Tom A Shippey 
Beowulf [PDF ebook] 
The Critical Heritage

This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an …

Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Panjabi as it is written and spoken today. Combining a …

Some of the language we come across, in reading other peoples» works or listening to others speak, moves us profoundly. It requires a response from us; it occupies and involves us. Writers, always r …

Arabic L2 Interlanguage is a significant and timely addition to the field of Second Language Acquisition, providing valuable insight into the development of ‘interlanguage’, the interim language of e …

In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in …

How Texts Work:

• explores the ways in which we categorize texts
• reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts
• analyzes a wide variety of t …

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as t …

Genre analysis has a long-established tradition in literature, but interest in the analysis of non-literary genres has been very recent. This book examines the theory of genre analysis, looks at genr …

‘The book draws on a lot of research, is friendly to the reader, and will be of good value to teachers.’ Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia This comprehensive, up-to-date, and …

We take it for granted that we can use words properly – appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what makes a particular use ‘proper.’ Given th …