The Legacy of the Wisecrack

Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form

by Eddie Tafoya

Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until ...

The Language System of English

by Vulf Plotkin

A description of the English language as a dynamic system in the evolutionary process of radical typological restructuring, which has deeply affected its constituent subsystems - grammatical, lexical ...

The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre

A Semiotic Study of the Complete Dramatic Works of ...

by Khaled Besbes

Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research and Beckett’s theatre is one which engages a large spectrum of subjects and concerns that touch upon multiple aspects of human experience. The ...

A Tri-Generational Study of Language Choice ...

by Kelechukwu U Ihemere

This book is intended as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in the field of bilingualism and language choice. It reports on a sociolinguistic study of the language choice ...

FACS - Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies

Remaking Reality - Eroding the Palimpsest - Volume 10, ...

by Jill Kriegel and Emmanuel Alvarado, et al.

IN THIS ISSUE:
Foreword
EMMANUEL ALVARADO
Artist’s Commentary
CYNTHIA ZAITZ
Indelible Ink of the Palimpsest: Language, Myth and Narrative in ...

Business English and Conversation for the ...

by Armando M. Aceituno

Learning English can be fun. Learning how to use English correctly can be fun as well. This book has that purpose in mind: to turn the EFL or ESL classroom into a place where learning takes place ...

Webster's English-Pinyin-Chinese Dictionary, ...

Easy-To-Read Edition for Everyday Practical Use

by Charles Tandy

This handy reference lists over 100 items (words, phrases, or sentences) useful in everyday living. What makes this dictionary distinctive is that each item is listed three times, corresponding to ...

The Sound and the Fury in the Garden of Eden

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and the Garden ...

by John P. Anderson

This non-academic author brings the Garden of Eden myth alive as sophisticated poetry and a polemic for women and the consciousness of freedom. The myth is explored line by line using the tools of ...