Little but very useful picture dictionary.Effective for teaching vocabulary.Words are grouped together in different themes,provided with colour illustrations and defining sentences.The sentences are examples of the words usage too.
* The first pragmatically oriented study of the language of fictional texts.
* Introduces a range of pragmatic theories and offers a range of approaches that can be applied to texts.
* Includes examples from literary texts, predominantly from the twentieth century - unlike many works on pragmatics which use invented examples.
Book Description: A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.
This is an amazingly simple but powerful language resource. On this CD-ROM you have access at the click of a button to 140,000 English collocations (frequent word combinations) and 2,600,000 real examples of how these word combinations are used. The collocations and the real examples are extracted from a corpus of 200 million words: the Bank of English. Here you will discover idioms, phrasal verbs, compounds, fixed phrases and grammatical patterns fully supported with evidence from authentic speech and writing.
Pragmatic Stylistics
