This book explores how resurgent nationalism across the globe demands re-examination of many of the theories and practices in applied linguistics and language teaching as political forces seek to limit the movement of people, goods, and services across national borders and, in some cases, enact violence upon those with linguistic and/or ethnic backgrounds that differ from that of the dominant culture.
Folklinguistics and social meaning in Australian English
Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society. Utilising folklinguistic accounts, it uncovers everyday understandings of contemporary Australian English through variations across linguistic systems (sounds, words, discourse and grammar).
With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the complex specifics...
The Business English Podcasts (for professionals on the move)
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.).
Big Books are a flexible resource that can be used throughout the course. They can be used to present the topic, reinforce concepts or to close a unit. We suggest you use them with the CD to help with pronunciation and intonation. Each level has two Big Books. Big Books are designed to present linguistic resources and contents of the program in a natural way.