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  • How English Became the Global Language

    by D. Northrup ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • How Language Works

    by David Crystal ...
    In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Story of English

    How the English language conquered the world

    by Philip Gooden ...
    Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower.Worldwide some 380 million people speak English as a first language and some 600 million ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Garner's Modern English Usage

    by Bryan Garner ...
    With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse, and wit. He discourages whatever is slovenly, pretentious, or pedantic. GMEU is the liveliest and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • How to Read a Word

    by Elizabeth Knowles ...
    Have you ever wondered how you can find out more about a word: Where did it come from? How has its meaning altered? How can it be pronounced? What is its relationship to other words? Language is not fixed, but is an evolutionary process: words develop and change, in meaning, association, and pronunciation, as well as in many other ways. Exploring the routes taken by the words we choose to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Borrowed Words

    A History of Loanwords in English

    by Philip Durkin ...
    The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, andYiddish. Philip Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when, and why. He shows how to discover the origins of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

    A European Perspective

    by Anne O’Connor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth study of translation and translators in nineteenth-century Ireland, using translation history to widen our understanding of cultural exchange in the period. It paints a new picture of a transnational Ireland in contact with Europe, offering fresh perspectives on the historical, political and cultural debates of the era. Employing contemporary translation theories and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Politics of Dubbing

    Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy

    by Carla Mereu Keating ...
    Series Book 20 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian language, the rebirth of the national film industry and cinema’s mass popularity.Through the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Beyond the Postcolonial

    World Englishes Literature

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns in English and Mandarin Chinese

    A Contrastive Study

    by Lin Wang ...
    Series Book 469 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
    The book is a study on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese) and the first one drawing a complete picture in this domain. It provides the full uses of self, zìjĭ and běnrén. In the case of běnrén, here for the first time the full use of this pronoun in Mandarin Chinese is analysed. It is also the first book that uses contrastive study to talk ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts

    Edited by Christopher J. Jenks, Jerry Won Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the ‘nation’ as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies of the English language reflect the complex and unexpected flows of globalisation. Examining topics such as the spoken English of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD