Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 10, 2017

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) (Anglo-Saxon Texts)

The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year.


It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript. 

Teaching And Learning English Through Bilingual Education

This collection of papers serves as a good indication that valuable research is being conducted throughout Europe and that CLIL research is establishing itself as an important area of applied linguistics.


This book is mainly addressed to those in-service teachers who teach in bilingual classrooms anywhere in the world, under any circumstances, and who wish to know more about CLIL pedagogy. It can also be used as a helpful handbook for EFL student teachers. The book is also for teacher trainers running both pre-service and in-service courses.


Sequences In Language And Text Quantitative Linguistics

The aim of this volume is to present the diverse but highly interesting area of the quantitative analysis of the sequence of various linguistic structures.
 
 
The collected articles present a wide spectrum of quantitative analyses of linguistic syntagmatic structures and explore novel sequential linguistic entities. This volume will be interesting to all researchers studying linguistics using quantitative methods.
 

Reaction Booklet Reasons Behind Your Character Actions

As writers, we sometimes need help understanding our character’s actions. For us, help is always nice, and it isn’t shameful to ask. Scan through the scenarios, events and situations that your characters may go through. 
 
 
Whether they’re getting married, have been fired from a job or if they are plotting a murder. Whatever the case is, find out how your character acts during these times and find out what they would do during these important times.

Multilingual Lexical Recognition In The Mental Lexicon Of Third Language Users

The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate that trilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right as opposed to L2 learners with a view to enumerating consequences this would bring to third or additional language teaching.


Its theoretical part offers an insight into the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon which is a product of the interplay of a whole array of cross-linguistic factors in the minds of multilingual speakers.

Italian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

Newly revised and updated, the Italian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday words in Italian.
 
 
The Italian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, using full-color photographs and artworks to display and label all the elements of everyday life — from the home and office to sport, music, nature, and the countries of the world — with panel features on key nouns, verbs, and useful phrases.

English for Academic Purpose in Asia - Negotiating Appropriate Practices in a Global Context

The adoption of English as the language of study and scholarship is becoming increasingly common among universities across Asia. But does this adoption of the English language not also mean the adoption of Western approaches to scholarship and knowledge?


This most timely and important book critically examines how EAP practitioners can negotiate between Western and Asian academic practices and approaches to knowledge and scholarship and is essential reading for anyone involved in international education


Current Multilingualism - A New Linguistic Dispensation Contributions to the Sociology of Language

This volume approaches current multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny.
 
 
The book addresses the emergent global and local patterns of multingual use and acquisition across the world and explores the major trends that characterize today’s multilingualism. Its fifteen chapters discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations.
 

Advanced English-Arabic Translation - A Practical Guide

This is your one-stop practical guide to translating text from English into Arabic. This clearly structured guide will help learners who already have a basic grasp of Arabic to hone their translation skills.


The texts chosen for translation exercises have been carefully selected from a variety of authentic, contemporary sources to introduce learners to the stylistic features they will encounter, helping them to develop their skills across a range of genres.

Writing from the Margins - Power and Pedagogy For Teachers of Composition

Too often both composition teachers and their students experience knowledge and authority as unchanging entities that cannot be challenged in classroom exchanges.


Drawing on feminist, cultural, and poststructuralist theory, as well as work in the rhetorical tradition and composition studies, Hill offers less debilitating methods of thinking that teachers can model for their students. Richly illustrated with examples of classroom interactions and student work, the book also shows teachers how to enrich their own intellectual and political lives within the academy.

Vowel-shifting In The English Language (Topics in English Linguistics)

English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book.
 
 
Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and optimality theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the ‘shiftiness’ of many post-medieval English varieties.

Twenty-one Genres And How To Write Them

In this classroom-tested approach to writing, Brock Dethier teaches readers how to analyze and write twenty-one genres that students are likely to encounter in college and beyond.
 
 
This practical, student-friendly, task-oriented text confidently guides writers through step-by-step processes, reducing the anxiety commonly associated with writing tasks.
 

Translation and Literary Studies - Homage to Marilyn Gaddis Rose

Inspired by Gaddis Rose’s work, and particularly by her concept of stereoscopic reading, the volume is dynamically complementary to the burgeoning contemporary field of global comparative literature, underscoring the diversity of critical literary thought and theory worldwide.
 
 
Arranged thematically around questions of translation as literary and cultural criticism, as epistemology, and as poetics and politics, and dealing with works within and beyond the Western tradition, the essays in the volume illustrate the multi-voiced spectrum of literary translation studies today.

The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words

One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
 
 
Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from “a, an” to “zoom,” that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive


The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style covers a wide range of topics from grammar and punctuation to style and word choice.


Drawing on more than 2,000 real-life examples of questionable usage, it features topics found in no comparable reference work, such as clear examples and definitions in all word entries and explanations of misunderstood and misused words and clichés. 

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar Second Edition

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is a straightforward and accessible A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex terminology of English grammar. It contains over 1,600 entries with clear and concise definitions, enhanced by numerous example sentences, as well as relevant quotations from the scholarly literature of the field.
 
 
This second edition is written and edited by Professor Bas Aarts of University College London, writer of the acclaimed Oxford Modern English Grammar. It has been fully revised and updated, with particular attention paid to refreshing the example sentences included within the text.
 
 
There are over 150 new entries that cover current terminology which has arisen since the publication of the first edition, and there are also new entries on the most important English grammars published since the start of the 20th century. Hundreds of new cross-references enhance the user-friendly nature of the text, and the list of works cited has been thoroughly updated to reflect the current state of the field. A short appendix of web links has been added.

The History of English - A Student Guide

The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day.
 
 
The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a socio-historical context, an overview of the relevant major linguistic changes, and also focuses on an area of current research interest, either in sociolinguistics or in literary studies.
 
 
Exercises and activities that allow the reader to get ‘hands-on’ with different stages of the language, as well as with the concepts of language change, are also included.

The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation

The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation is an essential step-by-step, practical manual for advanced learners of Arabic interested in how to analyze and accurately translate nonfiction Arabic texts ranging from business correspondence to textbooks. 
 

Testing A Nation - The Social And Educational Impact Of The College English Test In China

Many countries have national policies in relation to English language teaching that are monitored through standardized tests, and students’ performance in these tests may have a significant impact on their career prospects. When such high stakes become attached to a language test, it begins to play a far greater role than originally intended.
 
 
A preeminent example is the College English Test (CET), taken biannually by upwards of ten million students in China, which makes it the world’s largest national English test. Its impact is evident in many areas of Chinese society. Specified grades on the CET are requirements for graduation from universities, many job applications and even some residence permits.