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Business English Pod - provides free weekly MP3 podcasts, and audio / e-book courses on "Business English" for the levels of intermediate and advanced. Each lesson is aimed at studying the language for situations (meetings, presentations, phone calls, negotiations, daily contact, travel, talk, etc.) and linguistic features (explanation, disagreement, matters of expression, belief, etc.).

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it presents an analysis of spoken corpora from Europe and Mexico using a combination of criteria. The aim of this approach is to establish patterns of multilingual speech prevailing in different communities and allow for crosslinguistic comparison.

Business English Pod

Business English Pod - provides free weekly MP3 podcasts, and audio / e-book courses on "Business English" for the levels of intermediate and advanced.Each lesson is aimed at studying the language for situations (meetings, presentations, phone calls, negotiations, daily contact, travel, talk, etc.) and linguistic features (explanation, disagreement, matters of expression, belief, etc.).

For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian influence and success in the early nineteenth century. Ironically, that same European contact ultimately led to the devolution of traditional Plains Indian society, and by 1870 most Plains Indian peoples were living on reservations.In The Plains Indians Paul H. Carlson charts the evolution and growth of the Plains Indians through this period of constant change.