Cutting edge

Elementary student's book

New World culture lessons encourage the exploration of contemporary topics and develop online research skills. Language live lessons provide light-hearted contexts for practising functional language and writing. The Pre-Intermediate level takes students from A2 to B1 The DVD-ROM contains all the audio and video clips ...

La escritura científico-técnica en lengua inglesa

claves para escribir con soltura y eficacia

Este libro es el resumen de varios años de trabajo e instrucción a estudiantes y profesionales de la ingeniería y algunas ramas de la ciencia sobre técnicas y destrezas de escritura en lengua inglesa. Está destinado no sólo a ellos, sino también a científicos, académicos ...

A dictionary of euphemisms

how not to say what you mean

This brand new edition celebrating 20 years of R. W. Holder's popular and successful dictionary of euphemisms is packed full of traditional favourites, such as 'Dutch uncle' or 'push up the daisies', as well as euphemisms from the contemporary world such as 'restructuring', 'coffee- ...

Oxford Dictionary of humorous quotations

This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially compiled by the late broadcaster and raconteur Ned Sherrin, with a foreword by leading British satirist, Alistair Beaton. Now packed with even more quotes and covering ...

Semantics

This third edition of Semantics provides an engaging and accessible introduction to semantics for students new to the field. It covers the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of research. This new edition has been ...

Inventing english

a portable history of language

Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer ...

Las expresiones idiomáticas de la economía en inglés y español

propuesta para un correcto tratamiento terminográfico

Los lenguajes especializados: peculiaridades lingüísticas. El componente léxico en el discurso económico. Las metáforas de la economía. La fraseología y las expresiones idiomáticas. La traducción de las expresiones idiomáticas. Virtudes y carencias de los recursos lexico-terminográficos en su tratamiento de las expresiones idiomáticas de la ...

The complete guide to the TOEFL Test

IBT Edition

ISE Text + CD Package for TOEFL iBT

Morphosyntactic expression in functional grammar

This books reflects the growing interest within Functional Grammar for the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. The papers in this volume discuss two recent developments, the Dynamic Expression Model for Functional Grammar and the conversion of this model into ...

Re-Viewing Space

figurative language in architects´ assessment of built space

This book describes and explores the linguistic metaphors used by architects to assess design solutions in building reviews, and the conceptual mappings that motivate them. The genre perspective adopted throughout the work offers a view of figurative language that considers its use in the discussion ...

How to write

"How to Write" is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal. Broken down into short topic-based chapters on everything from beginning to revising, it demystifies the writing process by taking the ...

English reading comprehension for the field of social work

Student's book

CONTENTS: Preface. Introduction. Further reading 1-4. Answer key. Glossary. References.

Nuevas perspectivas en la didáctica de la fonética inglesa

Este libro tiene por objetivo el ser de utilidad para cualquier docente o estudiante de nivel intermedio-avanzado interesado en actualizar su conocimiento de las estrategias metodológicas necesarias para llevar a cabo una satisfactoria enseñanza y evaluación de un aspecto determinante para una correcta expresión oral ...

Phonological evolution from indo-european to modern english

the fundamentals for practice

INDEX: Linguistic change: some basic notions. From indo-european to OE. From old english to present day english. Appendix. Bibliography.

Towards an understanding of the english language

past, present and future: studies in honour of Fernando Serrano

Atlas of north american english

phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool

The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-defines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s ...

Politeness in language

studies in its history, theory and practice

The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century. The original articles focus on the ...

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Nº 17, nov., 2004

OBITUARY: Pedro Jesús Marcos-Pérez by Enrique Alcaraz Varó - ESSAYS: Voice Onset Time and Foreign Accent Detection: Are L2 Learners Better Than Monolinguals? by Josep Alba-Salas; Can Pronunciation Be Taught? A Review of Research and Implications for Teaching by Darío Barrera Pardo; English and Galician in ...

A handbook of varieties of English

a multimedia reference tool

The Handbook is by far the most thorough reference work on phonology and the first- ever comprehensive overview of the morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the world. The Handbook consists of a two volume book accompanied by an interactive CD-ROM. The genuine ...

A wew architecture for functional grammar

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and grammar ...