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Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation
Sandra Bermann
Paperback - $57.95
"This is a wonderful volume, a dance around the idea of 'translation, ' threading it through a dozen languages and testing its claims through as many analytic registers. Each of its essays is lucid and compelling, with a substantial argument to make. ...
Knickers in a Twist : A Dictionary of British Slang
Jonathan Bernstein
Paperback - $21.95
Brits and Americans dress the same, eat at the same chain restaurants, pass music back and forth across the Atlantic, and our national leaders are practically conjoined twins. But the second the Brits open their mouths, all bets are off. So don’ ...
The Most Common Mistakes in English Usage
Thomas E. Berry
Paperback - $19.95
This book analyzes the errors most commonly made in spoken and written English and presents them in a systematic, down-to-earth manner. It does not dictate grammar to the reader; rather, it presents the guidelines for English usage currently being ob ...
Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education
N. Bertels
Paperback - $107.95
Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education is aimed at applied linguists who are interested in understanding more about the learning of novice teachers in their classes. The 21 studies in this volume provide information on the complexity of n ...
Slavic Prosody : Language Change and Phonological Theory
Christina Y. Bethin
Paperback - $128.95
Slavic Prosody is about the Slavic languages and how they changed over time, especially in their syllable structure and accent patterns. This is not a traditional comparative grammar but rather a discussion of selected problems in Slavic and how they ...
Standard English
Tony Bex
Hardcover - $327.95
The debates surrounding "Standard English," grammar and correctness are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context, as shown by the Ebonics controversy in Oakland, California. i Standard English: The Widening Debate /i draws t ...
Standard English : The Widening Debate
Tony Bex
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Language scholars from Europe and the US contribute to the debate on the grammar and correctness now raging inside and outside academia. They trace the notion from the 17th century to the present, explore the various definitions of it, demonstrate th ...
The Handbook of Bilingualism
Tej Bhatia
Paperback - $113.95
"The Handbook of Bilingualism "provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise in consideration of the phenomena of bilingualism ranging from the representation of the two languages in the bilingual individual's brain to the var ...
The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction
Bianchi
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The contributors to this volume tend to agree on one thing: semantic theory cannot retain its traditional purity, free of pragmatic contextual considerations. This claim provides the setting for various provocative approaches to a precise definition ...