo Questions13.4 Embedded Questions13.5 Rhetorical Questions13.6 ExclamativesFurther Reading14 Subordination14.1 Temporal Clauses14.2 Reason Clauses14.3 Purpose Clauses14.4 Conditional Clauses14.5 Concessive Clauses14.6 Other Subordinators14.7 ParentheticalsFurther Reading15 Coordination15.1 Conjunction و w-/wa ‘and’15.2 Agreement in Coordination15.3 Fixed Expressions Formed by و w-/wa15.4 Pragmatic Uses of و w-/wa15.5 Informal Use of و w-/wa15.6 بس bas ‘but’15.7 Disjunction ولا wela ‘or’15.8 أو ʔaw ‘or’15.9 ف fa- ‘and then/so’15.10 Contrastive Coordinator أما ʔamma ‘as for’15.11 Comparative Coordinator عن ʕan ‘than’15.12 Negative Coordinator مب mub ‘not’15.13 Correlatives in Coordination15.14 Paratactic CoordinationFurther Reading16 Ellipsis16.1 Gapping16.2 Stripping16.3 NP Ellipsis16.4 VP Ellipsis16.5 PP Ellipsis16.6 Clausal Ellipsis16.7 Comparative Deletion16.8 SluicingFurther Reading17 Interjections17.1 Primary Interjections17.2 Borrowed Interjections17.3 Secondary InterjectionsFurther Reading18 Speech Conventions18.1 Politeness18.2 Terms of Address18.3 General Honorific Terms18.4 Trendy LanguageFurther ReadingGlossary of TermsReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Influence Power and Multimodal
Book SynopsisSocial Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication reveals how democratic leaders and dictators exploit multimodal communication to convince or seduce their audiences, using words, voice, gesture, face, gaze, and posture to boast about their merits or insult and ridicule rivals. Poggi and D''Errico explore questions such as what is charisma, and how do we perceive it in a leader? And how do politicians display their dominance over opponents, or discredit them in TV debates and social media? Starting from a sociocognitive model of social interaction, observational studies reveal the rhetoric of words, hands, and faces, explaining how to see beyond their literal meanings, while experimental studies test their uses and persuasive effects. The authors affirm that multimodality helps others to influence us through displays of dominance, and by undermining our power through comments, insults, irony, ridicule, and parody. The devices of social influence and its muTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Socio-Cognitive Model of Mind, Social Interaction, Emotion, and Communication 2. Social Influence and Persuasion 3. Persuasive Discourse 4. Persuasive Gesture, Persuasive Gaze 5. Dominance and its Signals 6. Charisma: The Gift of Influence 7. Benito Mussolini. Charisma in Words and Multimodal Communication of an Italian Dictator. 8. How to Increase One’s Power by Decreasing the Other’s. The Force of Discredit 9. Subtle Ways to Discredit in Debates. Comments by Words, Face, and Body 10. Attacking the Opponent’s Image. Insult as a Weapon for Political Discredit 11. A Laughter Will Bury You. Ridicule as a Discrediting Move 12. Irony and Ridicule in a Judicial Debate 13. Parody as a Political Weapon 14. Cognitive, Affective, and Persuasive Effects of Political Parody 15. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political
Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors. Its 24 chapters were written exclusively for this volume by an international team of leading researchers, and together they provide a broad expert introduction to the major issues currently under discussion in this area.The volume is divided into four parts:Part I: Methodological and Foundational IssuesPart II: Non-ideal Semantics and PragmaticsPart III: Linguistic HarmsPart IV: ApplicationsThe parts, and chapters in each part, are introduced in the volume's General Introduction. A list of Works Cited concludes each chapter, pointing readers to further areas of study. The Handbook is the first major, multi-authored reference work in this growing area and essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of language and its relationship to social and political reality. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Methodological and Foundational Issues 1. Conceptual Engineering in Philosophy 2. Social Ontology 3. An Invitation to Social and Political Metasemantics 4. Linguistic Prescriptivism 5. Speech Act Theory: Social and Political Applications 6. On the Uselessness of the Distinction Between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory Part 2: Non-Ideal Semantics and Pragmatics 7. Lying, Deception, and Epistemic Advantage 8. Propaganda 9. Code Words 10. Racist and Sexist Figleaves 11. Protests 12. Defective Contexts Part 3: Linguistic Harms 13. Varieties of Pejoratives 14. Microaggressions and the Problem of Attributional Ambiguity 15. Hermeneutical Injustice 16. Social and Political Aspects of Generic Language and Speech 17. Language Extinction 18. Indigenous Language Reclamation Between The Fangs Of a (Simulated) Dilemma Part 4: Applications 19. Language and Free Speech 20. Language and Ideology 21. Language and Legitimation 22. How Much Gender Is Too Much Gender? 23. On Language and Sexuality 24. The Language of mental illness
