'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplici...(展开全部)

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent --brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproa...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a second-rate, mongrel tongue came to be the undisputed language of the globe. Bryson explores English from America to Australia and looks at, among other things, swearing, spelling, spoonerisms and Scrabble. No self-respecting English speaker should open his mouth without reading it.

An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in English I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing...(展开全部)

An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in English I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing...(展开全部)

In this new edition, Jeremy Harmer brings you *the evolving identities of global English *the impact of technology on teaching *the issue of context-sensitive methodology *DVD with clips from real classrooms, observation tasks and interviews

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, this best-selling book by one of Japan's most ambitious contemporary fiction writers lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in an age of English dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, ...(展开全部)

The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries and of other reference titles published by Houghton Mifflin Company are trained lexicographers with a varied array of interests and expertise. Most of the editors hold graduate degrees and have studied at least one foreign language. Several have degrees in linguistics or in the history of the English language. Others have degree...(展开全部)

奥托•叶斯柏森（Otto Jespersen, 1860—1943）是享誉国际的丹麦语言学家，英语语法研究界的权威泰斗，同时也是英语史学家。一生著述颇丰，涵盖普通语言学、语音学、语法学、语言史、语言哲学、外语教学等众多领域，是我国读者熟悉的语言学家，其语法理论曾对汉语语法研究产生重要影响。他的代表作有《语言进化论：特别着重英语》《语音学教程》《如何教外语》《英语的成长和结构》《现代英语语法》《语言论：语言的本质、发展和起源》《语法哲学》等。

奥托•叶斯柏森（Otto Jespersen, 1860—1943）是享誉国际的丹麦语言学家，英语语法研究界的权威泰斗，同时也是英语史学家。一生著述颇丰，涵盖普通语言学、语音学、语法学、语言史、语言哲学、外语教学等众多领域，是我国读者熟悉的语言学家，其语法理论曾对汉语语法研究产生重要影响。他的代表作有《语言进化论：特别着重英语》《语音学教程》《如何教外语》《英语的成长和结构》《现代英语语法》《语言论：语言的本质、发展和起源》《语法哲学》等。