Fry's Planet WordStephen Fry explores linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have developed in a new five-part series for BBC.
In Planet Word, Stephen dissects language in all its guises with his inimitable mixture of learning, love of lexicon and humour. He analyses how we use and abuse language and asks whether we are near to beginning to understand the complexities of its DNA.
From the time when man first mastered speech to the cyber world of modern times with its html codes and texting, Planet Word takes viewers on a journey across the globe to discover just how far humans have come when it comes to the written and spoken word.
The spellbinding debut and international sensation being published in thirty countries featuring Thora Gudmundsdottir, a smart, sexy lawyer and investigator whose hunt for a modern murderer points to a very odd—and evil—chapter in Iceland's past.
This book has been written to help the foreign student of English to attain a good pronunciation in everyday conversation. The course Is based upon the International phonetics system which Is explained In an introduction. Beginning with vowel and consonant drills, provided In both orthographic and phonetic versions, the book includes six dialogues In modern idiomatic English, followed by phonetic transcripts marked for stress, intonation and pause.
Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard Kipling,amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.
