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Taylor & Francis Philosophy of Language
Book SynopsisThis book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the idea that language is a system that allows us to exchange information with each other, and the second four chapters explore the idea that language is a tool we can use to perform actions, like promising, insulting, and socially positioning ourselves.The first part of the book traces an arc connecting questions like: What is language? Where does meaning come from? How do we use meanings to send messages to each other? The second part of the book takes up questions like: Does pornography silence women? What is offensive about slurs? What do we lose when languages go extinct? With a glossary of key terms, questions for reflection, and suggestions for further reading, Philosophy of Language: The Basics is the place to start for anyone w
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Taylor & Francis Imagining Alternative Worlds
Book SynopsisImagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21stcentury.It does so by examining the far-right''s own cultural commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, illustrating how the alternative worlds' articulated in such cultural products convey its ideology. More specifically, the book identifies and analyses four distinct far-right ''cultural imaginaries'' a primordial', a nostalgic', a promethean' and a nihilist' one that each subtly convey different yet linked ideas about space, time, race',gender and heroic identity. By thereby drawing attention to the cultural heterogeneity' of the contemporary far right, Imagining Alternative Worlds offers key insights into the dreams, identities and norms such actors hope will define our future.The book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, of literary, media and communication studies
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Taylor & Francis Interculturality and the Munchausen Effect
Book SynopsisThis book offers a conceptual intervention for Language and Intercultural Communication studies by advocating for a critical interdiscursive approach to research on interculturality.The volume addresses two interrelated theses in research on interculturality; namely, that the speaking subject in interaction reproduces the egocentrism and phonocentrism of the Munchausen Effect. In considering the first, the book traces the ways in which interculturality research has historically supposed the speaking subject'that is, the research participantas the basis of truth and knowledge, not giving context to the discursive layers or paratexts involved in analyzing the subject's speech. This notion of the speaking subject' being taken at face value prompts Simpson's second interrelated argument on representation and historical conceptualizations of community in interculturality research, whereby, in trying to represent their subjects, researchers often impose a sense of community affilia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought
Book SynopsisThis book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially cTable of ContentsNote on ContributorsIntroductionNishat Zaidi and Dilip MenonSection I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized WaterIsabel Hofmeyr2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South CollaborationElleke Boehmer3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic HistoriesGeeta Patel4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850Rila Mukherjee5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”Kelsey McFaulSection II: Oceanic Narratives6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s PadmabatiSwati Moitra7. Senses Translated: Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit CosmopoleisIhsan Ul IhthisamSection III: Constructing Space8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian OceanNidhi Mahajan9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)Iqtedar Alam10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st centuryChrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod BalakrishnanSection IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in KeralaM.H.Ilias.12. ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval MalabarMohammed Shameem K. K.13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic MobilityMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial IndiaSteven S. George15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and BotswanaKashish DuaIndex
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Taylor & Francis A Grammar of Arabic
Book SynopsisA Grammar of Arabic models a new framework for studying varieties of Arabic comparatively, highlighting the patterns of variation and consistency, and showing how different styles, from primarily spoken and casual to primarily written and formal, are linguistically interrelated.This non-traditional reference grammar is structured around patterns of usage rather than prescriptive rules, aligning function with form and taking advantage of general principles of language. Using data from Classical Arabic, Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and dialects spoken in Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, the Levant, Iraq, and the Arabian Gulf, this grammar examines the actual usage of these language varieties, broadening understanding of Arabic dialects from a linguistics perspective while also giving readers the ability to engage language diversity.Designed for instructors, researchers, and advanced students of Arabic, A Grammar of Arabic explores Arabic from an internally com
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Translation as Social Justice
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the translation policies and practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), engaging in critical questions around the ways in which translation can redress power dynamics between INGOs and the people they work with, and the role of activist researchers in contributing to these debates.The volume examines the duality of translation and interpreting in INGOs, traditionally undervalued and under-resourced while simultaneously acknowledged as a powerful tool in ensuring these organisations work according to their own values of equal access to information, dialogue, and political representation. Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data with a wide variety of INGOs, Tesseur offers unique insights into if and how INGOs plan for translation and interpreting needs while also critically reflecting on her own experience and the ways in which activist researchers like her can ensure social justice efforts are fully reflTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Introduction INGOs, language, and T&I Conceptual framework Engaged research and critical reflexivity A note on international development terminology Underpinning research Structure of the book References Chapter 2: Translation management in INGOs throughout history Introduction Save the Children UK: a history of language silence? Organisational growth and restructuring as an incentive for translation management Translation management choices and challenges: limitations of policies and internal services Translation as a resource, as risk management, or as inclusion? Concluding remarks References Chapter 3: Translating One Global Amnesty: Managing Amnesty’s message and voice in translation Introduction Becoming One Global Amnesty Amnesty press releases Diverging views on the role of translation in a changing Amnesty Discussion and concluding remarks References Chapter 4: Managing volunteer translation: On quality, risk, and ethics in Amnesty’s Urgent Action translations Introduction Amnesty’s global Urgent Action network Managing volunteer translation: Amnesty Flanders (AIVL) network of Urgent Action translators Translation output Volunteer translation, risk, and social justice Improving practice Discussion and concluding remarks References Chapter 5: Language and