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English complex words: Exercises in construction and translation English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available…
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„The chef and co-founder of The River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, picks the life of the writer and activist James Baldwin. A writer, poet, playwright and activist, Baldwin was known as a trailblazing explorer of race,…
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„British Movietone is arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.“ heißt es im Willkommensvideo auf dem YouTube-Kanal „British Movietone“: Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s…
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„In 1920, a Dutch writer named Gerard Nolst Trenité published a poem in English titled The Chaos, designed to draw attention to English spelling and pronunciation — and all the confusion its absurdities have let…
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Deutschlandfunk Nova „Eine Stunde History“: „Wikinger – Der Überfall auf Lindisfarne 793“ Knapp 160 Jahre blüht das Kloster Lindisfarne friedlich und produktiv vor sich hin. Dann kommen Wikinger zum Plündern auf die Insel – mit…
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New Englishes, New Methods There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in…
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Das frei zugängliche Portal der „Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century“ bietet zahlreiche Recherchemöglichkeiten: https://www.digitens.org/en/about-digitens.html Zu den zusätzlichen Materialien gehört auch eine Reihe von Podcasts. Das DIGIT.EN.S-Team ist unter @digitensp bei…
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Das Buch von Michelle McSweeney wurde am 11.4.2023 im New Books Network Podcast vorgestellt: „OK“ as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or…
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In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Are Books Still ‚Different‘? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age Caroline Koegler & Corinna Norrick-Rühlhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108982450 The famous 1962 precedent at the…
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To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the New York Public Library, a list was published of the ten books that had been checked out the most in the history of the library — and most…