Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language David Crystal, a well-known British popularizer of language and linguistics, looks at the variegated elements of Shakespeare's words, from spelling and punctuation, to pronunciation and meter, from Shakespeare's coinages (not as many as we think), to his influences. You don't need to know anything about linguistics to understand this book; Crystal explains all the technical terms and concepts briefly and sufficiently, but if you do know about language, the book may interest you more.
This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language. The author’s approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts...
Discover languages early. Students develop conversational skills in four foreign languages and develop a foundation to more fully participate in future language study.
Through multicultural stories, games and songs, students engage in activities that build overall language skills and their appreciation of different cultures. Curriculum Skills
* Develop conversational phrasing
* Understand basic vocabulary
* Discover sentence structuring
* Hear and speak special pronunciations
Special Features
* Four languages: French, Japanese, Spanish, and English
The transparencies in this collection can be used from the end of the second year of learning English. Each transparency deals with a typical situation such as students may encounter on a journey or while staying in Britain (or any other English-speaking country). They provide a good opportunity for introducing and reinforcing the language that is required to deal with these situations, combined with an element of light humour.
Language and Identity: An introduction (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
Written in a truly interdisciplinary spirit, this rich, lucid and irreverent book on language, culture and politics is bound to win admirers across the humanities and social sciences. Very readable, highly enjoyable, deeply enlightening.
