Argument and Rhetoric. Adverbial Connectors in the History of English
the bookis the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.
There are a number of well-known histories of the English Language (Baugh & Cable, Pyles & Algeo, Barber, and Fennell). The justification for yet another book on the history of English comes from having taught a course on this topic at the undergraduate and graduate levels for over 10 years and not finding any of the books completely satisfactory.
The present book is more grammatical and typological in focus, i.e. language-internal, although this can of course not be a course on Old and Middle English or on historical linguistics and therefore only parts of the grammar are covered. I have used the change from synthetic to analytic as a leitmotiv.
A program for learning business English at intermediate level. Covers such topics as: Personal introduction, Foreign travel, Company organisation, Manufacturing process, Job descriptions, Correspondence, Finance and accounting, Sales and negotiating, Marketing new products, Advertising and sales promotion. INTERFACE IN ENGLISH AND POLISH.
Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods currently being used and developed for reading and analyzing writings in Old English. It is the first collection of its kind in the field and is a timely book, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading in recent years.
Protestantism and Patriotism Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy 1650_1668Protestantism and Patriotism offers a fundamental reinterpretation of English political culture between1650 and 1668. It is also both the most detailed study to date of the causes and consequences of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654 and 1665-1667), and a reconfiguration of the English political nation which engaged in those two conflicts.
