Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

The book presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and evaluates different theoretical approaches to the question, and the eight articles by leading scholars in the field offer a multiplicity of methodological and theoretical approaches to the description and interpretation of social roles as expressed in a variety of texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Well of Shiuan

C.J. Cherryh - Well of Shiuan

The world of Shiuan was doomed. Rising waters and shattering earthquakes had sealed its fate. The only escape routes were the Gates. And just as this knowledge dawned on the desperate tribes and cities there appeared the woman Morgaine--whose mission was to seal Shiuan's Gates.

Gate of Ivrel

C.J. Cherryh - Gate of Ivrel

Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space, gates of a vanished alien race. Long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds--not from villainy but from folly. Now the task was to destroy their potency for mischief. This is the story of one such Gate.

INTRODUCTORY STEPS TO UNDERSTANDINGStories to help students' reading and listening comprehension.

A four-level serie. Each story is about 150 words long.

This complete study edition of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice includes history and information about the society of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, a map, questions, writing ideas, and projects to help students explore this story in which arrogance, bias, and conceit derail engagements and fragment happiness.

Reading Level: High School (challenging)