Instant Eulogy Speeches ...more on ebook "Instant Eulogy Speeches..."

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerg ...more on ebook "How New Languages Emerge..."

In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes never encountered a single reading assignment or exercise that featured a person of color. Now she has made it her mission to re ...more on ebook "African American Guide to Writing a..."

A Student Grammar of Spanish is a concise introduction to Spanish grammar, designed for English-speaking undergraduates. Assuming no prior knowledge of grammatical terminology, it explains e ...more on ebook "A Student Grammar of Spanish..."

Drawing on a range of writers, including Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Nuruddin Farah, "The Language of Postcolonial Literatures" provides a ...more on ebook "The Language of Postcolonial Litera..."

What we say always consists of prior words, structures and meanings that are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. In this book, Deborah Schiffrin looks at two ...more on ebook "In Other Words..."

Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough emp ...more on ebook "Negation in Non-Standard British En..."

Strange Seas ...more on ebook "Strange Seas..."

An essential guide to the languages of the world, includes information on over 600 languages. ...more on ebook "The Languages of the World..."

This title analyzes contemporary trends and tools that affect how information is created, stored, discovered and used in a progressive technological environment. It presents a framework for ...more on ebook "Libraries, the Internet, and Schola..."