translation ideologies in international NGOs: Explaining the paradox between English as a lingua franca and social justice values Introduction Language and translation ideology Interview data Narrative 2: Encourage mutual language learning and translation Narrative 1: English as a lingua franca as the best possible solution Concluding remarks References Chapter 6: Informal translation practices as empowerment? Balancing the need for access and dialogue with risk reduction Introduction Case study 1: Multilingual staff as informal translators and interpreters Case study 2: Free machine translation at work: A tool for empowerment or risky business? Case study 3: Translating COVID-19 health information as part of humanitarian crisis response Concluding remarks References Chapter 7: Towards a more comprehensive approach to translating for social justice in international NGOs Introduction Key findings on T&I provision in INGOs in light of social justice values Ideas for a more socially just approach to language and translation in INGOs Key findings and implications for translation research and training Limitations of the research References Chapter 8: Influencing translation policies as an activist researcher: Evaluating research impact and learning from linguistic choices Introduction Evaluating Research Impact Linguistic reflexivity: a critical account of linguistic research choices Concluding remarks
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Taylor & Francis Jin Chinese Grammar II
Book SynopsisThis book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.The Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi is one of the most ancient, complicated, and representative dialects of the Yellow River region and figures prominently in our understanding of the Jin dialect and northern Chinese dialects as a whole. The book looks into the following six aspects of the dialect: subjunctive mood, expressions of complex sentence relationships, embedded sentence patterns, complex interrogative sentences, the formation of imperative modal particle âœzheâ, and the phonetic variation of grammatical constituents. In the final chapter, the author discusses the significance of diachronic comparison as the research method for studying Chinese dialectal grammar.The book will be a useful reference for scholars and students interested in Jin dialects, Chinese di
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Taylor & Francis Jin Chinese Grammar I
Book SynopsisThis book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on the grammatical features of pronouns, aspect and appearance, and the system of tenses. The Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi is one of the most ancient, complicated, and representative dialects of the Yellow River region and figures prominently in our understanding of the Jin dialect and northern Chinese dialects as a whole. This volume first elucidates the semantic and dialectal differences in personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and interrogative pronouns, as well as the special linguistic origins of the pronouns. The following chapter elaborates the different devices to express the status of realizing, accomplishing, lasting, and momentum-reducing as well as differences among similar aspectual markers and dialects. The final chapter examines the tense system, including anterior (past), posterior (future), a
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Taylor & Francis Corpus Linguistics for Oral History
Book SynopsisCorpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives. Bridging the gap between the two areas, this book: Establishes a framework to pursue this type of research and guides the reader through tasks that will ensure practical application Shows how oral narratives can facilitate historical linguistics, including historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics Illustrates how the techniques of corpus linguistics can help social historians to analyse oral narratives in new and fruitful ways Takes readers through each step of the process, from initial close readings of data to constructing a corpus that adheres to parameters of representativeness, through to the application of various CL techniques Includes an appendix of resources and examples of extracts from a global range of historical texts throughout, introducing the reader to
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Taylor & Francis Language and Truth
Book SynopsisThe nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates. The emergence and consequences of fake news and misinformation are at the core of what some call a post-truth world.Divided into two parts, Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. The book illustrates the way in which fake news is adhered to or rejected using case studies taken from political discourse such as the recent use of the wordâs âœgenocideâ and âœdenazificationâ by Vladimir Putin. It explores sources of information such as gossip and the everyday as well as exceptional uses of language such as humour.This is vital reading for scholars, researchers, and students of pragmatics, semantics, philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics, language and communication, and language and politics within linguistics, psychology, and communication studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Victorian Coral Islands of Empire Mission and the
Book SynopsisAttending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British pres
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this Handbook:â brings together a wide range of approaches to learning words to provide clarity on how best vocabulary might be taught and learned;â provides a comprehensive discussion of the key issues and challenges in vocabulary studies, with research taken from the past 40 years;â includes chapters on both formulaic language as well as single-word items;â features original contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research.The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies is an essential text for those interested in teaching, learning, and researcTrade Review"This is an outstanding contribution to the field of second language vocabulary acquisition. It is full of state-of-the-art articles by all the leading researchers and theorists in the field. This book should be recommended reading for researchers, practitioners and administrators interested in understanding how a second language vocabulary is learnt." Rob Waring, Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan"The relatively young field of vocabulary studies has recently developed and widened to such an extent that a volume covering all its subdomains was badly needed. This volume brings us up to date with 35 contributions, written by among the best experts in the world, competently edited by Stuart Webb, one of the most prominent researchers in this field. There is simply no good reason not to consult this volume."Jan Hulstijn, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction Part I UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY 2 The different aspects of vocabulary knowledge 3 Classifying and identifying formulaic language 4 An overview of conceptual models and thories of lexical representation in the mental lexicon 5 The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency 6 Frequency as a guide for vocabulary usefulness: High-, mid- and low-frequency words7 Academic vocabulary 8 Technical vocabulary 9 Factors affecting the learning of single word items 10 Factors affecting the learning of multiword items 11 Learning single words vs. multiword items 12 Processing single- and multi-word items 13 L1 and L2 vocabulary size and growth 14 How does vocabulary fit into theories of second language learning? Part ¿ APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY 15 Incidental vocabulary learning 16 Intentional L2 vocabulary learning 17 Approaches to learning vocabulary inside the classroom 18 Strategies for learning vocabulary 19 Corpus-based wordlists in second language vocabulary research, learning, and teaching 20 Learning words with flashcards and wordcards 21 Resources for learning single-word items 22 Resources for learning multi-word items 23 Evaluating exercises for learning vocabulary Part III MEASURING KNOWLEDGE OF VOCABULARY 24 Measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge 25 Measuring knowledge of multiword items 26 Measuring vocabulary learning progress 27 Measuring the ability to learn words 28 Sensitive measures of vocabulary knowledge and processing: Expanding Nation’s framework29 Measuring lexical richness Part IV KEY ISSUES IN TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND MEASURING VOCABULARY 30 Key issues in teaching single word items 31 Key issues in teaching multiword items 32 Single, but not unrelated: Key issues in teaching single word items 33 Key issues in researching multiword items 34 Key issues in measuring vocabulary knowledge 35 Resources for researching vocabulary Index
