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Hansebooks Handbuch der Zendsprache: altbactrisches
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Hansebooks Goethes Tagebücher: Die Jahre 1825 und 1826
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Hansebooks Friedrich Bodenstedts Gesammelte Schriften:
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Hansebooks Codrus: Ein Trauerspiel in fuenf Aufzuegen
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Hansebooks Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung: Zweiter
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Hansebooks Die Heirat im Omnibus: Erster Band
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Hansebooks Die Sprache der Ixil-Indianer: Ein Beitrag zur
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Hansebooks Die Bücherliebhaberei in ihrer Entwickelung bis
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Hansebooks Griechische Grammatik
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Books on Demand Wörterbuch Deutsch - Bosnisch - Englisch Niveau
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Universitatsverlag Winter Caesar - Magna Itinera: Intensivkurs Fur
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Outlook Verlag Über Poesie und Poetik der Araber
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Studylab Dämonische Verführer in der Literatur: Die
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs
Book SynopsisThis book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on proverbs from dozens of languages, there is an effort to map proverbs within a language in a systematic and reliable way. The book will prove useful to paremiologists, lexicographers, and comparative linguists.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Linguistic Aspects of Proverbs in System and Text –––– 7 A. Aspects of Proverbs: Lexical, Semantic and Pragmatic –––– 9 1. Lexical Foundations of Proverbs: Based on Data from English, German, French and Czech –––– 11 2. Lexicon and Proverbs: Basics and Foundations (Lexical Origins of Proverbs) –––– 25 3. Frequent Proverbs and Their Meaning: A Proposal of a Linguistic Description (The Core and Paremiological Minima Described) –––– 35 4. Proverbs: Linguistic and Lexicographic Approaches versus Ethnographic, Logical, Onomasiological and Other –––– 66 B. Proverb Use and Pragmatics –––– 77 5. What One Can Do with Proverbs in Text –––– 79 6. Text Introducers of Proverbs and Other Idioms –––– 94 7. Usage of Proverbs in Today’s Czech language: What Czech National Corpus Seems to Suggest –––– 111 8. Pragmatics of Proverbs: Basic Types of Evaluation –––– 127 C. Lexical and Proverb Classes in Lexicon –––– 135 9. Propositional Idioms –––– 137 10. Basic English Proverbs: Their Variability and Corpus-Based-Aspects –––– 146 11. Paremiological Minimum of English –––– 162 12. Paremiological Minimum of Czech: The Corpus Evidence –––– 170 D. Semantic and Functional Types and Classes of Proverbs –––– 185 13. Wisdom in Proverbs? (Do Proverbs Suggest Wisdom?) –––– 187 14. Proverbs on Friends and Friendship –––– 192 15. Reason and Thought: Pillars of Intelligent Behaviour Found in Proverbs –––– 205 16. Laugh Proverbs: Do These Really Capture Laughing? –––– 217 17. Numbers in Proverbs –––– 225 18. Dog and Cat Proverbs: Comparison of English, Czech, Finnish and Other Languages –––– 233 Ten Commandments for Paremiologist or A Paremiological Decalogue –––– 242
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Tulika Books Telling the Truth, Taking Sides – Essays for N.
