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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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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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- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
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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REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around ...
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But Can I Start a Sentence with "but"?
Advice from the Chicago Style Qx{0026}A
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-226-37064-4
EAN 9780226370644
Every month, tens of thousands of self-declared word nerds converge upon a single site: The Chicago Manual of Style Online's Qx{0026}A. There the Manual's editors open the mailbag and tackle readers' questions on topics ranging from abbreviation to word division to how to reform that coworker who still insists on two spaces between sentences. Champions ...
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Between You And Me
Confessions of a Comma Queen
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35214-6
EAN 9780393352146
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.Between You x{0026} Me ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-851-4
EAN 9781846148514
This is a witty guide to the most reviled words in English, masquerading as advice on how and why you might want to use them. Nothing enflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To a purist these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn.But in their rush ...
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Epitaphs
A Dying Art
- Bodleian Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-85124-451-5
EAN 9781851244515
Epitaphs are words to be remembered by, short poems or phrases literally written in stone. They can be practical, carrying some variation of the familiar Here Lies, but they can also be brilliantly creative with personally meaningful quotes or words written especially by or for the deceased. From the simple to the cleverly cryptic, epitaphs ...
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- John Blake Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78418-814-6
EAN 9781784188146
In this quirky and humorous volume, Graeme Donald explores the fascinating links and curious connections between words. While at first these word pairs may appear to have very little in common, owing to years of linguistic shift, their origins can be traced back to the same root. In exploring these etymological twins, Words of a ...
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Lingo
A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-417-2
EAN 9781781254172
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The Greeks had a Word for It
Words You Never Knew You Can't Do Without
- Bantam, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-593-07571-5
EAN 9780593075715
Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can't quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you're struggling to express there being just the right amount of something ...
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Inventing English
A Portable History of the English Language
- Columbia, 2015
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17447-3
EAN 9780231174473
Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition features a new chapter on the influence ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95771-4
EAN 9780241957714
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful ...
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- Random House UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-224-10080-9
EAN 9780224100809
Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? Lost in Translation, a New York Times bestseller, brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with over ...
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Bad English
A History of Linguistic Aggravation
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-399-16558-0
EAN 9780399165580
English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes over the past millennium, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023260-3
EAN 9780190232603
An engaging history of our native tongue--focusing on eight American cities and spanning more than three centuries--tracing the restless innovation that has enlivened our language from the beginningWhen did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and ...
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Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs). Sensitive to the professional development needs of both in-service and pre-service mainstream teachers ...
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Everyday English for Grown-Ups
Getting to Grips with the Basics of the Language
- Michael O'Mara, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78243-334-7
EAN 9781782433347
A poor command of English is a considerable obstacle in almost every walk of life, from conducting business to dealing with everyday problems. This book takes you back to the basics; the simple rules and tricks that will help anyone to master the language. Rather than a guide to everything you would ever want to ...
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
50th Anniversary Edition
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52740-8
EAN 9780262527408
Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this influential book includes a new preface by the author that identifies proposals that seem to be of lasting significance, reviews ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-939321-3
EAN 9780199393213
A groundbreaking collection of 176 essays on the foundational words of societyFirst published in 1976, Raymond Williams' highly acclaimed Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a collection of lively essays on words that are critical to understanding the modern world. In these essays, Williams, a renowned cultural critic, demonstrates how these key words ...
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