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Taylor & Francis Colloquial Russian
Book SynopsisColloquial Russian provides a step-by-step course in Russian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Russian in a broad range of situations, requiring no prior knowledge of the language.Features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries This fifth edition offers modernised language reflecting social and cultural changes, new vocabulary that''s esseTable of ContentsPreface to the fifth editionIntroduction Introduction to the Russian language 1. Как вас зовут? What’s your name?2. Изучаем русский языкWe are studying Russian3. В гостинице At the hotel4. Типичный день A typical day5. СемьяFamily6. Идём в гости!Visiting friends7. СпортSport8. Любимый отдых Favourite holidays9. ПраздникиFestivals10. АрбатArbat11. Как снять квартиру в МосквеHow to rent a flat in Moscow12. Российские СМИRussian mass media13. За покупками!Shopping14. Путешествия Travelling15. ТеатрThe theatre16. ЗдравоохранениеHealth care17. ПетербургSt Petersburg18. РавноправиеEqual rights19. ОбразованиеEducation20. CибирьSiberiaGrammar summary Spelling rules · Gender · Declension tables · Verbs · Prepositions · StressKey to the exercises English–Russian vocabulary Russian–English vocabulary Audio track listingGrammar index Russian index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emerging Englishes
Book SynopsisThis book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at China English' through the academic writing of Chinese students at a British university.The volume seeks to blur the simplistic binary of Chinglish', a broad term often understood to encompass grammatical or lexical errors or seemingly unnatural' expressions, and China English', which the authors articulate here as its own variety, as evidenced in language use marked by predictability. The research framework begins with analysing student essays in one program at the University of Manchester, predominantly made up of Chinese students. In highlighting recurring features and supported by online surveys of the students, the authors demonstrate how China English' displays the systematicity in grammar and lexis observed in varieties of English. In focusing on academic writing, a genre which bears prominence in assessment, the book raises key question
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Syntax
Book SynopsisAssuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. Taking a largely theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint throughout, this book:â introduces syntactic typology, syntactic description and the major typological categories found in the languages of the world;â clarifies with examples grammatical constructions and relationships between words in a clause, including word classes and their syntactic properties; grammatical relations such as subject and object; case and agreement processes; passives and other valency-changing processes; questions and relative clauses;â features in-text and chapter-end exercises to extend the readerâs knowledge of syntactic concepts and argumentation, drawing on data from over 100 languages;â highlights the principles involved in writing a brief syntactic sketch of language.This sixt
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Taylor & Francis Korean Conversation Gambits Developing Spoken
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Automation in Communication
Book SynopsisBy drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.As communication becomes increasingly automated, the use of automation creates significant conceptual challenges for ideologies about language, beliefs about the nature of language, as well as assumptions about the roles that interpretation, anthropomorphism, and folk theories of mind play when language is used in communication. This book unravels the ideological implications of automation in communication and provides a new theoretical ground to address the major issues raised by automation. Wee discusses the importance of thinking carefully about how we identify and distinguish the roles of speaker and hearer. He also argues that we re-evaluate our understanding of the relationship between language and community.This book will be vital to students interested in studying the
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Taylor & Francis Learn Russian through Contemporary Short Film
Book SynopsisLearn Russian through Contemporary Short Film is a book with 12 modules, based on modern Russian and Kazakh short films released between 2014â2022.The films immerse students in various aspects of culture and daily life. This greatly assists the development of advanced-level Russian proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing.The inquiry-based approach provides active stimuli for productive discussion. The book is aimed at the High-Intermediate to Advanced levels (B1 â C1 in the CEFR). Each book chapter includes a series of activities offering engaging frameworks in which students can advance all four language skills. By utilizing short films as teaching materials, instructors can deliver engaging learning modules within limited timeframes. The bookâs modular approach to structure offers flexibility for the instructors, who can choose films and exercises that best suit their particular pedagogical goals. The book
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Taylor & Francis Critical Thinking for EnglishLanguage Learners
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Taylor & Francis Territorializing the Chinese NationState
Book SynopsisThis book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Huang Maocai. A trained Chinese cartographer in the service of the imperial Qing state, he was officially deputed to ascertain the TibetIndia land route and the geopolitical status of British India in the nineteenth century. His travelogues are the first authoritative modern Chinese texts exploring the physical and ideological connections between China and India. Unpublished for a long time, and so far, unavailable in an English translation, these texts provide meaning to many key issues that enshroud the concepts of civilization and nation.An important contribution to the study of SinoIndian interactions, it demonstrates Huang Maocai''s keen observation of the geopolitics of the region. His vivid descriptions of Kolkata and nearby regions enlighten the Chinese perception of colonial India. This book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of nation, nationalism, civilization, empire, fr
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Labyrinth of Love
Book SynopsisThis book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence and historical disillusionment to the illusion of love.An important contribution to Latin American literary criticism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, history, Latin American literature, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, comparative literature, and sociology.
