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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows
Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows Review
Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows Feature
The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and transcultural flows (the movements, changes and reuses of cultural forms in disparate contexts).
This wide-ranging study focuses on the ways English is embedded in other linguistic contexts, including those of East Asia, Australia, West Africa and the Pacific Islands. Drawing on transgressive and performative theory, Pennycook looks at how global Englishes, transcultural flows and pedagogy are interconnected in ways that oblige us to rethink language and culture within the contemporary world.
Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows is a valuable resource to applied linguists, sociolinguists, and students on cultural studies, English language studies, TEFL and TESOL courses.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Step Forward 1: Language for Everyday Life Student Book (Step Forward (Oxford))
Step Forward 1: Language for Everyday Life Student Book (Step Forward (Oxford)) Review
Step Forward 1: Language for Everyday Life Student Book (Step Forward (Oxford)) Feature
Step Forward is a standards-based, four-skills course that integrates language instruction into meaningful, real-life contexts. The program ensures learners' mastery of the language related to civics, the workplace, the community, and academics.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English Review
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English Feature
An exhilarating exploration of how the world's languages are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers
Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other—from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back in time. As much a travel book as a tour of words at play, The Prodigal Tongue goes beyond grammar and vocabulary to discover how language is irrevocably changing the people of the world in far-reaching ways.
On his travels, Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers, and Web-savvy teens. He talks to a married couple who corresponded passionately online before they met in “meatspace.” And he listens to teenagers, puzzling out the words they coin in chat rooms and virtual worlds.
Everywhere he goes, he asks what the future is likely to hold for the ways we communicate. Abley balances a traditional concern for honesty and accuracy in language with a less traditional delight in the sheer creative energy of new words and expressions.
Provocative, perceptive, and often hilarious, this is a book for everyone who cherishes the words we use.
Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other—from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back in time. As much a travel book as a tour of words at play, The Prodigal Tongue goes beyond grammar and vocabulary to discover how language is irrevocably changing the people of the world in far-reaching ways.
On his travels, Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers, and Web-savvy teens. He talks to a married couple who corresponded passionately online before they met in “meatspace.” And he listens to teenagers, puzzling out the words they coin in chat rooms and virtual worlds.
Everywhere he goes, he asks what the future is likely to hold for the ways we communicate. Abley balances a traditional concern for honesty and accuracy in language with a less traditional delight in the sheer creative energy of new words and expressions.
Provocative, perceptive, and often hilarious, this is a book for everyone who cherishes the words we use.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Step Forward 2 Multilevel Activity Book: Level 2 Multilevel Activity Book (Step Forward (Oxford))
Step Forward 2 Multilevel Activity Book: Level 2 Multilevel Activity Book (Step Forward (Oxford)) Review
Step Forward 2 Multilevel Activity Book: Level 2 Multilevel Activity Book (Step Forward (Oxford)) Feature
Features over 100 reproducible communication activities to complement the multilevel classroom through a variety of pair, small group, and whole-class activities. Includes over 140 picture cards that are ideal for practicing key vocabulary and grammar.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
American English: History, Structure, and Usage
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American English: History, Structure, and Usage Feature
This lively introduction to the study of language explores American English and its place within contemporary society, highlighting the role of language in our daily lives. Beginning with a definition of language, the text unpacks the basic concepts used in linguistics, placing them in the context of real-life situations. Using examples from popular culture, the authors show how the study of language is relevant to students' experience. Teachers and students will appreciate the book's innovative structure, designed to build an understanding of how different aspects of language work together. A variety of exercises - individual, group, discussion, research - is provided to support every teaching style. Imaginatively organised and fun to use, American English is the ideal guide to language study for students taking the subject as a general education requirement, beginning undergraduates in linguistics, and future teachers of English.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function (Planning, History and Environment Series)
Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function (Planning, History and Environment Series) Review
Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function (Planning, History and Environment Series) Feature
The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.
Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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