This book is about the ways in which language intersects with the social and political reflexes of power. Over the last forty years, scholars working in Linguistics, English Language and related fields of study have become ever more interest...

This summer though, after we finally realized that we are practically graduated we’d both decided that we would become more socially active. Or in Shelly’s case, Get drunk and for once not care about school or any of the other pressures ...

The mother cat must have had the kittens in the woodpile, she decided. The wood had been left there by the previous owner, who had evidently used the woodstove in the house. Maggie found the woodstove terrifying and had no intention of attem...

I’ve never been very good at getting up early on Saturday mornings. I’m usually wasted after frying my brain all week at school and Dad never stirs unless he’s working, so there’s not much incentive. I used to drag myself up, get a ...

沃尔夫特继续呆在某个角落的房间里。他知道FM认证卫生组织的这么好的盗版行业是对陌生人深深的恐惧。兰姆阿皮耶的王位被推翻后，这个座位上扮演毛焦油夹克的独裁者被允许带领人...

虽然他得到足够的睡眠是好的，但尽管如此，汤米在第二天早上是漫不经心、心不在焉的，他反复思考自己做错了什么，布拉姆赶他出去的原因不可能只是在于他口中的大蒜气味。布拉...

温妮费得继续看自己的书，双胞胎涨红了脸离开了房间。她们静静地关上了身后的门。出去后，她们面面相觑。“如果今年我都不能进城，我不会要清理那些该死的鞋。”汉妮生气地说...

于尔根·韦伯医生和默斯伯克医生是完全相反的。他有着深棕色的头发，打理地很整洁。他穿着一条熨好的灯芯绒裤子和一件一看就价格不菲的带衬里的运动衫。佩妮的爸爸与之相反有...

对于咬指甲的惩罚：难眠的夜晚戴着手套睡觉，牢牢地绑在手腕上，这样你自己再也不能吃了。坏的事情是再也不能吮吸拇指，没有我的拇指我应该怎样入睡呢？有时得在手上抹上芥末...