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CRC Press Code Appreciation
Book SynopsisLike art appreciation and music appreciation, this code appreciation book invites the readers to look relaxedly into major programming concepts used in many disciplines through short stories set in alphabetical order. Some students fear technology with programming behind it, and shy away from the word coding. Coding has become common and needed, and these stories are set to help non-coders lose their inhibition. It also might help with prompt writing. Many employers seek employees with experience in visual communication, technology, and storytelling skills. Most tasks are created through group efforts, so a better grasp of what other co-workers are doing speeds up the process.The book offers a new approach to storytelling by weaving coding into stories. Playfully, it encourages the readers to see computing as easier to understand and present in most disciplines. The book might benefit people from middle school, high school, college, and university students and faculty, advisors, chancellors, and those seeking majors or passions. People interested in computer graphics, arts, graphic design, computer science, and others may gain a general understanding of how technology affects various disciplines and how everything is connected.It is a part of the âœKnowledge Through the Artsâ series, consisting of:Dance Code - Dance Steps as a CodeNew Storytelling - Learning Through MetaphorsCode Appreciation - Reshaping KnowledgeNature Appreciation - Knowledge as Art
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Taylor & Francis Literary Heritage
Book SynopsisLiterary Heritage examines the literary heritage sector in the post-pandemic moment. The book argues that this is a unique time for literary heritage management and demonstrates that the key to understanding it is an analysis of the transformations that took place because of the Covid-19 pandemic.Through an analysis of literary heritage sites across the UKâs four nations, this study provides an overview of practice from sites managed by national organisations as well as independent museums. Presenting a quantitative and qualitative overview of the challenges faced by the sector in the wake of the pandemic, Rudrum and Williams explore the innovations literary heritage organisations initiated in response. The book displays the wealth of ingenuity that was on display during this trying moment for the sector. It also looks forward to the new normal in the industry: a move towards the outdoors, increased use of online engagement, and creative arts and community programming that brings the literary past to the political present. Featuring interviews with 16 heritage practitioners, the book shares examples of best practice in the hope that lessons will be learned from the enforced closures prompted by the pandemic.Literary Heritage will be of great interest to academics and students working in Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, and English Literature. It will also appeal to a broad readership of cultural heritage professionals.
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austens Style
Book SynopsisJane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen''s keen interest in narrative form. Anne Toner pinpoints techniques that are fundamental to the distinctiveness of Austen''s fiction, many of which have been little explored to date. Toner argues that Austen''s conciseness in terms of plotting, narrative description and in the depiction of dialogue also contributed to her innovations in representing thought, expanding the novel''s capacity to depict consciousness. Narrative and rhetorical features are presented clearly and accessibly and will open up new ways of thinking about prose style with implications for the study of fiction beyond Austen''s own.Trade Review'… in each of her chapters on the formal features of Austen's style, Toner demonstrates how the effort of writing small worked to inspire some of Austen's biggest ideas and thus to shape nineteenth-century fiction.' Megan Quinn, www.review19.org'This telescoping is well represented in discussion of Mansfield Park and of free direct discourse … the notes, bibliography, and index are extensive and provide welcome entry into the critical discussion around Austen studies and the 18th-century novel … Highly recommended.' R. Shapiro, Choice'Explicating the very long history of critical reception of Austen's exemplary, modern economy of style - its concision of plot for character, for example - Toner under-takes a detailed and thorough grammatical investigation of how exactly Austen achieves her fêted economy, and to what ends.' Kate Singer, The Wordsworth CircleTable of Contents1. Structure: selection, connection, and the picturesque; 2. Language: apophatic Austen (not saying things and saying so); 3. Dialogue: Austen's missing speakers and the case for free direct discourse.
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel
Book SynopsisUnsettling the usual ways we think about the relationship between religion and secularism, and focusing on scenes where the Bible shows up as a physical object in eighteenth-century English fiction, this book powerfully argues that the English novel rose with the Bible, not after it.
