A pesar de que nos defendamos más o menos en inglés, todos, en mayoro menor medida, tenemos dudas a la hora de elegir la palabra, expresióno construcción adecuada de una frase. ¿Cuál es la diferencia entrespecially y especially? , ¿Es further o farther? , ¿En serio que en inglés nose dice footing? , ¿Por qué ...
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ISBN 978-1-4380-0810-3
EAN 9781438008103
This combination book and audio instructional program is designed to diminish the accents of men and women who speak English as their second language. It will help them speak standard American English with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. Specific exercises concentrate on vowel sounds, problematic consonants such as V, W, TH, the American R, and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 467 páginas
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ISBN 978-90-272-1583-3
EAN 9789027215833
Syntax puts our meaning ("semantics") into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase "semantic structure", but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual ...
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ISBN 978-1-910931-26-4
EAN 9781910931264
Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head? Speaking in Tongues brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life with over fifty gorgeous watercolour and ink illustrations. Here you will ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78125-351-9
EAN 9781781253519
The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a ...
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ISBN 978-1-78416-186-6
EAN 9781784161866
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and ...
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ISBN 978-84-9042-256-4
EAN 9788490422564
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ISBN 978-0-14-103856-8
EAN 9780141038568
The ultimate guide to the criminal world through its slang - from insults to terms of respect, weapons to injuries, crimes to punishment 'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to ...
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ISBN 978-1-63286-442-0
EAN 9781632864420
A charming and witty exploration of our most cherished proverbs.If many hands make light work, how can too many cooks spoil the broth? If you'll find the best advice on your pillow, are proverbs even useful? How come these nuggets of wisdom and truth are so similar the world over? Alice O'Neill takes a tour ...
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There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood...On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.-Descartes Language is more like a ...
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ISBN 978-1-5013-1325-7
EAN 9781501313257
This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language in the lager, communication was vital to the prisoners' survival. While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-046889-7
EAN 9780190468897
Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak ...
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ISBN 978-1-4725-8989-7
EAN 9781472589897
This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical sociolinguistics. Rather than treating these perspectives as ...
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Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern-day usage.
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ISBN 978-1-138-64171-6
EAN 9781138641716
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ISBN 978-0-19-049168-0
EAN 9780190491680
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ISBN 978-0-521-66970-2
EAN 9780521669702
Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past thirty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without the excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentences continues in this tradition, offering a well-structured introduction to English syntax and contemporary syntactic theory which is supported throughout with learning aids ...
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Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings.Words and language constitute meanings within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones reproduce more ...
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ISBN 978-1-138-79545-7
EAN 9781138795457
The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from its beginnings until the end of the Early Modern English period. Taking an activity-based approach, this text ensures that students learn by engaging with the fascinating evolution of this language rather than simply reading about it. ...
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ISBN 978-1-5098-0176-3
EAN 9781509801763
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older ...
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