"With its quirky, plainspoken characters and generous spirit, Ogilvie, Georgia, is the 'Lake Wobegone' of the South. This is a hilarious, smart, sexy novel with a heart of gold."
From the author of "Tied to the Tracks" comes a charming new novel set in Lamberts Corner, South Carolina--a beautiful town where no ones secrets remain hidden for very long.
A novel in the form of powerful short stories about three generations in a few closely entwined families living in a small Austrian town in the Alps, between the years 1909 and 1977.
In English with an Accent Rosina Lippi-Green scrutinizes American attitudes towards language. Using examples drawn from a variety of contexts: the classroom, the court, the media and corporate culture, she exposes the way in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. ...
No muy lejos de la esplendorosa Viena de principios del siglo xx, en un pueblecito enclavado en un recondito valle de los Alpes austriacos, cada vida tiene su cauce marcado y cada cambio es como arrojar urea piedra sobre la superficie espejada de un estanque. La armonia es fruto de un pacto de convivencia fraguado durante varias generaciones, y el ...
Covers such topics as: language standardization in ideological context; Nuremberg and its language; the distribution of variable consonant sets; social identity, stylistic factors and orthographic congruity; and statistical models of Nuremberg's consonantal variation.
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