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)

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

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)

'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)

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has beco...(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。

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。

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