Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Book Review – Coulmas, F. Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers’ choices. Cambridge: USA, 2005

This book was written essentially to handle the concept of ‘choice’ and its effect on speakers’ linguistic determination. It elaborates upon the perception that language adoption is related to human society and its members and is influenced by space, time variation, age, gender and culture. The author has exhibited the interconnection of the choice of language with how, what, and when people would speak. In addition, it aims to shed light on how, within the environments and communities in which people are living, ‘societal factors’ integrate unconsciously, sometimes compulsorily, with their original language, as they are living in a single unified circle and each factor can affect the other.

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Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Conference: '7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference', Valencia (Spain), March, 4-6, 2013

The 7th annual edition of INTED2013 (7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) that will be held in Valencia (Spain) on the 4th, 5th and 6th of March, 2013.

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Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Symposium: 'Literary London: The Ages of Dickens and Victoria', Oxford and Cambridge Club, London, December 15–17

The symposium will entertain papers written on subjects of literature, culture, arts, religion, capitalism, public education and of the Dickensian era through the Victoria Age. The Age of Dickens and the Age of Victoria, were, combined possibly the most dymanmic century ever to exist in the English speaking world.

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