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Stephen Fry celebrates, examines, and plays word games and explains why they're important. Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players (Sudoku and Sudon't-ku?) Contributors include linguists, comedians, puzzle-creators, and psychologists, with archive material from comedy shows and others. There is an interview with a puzzlemaster, Chris Maslanka, and a look at why English, with its huge vocabulary and wealth of synonyms, lends itself so readily to word games. Could Scrabble have been invented in any other language?
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong to.
Top Notch is an award-winning communicative course for adults and young adults that sets new standards for reflecting how English is used as an international language. A broad range of print and digital components ensures the flexibility you need to fit the reality of your teaching situation. Its systematic recycling and reinforcement of language makes English unforgettable. ActiveBook provides the student's book in digital format with full audio and extra activities.
The ActiveBook contains:
The Student's Book in digital format with full audio
Interactive speaking, listening, reading, grammar, and vocabulary practice
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume in the development of vocabulary frequency studies. Whereas previous books have in general given frequency information about the written language only, this book provides information on both speech and writing. It not only gives information about the language as a whole, but also about the differences between spoken and written English, and between different spoken and written varieties of the language.
