Now's the time to go back to the very beginning and re-read HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE with the aid of this funny, insightful guide to the book by Potter expert Dr. Graeme Davis. Includes reviews of each and every chapter with star ratings from one to seven -- find out which ones the author gives sevens and which ones he gives ones! (There are a couple.) See whether you agree with him about the best "Rowling Moments" in each other chapter and who should be classified "Hero" or "Fool." Terrific fun for any Potter fan and an ideal companion when you are in the mood to re-read the...

Now's the time to re-read HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS with the aid of this funny, insightful guide to the book by Potter expert Dr. Graeme Davis. Includes reviews of each and every chapter with star ratings from one to seven -- find out which ones the author gives sevens and which ones he gives ones! (There are a couple.) See whether you agree with him about the best "Rowling Moments" in each other chapter and who should be classified "Hero" or "Fool." Terrific fun for any Potter fan and an ideal companion when you are in the mood to re-read the series.

Insightful, provocative analysis of J.K. Rowling's BEEDLE THE BARD by Potter expert Graeme Davis, author of THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY POTTER QUIZ BOOK. Davis evaluates each tale from moral, easthetic, and fan perspectives. A must companion for anyone who buys BEEDLE THE BARD and enjoys Potter discussions.

This book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis, the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the learners, and describes how their competence developed over a ten-week period.
The book outlines some points of cultural divergence which may have...

Le langage prefabrique suscite l interet aussi bien de la linguistique generale que de la linguistique acquisitionnelle. La recurrence, la repetition et la non-application de regles grammaticales et lexicales concernent par consequent ces deux branches de recherche, meme si les methodes d identification et les definitions utilisees sont parfois distinctes.
Dans le but de comprendre le phenomene vaste des sequences prefabriquees (SP), leur acquisition aux differents niveaux de competence linguistique ainsi que les usages qu en font les locuteurs natifs, l auteur combine les approches de la...