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Taylor & Francis Multimodal Legitimation
Book SynopsisThis volume meditates on the various meanings of legitimation and expands on the notion that language can be used to gain or preserve it by demonstrating the added impact of other modes in specific examples of political and institutional discourse. The book draws on a multilayered framework that builds on and integrates work from both critical discourse analysis and social semiotic traditions, as well as the work of philosophers such as Habermas, Weber, and Rousseau, to show how it might be applied in practice to analyse and understand myriad forms of discourse. The volume focuses on examples from political campaign spots, which highlight various modes, including images, film, oratory, and color, but are also of global relevance and scale, highlighting their unique and complex position at the nexus between legitimation and multimodality. Offering a new analytical framework for understanding legitimation across a range of discursive contexts, this book will be of particular interest Table of ContentsContentsList of figures Formal acknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION1. LEGITIMATION AND MULTIMODALITY IN DISCOURSE: KEY FIGURES AND CONCEPTS Aristotle Bourdieu Foucault Latour Orwell and ChomskyCritical Discourse Analysis ~ Critical Discourse Studies Van Dijk Van Leeuwen2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Introduction Analytical Gap Blending Theoretical Approaches Theoretical Framework Key Notions and Terms 3: LEGITIMATION Introduction Rationality Rationality and Legitimation Dichotomies and Dualisms Irrationality Irrationality and Legitimation Legitimating the Irrational Rationality and Legitimation in Romanticism Rationality and Legitimation in Modernism Mythology and Legitimation Technology and Legitimation 4: LEGITIMATION, MODE, GENRE, AND CONTEXT: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE POLITICAL AD The Transferability of the Arts Dada and Surrealism: Their Politics and Paradoxical Legacy The Russian Avant-Garde, Eisenstein and Soviet cinema Adorno, Eisler, and the De-legitimation of Mass Cultural Products Inverted Modal Salience and MusicIntroduction Genre of Political Ads Legitimation by the Multimodal Affordances of a Speech ‘Yes We Can’ (2008) Multimodal Re-contextualisation in a Supporting Role Legitimation through Genres Background ‘Don’t Vote Alone’ (2008) Legitimation through Multimodally Realised Genre and Register Legitimation and Semiotic Simultaneity Background ‘Don’t Know Much’ (2008) Legitimation through Semiotic Simultaneity Conclusion 5: NATURALLY Introduction Persuasion, Naturalisation, and Bourdieu The Expedience of Uncertainty ‘Daisy’ (1964): Emotional Advertising Unmodern Resonances Children in/as Nature Children and Politicians Children and Innocence ‘Icecream’ (1964): Protecting Childhood ‘Dangerous World’ (2000), ‘Changing World’ (2004), and ‘Ashley’s Story’ (2004): Childhood Threatened Deciphering the Body Child as Savage‘Poverty’ (1964), ‘The Threat’ (1996): Childhood Changed Metaphorical Nature ‘Victory’ (2004) Metaphor and Multimodality ‘Bear’ (1984) ‘Wolves’ (2004) ‘Polar Bears’ (2008) and ‘Wolves (II)’ (2008) Nature as Environment ‘Orbiting’ (1984) ‘National Parks’ (1956) ‘Harbor’ (1988) and ‘Bay’ (1988) ‘Matters’ (2000) Theoretical Framework Applied ‘The Threat’ (1996), Dole ‘Matters’ (2000), Gore Typology 6: SELLING SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE Introduction ‘Two Futures’ (2013) Legitimation and National Identity Analysis Multimodal Resources Pragma-strategic Level Justificatory Schema Legitimation as a Process Legitimation as a Quality Discourse-Historical Moral Evaluation 7. LEGITIMATION IN OTHER DISCIPLINES AND CONTEXTS Cartography Communication with Hazard Maps in Central America Organization and Management Studies The Law Critical Legal Studies The Heat of Passion Doctrine ‘Adequate Provocation’ and the ‘Reasonable Man’ Fear, Anger, and Agency Incitation Ad: ‘Willie Horton’, Hate as strategyLiterature ‘Measure for Measure’: Legitimation and the Law Literature = Legitimate? Art Art and Value Art and the Body 8. TRUTH AND LEGITIMATION Truth and ExpertiseTruth, Truths, and Lies Free Speech, ‘Safe Spaces’, Algorithms and Echo Chambers POSTSCRIPT
