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The Professor and the Madman
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99The Professor and the Madman , masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED , begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken.... more...
Text and Discourse Analysis
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 34.95A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis: * examines a wide variety of authentic texts including news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks * contains numerous practical activities * looks at a range of cohesive devices... more...
Language and the Internet
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 25.00Countering the popular mythology that electronic communication is somehow bad for language, leading writer on language issues David Crystal argues that the Internet is in fact enabling a dramatic expansion to take place in the range and variety of linguistic forms, and is providing unprecedented opportunities for personal creativity. more...
A Frequency Dictionary of Modern Spanish
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 36.95Providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language, this resource is a dictionary of Spanish. Based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America, the dictionary provides a frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes. more...
Second Language Needs Analysis
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00This book contains a series of studies of needs analysis applied in different contexts and using different methodological approaches. more...
Essential Linguistics
Heinemann 2004; US$ 37.50With increased emphasis on phonemic awareness and phonics, teachers need to know how language works. Basic linguistic concepts can help them make decisions about how to teach reading, spelling, phonics, and grammar to all students, including English language learners. The Freemans explain essential linguistic concepts in a thorough but manageable manner,... more...
Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 38.00Cognitive linguistics is a relatively new discipline which is rapidly becoming mainstream and influential, particularly in the area of second language teaching. This book looks at how cognitive linguistics can inform our teaching, and lead to intriguing suggestions for alternative ways of presenting grammar and vocabulary in the language classroom. more...
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication
Wiley 2012; US$ 184.95The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example analyses, in this burgeoning area of linguistics. Features contributions from established researchers in sociolinguistics and intercultural... more...
Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 17.00His legendary shows included Fiddler on the Roof , The King and I , West Side Story , Gypsy , and Funny Girl . His celebrity colleagues included Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Stephen Sondheim, Natalie Wood, Ethel Merman, and Montgomery Clift. His private demons included sexual and religious conflicts, scandalous betrayals during the McCarthy... more...
The Story of Spanish
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 28.99Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world?s second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled the history of the French... more...









