289 products for "language books"

Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) Masterclass: Student's Book With Online Skills And Language Practice Pack - Master An Exceptional Level Of English With Confidence (Paperback New Edition),9780194705240

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This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example,

Evolution is fraught with controversy. Working from what is essentially the same data, opinions have come to opposite conclusions. Enter genetics as a source of objective data, and surely the old questions

Argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Examining debates over relativism in language, this book opines that

Using the idiom of literary criticism, this study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from 17th-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad

This title locates the greatest Italian poet of the 20th century, Eugenio Montale, firmly within European Modernism. It shows that he, like many writers of this period, was fascinated with the problems

This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Romanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed

The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such