Learn more than 3,000 English expressions and speak and understand the language easily
As a new speaker of English, you may hear some expressions in your daily conversations that you do not understand--yet. "McGraw-Hill's Conversational American English" will help you learn these expressions, so not only do you know what a person is saying to you, but that you can use the expression yourself More than 3,000 expressions are organized by theme, so you can find what you are looking for quickly. And each topic is illustrated to further help you understand context.
The book features: Common expressions are batched into 350 themes, ranging from general greetings and asking how someone is, to the more specific needs, like showing disbelief, asking someone's intentions, and expressions for a forgotten word or name A comprehensive thematic glossary provides an additional means for the learner to locate expressions by key words and concepts
Topics include: Basic Social Encounters, Greetings, Small Talk, Introductions, Ending a Conversation, Good-Byes, Agreeing, Disagreeing Conversational Encounters, Focusing Attention, Launching the Conversation, Making Friends, Complex Matters, Disputes, Discussion and Resolution, Polite Encounters, Prefaces, Communication Barriers
Описание: Containing more than 7,000 phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.
Автор: Spears Richard A Название: American Slang Dictionary ISBN: 0071461086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071461085 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 2721 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Helps to learn the lingo of American English. This dictionary offers you the definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources, ranging from golden oldie to ping. Each entry is followed by examples illustrating how an expression is used in everyday conversation.
Автор: Spears, Richard A. Название: Mcgraw-hill`s dictionary of american idioms ISBN: 0071478930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071478939 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 2902 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covers more than 14,000 idiomatic forms in American English, exemplified with contextual sentences.
Автор: Poplack S Shana, Rubin A Andrew, Tagliamonte Sali, Название: African American English in the Diaspora ISBN: 0631212663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631212669 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 9620 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of tense and aspect as manifested in recorded conversations with 101 former slaves and their descendants.
Автор: Davies, Mark Gardner, Dee Название: Frequency dictionary of contemporary american english ISBN: 0415490634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415490634 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6714 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a tool for learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.
Автор: Lowe, Elizabeth; Fitz, Earl E. Название: Translation and the rise of inter-American literautre ISBN: 0813034345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813034348 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 6317 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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"Should be required reading for everyone in the field of comparative literature, for it speaks to translation as interpretation and as creative transfer, and to the fact that good translators ought to be recognized for what they are: good writers. . . . Essential."--Choice
"A welcome addition to the Latin Americanist's toolkit."--Adria Frizzi, University of Texas at Austin
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest among U.S. readers for Latin American literature. Yet rarely do they experience such work in the original Spanish or Portuguese. Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz argue that the role of the translator is an essential--and an often ignored--part of the reception process among English-language readers.
Both accomplished translators in their own right, Lowe and Fitz explain how stylistic and linguistic choices made by the translator can have a profound effect on how literary works are perceived by readers unfamiliar with a foreign language.
Touching on issues of language, culture, and national identity, Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature offers a broad comparative perspective rarely found in traditional scholarship.
Описание: Noted scholars of Latin American and Spanish literature here explore the literary history of Latin America through the representation of iconic female characters. Focusing both on canonical novels and on works virtually unknown outside their original countries, the essays discuss the important ways in which these characters represent nature, history, race and sex, the effects of globalization, and the unknowable ""other."" They examine how both male and female writers portray Latin American women, reinterpreting the dynamics between the genders across boundaries and historical periods. Supported by recent theories in literary criticism, gender, and Latin American studies, this compendium provides a deep understanding of the role of women as conduits for the appreciation of their countries and cultures.
Описание: <p>During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural politics played an active role in disseminating their work in the United States. Deborah Cohn documents how U.S. universities, book and journal publishers, philanthropic organisations, cultural centres, and authors co-ordinated their efforts to bring Latin American literature to a U.S. reading public during this period, when interest in the region was heightened by the Cuban Revolution. She also traces the connections between the endeavours of private organisations and official foreign policy goals. </p> <p>The high level of interest in Latin America paradoxically led the U.S. government to restrict these authors' physical presence in the United States through the McCarran-Walter Act's immigration blacklist, even as cultural organisations cultivated the exchange of ideas with writers and sought to market translations of their work for the U.S. market. </p>
Автор: Frick John W Название: Uncle Tom`s Cabin on the American Stage and Screen ISBN: 0230114075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230114074 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8909 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom`s Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe`s classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Автор: Wolfram Walt, Schilling-Estes Natalie, Taylor-Goob Название: American English ISBN: 1405112662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405112666 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4717 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century.
Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship.
Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature.
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