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  • Dangerous Language — Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism

    de Ulrich Lins ...
    Traducido por Humphrey Tonkin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is Volume 2 of Dangerous Language. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed a solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume examine the position of Esperanto in Eastern Europe during the Cold War; in particular it explores Stalin’s final years and the gradual re-emergence of the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin

    de Ulrich Lins ...
    Traducido por Humphrey Tonkin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as an answer to a widespread democratic desire for direct person-to-person international communication regardless of political ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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  • Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families

    Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation

    de A. Rubino ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Democratic Policies for Language Revitalisation: The Case of Catalan

    Edición de M. Strubell, E. Boix-Fuster ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    A collection of studies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan in a democratic framework in each of the main Spanish regions where it is spoken: Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Shortcut

    How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

    de John Pollack ...
    A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomesFrom the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford’s first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • What Language Is

    And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

    de John McWhorter ...
    New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big ones like Mandarin - What Language Is celebrates the history and curiosities of languages around the world and smashes our assumptions about "correct ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Read a Word

    de Elizabeth Knowles ...
    Have you ever wondered how you can find out more about a word: Where did it come from? How has its meaning altered? How can it be pronounced? What is its relationship to other words? Language is not fixed, but is an evolutionary process: words develop and change, in meaning, association, and pronunciation, as well as in many other ways. Exploring the routes taken by the words we choose to ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Latin

    de Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Slang

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Jonathon Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. This Very ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Creation of Israeli Arabic

    Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel

    de Y. Mendel ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction. Due to its interdisciplinary nature it will be of great interest to academics and researchers in security and middle eastern studies as well as those focused on language and linguistics. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Words and the First World War

    Language, Memory, Vocabulary

    de Julian Walker ...
    "An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The SpectatorFirst World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped English and its relationship with other languages. He considers language in relation to ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Change in Contemporary English

    A Grammatical Study

    de Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith, Geoffrey Leech ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD