Anglický jazyk

The Book Is on the Table

Vydavateľstvo: New Generation Publishing
Rok vydania: 2013
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 203 x 127 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781909593114

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22.88 €

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O knihe

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.