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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5365-6
EAN 9780712353656
Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology that goes well beyond borders, producing a lexicon all of its own. This book guides the reader through a land where the road to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-771-5
EAN 9781781257715
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199038-5
EAN 9780141990385
Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex ability really works. How do two languages co-exist in the same brain? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? How do we learn - and forget - a language?In the first study of its kind, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78335-218-0
EAN 9781783352180
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes. 'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover EconomistThe Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-1151-8
EAN 9781529311518
From 1 January to 31 December the reader will discover a curious coinage or a fascinating etymological fact linked that particular day -- from the dramatic true story behind stealing someone's thunder to the original Jack the Lad. Word Perfect. gathers all her very best discoveries from the true origin of freelancer which comes from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78746-413-1
EAN 9781787464131
An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.' ELIZABETH STROUT'A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-nonsense, stylish and brilliantly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-593-18956-6
EAN 9780593189566
Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-855-5
EAN 9781786898555
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise and immensely helpful, this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97851-1
EAN 9780241978511
'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences ... Any writer should read it' Bee Wilson 'Thoughtful, engaging, and lively ... when you've read it, you realise you've changed your attitude to writing (and reading)' John Simpson, formerly Chief Editor of the OED and author ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2673-4
EAN 9781529326734
'Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.'With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only performed by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private, activity. This change helped spark ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63217-215-0
EAN 9781632172150
Whether you want to give a memorable toast, nail a business presentation, or perform onstage, this workbook will have you brainstorming ideas, developing them into fully fleshed-out stories, and telling them aloud in no time! A complement to the hit storytelling guide Long Story Short, this useful and inspiring workbook contains all-new exercises and prompts ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17110-6
EAN 9780231171106
In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named "Nim Chimpsky" in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language.Initially, Terrace ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 65,89 €
ISBN 978-1-138-29013-6
EAN 9781138290136
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a complete, authoritative and up-to-date overview of the state of the field. Divided into three sections covering: a description of language and language use; essential areas of enquiry; and language skills and assessment, the third edition of this highly successful textbook provides:* an introductory chapter which familiarises readers with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-641-1
EAN 9781781256411
If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse lingua francas, tracing their origins and their sometimes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-06-285305-9
EAN 9780062853059
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation markThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 188 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-84-670-5445-3
EAN 9788467054453
Tiempos, modos, usos y particularidades de los principales verbos ingleses.Modelos de conjugación de verbos regulares e irregulares.Errores más frecuentes al utilizar los verbos ingleses y claves para evitarlos.Los phrasal verbs más utilizados en inglés, con sus equivalentes en español, y un amplio repertorio de ejemplos de uso.
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Symbols are often seen as constituting an international language and to some extent they do, but that language is far from universal--context means everything in this complicated but engrossing form of communication. Take, for example, a cross, a crane, or a swastika: each one has a different and distinct significance and meaning for a Buddhist, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-073-8
EAN 9781789290738
Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe - unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way. Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately demonstrates the very best - and worst - instances of genuine grammar-gargling from around the world, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 188 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-1-138-48772-7
EAN 9781138487727
Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a panoramic and accessible introduction to the ways in which linguistic patterns are sensitive to social categories of gender and sexuality, as well as an overview of how speakers use language to create and display gender and sexuality. This book includes discussions of trans/non-binary/genderqueer identities, embodiment, new media, and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 153 páginas
PVP: 46,75 €
ISBN 978-3-03-004356-8
EAN 9783030043568
This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based descriptions by which the sound system of British English is still known ...
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