A face is worth 1,001 French wordsUsing the stories that our faces, appearance, and gestures tell, French in Your Face helps you learn and remember essential French vocabulary and everyday expressions relating to personality, attitudes, moods, and emotions.This hugely entertaining book is packed with illustrations that will tickle your funny bone and fine-tune your ability to communicate, face-to-face, in French.
This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first deals with Spanish press coverage of the 1994 USA Football World Cup. The second section studies the process of negotiation towards a political pact between Partido Popular and Converg
Discover the guttural delights of Teutonic swearing with this unabashed look at German slang, that builds on the runaway success of Pardon My French! and Pardon My Spanish!.Skilfully chosen translations bring out all the flavour of the original, and hundreds of examples show how the words are really used.Unprudish, unabashed and in your face, Pardon My German! features thousands of examples that show how terms are used in context.A new partner for Pardon My French! and Pardon My Spanish!Thousands of colourful examples with carefully chosen translationsDozens of helpful notes to explain interesting usage pointsAttractive modern page design
This is an accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities. It brings together a team of leading experts in sign linguistics and covers a wide range of topics including variation, multilingualism, bilingualism, language attitudes and discourse analysis.
Matthew Chen’s landmark study offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. His book, the culmination of a ten-year research project, explores a range of important theoretical issues against a wealth of empirical data not previously accessible to linguists.