Usar expressões em inglês no dia-a-dia de trabalho, no estudo ou em um bate-papo informal entre amigos. Escrever uma mensagem eletrônica utilizando gírias, abreviando palavras e até mesmo alterando as suas grafias. Tudo isso faz parte de uma transformação lingüística à qual todos nós - usuários da língua - estamos submetidos neste início de século XXI. Trata-se de uma verdadeira mudança que afeta a todos e que David Crystal, uma das maiores autoridades mundiais no assunto, aborda em 'A revolução da linguagem'. Segundo Crystal, três importantes tendências alteraram profundamente a ecologia lingüística mundial - a emergência do inglês como primeira língua global de fato; a crise sem precedentes enfrentada por muitas línguas ameaçadas de extinção; e o efeito radical da tecnologia da Internet sobre a linguagem. O livro - cuja edição brasileira conta com uma primorosa apresentação da lingüista Yonne Leite, da UFRJ - aponta as principais questões que devem ser debatidas e os caminhos necessários para que as línguas e as variações lingüísticas sejam cada vez mais valorizadas, protegidas e respeitadas. Ao mostrar a importância da aproximação dos estudos de língua e literatura e do papel da Educação nesse processo, Crystal nos brinda com uma obra indispensável tanto para estudiosos quanto para interessados no assunto, quando, neste século XXI, estamos às portas de uma nova era na evolução da linguagem humana.

"[This book] will become the standard reference on the Latin American vanguard. The time was ripe for an ambitious undertaking like this one, and Unruh does not disappoint."—Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Duke University

Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world, from ancient to modern times. The volume includes sections on: translingual genres - with chapters on memoir, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema ancient, medieval, and modern translingualism global perspectives - chapters overseeing European, African, and Asian languages Combining chapters from lead specialists in the field, this volume will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in investigating the vibrant area of translingual literature. Attracting scholars from a variety of disciplines, this interdisciplinary and pioneering Handbook will advance current scholarship of the permutations of languages among authors throughout time.

The three-volume set CCIS 850, CCIS 851, and CCIS 852 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2018, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 2018. The total of 1171 papers and 160 posters included in the 30 HCII 2018 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 4346 submissions. The 207 papers presented in these three volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: interaction and information; images and visualizations; design, usability and user experience; psychological, cognitive and neurocognitive issues in HCI; social media and analytics. Part II: design for all, assistive and rehabilitation technologies; aging and HCI; virtual and augmented reality; emotions, anxiety, stress and well-being. Part III: learning and interaction; interacting with cultural heritage; HCI in commerce and business; interacting and driving; smart cities and smart environments. The chapter 'Information at Hand – Using Wearable Devices to Display Task Information in the Context of Industry 4.0' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. It tells how a new economic outlook took hold over the course of the twentieth century, a time when the United States became Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens. In a cultural entangling with the United States, Brazilians saw Chevrolets and Fords replace horse-drawn carriages, railroads lose to a mania for cheap automobile roads, and the fabric of everyday existence rewoven as commerce reached into the deepest spheres of family life. The United States loomed large in this economic transformation, but American consumer culture was not merely imposed on Brazilians. By the seventies, many elements once thought of as American had slipped their exotic traces and become Brazilian, and this process illuminates how the culture of consumer capitalism became a more genuinely transnational and globalized phenomenon. This commercial and cultural turn is the great untold story of Brazil's twentieth century, and one key to its twenty-first.