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Skira Scripts and Calligraphy: Path to the Soul
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Springer Der Mensch und Sein Werk 1.Band Jehuda Halevi
Book SynopsisIn einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Ubersetzen abgespielt habe. Wie jede Selbstcharakteristik stimmt diese Feststellung sicher nur zum Teil. Wesentlich jedoch ist die daB es sich bei FRs Ubersetzungen urn eine literarische Tatsache, Entwicklung mit unterscheidbaren Stilperioden handelt. Am Anfang dieser Entwicklung stehen die Ubersetzungen einiger Gebetszyklen, die zunachst im grade gegriindeten eigenen Hausstand gebraucht wurden. Zur zweiten Phase geh6ren die Ubertragungen von Hymnen mittelalteriicher Dichter die, gewissermassen als Sekun- dariiteratur, in die jiidische Liturgie aufgenommen wurden. Der Weg fiihrte weiter zu der Auswahl der Gedichte Jehuda Halevis und dann zur Verdeutschung der Schrift. Schon in der liturgischen Phase machte FR es sich nicht leicht. Die Ubersetzungen muBten nicht nur dem hebraischen oder dem aramai- schen Wortsinn entsprechen - sie muBten auch mit den dem deutschen Judentum vertrauten Melodien zu singen sein. Eine wissenschaftlich genaue oder "w6rtliche" Ubersetzung konnte so nicht entstehen. Die drei Worte, mit denen die meisten Segensspriiche der hebraischen Liturgie beginnen, zum Beispie- baruch ata adonai - waren w6rtlich etwa mit "Gelobt Du me in Herr" zu iibersetzen. Da standen aber den sieben hebraischen Silben nur fiinf deutsche gegeniiber, was diese unsingbar gemacht hatte. FRs Formulierung - Lob nun ja Lob dir 0 Gott - mag als bezeichnend fiir die Anfange seiner Ubersetzungen genommen werden.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Vorwort.- Die 95 Hymnen und Gedichte.- Gott.- Gelobt!.- Gewaltiger.- Sehnsucht.- Nachts.- Ereignis.- Offenbarungstag.- All meine Glieder.- Der Unvergleichliche.- Keiner sonst!.- Die Liebenden.- Gerichtstag.- Heimkehr.- Hör.- Der Wahre.- Dein Gott.- Sein Friede.- Das All.- Der Fern-und-Nahe.- Der Name.- Geweiht.- Deine Wohnungen.- Der Gott der Geister.- Heilig.- Der Helfer.- Seele.- Hier bin ich.- Seele.- Seele im Exil.- Bei dir.- Gebet.- Menschenschwäche.- Umkehr.- Der Lohn.- Diese Seele hier.- Wahn und Wahrheit.- Frau Welt.- Weise Lehren.- Knechte.- Welt.- Der kranke Arzt.- An den Sabbat.- Frei.- Sabbatmorgen.- Leben.- Der Tag.- Kehr um, kehr um!.- Der Aufstieg.- Hauch allen Lebens.- Volk.- In Ewigkeit.- Gott spricht.- Lichterfest.- Morgendlicher Dienst.- Licht.- Besiegte Finsternis.- Am Schilfmeertag.- Mein König.- Aus dem Elend.- An den Löser.- Ein Sprachkunststück.- Aufblick.- Jungfrau Israels Sabbat.- Heim.- Die Eliawunder.- Der Jude.- Die Verheißung.- Feindesliebe.- Liebeswunder.- Zürnende Liebe.- Traumgesicht.- Treue.- Liebestrost.- Wiederfinden.- Zion.- Auf.- Die frohe Botschaft.- Heilsrechnung.- Im Heiligtum.- Teppiche Salomos.- Nächtliche Träne.- Die hohe Stadt.- Zwischen Ost und West.- Antwort.- Der Pilger.- Leicht wiegt das Alles.- Der Zwang.- Bitten.- Die Flut.- Sturm.- Zum Herzen gesagt.- Stille nach dem Sturm (Bruchstück).- An den West.- Im Hafen.- Ägyptischer Boden.- Der Strom.- Hin….- Vorgefühl.- An Zion.- Verzeichnis der in den Anmerkungen angeführten Bibelstellen.- Namensverzeichnis.
