The Book Is on the Table - Brossura

Jones, Elton

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1909593117 ISBN 13: 9781909593114

Casa editrice: New Generation Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

At the end of the noughties I attended a graduation ceremony in the Great Hall at the University of Leeds. There, I was awarded with a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics and English Language Teaching. Just ten years before I had only basic skills in English and was stuck working in a street stall in South America, earning £60 per month. This narrative tells about the adventurous journey learning English and how English empowered me to escape from a social background of mediocrity. Along this journey I learned about Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, English Learning (as a foreign/ second language), and have discovered some sort of supernatural power that English bestowed upon me. I invite the readers to retrace the steps of such discovery and to observe the intrinsic connection between language and reality. Along the way, the reader will be introduced to a car tradesman from Yorkshire, a promising conservative student, a pious and steadfast mother, a sickening drag queen who impersonates Madonna, the fierce rioters of Stonewall, an industrious and cunning linguistics teacher, a devout Christian who believes that aliens control this world, and a famous American linguist who changed some prejudicial views on Black English vernacular. The readers should feel free to learn a few linguistic technical terms, some car trade jargon, a bunch of dialectical words, and a mouthful of taboo language. And if the reader incidentally learns to conjure some magic spell using English, as a happy by product, well... good for you.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New Generation Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1909593117
• ISBN 13: 9781909593114
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 542
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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