This book (1990) offers a historical perspective on literary English, from the mid-14th century to the 20th century. Through detailed analyses of individual texts and comparisons with texts from different periods, the authors build up a picture of t...Loe edasi...
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book aims to enable students to both grasp traditional histories of Englis...Loe edasi...
This volume introduces Alikyi, an Iranian language spoken on the southern fringe of the Alborz Mountains south of the Caspian Sea. The book offers a fresh perspective on Caspian linguistics. Highlighting the languages most significant featuressuch a...Loe edasi...
Higher education should be a place for students to innovate, create, and expand their horizons, and in order to create an environment which allows for all these things, tutors need to be able and willing to do the same. This practical and i...Loe edasi...
Unleash your inner grammar geek! A perfect gift for word nerds and language lovers, This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams uses the simplicity of the classic sentence diagram to unpack iconic quotes from books, films, speeches, and beyond, rev...Loe edasi...
This essential, portable Swahili-Englishresource puts instant communication at your fingertips!Spoken by over 200 million people worldwide, Swahili is the most widely spokenAfrican language and the lingua f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262052795)
A hands-on guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases, designed to be accessible to those without a background in formal semantics, and a resource for semanticists interested in language variation-- Provided by publisher. A hand...Loe edasi...
Find free content and save on permission feesMillions of creative works—books, artwork, photos, songs, movies, and more—are available copyright-free in the public domain. Frozen for decades due to lengthened copyright terms, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593595121)
What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President O...Loe edasi...
This book presents new editions and investigations of 114 Babylonian planetary tables: cuneiform tablets inscribed with computed dates, positions, and other data for the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The tablets originate from B...Loe edasi...
Creating fictional religions can be crucial in fantasy literature and gaming traditions, supporting narrative coherence and enhancing the plausibility of invented worlds. Well-developed religious systems have the ability to shape and inform soc...Loe edasi...
Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, fostering greater awareness of how linguistic choices become political ones and encourages the search f...Loe edasi...
This handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the deliver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847382)
This new theory of reader response describes perverse attachment, or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so. Fiction has long inspired resistance in its readers: making them, for example, wish for...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847375)
Fiction has long had designs on its readers: making them, for example, feel complicit, long for a different plot, or cringe over characters mistakes. These are symptoms, Anastasia Eccles argues, of a condition that she calls perverse attachment,...Loe edasi...
This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their corresponding accessibility features....Loe edasi...
Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situated, dynamic, and complex view of multilingual writers through their L2 academic writing and creative w...Loe edasi...
Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cult...Loe edasi...
Teaching Creative Writing in Canada maps the landscape of Creative Writing programmes across Canada. This authoritative volume offers an important national perspective on contemporary and timeless issues in Creative Writing pedagogy and their varied...Loe edasi...