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Words Matter Communications Limited Diversity Equity Inclusion for Organizations
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Independently Published Hebrew Words in the Book of Proverbs Part 3
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Independently Published My Word Book
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Audio CD Program part 2 for SOL Y VIIENTO
Book SynopsisSol y viento integrates the latest in second language acquisition research with the highest quality, Hollywood caliber feature film available for the Introductory Spanish classroom. The Sol y viento program creates a distinct and captivating cultural experience that motivates students to develop their communication skills. Created specifically for beginning language learners, Sol y viento tells the story of a Chilean family and their winery, and of a young U.S. Latino businessman who finds himself intricately involved with the family as his company tries to buy their land. Mystery, romance, and the unexplainable forces of nature all play a part in this spellbinding story, drawing students in and compelling them to want to communicate about the film and its themes. Sol y viento 3/e is available with CENTRO, a portal learning management system, which offers a diagnostic tool that provides students with tailored learning plans to address their spTable of ContentsNotes:The numbering system of lessons includes A and B lessons, each of which correspond to an episode of the film. For example, Lecciones 1A and 1B correspond to Episodio 1. The Lección final corresponds to Episodio 9. The Lección preliminar and Lección 1A provide a comprehensive listing of contents for those lessons, as representative of the other lessons. Leccion 1B - Lección final provide only the vocabulary topics and grammatical structures.Lección preliminar: ¡Aquí estamos!Primera parteVocabulario: Me llamo…(Meeting and Greeting People: Introductions)Vistazo cultural: Los saludosGramática: Soy de México. (Expressing Origin: Introduction to ser)Segunda parteVocabulario: Las materias(Talking About Majors and Classes: School Subjects) Gramática: El cálculo y las matemáticas(Naming Things: Articles, Gender, and Number)Tercera parteVocabulario: En la sala de clase(Talking About People and Things in the Classroom and on Campus: Classroom Objects) Gramática: Están aquí. (Expressing Location: Introduction to estar)Sol y viento Prólogo: Los espíritusVocabularioEpisodio 1: La llegadaLección 1A: Sobre los horariosPrimera parteVocabulario: Llevo quince créditosTalking About Your Course Load: Numbers 0-30Sol y viento: Enfoque culturalVistazo cultural: Los cursos y los créditosGramática: ¿Estudio y trabajo? Talking About Activities: Regular –ar VerbsSegunda parteVocabulario: Los días de la semanaMore About Schedules: Days of the WeekVistazo cultural: Los calendariosGramática: Necesito estudiar. Talking about Needing or Wanting to Do Something: Verb + infinitiveTercera parteVocabulario: ¿A qué hora? Talking About When You Do Things: Telling TimeVistazo cultural: De 0:00 a 24:00Gramática: Es mi libro. Talking About Ownership: Unstressed Possessive AdjectivesResumen de gramática Panorama cultural: El mundo hispano VocabularioLección 1B: Más sobre las actividadesPrimera parteVocabulario: ¿Cuándo?Asking Questions: Summary of Interrogative WordsGramática: ¿Dónde vives?More on Activities and Schedules: Present Tense of Regular –er and –ir VerbsSegunda parteVocabulario: ¡Hace calor en junio!Talking About Times of the Year: Months, Weather, SeasonsGramática: ¿Vas a estudiar esta noche?Expressing Future Events: ir + a + infinitiveTercera parteVocabulario: Es un hombre serio.Describing Personalities: AdjectivesGramática: Es una mujer seria.More on Describing People: Adjective Placement and AgreementEpisodio 2: El encuentroLección 2A: En la universidad y la ciudadPrimera parteVocabulario: ¿Cuántos años tiene?Expressing Age: Numbers 31-100Gramática: Vengo de los Estados Unidos.More on Talking About Activities: Verbs that End in –goSegunda parteVocabulario: ¿Está lejos o cerca?Expressing Where Things and Places Are Located: Prepositions of LocationGramática: ¿Dónde estás y qué estás haciendo?Talking About Location and What People Are Doing: Two