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Cambridge University Press Dublin
Book SynopsisDublin: A Writer's City can be imagined as a map of one of the world's great literary cities, taking the reader, area-by-area, through the neighbourhoods that shaped – and were shaped by – writers including Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Anne Enright and Sally Rooney. It's illustrated, with maps to guide the reader.Trade Review'Dublin: A Writer's City is a comprehensive guide to this incomprehensibly graphomane capital, less city than town, less town than village, less village than inkpot. Christopher Morash's book is engrossing, enlightening, relaxedly scholarly and splendidly entertaining.' John Banville'Here is the Dublin I know and love. This is an invaluable guide to a living, changing city; one that is rich in stories as well as books. Moving lightly from the deep past to the present day, Christopher Morash has managed to be affectionate, accurate and comprehensive, all at once.' Anne Enright'… a fitting tribute to the rich literary history of Dublin.' Publishers Weekly'We often think of literary giants such as Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but while Chris Morash's new book explores the contributions of these behemoths, it also goes much further. It takes us by the hand from Dublin's elegant Georgian facades down back alleys to hear the hundreds of pamphleteers, poets and playwrights chattering incessantly back and forth across the centuries.' Elizabeth O'Neill, Sunday Business Post'… a fascinating new book, Dublin: A Writer's City...brilliantly joins up the jigsaw of the lives that different generations of Dublin writers lived … If you want a book that pieces together Behan's inner city, Eavan Boland's Dundrum, Roddy Doyle's fictional Barrytown or the Howth heather where Molly Bloom said yes, then Morash's book is a joy to dip into and see familiar places revealed in a fresh light.' Dermot Bolder, Dublin Evening Herald'Dublin, a Writer's City manages to be compendious in a small space, busy as the streets themselves and true to the remarkable spirit of a town that insists, decade after decade, a century ago and next year, in nurturing, goading and facilitating some of the most vibrant literature to be found in the English-speaking world (an unfashionable opinion … Moving into the 21st century, it respects a living tradition and brings us a crucial step further along.' Anne Enright, The Irish Times'A wonderfully rich account of the Irish capital's impressive writerly heritage … the book is lavishly illustrated with numerous unfamiliar images from the archives, and is itself written in a beautiful style that adds to the very literary culture that the author seeks to celebrate.' James Moran, The Tablet'… the one word that quintessentially sums up Dublin – A Writer's City is inspiring.' David Marx, David Marx:Book ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: the imagined city in time of pandemic; 1. Mapping the city; 2. Baggotonia; 3. Around St. Stephen's Green; 4. Trinity College; 5. Around the Liberties; 6. O'Connell Street and the Abbey Theatre; 7. The north inner city; 8. South Dublin; 9. The south coast; 10. North Dublin; 11. Riverrun.
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Cambridge University Press Biopolitical Futures in TwentyFirstCentury
Book SynopsisDrawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends. Linking fictional texts with material examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human rights. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of life that grounds itself elsewhere than in capitalist logics, a vision that, in a Covid age, might become fundamental to a new politics of ecological relations.Trade Review'… rich and compelling … the larger political and ethical ramifications of Vint's project in Biopolitical Futures could not be more urgent or clear.' Hugh C. O'Connell, Science Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: neoliberalism and the reinvention of life; 1. Suspending death, reinventing life: the immortal vessel; 2. The new flesh: vital machines and reimagining the human; 3. Capital reproduction: maternity and productivity; 4. Surplus value: transplantation and fungible life; 5. Life industries: vitality as commodity; 6. Living to work: biocapital, synthetic biology, and the precaritization of labor; 7. Life optimized: pharmaceutical health and disposable bodies; 8. Surplus vitality and posthuman possibilities; Conclusion: capitalism, biopolitics, and a new body politic.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Hazlitt the Dissenter Religion Philosophy and
Book SynopsisHazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.Trade Review“While drawing on the recent rich body of writing about Hazlitt, Burley differentiates his own approach from accounts that have emphasized Hazlitt’s role in the creation of English Romanticism and a recognisably modern form of criticism. ... This is an important contribution to Hazlitt studies, written with great clarity and founded on rigorous scholarship.” (James Grande, The BARS Review, Issue 47, Spring, 2016)“Stephen Burley’s insightful and sensitive book covers what is perhaps the happiest, but least critically explored, part of William Hazlitt’s life. … This inspiring book is a wonderful addition to critical studies of the period and must help generate more research into Hazlitt’s early works and into the history of British Dissent.” (John Gardner, Notes and Queries, Vol. 63 (2), June, 2016)“Stephen Burley’s slender but impressive volume makes a valuable addition to the recent growth of academic interest in the life and work of William Hazlitt. … Dr Burley’s book will be of considerable interest to historians of this period.” (G. M. Ditchfield, History Reviews, April, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. William Hazlitt (1737-1820) and the Unitarian Controversy 2. 'A Slaughter-House of Christianity': New College Hackney (1786-96) 3. 'A New System of Metaphysics' 4. Retrospective Radicalism: Pitt, Patriotism, and Population Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval
Book SynopsisExploring medieval literary representations of the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711, Hazbun discusses chronicles, epic and clerical poetry, and early historical novels. While material on the conquest of Spain is substantial, it is understudied and this book works to fill that gap.Trade ReviewSelected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2016“Hazbun’s writing style is fluid and eloquent, her observations engaging and persuasive, not only broaching the literary and historical significance of the texts in question but also exploring some of the key theoretical principles that underpin questions of cultural identity, power, and legacy alongside their expression in medieval narrative.” (Şizen Yiacoup, Modern Language Review, Vol. 113 (04), October, 2018)“The study is likewise about the underlying sources, perceptions, rhetoric, and, one might add, philosophy of history. … This is a fascinating and remarkably nuanced analysis. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (E. H. Friedman, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dominion and Dynasty in the Estoria de Espana 2. Founding Fictions, Creating Castile: Islam in the Cronica de veinte reyes 3. The Cleric and the Frontier in the mester de clerecia 4. Crossing and Double Crossing: Islamic Conquerors in the Cronica sarracina Conclusion: The Meaning of Conquest Works Cited
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Taylor & Francis Pragmatics The Basics
Pragmatics: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the study of verbal and nonverbal communication in context. Including nine chapters on the history of pragmatics, current theories, the application of pragmatics, and possible future developments in the field, this book: Offers a comprehensive overview of key ideas in contemporary pragmatics and how these have developed from and beyond the pioneering work of the philosopher Paul Grice; Draws on real-world examples such as political campaign posters and song lyrics to demonstrate how we convey and understand direct and indirect meanings; Explains the effects of verbal, nonverbal, and multimodal communication and how the same words or behaviour can mean different things in different contexts, including what makes utterances more or less polite; Highlights key terms and concepts throughout and provides chapter-end study question
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Revivals Oriental Essays 1960
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1960, this work describes the lives and labours of six great scholars - Simon Ockley, Sir William Jones, E. W. Lane, E. H. Palmer, E.G. Browne and R. A Nicholson. These men were devoted to building a bridge between the peoples and cultures of Europe and Asia. To these biographical essays, Arberry has added a short autobiography and an eloquent plea for the further encouragement of Oriental studies.This book will be of interest to those studying Middle-Eastern studies and the history of Orientalist study.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. The Pioneer: Simon Ockley 2. The Founder: William Jones 3. The Lexicographer: Edward William Lane 4. The Linguist: Edward Henry Palmer 5. The Persian: Edward Granville Browne 6. The Dervish: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson 7. The Disciple: A. J. Arberry; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Georgian
Book SynopsisGeorgian: A Comprehensive Grammar constitutes a complete reference work addressing all major elements of modern Georgian grammar and usage.It provides a systematic and accessible description of the language's phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax. The focus is on contemporary spoken and written usage, with attention devoted throughout to differences in register and genre. Points are illustrated with examples drawn from a range of authentic written and recorded sources, such as press, radio, and television.The grammar is designed for a wide readership, including students of Georgian, particularly at the intermediate and advanced levels, as well as scholars of Georgian and theoretical linguistics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements GEORGIAN LANGUAGE AND ALPHABET1. PLACE OF THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE AMONG THE SOUTH CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES 2. THE GEORGIAN ALPHABET PHONOLOGY3. SOUND SYSTEM OF THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE 3.1. Classification of consonants 3.1.1. Consonant triples 3.1.2. Consonant pairs 3.1.3. Separate consonants 3.1.4. Structure of consonant clusters 3.2. Classification of vowels 3.2.1. Backness 3.2.2. Height 3.2.3. Traingle of vowels MORPHOLOGY4. NOUNS 4.1. Noun groups 4.1.1. Animate and inanimate nouns 4.1.2. Concrete and abstract nouns 4.1.3. Proper and common nouns 4.1.4. Collective nouns 4.1.5. Noncount nouns 4.2. Grammatical categories of nouns 4.2.1. Case and number markers 4.2.2. Function of cases 4.3. Declension of noun 4.3.1. Declension of common nouns 4.3.1.1. Declension of consonant-stem non-syncopating common nouns 4.3.1.2. Declension of consonant-stem syncopating common nouns 4.3.1.3. Consonant-stem common nouns with irregular syncopation patterns 4.3.1.4. Declension of vowel-stem common nouns 4.3.1.5. Declension of vowel-stem non-truncating common nouns 4.3.1.6. Declension of vowel-stem truncating common nouns 4.3.1.7. Vowel-stem common nouns with irregular declension patterns 4.3.1.8. Declension of vowel-stem truncating common nouns with syncope 4.4. Declension of proper names 4.4.1. Declension of consonant-stem personal names 4.4.2. Declension of consonant-stem geographic names 4.4.3. Declension of vowel-stem given names 4.4.4. Declension of vowel-stem family names 4.4.5. Declension of given and family names together 4.4.6. Vowel-stem geographic names 4.4.6.1. Non-truncating geographic names 4.4.6.2. Truncating geographic names 5. ADJECTIVES 5.1. Groups of Adjectives 5.1.1. Derivative Adjectives 5.2. Comparative and superlative Adjectives 5.3. Declension of Adjectives 5.3.1. Declension of adjectives without noun 5.3.2. Declension of Adjectives preceding noun5.3.2.1. Declension of vowel-stem adjectives preceding noun 5.3.2.2. Declension of consonant stem adjectives preceding noun 6. NUMERALS 6.1. Types of numerals 6.1.1. Cardinal numerals 6.1.2. Spelling of Cardinal Numerals 6.2. Ordinal and Fractional Numerals 6.3. Declension of Numerals 6.3.1. Declension of consonant-stem cardinal numerals 6.3.1.1. Declension of consonant-stem cardinal numerals 6.3.1.2. Declension of consonant-stem quantifiers 6.3.2. Declension of vowel-stem numerals 6.3.2.1. Declension of vowel-stem cardinal numerals 6.3.2.2. Declension of vowel-stem quantifiers 6.3.2.3. Declension of vowel stem ordinal numerals 6.3.3. Declension of cardinal numerals extended by particles 6.3.4. Declension of numerals followed by noun 6.3.4.1. Declension of vowel-stem numerals followed by noun 6.3.4.2. Declension of consonant-stem cardinal numerals followed by noun 6.3.5. Declension of numerals followed by numerals 7. PRONOUNS 7.1. Personal pronouns and their declension7.2. Reflexive pronouns 7.3. Possessive pronouns and their declension 7.3.1. Declension of possesive pronouns with noun 7.4. Demonstrative pronouns 7.4.1. Declension of demonstrative pronouns 7.4.2. Declension of demonstrative pronouns preceding noun 7.4.3. Declension of demonstrative pronouns with added particles separately and with noun 7.5. Interrogative pronouns and their declension 7.5.1. Declension of interrogative pronouns preceding noun 7.6. Possessive-interrogative pronouns and their declension 7.6.1. Declension of possessive-interrogative pronouns preceding noun 7.7. Negative pronouns and their declension 7.8. Definite pronouns and their declension 7.8.1. Declension of definite pronouns preceding noun 7.9. Indefinite pronouns and their declension 7.9.1. Declension of indefinite pronouns preceding noun 7.10. Reciprocal pronouns and their declension 7.11. Relative pronouns and their Declension 8. COMPOUNDS 8.1. Semantics of Compounds 8.2. Structure of Compounds 8.2.1. Compounds with reduplicated stems 8.2.2. Compounds with different stems 8.2.3. Closed Compounds 9. VERBS 9.1. Person and number of the Verb 9.1.1. Persons and actants 9.1.2. Subject and number markers 9.1.3. Direct/indirect object and number markers 9.1.4. Subject and object cases 9.1.5. Inversion of subject and object markers 9.1.6. Grammatical and actual verb persons 9.2. Preverbs 9.2.1. Structure of preverbs 9.2.2. Functions of preverb 9.3. Voice and Transitivity of verbs 9.3.1. Active voice 9.3.2. Passive voice 9.3.2.1. Suffixal passive voice verbs 9.3.2.2. Prefixal passive voice verbs 9.3.2.3. Root passive voice verbs 9.3.3. Medial verbs 9.3.3.1. Medio-Active verbs 9.3.3.2. Medio-Passive verbs 9.4. Version 9.4.1. Neutral and Locative versions 9.4.2. Subjective version 9.4.3. Objective version 9.5. Tense and its subcategories 9.5.1. Mood 9.5.2. Aspect 9.6. Conjugation of Verbs 9.6.1. I Series 9.6.1.2. Present Subseries 9.6.1.2.1. Present 9.6.1.2.2. Imperfect 9.6.1.2.3. Present subjunctive 9.6.1.3. Future Subseries 9.6.2. II Series 9.6.2.1. Aorist 9.6.2.2. Optative 9.6.3. III Series9.6.3.1. Perfect 9.6.3.2. Pluperfect 9.6.3.3. Perfect subjunctive 9.7. Irregular verbs 9.7.1. Irregular verbs with changing stems in agreement with a plural subject 9.7.2. Irregular verbs with changing stems in agreement with a plural direct object 9.7.3. Honorific verbs of polite conversation 9.7.4. Irregular verbs with changing stems by tense 9.7.5. Irregular verbs with changimg stems by aspect 9.8. Verbal nouns 9.8.1. Gerund and its derivation9.8.2. Participles 9.8.2.1. Active voice Participles 9.8.2.2. Passive voice participles 9.8.2.2.1. Past passive participles 9.8.2.2.2. Future passive participles 9.8.2.2.3 Negative passive participles 9.8.2.3. Medial voice participles 10. ADVERBS 10.1. Primary and derivative adverbs 10.2. Semantic groups of Adverbs 11. POSPOSITIONS 12. CONJUNCTIONS 12.1. Coordinating Conjunctions 12.1.1. Correlative Conjunctions 12.1.2. Separating Conjunctions 12.1.3. Contrastive Conjunctions 12.1.4. Equating Conjunctions 12.2. Subordinating Conjunctions 13. PARTICLES 13.1. Interrogative particles 13.2. Limiting particles 13.3. Negation particles 13.4. Affirmative particles13.5. Reported speech particles 13.6. Approximating particles 13.7. Emphasizing particles 13.8. Particles expressing wish or desire 13.9. Selective particles 13.10. Particles expressing possibility or supposition 13.11. Imitative particles 13.12. Indicative particles 13.13. Particle denoting frequency of action 13.14. Particle denoting not witnessed action 13.15. Parts of speech functioning as particles 14. INTERJECTIONS SINTACTIC STRUCTURES15. NOUN PHRASE 15.1. Noun/subject 15.2. Noun/direct and indirect objects 15.3. Adjectives 15.3.1. Attributive adjectives 15.3.2. Genitive modifier 16. VERB PHRASE 16.1. Predicate 16.1.1. Simple predicate 16.1.2. Compound predicate and its structure 16.2. Adjunct object 16.3. Predicative adjective 16.4. Adverbial modifiers 17. SYNTACTYC PAIRS 17.1. Number of syntactic pairs in the sentence 17.2. Types of word relations within syntactic pairs 17.2.1. Coordination 17.2.2. Subordination 17.3. Increasing and decreasing basic parts of a sentence 17.3.1. Increasing the number of actants in a sentence 17.3.1.1. Increasing the number of actants with causative verbs 17.3.1.2. Increasing the number of actants by changing version 17.3.1.3. Increasing the number of actants with preverbs 17.3.2. Decreasing the number of actants in a sentence 17.3.2.1. Conversion 18. MODALITY OF SENTENCES 18.1. Declarative sentence 18.2. Interrogative sentence 18.3. Imperative and Exclamative sentences 18.4. Interrogative-Exclamative sentence 19. STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES 19.1. Simple Sentences 19.1.1. Unextended and extended sentences 19.1.2. Complete and Incomplete Sentences 19.1.3. Sentences without or with omitted subjects 19.1.4. Noun-sentence 19.2. Sentence with coordinated parts 19.2.1. Coordinated parts 19.2.1.1. Joining coordinated parts 19.3. Coordinated parts in syntactic pairs 19.3.1. Compound predicates 19.3.2. Compound subjects 19.3.3. Coordinated direct objects 19.3.4. Coordinated indirect objects 19.4. Parenthetical words and phrases 19.4.1. Appositive 19.4.2. Free modifiers 19.4.3. Asides 19.4.4. Addressing formulas and expressions 20. COMPLEX SENTENCE 20.1. Complex coordinate sentence 20.2. Complex subordinate sentence 20.3. Adverbial Clause of Condition 20.4. Adverbial Clause of Concession 20.5. Adverbial Clause of Result 20.6. The compound-complex sentence 20.6.1. Compound sentence with several subordinate clauses 20.6.2. Mixed sentences 20.7. Direct and Indirect speech BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Taylor & Francis Literary Allusion in Harry Potter
