Britain for Learners of English
Author | : James O'Driscoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780194306478 |
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Author | : James O'Driscoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780194306478 |
Author | : James O'Driscoll |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : James O'Driscoll |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780194306447 |
Charts, graphs, extracts from popular fiction and newspapers provide a diverse and fascinating range of additional information about people's daily lives Questions at the end of each chapter encourage students to analyse what they have read and to make cross-cultural comparisons Activities in the Workbook further reinforce the content and language as well as encouraging students to explore topics in more depth. A regularly updated website keeps the information from Britain current as well as having topical links to media and government websites.
Author | : David Crystal |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191645125 |
Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character. The book relates a real journey. David and Hilary Crystal drove thousands of miles to produce this fascinating combination of English-language history and travelogue, from locations in south-east Kent to the Scottish lowlands, and from south-west Wales to the East Anglian coast. David provides the descriptions and linguistic associations, Hilary the full-colour photographs. They include a guide for anyone wanting to follow in their footsteps but arrange the book to reflect the chronology of the language. This starts with the Anglo-Saxon arrivals in Kent and in the places that show the earliest evidence of English. It ends in London with the latest apps for grammar. In between are intimate encounters with the places associated with such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth; the biblical Wycliffe and Tyndale; the dictionary compilers Cawdrey, Johnson, and Murray; dialect writers, elocutionists, and grammarians, and a host of other personalities. Among the book's many joys are the diverse places that allow warriors such as Byrhtnoth and King Alfred to share pages with wordsmiths like Robert Burns and Tim Bobbin, and the unexpected discoveries that enliven every stage of the authors' epic journey.
Author | : James O'Driscoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 9783068013021 |
Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400842182 |
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author | : Vincent Gillespie |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1843843633 |
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.
Author | : H. Perraton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137294957 |
Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.
Author | : Jakob Herman Huizinga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Daniel Allington |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470654937 |
Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing and publishing and discusses the formal elements of books and manuscripts, which are necessary to facilitate an understanding of that impact. This collaboratively authored narrative history combines the knowledge and expertise of five scholars who seek to answer questions such as: How does the material form of a text affect its meaning? How do books shape political and religious movements? How have the economics of the book trade and copyright shaped the literary canon? Who has been included in and excluded from the world of books, and why? The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction will appeal to all scholars, students, and historians interested in the written word and its continued production and presentation.