Uses of estarTercera parteVocabulario: Tengo que ir al banco.Talking About Where you Do Things: Places in the CityGramática: Puedo caminar.More on Talking About Activities: o -->ue, e --> ie Stem-Changing VerbsLección 2B: ¡Vamos de compras!Primera parteVocabulario: La ropaTalking About What People Wear: ClothingGramática: ¿Qué dices?More on Talking About People’s Activities: e -->i Stem-Changing VerbsSegunda parteVocabulario: Hay doscientas blusas rojas.More on Describing: Colors; Numbers 100-1,000Gramática: ¿Qué es esto?Pointing Things Out: Demosntrative Adjectives and PronounsTercera parteVocabulario: De comprasTalking About Buying Things: ShoppingGramática: Está bien.Talking About Expected and Unexpected Qualities: More on ser and estarEpisodio 3: A la viñaLección 3A: La familiaPrimera parteVocabulario: Mi familiaDescribing Families: Members of the Immediate Family; PetsGramática: Sí, conozco a la familia. ¿Sabes dónde están?Expressing Knowledge or Familiarity: Saber and conocer; Verbs that End in -zcoSegunda parteVocabulario: Los otros parientesMore on Describing Families: Extended Family MembersGramática: ¿La conoce?Eliminating Redundancy: Direct Object PronounsTercera parteVocabulario: No es muy alto.Describing How People Look: Physical TraitsGramática: Es más alto que yo.More on Describing People and Things: Comparisons of Equality and InequalityLección 3B: ¡A comer!Primera parteVocabulario: El desayunoTalking About What You Eat in the Morning: BreakfastGramática: No lo sé tampoco.Expressing Negation: Indefinite and Negative WordsSegunda parteVocabulario: El almuerzo y la meriendaTalking About What You Eat During the Day: Lunch and SnackingGramática: Está muy serio.Talking About Conditions and Traits: Ser Versus estar with AdjectivesTercera parteVocabulario: La cenaTalking About What You Eat at Night: DinnerGramática: ¿Le gusta el vino?Talking About To Whom and For Whom: Indirect Object Pronouns and gustarEpisodio 4: Otro encuentroLección 4A: Cuando no trabajo…Primera parteVocabulario: El tiempo libreTalking About What You Do When You Don’t Study or Work: Leisure ActivitiesGramática: Lo pasé muy bien.Introduction to Talking About the Past: Preterite Tense of Regular –ar VerbsSegunda parteVocabulario: El ejercicio y el gimnasioTalking More About Leisure Time Activities: Sports and FitnessGramática: Volví tarde.More on Talking About the Past: Preterite of Regular –er and –ir VerbsTercera parteVocabulario: ¿Cuándo celebras tu cumpleaños?Talking About Special Events: Special Occasions and HolidaysGramática: ¿Qué hiciste?More on Talking About the Past: Irregular Preterite FormsLección 4B: En casaPrimera parteVocabulario: ¿Dónde vives?Talking About Buildings and Where People Live:Vocabulary Related to Dwellings and BuildingsGramática: No durmió bien.More on Talking About the Past: e--> i, o --> u Preterite Stem ChangesSegunda parteVocabulario: Es mi sillón favorito.Talking About Things in the House: Furniture and RoomsGramática: Me conozco bien.h5>Talking About What People Do to and for Themselves: True Reflexive ConstructionsTercera parteVocabulario: ¿Te gusta lavar la ropa?Talking About Domestic Tasks: Domestic Chores and RoutinesGramática: ¿Para mí?Talking About What Something Is For: Introduction to por Versus paraEpisodio 5: Un día perfectoLección 5A: La tecnología y yoPrimera parteVocabulario: Mi computadoraTalking About Everyday Technology: Computers and Computer UseGramática: ¡Me fascina!More on Talking About Likes and Dislikes: Verbs Like gustarSegunda parteVocabulario: Mi celularTalking About Reliance on Technology: Vocabulary Related to Electronic DevicesGramática: Ya te lo dije.More on Avoiding Redundancy: Double-Object PronounsTercera parteVocabulario: Mi niñez y juventudTalking About When You Were Younger: Typical Childhood and Adolescent ActivitiesGramática: ¿En qué trabajabas?Talking About What You Used to Do: Introduction to the Imperfect TenseLección 5B: Érase una vez…Primera parteVocabulario: En 1972…Expressing Years: Numbers 1,000 and HigherGramática: ¿Qué hacías cuando te llamé?More on Talking About the Past: Contrasting the Preterite and ImperfectSegunda parteVocabulario: Durante la gerra…Talking About Historical Events: Important Events and OccurrencesGramática: ¡No lo sabía!More on Talking About