"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 is a u…
"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 is a u…
"Playing with Words covers the subject matter of humour and the part it plays in society. It is an informed account in non-technical language, full of examples, a book to be read for information and for fun."--BOOK JACKET.
"In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky poin…
"This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been interp…
"Discussions about the phrase "Daughter of Zion" have not come to rest. The present book is a study of this and similar phrases from a linguistic point of view. Genitive as a category in Semitic grammar is treated in a separate chapter, and metaphor and irony are brought into th…
Studi sul pensiero e sulla lingua di Empedocle
by Rossetti, Livio, Santaniello, Carlo
fromRane