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Taylor & Francis The Language of Newspapers Intertext
Book SynopsisThe Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. The core book, Working with Texts, is the foundation text which provides an introduction to language analysis. It is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles which provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics. They can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.The Language of Newspapers explores the ways in which the press portrays current events. From the ideological bias of the press, to the role of headlines in newspaper articles and ways in which newspapers relate to their audience, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of newspaper language.The second edition has been substantially rewritten and includes a range of new texts. Features include:* a new introduction, taking account of recent developments in the media* recent newspaper articles on a range of subjects, from Jeffrey Archer's conviction to the journalist captured for suspected spying in Afghanistan * a new introduction, taking account of recent developments in the media* new activities and commentaries to support student-directed study* a 'further resources' section with details of on-line newspapers and websites to visit.
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Taylor & Francis Studying English Literature and Language
Book SynopsisStudying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features: fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in Englishâfrom close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspecTrade Review"This splendid book is at once primer and provocation….Rarely does a companion for English Studies manage to connect the investigation of language and literature so closely to a student’s imaginative and practical needs" Jerome McGann, University of Virginia, USA "Rob Pope's Studying English is an impressively wide-ranging textbook that effortlessly covers such topics as the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of the English language, the principles of close reading, the intricacies of literary theory, and much, much more, while along the way it makes its readers familiar with the taking of notes, with preparing a bibliography, even with the pitfalls of job interviews and writing applications. All of this is wonderfully supported by a choice of excerpts and texts that is equally generous and varied, ranging from the canonical to real life conversations and beer commercials. Studying English is critical, creative, and enjoyable - the conditions, as Pope himself notes, for genuine learning - but it is also, and perhaps even more importantly, as interactive as a textbook could possibly be. Rob Pope casts a very wide net and his - and our - reward is an amazing catch." Hans Bertens, The University of Utrecht, The Netherlands "Rob Pope provides a pathway between the claims and counterclaims that have been made about subject English. He shows that the differences between scholars within the field are a source of its vitality and its capacity to renew itself. This book provides an invaluable resource for students in undergraduate and teacher education programs. It is also a useful reminder to English teachers at secondary and tertiary levels of the richness, complexity and importance of their work." Brenton Doecke, Deakin University, Australia "I am delighted that there is a new edition of this wonderful, well-thought out and superbly useful book. It is as it was, clear, up-to-date and ideal for students and teachers of English" Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Praise for the Second Edition "This is without question the very best text available for the new "gateway" (introductory) courses to the English major." David Stacey, Humboldt State University, USA "This splendid book is at once primer and provocation….Rarely does a companion for English Studies manage to connect the investigation of language and literature so closely to a student’s imaginative and practical needs" Jerome McGann, University of Virginia, USA "Rob Pope's Studying English is an impressively wide-ranging textbook that effortlessly covers such topics as the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of the English language, the principles of close reading, the intricacies of literary theory, and much, much more, while along the way it makes its readers familiar with the taking of notes, with preparing a bibliography, even with the pitfalls of job interviews and writing applications. All of this is wonderfully supported by a choice of