the Past: More on Using the Preterite and Imperfect TogetherTercera parteVocabulario: Me gradué en 2010.Talking About Special Events: Personal Events, Triumphs, and FailuresGramática: Tenía 30 años cuando nació mi primer hijo.More on Talking About the Past: Summary of the Preterite and ImperfectEpisodio 6: ConfrontaciónLección 6A: Vamos al extranjeroPrimera parteVocabulario: Para hacer viajesTalking About Taking Trips and Traveling: Travel VocabularyGramática: Vuelva Ud. mañana.Giving Instructions: Affirmative Formal CommandsSegunda parteVocabulario: ¿Cómo llego?Getting Around Town: Giving and Receiving DirectionsGramática: ¡No vuelvan tarde!More on Giving Instructions: Negative Formal CommandsTercera parteVocabulario: En el restauranteOrdering Meals in a Restaurant: Dining OutGramática: ¡Lo he pasado muy bien!Taking About What Has Happened: Introduction to the Present PerfectLección 6B: La naturaleza y el medio ambientePrimera parteVocabulario: ¿Cómo es el paisaje?Talking About the Natural World: Geography and Geographical FeaturesGramática: ¡Ten paciencia!More on Giving Instructions: Affirmative Informal CommandsSegunda parteVocabulario: El medio ambienteTalking About the Environment: Environmental and Ecological MattersGramática: ¡No me hables! Telling Someone What Not to Do: Negative Informal CommandsTercera parteVocabulario: De vacacionesMore on Talking About Trips: Activities to Do While on VacationGramática: Es el más guapo de todos.Expressing The Most and The Least: SuperlativesEpisodio 7: Bajo el solLección 7A: ¿Cómo te sientes?Primera parteVocabulario: Estoy tenso.Talking About Feelings and Mental Conditions: Describing EmotionsGramática: ¿Cómo se siente?Talking About Reactions and Changes of Emotion: Pseudo-Reflexive VerbsSegunda parteVocabulario: Algunas partes del cuerpo.Talking about Health: Parts of the Body and Physical HealthGramática: Estaban contentos, ¿no?More on Talking About States of Being in the Past: Review of the ImperfectTercera parteVocabulario: Me duele la garganta.Telling the Doctor How You Feel: In the Doctor’s OfficeGramática: Hace dos años que se me rompió el brazo.Talking About When Something Happened: Hacer in Expressions of TimeLección 7B: Los demás y yoPrimera parteVocabulario: Te tengo mucho cariño.Talking About How You Feel About Someone: FeelingsGramática: Se conocen bien.Talking About What People Do to and for Each Other: Reciprocal ReflexivesSegunda parteVocabulario: Eres muy romántico.More on Describing People’s Traits: Describing PeopleGramática: Espero que sea divertido.Talking About Your Wishes and Desires: Introduction to the SubjunctiveTercera parteVocabulario: ¡Me engañó!Talking About Good and Bad Relationships: More on RelationshipsGramática: A menos que no quieras…Talking About Contingencies and Conditions: Obligatory SubjunctiveEpisodio 8: Sin alternativaLección 8A: El dinero y las finanzasPrimera parteVocabulario: ¿Cómo manejas el dinero?Talking About Money: Your Personal FinancesGramática: Ver es creer.Using Verbs As Nouns: Progressive Versus InfinitivesSegunda parteVocabulario: Las deudasTalking About Payments, Loans, and Debts: More on Personal FinancesGramática: ¿Qué harías?Talking About What You Would Do: Introduction to the ConditionalTercera parteVocabulario: La economíaTalking About the Economy: Local and World MarketsGramática: Si tuviera más dinero…Expressing Hypothetical Events: Hypothetical Statements; Introduction to the Imperfect SubjunctiveLección 8B: Los medios de comunicaciónPrimera parteVocabulario: ¿Cómo te informas? Talking About Current Events: Getting InformationGramática: Te llamó por teléfono.Talking About How You Do Something: Por and para: A SummarySegunda parteVocabulario: ¿Qué hay en la televisión?Talking About What’s on TV: Types of ProgrammingGramática: Dudo que lo sepa.Expressing Disbelief: Subjunctive of Doubt, Denial, and UncertaintyTercera parteVocabulario: La responsabilidad cívicaTalking About Being a Valuable Member of Society: Civic Duty and CitizenshipGramática: ¿Qué quieres que haga?Talking About What You Want to Happen: Subjunctive of Volition and DesireEpisodio 9: Un brindis por el futuroLección final: Lo que nos esperaPrimera parteVocabulario: Las profesionesTalking About Jobs and Professions: Vocabulary Related to ProfessionsGramática: ¿Qué pasará?Talking About the Future: Introduction to the Future TenseSegunda parteVocabulario: Características necesarias y preferidas en el mundo laboralTalking About Traits Needed for Professions: Required and Preferred Characteristics in the WorkplaceGramática: Buscamos alguien que sea empresario…Tercera parteVocabulario: Mis metas personalesTalking About Goals and Aspirations: Future Aspirations Gramática: No estaré contento hasta que…More on Talking About the Future: Subjunctive with Future Time Events
