Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

✍ Lyons, Malcolm C 📂 Fiction 📅 2014;2015 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 307 KB 👁 3 views

Dating from at least a millennium ago, this title features the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. It features monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking revers

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

📂 Fiction 📅 2014;2015 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 312 KB 👁 3 views

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: *'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I

The language of news and the end of mora

The language of news and the end of morality

✍ Theodore L. Glasser; James S. Ettema 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 540 KB

The Handbook of Language and Globalizati

The Handbook of Language and Globalization (Coupland/The Handbook of Language and Globalization) || New National Languages in Eastern Europe

✍ Coupland, Nikolas 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Wiley-Blackwell 🌐 English ⚖ 546 KB

Introduction: Sociolinguistics In The Global Era / Nikolas Coupland -- Part I. Global Multilingualism, World Languages And Language Systems: 1. Globalization, Global English, And World English(es): Myths And Facts / Salikoko Mufwene -- 2. Global Language Systems / Abram De Swaan -- 3. The Global Pol

The Handbook of Language and Globalizati

The Handbook of Language and Globalization (Coupland/The Handbook of Language and Globalization) || Language as Resource in the Globalized New Economy

✍ Coupland, Nikolas 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Wiley-Blackwell 🌐 English ⚖ 536 KB

Introduction: Sociolinguistics In The Global Era / Nikolas Coupland -- Part I. Global Multilingualism, World Languages And Language Systems: 1. Globalization, Global English, And World English(es): Myths And Facts / Salikoko Mufwene -- 2. Global Language Systems / Abram De Swaan -- 3. The Global Pol

New Horizons in the Study of Language an

New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind

✍ Chomsky, Noam 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 279 KB