Language: reference and general

Do you call it April Fools' Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin' Day?

Do you call it April Fools' Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin' Day?

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere.

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere.

Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard.

Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard.

How often have you looked up an English word in a German dictionary only to be confronted by a bewildering array of German equivalents?

How often have you looked up an English word in a German dictionary only to be confronted by a bewildering array of German equivalents?

Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.

Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching.

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching.

African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture.

African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation.

New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.

New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Ibsen's A Doll's House to an 18-30s brochure, Internet chatrooms and George Bush's September 11 speech offers a step-by-step guide to approaching texts and structuring a response can be used as both a course stimulus and a revision tool.

How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Ibsen's A Doll's House to an 18-30s brochure, Internet chatrooms and George Bush's September 11 speech offers a step-by-step guide to approaching texts and structuring a response can be used as both a course stimulus and a revision tool.

English-Only Europe?

English-Only Europe?

How do we find the right word for the job?

How do we find the right word for the job?

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C.

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C.

No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig.

No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig.

This book fulfils a keenly-felt need for a modern, comprehensive dictionary of Scottish Gaelic into English.

This book fulfils a keenly-felt need for a modern, comprehensive dictionary of Scottish Gaelic into English.

Edward Bond Letters, Volume IV, focuses on four significant areas of Edward Bond's work: education, imagination and the child; theatre-in-education; At the Inland Sea; language and imagery.

Edward Bond Letters, Volume IV, focuses on four significant areas of Edward Bond's work: education, imagination and the child; theatre-in-education; At the Inland Sea; language and imagery.

Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today.

Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers.

In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers.

Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance.

Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance.

This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "e;control"e;, the reader.

This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "e;control"e;, the reader.

This text assesses the importance of language technology to increasingly popular computer-assisted language learning work.

This text assesses the importance of language technology to increasingly popular computer-assisted language learning work.

The GM debate is as much a war of words as of facts.

The GM debate is as much a war of words as of facts.