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Pearson Education (US) New Password 3 A Reading and Vocabulary Text with
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Scope and Sequence Unit 1: Let’s Eat! Chapter 1: Crazy about Chocolate Chapter 2: Comfort Food Chapter 3: The Love Apple Chapter 4: Slow Food Unit 1 Wrap-up Unit 2: Changes Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning Chapter 6: “It Was Love, So Strong and Beautiful” Chapter 7: To Live as an Artist Chapter 8: Amazing Woman Unit 2 Wrap-up Units 1-2 Vocabulary Self-Test 1 Unit 3: Starting Out in a Career Chapter 9: A Dentist? Oh, No! Chapter 10: A Cool Job Chapter 11: Ready for Action Chapter 12: Life Is full of Surprises Unit 3 Wrap-up Unit 4: It’s All in your Head Chapter 13: Food for Thought Chapter 14: Your Memory at Work Chapter 15: Sleep and the Brain Chapter 16: In your Dreams Unit 4 Wrap-up Units 3-4 Vocabulary Self-Test 2 Unit 5: Communication Chapter 17: Who Does It Better? Chapter 18: When and why We Laugh Chapter 19: The Inventor of the Telephone Chapter 20: Speaking with Your Eyes Unit 5 Wrap-up Unit 1-5 Vocabulary Self-Test 3 Vocabulary Self-Test Answer Key Index to Target Vocabulary
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Savvas Learning Co Realidades Communication Workbook with Test
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Pearson 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English
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Penguin Putnam Inc Why Read MobyDick
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Prodigal Tongue The LoveHate Relationship
Book SynopsisCHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and Briti
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Columbia University Press Beyond Pure Reason
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBoris Gasparov brings great clarity to and elaborates on the rather freely used terminology associated with Ferdinand de Saussure, such as the notion of the arbitrariness of language and the 'binaries' of synchronic and diachronic aspects of language and of the signifier and the signified. Furthermore, Gasparov negotiates the uncompleted claims and unresolved contradictions of Saussure's work by invoking the early German Romantic discourse on language. His comparative reading offers a reciprocal illumination of the respective critical legacies of early German (Jena) Romanticism and Saussure's oeuvre. This volume should be of great interest to scholars of literary criticism and history, Romantic literary theory and literary modernity, and structuralism and poststructuralism, and to 'Saussurians' of all creeds. -- Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, author of Writing Outside the Nation Anyone interested in how modern linguistics and structuralism in general came to be...should read it. Language Hat Rigorous, substantive, and superbly researched... truly an excellent addition, and in some ways a corrective, to Saussurean scholarship... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Saussure, "Saussurism," and "Saussurology" 1. The Person 2. The Writings 3. Antinomies of the Sign 4. Fragmentation and Progressivity: Saussure's Semiotics in the Mirror of Early Romantic Epistemology 5. Diachrony and History 6. The Anagram 7. Linguistics of Speech: An Unrealizable Promise? Conclusion: Freedom and Mystery-the Peripathetic Nature of Language Works Cited Index
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MIT Press Ltd The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management
