The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language - David Crystal

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language - David Crystal

Reducere. This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study whic...

DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, st...

DescriptionSome thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and...

The author explains structure and then shows how it works in different language contexts - the literary, the non-literary, the spoken and the writt...

Subtitled, }How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning & Languages Live Or Die{. In this fascinating study, David Crystal answers every question on th...

Victorian views on pronunciation as told in the pages of satirical magazine }Punch{. Reveals how pronunciation could determine who you were and how...

A cutting-edge handbook that surveys the nature of second language learning and the implications for teaching. Contributors discuss prominent theor...

Learning to talk is probably the greatest milestone in a child's development, a deeply moving and often hilarious experience for all parents. It is...

The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its w...

In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar ...

An exploration of why and how we pronounce words in English why we do, drawing on pop culture and history to make the phonetics, linguistics and ph...

The third volume in David Crystal's classic series on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide ...

A journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities. From the English language expert David Cryst...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded re...

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through...

The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia - Nicholas Vazsonyi

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunn...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a cooperative project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Pres...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...

DescriptionAward-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefull...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the pres...

The field of task-based language teaching has developed considerably since the publication of Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nuna...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clive BarkerAuthor: Joe R. LansdaleAuthor: Ramsey CampbellWHERE NIGHTMARES COME FROM THE ART OF STORYTELLING IN THE HORROR ...

Presenting the field of photonic crystals using analytically solvable problems, this book provides a systematic, rigorous, and pedagogical introduc...

There is an amazing diversity of life on Earth, from microscopic organisms to giant redwoods and blue whales, and on every part of Earth's surface ...

The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, ...

This book seeks to explore the dynamic nature of the language classroom.Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Ian (Universite Libre de Br...

This comprehensive guide is the most complete owner's manual for keeping all types of freshwater and marine fish. The book will take you through al...

A beautiful, classic, authoritative encyclopedia for all the family - now updated with brand-new photography and text.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David L BongardNumber of pages: 834Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 191 x 247 x 47Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. The most comprehensive single-volume reference of its kind, the encyclopedia has been updated and expanded and now contains definitions and origins...

Designed for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics, this leading textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, t...

Contributor(s): Author: Evert Van Emde BoasAuthor: Albert RijksbaronAuthor: Luuk HuitinkThis is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical...

The adventures of Dev and Boja continue in FLEMBER: THE CRYSTAL CAVES!

David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its si...

Aimed at researchers and advanced students working in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and other functional and cognitive areas of linguistics...

Reducere. Your value in the construction industry will be measured by your understanding and use of its terminology. THIS UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDTION gives c...

English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use...

Reducere. Discover the wild and wonderful creatures of Thra in this guide to the flora and fauna of the Dark Crystal universe featuring remarkable original i...

Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. ...

An integrated four-skills, American English course for adults and young adults.

Language and music have much in common, such as rhythm, structure, sound and metaphor. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, performance studies and m...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most complete owner's manual for keeping all types of freshwater and saltwater fish in indoor tropical and coldwater aquariums and o...

Embarking on the need to have an encyclopedia of body language was a task nursed for years and stirred fear in me for many reasons. First, it was p...