excerpts and texts that is equally generous and varied, ranging from the canonical to real life conversations and beer commercials. Studying English is critical, creative, and enjoyable - the conditions, as Pope himself notes, for genuine learning - but it is also, and perhaps even more importantly, as interactive as a textbook could possibly be. Rob Pope casts a very wide net and his - and our - reward is an amazing catch." Hans Bertens, The University of Utrecht, The Netherlands "Rob Pope provides a pathway between the claims and counterclaims that have been made about subject English. He shows that the differences between scholars within the field are a source of its vitality and its capacity to renew itself. This book provides an invaluable resource for students in undergraduate and teacher education programs. It is also a useful reminder to English teachers at secondary and tertiary levels of the richness, complexity and importance of their work." Brenton Doecke, Deakin University, Australia "I am delighted that there is a new edition of this wonderful, well-thought out and superbly useful book. It is as it was, clear, up-to-date and ideal for students and teachers of English" Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Praise for the Second Edition "This is without question the very best text available for the new "gateway" (introductory) courses to the English major." David Stacey, Humboldt State University, USA Table of ContentsPROLOGUE: CHANGING ‘ENGLISH’ NOW Crossing borders, establishing boundaries Texts in contexts: literature in historySeeing through theoryEnglish Literature and Creative WritingEnglish Language TeachingTechnologising the subject: actual and virtual communities Forewords! Some propositions and provocations PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES Preview 1.1 Which ‘Englishes’?One English language, literature, culture – or many historicallygeographicallysociallyby mediumSummary: one and many 1.2 ‘Doing English’ – ten essential actions |Getting your bearings Turning up, taking part: lectures and seminarsTaking and making notesClose reading – wide reading Library, web, ‘home’ – an ongoing cycle Taking responsibility: referencing and plagiarismWriting an essay to make a markDoing a presentation to prompt a responseRevision – preparing to take an examSeriously enjoy studying English! 1.3 Fields of study: a preliminary mappingLanguageLiteratureCulture, communication and media Summary: keeping on course and making your own way PART TWO: CRITICAL & CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION Preview 2.1 Initial analysis: how to approach a textOpening moves: Notice—Pattern—Contrast—FeelingCore questions: What, Who, When. Where, How, Why and What if? Worked and played example: William Blake’s ‘London’ 2.2 Full interpretation: informed reading, adventurous writingInterpretative framework and analytical checklist Poetry + Prose fiction + Play Script +Critical essay + 2.3 Longer projects: lines of enquiry and sample study patternsFrom vague idea to viable projectWorking and playing from the AnthologyFurther strategies for critical-creative writing 2.4 Overview of textual activities as learning strategies More kinds of critical-creative writing PART THREE: THEORETICAL POSITIONS, PRACTICAL APPROACHES Preview 3.1 Theory in Practice – a working model to play with3.2 Words on the page – Practical Criticism and (old) New Criticism3.3 Devices and effects – Formalism into Functionalism3.4 Mind and person – Psychological approaches3.5 Class and community – Marxism, Cultural Materialism and New Historicism3.6 Gender and sexuality – Feminism, Masculinity and Queer theory3.7 Relativities – Poststructuralism and Postmodernism . . .3.8 Ethnicities – Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism3.9 The new Eclecticism? Ethics, Aesthetics, Ecology . . . PART FOUR: KEY TERMS, CORE TOPICS PART FIVE: ANTHOLOGY Preview 5.1 Poetries 5.1.1 Early English verses Old English lament (anon.) ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’ Medieval lyric (anon.), ‘Maiden in the mor lay’Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘They flee from me’ 5.1.2 Sonnets by various handsWilliam Shakespeare, ‘My mistress’ eyes’ (Sonnet 130)John Milton, ‘When I consider how my light is spent’ Patience Agbabi, ‘Problem Pages’ (responses to Shakespeare’s and Milton’s sonnets)Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Windhover – To Christ our Lord’Rupert Brooke, ‘The Soldier’; with Winston Churchill Ursula Fanthorpe, ‘Knowing about Sonnets’ (response to Brooke) 5.1.3 Heroics and mock-heroicsJohn Milton, Paradise LostAlexander Pope, The Rape of the LockElizabeth Hands, ‘A Poem . . . by a Servant Maid’George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement 5.1.4 Poetry that answers back Robyn Bolam, ‘Gruoch’ (Lady Macbeth) Tom Leonard, ‘This is thi six a clock news’Chan Wei Meng, ‘I spik Inglissh’Mario Petrucci, ‘The Complete Letter Guide’, ‘Mutations’, ‘Reflections’, ‘Trench’ 5.1.5 Performing poetry, singing cultureSeminole chants: ‘Song for the Dying’; 'Song for Bringing a Child into the World’ Patience Agbabi, ‘The Word’Queen, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’πo, ‘7 daiz’The Flobots, ‘No Handlebars’Philip Gross, ‘Severn Song’ 5.2 Proses 5.2.1 Short stories, fables and flash fiction (complete) Rudyard Kipling, The Story of Muhammad DinDon Barthelme, The Death of Edward Lear Margaret Atwood, Happy EndingsAngela Carter, The WerewolfAmy Tan, ‘Feathers from a thousand li away’ Dave Eggers, ‘What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes’ 5.2.2 Slave narratives by name Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal SlaveDaniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (‘I call him Friday’) Geoff Holdsworth, ‘I call him Tuesday Afternoon’J.M. Coetzee, Foe 5.2.3 Romance revisited Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyreJean Rhys, Wide Sargasso SeaOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayWill Self, Dorian 5.2.4 Science and Fantasy Fiction – genre and genderPhillip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of DarknessRussell Hoban, Riddley Walker Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens 5.2.5 War on – of – Terror Ian McEwan, ‘Only love and then oblivion’, The GuardianArundhati Roy, ‘The Algebra of Infinite Justice’, The GuardianNick Barton, Voices from the Battlefields of Afghanistan – from the airSimon Panter, Voices from the Battlefields of Afghanistan – on the ground 5.2.6 Media messages and street textsNews: headlines, captions, intros, outros Personal and not-so-personal ads Cash-machine and check-out exchangesAnswer-phone message, call-centre scriptStreet: signs, graffiti, word-art 5.3 Voices 5.3.1 Dramatising ‘English’ in Education Student talk amongst friends (transcript) Willy Russell, Educating RitaLloyd Jones, Mr Pip Jeremy Jacobson, ‘The Post-Modern Lecture’ 5.3.2 Novel voices Jane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceAmos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke ha ha haJames Kelman, How late it was, how late 5.3.3 Voice—play, dream—drama Dylan Thomas, Under Milk WoodSamuel Beckett, Not IAthol Fugard, Boesman and LenaMartin McDonagh, The PillowmanAlice Oswald, Dart 5.3.4 ‘I’dentity in the balance – selves and othersJohn Clare, ‘I am – yet what I am . . .’ Emily Dickinson, ‘I’m Nobody’Adrienne Rich, ‘Dialogue’Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library 5.4 Crossings 5.4.1 Daffodils?William Wordsworth, ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere JournalsLynn Peters, ‘Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous as her Brother‘Heineken refreshes the poets other beers can’t reach 5.4.2 Mapping JourneysHarry Beck, first Map of the London Underground (1931) Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small IslandCaryl Phillips, Crossing the RiverBilly Marshall-Stoneking, ‘Passage’Kathleen Jamie, ‘Pathologies – A startling tour of our bodies’ 5.4.3 Translations / TransformationsBrian Friel, TranslationsJo Shapcott and Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Roses’ (English and French) W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz 5.4.4 Versions of agingMay Sarton, As We Are Now‘Clarins is the Problem-solver’William Shakespeare, ‘Devouring Time’ (Sonnet 19)Dennis Scott, ‘Uncle Time’ 5.4.5 Epitaphs and (almost) last words Epitaphs by Pope, Gray, Burns, and othersCharles Dickens, Great Expectations Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Toni Morrison, BelovedGrace Nicholls, ‘Tropical Death’ PART SIX: TAKING IT ALL FURTHER – ENGLISH AND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Preview 6.1 Living, learning, earning What now? What next? What if . . .? 6.2 English again, afresh, otherwiseEnglish and or as other subjects 6.3 Further studyPostgraduate courses in and around English 6.4 Into workTransformable skills, transformative knowledges Career pathways and interesting jobs for ‘English’graduates Towards application and interview 6.5 Play as re-creation Afterwords – a postlude APPENDICESa Grammatical and linguistic terms – a quick reference b An alphabet of speech sounds c Chronology of English by period and movementd Maps of English in Britain, the USA, and the worldBibliographyRelevant journals and useful addressesIndexAfterwords . . .
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Russian Phrases For Dummies
Book SynopsisTraveling in a foreign country such as Russia suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when you can engage in elegant small talk with the locals. Russian Phrases For Dummies is your handy guide to everyday words and phrases you can start using immediately to make your visit more rewarding and a whole lot easier.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Where to Go from Here 4 Chapter 1: I Say It How? Speaking Russian 5 Looking at the Russian Alphabet 5 From A to Ya: Making sense of Cyrillic 5 I know you! Familiar-looking, same-sounding letters 10 Playing tricks: Familiar-looking, different-sounding letters 10 How bizarre: Weird-looking letters 11 Sounding Like a Real Russian with Proper Pronunciation 12 Understanding the one-letter/one-sound principle 12 Giving voice to vowels 12 Enunciating consonants correctly 15 Surveying sticky sounds 17 Chapter 2: Grammar on a Diet: Just the Basics 21 Making the Russian Cases 22 Nominative case 22 Genitive case 22 Accusative case 22 Dative case 23 Instrumental case 23 Prepositional case 23 Building Your Grammar Base with Nouns and Pronouns 24 Getting the lowdown on the gender of nouns 24 Checking out cases for nouns 24 Putting plurals into their cases 27 Picking out pronouns 34 Decorating Your Speech with Adjectives 39 Always consenting: Adjective-noun agreement 39 A lot in common: Putting adjectives into other cases 41 Nowhere to be found: The lack of articles in Russian 43 Adding Action with Verbs 43 Spotting infinitives 43 Living in the present tense 43 Keep it simple: Forming the past tense 44 Past again: Perfective or imperfective? 45 Planning for the future tense 46 Using the unusual verb byt’ (to be) 47 Chapter 3: Numerical Gumbo: Counting of All Kinds 49 Counting in Russian 49 Numbers 0 through 9 50 Numbers 10 through 19 51 First, Second: Ordinal Numbers 51 The Clock’s Ticking: Telling Time 52 Counting the hours 52 Marking the minutes 54 Asking for the time 56 Knowing the times of the day 56 Monday, Tuesday: Weekdays 57 Talking about time relative to the present 58 Checking Your Calendar 59 Recognizing the names of the months 59 Saying the year 60 Surveying the seasons 61 Money, Money, Money 62 Changing money 62 Heading to the ATM 62 Spending money 63 Paying with credit cards 64 Chapter 4: Making New Friends and Enjoying Small Talk 65 To Whom Am I Speaking? Being Informal or Formal 65 Comings and Goings: Saying Hello and Goodbye 66 Saying hello to different people 66 Handling “How are you?” 67 Taking your leave 68 Break the Ice: Making Introductions 68 Getting acquainted 68 Asking for people’s names and introducing yourself 69 Introducing your friends and family 70 Let Me Tell You Something: Talking about Yourself 71 Stating where you’re from 71 Telling your age 72 Talking about Family 73 Beginning with basic terms for family members 73 Talking about family members with the verb “to have” 74 Where Do You Work? 75 Let’s Get Together: Giving and Receiving Contact Information 78 I’m Sorry! I Don’t Understand 79 Chapter 5: Enjoying a Drink and a Snack (or a Meal!) 81 Focusing on Food Basics 81 Eating up 81 Drinking up 83 Using utensils and tableware 85 Enjoying Different Meals 86 What’s for breakfast? Almost anything! 86 Let’s do dinner (not lunch) 87 A simple supper 90 Going Out for Groceries 90 Picking out produce 90 Surveying other grocery items 92 Eating Out with Ease 93 Deciding on a place to eat 94 The art of ordering a meal 95 Receiving and paying the bill 96 Chapter 6: Shop ’Til You Drop 97 Where and How to Buy Things the Russian Way 97 You Wear It Well: Shopping for Clothes 99 Seeking specific items of clothing 99 Describing items in color 102 Finding the right size 103 Trying on clothing 103 This or That? Deciding What You Want 104 Expressing likes and dislikes 105 Comparing two items 106 Talking about what you like most (or least) 107 You Gotta Pay to Play 108 Chapter 7: Making Leisure a Top Priority 109 Together Wherever We Go: Making Plans to Go Out 109 Going Out on the Town 111 On the big screen: Going to the movies 111 It’s classic: Taking in the Russian ballet and theater 112 Culture club: Visiting a museum 114 Shootin’ the Breeze about Hobbies 115 Reading All About It 116 Have you read it? 