Book SynopsisA guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data.Doing language science depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics into a more data-driven and reproducible scientific endeavor. It offers both principles and methods, presenting the conceptual foundations of linguistic data management and a series of case studies, each of which demonstrates a concrete application of abstract principles in a current practice. In part 1, contributors bring together knowledge from information science, archiving, and data stewardship relevant to linguistic data management. Topics covered include implementation principles, archiving data, finding and using datasets, and the valuation of time and effort involve
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University of Washington Press Umatilla Dictionary
Book SynopsisDocuments the language of the Umatilla people east of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington.Trade Review"The fruit of decades of collaboration between fluent native speakers and professional scholars, including linguists, anthropologists, and botanists, this monumental work is crucial for transmitting the traditional complexities of Umatilla to younger generations…. This painstaking labor of love exemplifies the very best results achievable through intensive, long-term cooperation among specialists in diverse fields. It will undoubtedly prove of great value to scholars both outside and within Oregon's native communities and to libraries maintaining Native American collections, as it provides the cornerstone to all future efforts to foster the Umatilla language….Essential." * Choice *"[A] very welcome and useful dictionary. . . . [T]his well-produced book…is one that anybody with an interest in Sahaptin or in languages of the Northwest in general will find it profitable to consult." -- Paul D. Kroeber * Anthropological Linguistics *Table of ContentsForeword Čáwna mún náamta Background A Brief Grammar A Note on Nez Perce Grammatical Paradigms Texts Pamáwaniča Tátatma Čná Tiičámpa, ‘The Foods Named Themselves in This Land’ Pápšuyit, ‘The Wedding Trade’ Anwíčt, ‘The Year’ Naamí Snwit, ‘Our Language’ Tas, ‘Dogbane’ K̓st, ‘Cold’ The Dictionary Umatilla–English English–Umatilla Bibliography
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Zondervan Academic Basics of Biblical Greek Video Lectures
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Zondervan Academic Biblical Hebrew Survival Kit 2.0
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Zondervan Greek for the Rest of Us Laminated Sheet
Book SynopsisThe laminated sheet for Greek for the Rest of Us, Third Edition by William Mounce is a critical part of acquainting you with the essentials of the language and deepening your understanding of God’s Word. It serves as a handy, at-a-glance study aid, ideal for last minute review, a quick overview of grammar, or as an aid in Bible study.
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Thomas Nelson Publishers The Majority Text Greek New Testament Interlinear
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Zondervan Basics of Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards Second
Book SynopsisBasics of Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards by William D. Mounce is intended to accompany the Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar, Fourth Edition. The vocabulary cards provide beginning students essential help in vocabulary acquisition of the Greek New Testament. Cards are numbered according to word frequency.
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Little, Brown Spark The Book of Human Emotions
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Heinemann Educational Books Writing with Mentors
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WW Norton & Co Bacchae
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Poochigian’s translation is a triumph—a remarkably lucid and vibrant rendition... The script’s language is precise yet sonorous, expertly constructed in iambic pentameter to both moving and chilling effect. " -- Aram Kouyoumdjian - Asbarez"By far the most theatrically assured rendition of the play I’ve encountered. The fluid translation by Aaron Poochigian is as mercurial as the staging." -- Charles McNulty - The Los Angeles Times
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WW Norton & Co Metamorphoses
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