Wolf considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection as we become increasingly dependent upon digital technologies. A decade ago, Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Now that we are completely immersed in the internet and digital devices, our ways of processing language have altered dramatically....

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech — not evolution — is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

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"A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities...

The culture of New Orleans represents the mixing of many rich traditions: French, Spanish, African, Irish, Italian. At the heart of this unique culture lie its speechways, the subject of Yeah you rite!, a close-up video profile of a single language community. New Orleans English has been influenced by the city's rich and varied history, leaving it with dozens of unique words and phrases that all New Orleanians understand but which frequently baffle...

Este cuaderno de trabajo complementa al libro Cómo leer y escribir en la universidad: prácticas letradas exitosas. Esta segunda edición ha sido escrita con el objetivo de dotar a los estudiantes de las herramientas necesarias para la redacción de textos en contextos académicos.

Este libro analiza, desde una perspectiva sociohistórica y dialectal, una variedad del castellano escasamente descrita en la literatura especializada: la de los Andes norperuanos, específicamente Cajamarca, La Libertad y Áncash. ¿Cuáles son los principales rasgos de esta variedad? ¿Son los mismos que distinguen al castellano andino sureño, formado por el contacto con el quechua y el aimara? ¿Cuáles de estas características son resultado...

What is an idiom? It can be an insult - "He has more brawn than brains." - or a compliment - "She's a real trooper." Idioms add life to our language: "I have ants in my pants." Idioms can cast light on a topic, and they have the power to add color to your language and add punch to your vocabulary. Have FUN WITH IDIOMS, and improve your command of English at the same time!

This collection includes a rich variety of approaches to Southerners' complex understandings of change and developments reflected in the literature, history, and culture of this distinctive region. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic address introspective journeys of literary pilgrimage, shed new light on the history of the civil rights movement as well as its reflection in literature, analyse transactions from literature to film, trace religious...

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.

Si un día de invierno, durante el desayuno, se le derramó el café al escuchar que el periodista radial lanzó un gerundio en mal estado. Si, cuando subió al colectivo y leyó el cartel que imponía "indique su destino", sonrió pensando que esa frase, acaso, estuviera yendo más allá de la última parada del recorrido. Si el eslogan que se utilizó para la campaña política "el voto ganado" le pareció equívoco. Si se considera buen detector...