117 What do you like to read? 117 Rejoicing in the Lap of Nature 119 Enjoying the country house 119 Skiing in the Caucasus 120 Lying around at Lake Baikal 120 Doing Things with Your Hands 121 Being crafty 121 Playing music 122 Scoring with Sports 123 Chapter 8: When You Gotta Work 125 Searching for a Job 125 Discovering where to look 125 Contacting employers 126 Clarifying job responsibilities 127 Communicating in the Workplace 128 Making an appointment 128 Sticking to workplace etiquette 129 Ringing Up Telephone Basics 130 Brushing up on phone vocabulary 130 Basic telephone etiquette 132 Anticipating different responses 133 Leaving a message with a person 134 Talking to an answering machine 135 Sending a Letter, a Fax, or an E-Mail 136 Chapter 9: I Get Around: Transportation 139 Understanding Verbs of Motion 139 Going by foot or vehicle habitually 140 Going by foot or vehicle at the present time 142 Explaining where you’re going 143 Navigating the Airport 144 Checking in and boarding your flight 144 Handling passport control and Customs 145 Conquering Public Transportation 146 Taking a taxi 146 Using minivans 147 Catching buses, trolley buses, and trams 148 Hopping onto the subway 148 Hopping on a train 149 Asking “Where” and “How” Questions 150 Where is it? 150 How do I get there? 151 Understanding Specific Directions 151 Recognizing prepositions 152 Keeping “right” and “left” straight 153 Making sense of commands 154 Describing Distances 156 Chapter 10: Laying Down Your Weary Head: House or Hotel 157 Hunting for an Apartment or a House 157 Talking about an apartment or a house 158 Asking the right questions 160 Sealing the deal 161 Settling Into Your New Digs 161 Knowing the names of different rooms 161 Buying furniture 162 Booking the Hotel That’s Right for You 163 Making a reservation 164 Checking In and Out 166 Enduring the registration process 166 Taking a tour of your room 167 Familiarizing yourself with the facilities 168 Meeting the staff 169 Reporting a broken item 169 Requesting missing items 170 Asking to change rooms 171 Checking out and paying your bill 171 Chapter 11: Dealing with Emergencies 173 Finding Help in Case of Accidents 173 Asking for help 174 Calling the right number 175 Reporting a problem 175 Requesting English-speaking help 176 Receiving Medical Care 176 Knowing your own anatomy 177 Describing your symptoms to a doctor 178 Announcing allergies or special conditions 180 Undergoing an examination and getting a diagnosis 181 Visiting a pharmacy 182 Calling the Police When You’re the Victim of a Crime 183 Chapter 12: Ten Favorite Russian Expressions 185 Oj! 185 Davaj 185 Pryedstav’tye Syebye 186 Poslushajtye! 186 Pir Goroj 186 Ya Tryebuyu Prodolzhyeniya Bankyeta 187 Slovo — Syeryebro, A Molchaniye — Zoloto 187 Odna Golova Khorosho, A Dvye — Luchshye 187 Drug Poznayotsya V Byedye 188 Staryj Drug Luchshye Novykh Dvukh 188 Chapter 13: Ten Phrases That Make You Sound Russian 189 Tol’ko Poslye Vas! 189 Vy Syegodnya Pryekrasno Vyglyaditye! 189 Zakhoditye Na Chaj! 190 Ugosh’ajtyes’! 190 Priyatnogo Appetita! 191 Syadyem Na Dorozhku! 191 Sadis’, V Nogakh Pravdy Nyet 191 Ni Pukha, Ni Pyera! 192 Tseluyu 192 S Lyogkim Parom! 192 Index 193
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Dover Publications Inc. La Vida Es SuenoLife is a Dream
Book Synopsis The most famous of all Calderon''s varied and romantic dramas, this seventeenth-century masterpiece by the great Spanish playwright explores the conflict between free will and predestination as it focuses on the life of Segismundo, a Polish prince imprisoned at birth by his father, the King. The monarch''s heartless action, precipitated by astrologers who predict the boy will one day usurp the throne, paves the way for a series of events that turn the son against the father and lead to rebellion. Years later, following a revolution and the peasants'' seizure of power, the grim prophecy uttered at the Prince''s birth threatens to become a painful reality. For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has written an informative introduction and an excellent new literal translation that appears on pages facing the Spanish original. A valuable text for students of Spanish language and literature, this volume will delight any reader interested in classics from Spain''s Golden Age of drama.
