Who's Whose? A no-nonsense guide to easily confused words
Who's Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear.
The Embarrassment Rating involved in each mistake is included, together with an explanation of why the confusion happens and how to avoid it in the future.
So if you mistrust (or distrust?) your spellchecker and want to maintainor improve your written English, this is the perfect companion for you.
The Harry Potter books have become ubiquitous early texts for children,
and are also a popular choice for many adults. Potter-mania has
expanded to become a significant cultural phenomenon complete with a
feature film and a wide range of paraphernalia. However, there has been
little critical attention devoted to these books and the cultural
phenomenon surrounding them. Containing powerful, thought-provoking
literary themes as well as portrayals of social and cultural normalcy,
the Potter books cumulatively serve as a powerful form of social text
and deserve serious critical attention.
This book fills a longstanding need for a basic introduction to
Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and
approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines
the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework
over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates
both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic
structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and
explicit structural description.
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
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