Homer (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

 Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is the earliest of Greek authors whose works survived. Both works are supreme models of epic poetry and have asserted a profound influence on the history of Western literature. This volume offers a complete critical portrait of Homer.
This title, Homer, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Homer through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Homer, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)

This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. The paperback edition provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the basic areas of sociolinguistics that have a bearing on language teaching, including regional and social variations in dialects, language and gender, World English, and intercultural communication. Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored

On Grammar (Collected Works of Mak Halliday Series)

On Grammar (Volume 1)
This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new piece entitled 'a personal perspective' , in which Professor Halliday offers his own views on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966); the second part highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-60s to mid-80s) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text; the third part includes more recent work..

Cultural and linguistic diversity: evolutionary approaches

Evolutionary approaches to cultural change are increasingly influential, and many scientists believe that a ‘grand synthesis’ is now in sight (e.g. Mesoudi, Whiten & Laland 2006). At the ‘microevolutionary’ scale, modern theories of cultural evolution recognize that cultural traditions and innovations are socially transmitted person-to-person between and within generations (respectively, by vertical or oblique and by horizontal transmission routes; Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman 1981),...

Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics (Fundamentals of Linguistics)

Introducing the fundamental issues in psycholinguistics, this book explores the amazing story of the unconscious processes that take place when humans use language. It is an ideal text for undergraduates taking a first course in the study of language.