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Harvard University Press An Introduction to Literary Chinese
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Harvard University Press Painis Perfect Rule
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Edinburgh University Press An Introduction to Regional Englishes
Book SynopsisA description of regional varieties of British English, along with discussion of current research in dialectology/ variationist sociolinguistics.Trade ReviewThis slender volume, part of the "English Textbooks on the English Language" series, is an excellent introduction to the field of English dialectology. Part of its appeal lies precisely in its compact size, coupled with clarity of presentation. Importantly, each chapter is concluded by a small number of appropriate exercises and suggested activities, as well as a selection of further readings, making the book very valuable for teaching and for independent study. Overall, Beal's book is a very welcome addition to the existing literature on English dialectology. It manages to be rigorous, engaging, and up to date whilst remaining user-friendly, not least because of its manageable size. -- Simone C. Bacchini, British Library, London LINGUIST list This slender volume, part of the "English Textbooks on the English Language" series, is an excellent introduction to the field of English dialectology. Part of its appeal lies precisely in its compact size, coupled with clarity of presentation. Importantly, each chapter is concluded by a small number of appropriate exercises and suggested activities, as well as a selection of further readings, making the book very valuable for teaching and for independent study. Overall, Beal's book is a very welcome addition to the existing literature on English dialectology. It manages to be rigorous, engaging, and up to date whilst remaining user-friendly, not least because of its manageable size.Table of Contents1. Introduction: are regional varieties doomed?; 2. Accent; 3. Dialect I: 'grammar'; 4. Dialect II: lexis; 5. The Diffusion Model; 6. Levelling; 7. Regional Identity/ Communities of Practice; 8. Stereotypes; 9. Conclusion; 10. Resources.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Scottish Gaelic language.Trade ReviewThe Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language is to be recommended as a valuable addition to the body of introductory texts covering Gaelic studies. Readers will find that this volume accomplishes the editors' aims to fill many of the gaps which have hindered the study of Gaelic and to promote future research endeavours. -- Mairi Henderson, University of Aberdeen Reference Reviews The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language is to be recommended as a valuable addition to the body of introductory texts covering Gaelic studies. Readers will find that this volume accomplishes the editors' aims to fill many of the gaps which have hindered the study of Gaelic and to promote future research endeavours.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. A History of Gaelic to 1800: Colm O Baoill; 2. Language in Society: 1800 to the modern day: Michelle Macleod; 3. Gaelic Place-names: Richard A. V. Cox; 4. Language in Gaelic Literature: Moray Watson; 5. A' Ghaidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada: Kenneth E. Nilsen; 6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects: Seosamh Watson; 7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission and -Shift: Kenneth MacKinnon; 8. Language Planning: Robert Dunbar; 9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities: Emily McEwan-Fujita; 10. Gaelic Vocabulary: Andrew Breeze; 11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man's Broad Road: Ronald Black; 12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic: Anna R. K. Bosch; 13. Gaelic Morphology: David Adger; 14. Gaelic Syntax: David Adger; Index
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Stylistics
Book SynopsisContemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.
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Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. AlbanianEnglish EnglishAlbanian Practical
Book SynopsisIn its ninth printing, the Albanian Practical Dictionary is expanded and romanized to include 9,000 entries with simple pronunciation and basic grammatical information. Also includes a transliteration guide, a list of abbreviations, geographical names, and idiomatic expressions.
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Baker Publishing Group Introducing Biblical Hebrew
Book SynopsisThe best of both deductive and inductive approaches introducing students to the basics of Biblical Hebrew.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sociolinguistic Patterns
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A coherent, readily accessible summary of Labov's work." * Language *
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