A critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. It offers an intervention in debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in the American educational system.

A critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. It offers an intervention in debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in the American educational system.

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)

Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background in linguistics, and reflecting the latest scholarship, it showcases the variation and change present throughout the history of English, and includes numerous e...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. T...(展开全部)

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain,...(展开全部)

An indispensable store of information on the English language, written by some of the best-known grammarians in the world.

伦道夫・夸克爵士现任伦敦大学名誉副校长，曾为伦敦奎因大学英语教授和伦敦高校英语用法调查创始人。英语论著颇多。 西德尼・戈林鲍姆现任伦敦奎因大学英语教授和英语用 法调查主任，曾在美国多所大学任英语教授10多年。英语论著颇多。 杰弗里・利奇现为英国兰开斯特大学语言学和现代英语教授，致力于英语用法调查20多年。近来从事现代英语语料微机分析。英语论著颇多。 简・斯瓦特威克现任英国伦敦大学英语教授兼该校英语口语调查主任。英语论著颇多。