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  • English as a Global Language

    de David Crystal ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with 1500 million speakers internationally, presenting a difficult task to those who wish to investigate it in its entirety. However, Crystal explores ... Leer más

    $296 MXN

  • Language Death

    de David Crystal ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular ... Leer más

    $367 MXN

  • Think on my Words

    Exploring Shakespeare's Language

    de David Crystal ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences. Covering the five main dimensions of language ... Leer más

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  • The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

    When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • Home Ground

    Language for an American Landscape

    Edición de Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney ...
    Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is ... Leer más

    $199 MXN

  • Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China

    A Linguistic Ethnography

    de Sihua Liang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • A Leg up on the Canon, Book 1

    Adaptations of Shakespeare’S History Plays and Marlowe’S Edward Ii

    de Jim McGahern ...
    Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater. He brought kings, queens, heroes, and peasantry to the stage so they could be seen in a more realistic fashion. Even so, in modern times, assistance is often needed to interpret Shakespeares work.In ... Leer más

    $69 MXN

  • Nabokov's Shakespeare

    Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which the works of Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, penetrate the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the finest English prose stylists of the twentieth century.As a Russian youth, Nabokov read all of Shakespeare, in English. He claimed ... Leer más

    $136 MXN

  • Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation

    On Multilingualism and Language Evolution

    Edición de Eric A. Anchimbe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare the Dramatist

    And other papers

    First published in 1961. On her death, Professor Ellis-Fermor left behind some uncollected essays and part of a book on Shakespeare the Dramatist. This volume includes the chapters of the unfinished work and three further articles on Shakespeare. It discusses Shakespeare's methods with regard to plot, character, diction, and imagery and it contains comparative analysis of Shakespeare with other ... Leer más

    $1,135 MXN

  • Globalizing Language Policy and Planning

    An Irish Language Perspective

    Series series Education (R0)
    The book examines the changing relationship between minority languages and language policy and planning in the context of globalization, through an examination of the Irish language context. It demonstrates how localized practices are involved in the refashioning of the value of the Irish language. ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • Shakespeare and the Language of Translation

    Shakespeare's international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translation. Shakespeare and the Language of Translation addresses this apparent contradiction and is the first major survey of its kind.Covering the many ways in which the translation of Shakespeare's works is ... Leer más

    $487 MXN