The first comprehensive study of how English is pronounced by different people in different places.

The syllabus for this exam has changed and this book has now been replaced by 9781107691889 Objective Advanced Fourth edition Student's Book Pack (Student's Book with answers with CD-ROM and Class Audio CDs (2)).

This course is for intermediate and above students who need to speak English in connection with academic work.

Papers presented at the National Developmental Debate Conference held June 5-7, 2009 at Wake Forest University; Allan D. Louden, conference director.

Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate domain of lexicology/lexicography.

This book is concerned with the position which relative clauses occupy with respect to the main clause in the history of English.

This book proposes an overall framework of communication (including translation) that follows CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis)/CL (Critical Linguistics) principles; it devises an analytic tool for the study of transitivity in translation ...

Dal Negro (linguistics, U. del Piemonte Orientale) explores the complex structural changes a language undergoes as it recedes and dies, taking as a case study the German dialect spoken in the Alpine village of Formazza (Piedmont), in the ...

The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic ...

" Thought-provoking and practical, this guide provides readers with the essential tools to confidently interrogate the words by which we are surrounded.