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English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to
contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the
British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous
regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides a
detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation
(RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of
English.
Key features:
- main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in
over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are
available to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes
- recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and
Liverpool English
- contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle,
Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the
Shetlands
- additional exercises with answers online accompany the new
varieties
- clear maps throughout for locating particular accents and
dialects.
This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes
this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a highly useful
resource providing a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of
speech in the UK and Ireland today.
This book provides an accessible guide to concepts in language
testing and the testing of specific skills and systems. It combines
theory and practical recommendations to help teachers understand
the principles of testing and how they can be applied, supporting
them to write better tests. The third edition has been extensively
revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field,
while retaining the straightforward approach that made the earlier
editions essential reading for trainee and experienced teachers
alike. It features new content on technology, including computer
adaptive testing and the use of automated scoring for all skills.
It also includes an extended discussion of language testers'
responsibilities, new chapters on non-testing methods of assessment
and a checklist to help teachers choose tests.
English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary
social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British
Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous
regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides a
detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation
(RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English.
Key features: main regional differences are followed by a survey of
speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of
which are available to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes
recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool
English contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle,
Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the
Shetlands additional exercises with answers online accompany the
new varieties clear maps throughout for locating particular accents
and dialects. This combination of reference manual and practical
guide makes this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a
highly useful resource providing a comprehensive and contemporary
coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle.
This volume represents a selection of some of the best poetry by
Arthur Hugh Clough (1810-61). Detailed annotation provides the
modern reader with the intellectual, cultural and historical
information necessary for a full appreciation of the poet's work.
The poems selected span Clough's entire career, with the main focus
on his two most important poems, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus and
the Spirit. These poems are discussed at length in the critical
introduction and are prefaced by substantial headnotes elucidating
their historical background and literary antecedents. Providing a
wealth of information about the poet and the context of his work,
this volume represents a substantial contribution to the subject in
its own right, as well as being essential reading for all students
of nineteenth-century literature.
This volume represents a selection of some of the best poetry by
Arthur Hugh Clough (1810-61). Detailed annotation provides the
modern reader with the intellectual, cultural and historical
information necessary for a full appreciation of the poet's work.
The poems selected span Clough's entire career, with the main focus
on his two most important poems, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus and
the Spirit. These poems are discussed at length in the critical
introduction and are prefaced by substantial headnotes elucidating
their historical background and literary antecedents. Providing a
wealth of information about the poet and the context of his work,
this volume represents a substantial contribution to the subject in
its own right, as well as being essential reading for all students
of nineteenth-century literature.
Amours de Voyage (1849) is a novel in verse and is arranged in five
cantos, or chapters, as a sequence of letters. It is about a group
of English travellers in Italy: Claude, and the Trevellyn family,
are caught up in the 1849 political turmoil. The poem mixes the
political ('Sweet it may be, and decorous, perhaps, for the country
to die; but,/On the whole, we conclude the Romans won't do it, and
I sha'n't') and the personal ('After all, do I know that I really
cared so about her?/Do whatever I will, I cannot call up her
image'). The political is important - hence the Persephone edition
reproduces nine London Illustrated News drawings of the battlefront
- but the personal dilemmas are the crucial ones. Claude, about to
declare himself, retreats, then regrets his failure to speak. It is
this retreat, his scruples and fastidiousness, that, like a
conventional novel, is the core of Amours de Voyage. The poem thus
contributed something important to the modern sensibility; it is a
portrait of an anti-hero; it is about love and marriage (the
difficulties of); and it is about Italy. Clough wrote to his
mother: 'St Peter's disappoints me: the stone of which it is made
is a poor plastery material; and indeed, Rome in general might be
called a rubbishy place - The weather has not been very brilliant.'
As Julian Barnes points out in his new Persephone Preface: 'If you
want a one-word introduction to the tone, sensibility and modernity
of Arthur Hugh Clough, you have it in that single, italicised (by
him, not me) word: rubbishy.' Clough was unimpressed by Rome and so
is his hero, Claude, 'a very unGrand Tourist'. 'What his friend
Arnold perceived to be the weaknesses of Clough's poetry,'
continues Julian Barnes, 'are precisely what over time have come to
seem its strengths - a prosey colloquiality which at times verges
on awkwardness, a preference for honesty and sarcasm over suavity
and tact, a direct criticism of modern life, a naming of things as
themselves. It is absolutely contemporary...It is also a highly
contemplative and argumentative poem, about history, civilisation
and the individual's duty to act. And it is, as the title tells us,
a love story - or, this being Clough, a sort of modern, near-miss,
almost-but-not-quite love story ( I am in love you say; I do not
think so, exactlyA") with mismatching, misunderstanding, tortuous
self- searching, and a mad, hopeful, hopeless pursuit leading us to
a kind of ending.'
Asked what problems most perplexed "young men at present" Arthur
Hugh Clough (1819-1861) replied "a growing sense of discrepancy".
His wry and wise poetry explores the tensions of a time of radical
changes in the religious, political and literary landscape. He had
a sharp eye for absurdity. Clough was a writer of wide interests
and liberal sympathies, vividly idiomatic and sensuous, delighting
in the detail and variety of everyday life. His technical dexterity
is a delight: the poems encompass satire and lyric, dialogue, plot
and contemporary reference. His narrative poem "The Bothie of
Tober-Na-Vuolich" and the epistolary "Amours de Voyage" have the
momentum and social precision of novels, capturing a precise image
of the Victorian world of the 1840s. This volume includes a
selection of the full range of Clough's poetry, with a detailed
introduction and annotations by Shirley Chew.
Princess Irene lives in a castle in a wild and lonely mountainous
region. One day she discovers a steep and winding stairway leading
to a bewildering labyrinth of unused passages with closed doors -
and a further stairway. What lies at the top? Can the ring the
princess is given protect her against the lurking menace of the
goblins from under the mountain?
The complete text of Clough's edition of Plutarch's Lives;
containing fifty lives and eighteen comparisons.
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