Do’s and Taboos of Using English Around the World is primarily written with the international business traveler in mind, but it is also useful for teachers and students of English as a foreign language. Indeed, the book iswritten in such a simple and entertaining style as to make it appealing tojust about anyone remotely interested [...]
I found this a decent, though not outstanding, survey of linguistics.I’d hand it to a monolinguistic English speaker who was curious about linguistics.I wouldn’t hand it to a multilingual or to someone whoalready knows something about the subject.In fact, I’m far more satisfiedwith David Crystal’s Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language as a survey bothfor browsing and [...]
I have used previous editions of this book in my college freshmancomposition courses.It does what very few composition texts or readershave ever done: the editors recognize that writing (and reading, of course)does not occur in isolation, but within the context of our own and ourstudents’ lives.Particularly, it aids students to think about their ownwriting in [...]
Este é, sem dúvida, um dos melhores livros que eu já li, sendo ao mesmo tempo leve e profundo, sério e divertido, popular e acadêmico. Recomendo para todos aqueles que gostem de ler um bom livro, daqueles que não conseguimos largar até chegar a última página. Indispensável a qualque biblioteca.
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Noam Chomsky insists that the mind-body problem can’t be solved or formulated and that theories of meaning remain unsuccessful. Apparently he still perpetuates the extraordinary ignorance of Aristotilian/Thomistic philosophy that he has previously been so accused along with the rest of modern philosophy. For example, in Mortimer Adler’s 1967 work of genius, “The Difference of [...]
