Walking English

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468306251
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking English written by David Crystal and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed linguist, “part travelogue, part memoir, and part meditation on the intellectual and emotional underpinnings of language. . . . Priceless.” (Booklist) In this discursive jaunt through the groves and thickets of the English language, David Crystal creates an entertaining narrative account of his encounters with the language and its speakers. Woven from personal reflections, historical allusions, and observations of travelers, this fascinating journey through the language we use every day will have readers thinking twice about each word they speak. Starting in Wales and moving from England to San Francisco by way of, yes, Poland, Crystal encounters numerous linguistic side roads that he cannot resist exploring, from pubs to trains to Tolkien. Walking English is a captivating exploration of language by “one of England’s greatest living language commentators.” (The New Statesman) “In a conversational style that includes plenty of quirky facts, Crystal captures the exploratory, seductive, teasing, quirky, tantalizing nature of language study, and in doing so illuminates the fascinating world of words in which we live.” —Publishers Weekly “An informative, transformative trip into the mysterious, mutating, magical thicket of English.” (Kirkus Reviews) “Like passing the afternoon with a knowledgeable uncle.” —The Wall Street Journal “The Dr. Johnson of our age.” —The Sunday Herald “The book reads like a donnish Bill Bryson, a Bryson possessed with a maniacal passion for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language! . . . [A] compelling guide.” —Independent “Crystal proves an entertaining companion! It is pleasant to ramble with him along the byways of language.” —The Tablet

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007284063
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English written by David Crystal and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.

Author : Ruth Livingstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911079316
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking The English Coast written by Ruth Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide, packed with practical tips and personal anecdotes, will give you the confidence to have a go at your own walking challenge, big or small.

Author : John Stuart Colquhoun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A compendious grammar and philological hand-book of the English language written by John Stuart Colquhoun and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mathilde Edith Holtz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructive English Grammar written by Mathilde Edith Holtz and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachmat Reza
Publisher : My Fatherless Story
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walk with Jesus: My Father(less) Story Continues English edition written by Rachmat Reza and published by My Fatherless Story. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in the My Father(less) Story series. Learn on how the author navigates his own fatherless life. What happened during his childhood, teens, adolescence, and as a married man. How did he cope with his fatherlessness. Find it all in this new book.

Author : Anne D. Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking, Literature, and English Culture written by Anne D. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture. Re-reading Wordsworth in the context of contemporary changes in transportation, agriculture, and aesthetics, Anne Wallace articulates a previously unrecognized literary mode--peripatetic. Her discussions of eighteenth-century approaches to peripatetic and of John Clare's representations of walking as pastoral trace an itinerary through its varied uses in Victorian literature, notably in the work of Barrett Browning, Dickens, and Hardy. Increasingly frequent disappointment of peripatetic expectations reflects growing doubt about the writer's and the reader's ability to counter the disconnective tendencies of technology. The book represents a major contribution to the ongoing debates regarding rural English literature in which the author demonstrates how a proper understanding of peripatetic significantly enriches our assessment of a text's standpoint on key issues, including industrialization, class, and mobility.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Pronouncing Dictionary, and General Expositor of the English Language written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Emma Lockwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton written by Laura Emma Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederic Baraga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English written by Frederic Baraga and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: