Aussie Rules is a light and fun contemporary romance that’s perfect for the summer. Shalvis does a wonderful job of creating a realistic airport setting and populates the story with memorable secondary characters. Oftentimes contemporary romances have suspenseful subplots that detract from the main romance, but this fast-paced romance is thoroughly enjoyable.
This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems.
Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation.
This book engages with English in globalization, re-examining and re-interpreting the contemporary contexts of its acquisition and use. The chapters contained in this book weave together four inter-related themes that define the role of English in the global context: the 'centrality of structure', 'relationships of interdependence', 'social constructions of difference' and 'reproduction of inequality'. These themes enable the authors to draw attention to the dynamics of the contemporary realities of the 'English-speaking' and 'English-using' nations...