Book SynopsisLiterary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowlingâs series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potterâs narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness provides insight into Rowlingâs fictional world. Each chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the intersection between Harry Potter and a canonical literary work, such as the plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Homer, Ovid, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, Milton and Tennyson, and the novels of Austen, Hardy and Dickens. This approach aims to transform the readerâs understanding of Rowlingâs literary achievement as well as to encourage the discovery of works with which they may be less familiar. The aim of this book is to delight Potter fans with a new perspective on their favourite books while harnessing that enthusiasm to increase their wider appreciation of literature.Trade Review"Beatrice Groves, in her Literary Allusion in Harry Potter (2017), offers a fascinating account of the cultural logic of allusion... there are other books in the books we read. We needed Beatrice Groves to say that with such beauty and clarity. This is a rare book of literary criticism that one is happy to read, and recommend."Bijay K. Danta, The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (2019) "Literary Allusion in Harry Potter is a thoughtful monograph that draws attention to the intertextual connections within the Western literary tradition… [with] fascinating insights into the series… this book is a must-read for fans and scholars of Harry Potter who are interested in how the series is engaged in conversations with other texts and with Rowling's own personal experiences… Literary Allusion in Harry Potter is designed to help readers see the series in a new light and to encourage them to discover or rediscover connections between Rowling's epic and classic works." Michele D. Castleman, Children's Literature Association Quarterly (2018)"[Literary Allusion in Harry Potter] wears its undoubted scholarship lightly, and offers both the interested and the academic reader much to ponder. The use of excerpts from interviews by Rowling is a particularly effective way to bring the discussion of the relationship between canonical texts, the author and her novels into the world of the engaged reader… [Dr Groves'] reputation and scholarship bring academic heft to the project, while her generally lucid writing style points it in the direction of its intended market." Alison Jack,The University of Edinburgh, UK"[Literary Allusion in Harry Potter] works on a number of levels, allowing a sixthformer a first introduction to Rowling’s literary forebears, or a university student to uncover the multiple layers of their childhood favourite – and indeed to have something of an insight into the study of literary allusion itself. And for general readers, it provides a light-footed, but sure, guide to a world of classic literature which Rowling freely draws upon." Felicity James, University of Leicester, UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jane Austen: Rowling’s favourite author Harry Potter, Homer and storytelling Naming in Harry Potter: Plato, Shakespeare and Ovid Rowling’s medieval Hallows The Temptation in the Desert and the Harrowing of Hell: Harry Potter, mystery plays and Milton Harry Potter and Shakespeare: comedy and other genres In Memoriam Love wins: Harry Potter, Petrarch, Shakespeare and Hardy Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arabiyyat alNaas Part One
Book SynopsisArabiyyat al-Naas (Part One), second edition, offers a groundbreaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers. It combines a grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) with an innovative integration of the spoken Levantine variety used in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.The course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and living Arabic today. The book contains 29 theme-based units covering all the core topics expected in a first-year Arabic course, such as countries, clothes, colors, family and professions. The book is to be used in conjunction with the companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/younes) offering a wealth of additional instructor and student resources.This volume is the first in an exciting three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program. The book is an essential resource for students beginning to learn ArTrade ReviewArabic is a multiglossic language, and to teach it effectively a spoken variety and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) must both be included. Munther Younes’s pioneering Integrated Approach shows that it is possible to learn Arabic the way native speakers use it, listening and speaking in spoken Arabic and reading and writing in Modern Standard Arabic. I’ve been teaching with the ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas series for many years and I’m delighted with the improvements that the author team has made to this new edition of Book I. Congratulations!Victoria Aguilar, Profesora Titular de Lengua Árabe de la Universidad de MurciaYounes, Weatherspoon and Foster are to be commended for a method that enables learners to develop real-world proficiency in everyday, spoken Arabic, as well as the formal register. From the very start, Arabiyyat Al-Naas, Part One balances audio, visual and written texts to introduce stimulating and essential aspects of the language and its cultures. The textbook and its companion website offer a wealth of input through varied activities and materials, along with clear grammatical explanations. Arabiyyat Al-Naas is a well-conceived and exciting learning resource that empowers learners to reach the intermediate-low level. Nader K. Uthman, Language Director & Arabic Language Coordinator, New York UniversityArabiyyat al-Naas is the best textbook for a meaningful, engaging, encouraging introduction to Arabic. By focusing on language relevant to students’ needs and lives right from Lesson 1, and integrating every aspect of orthography, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar into that framework of immediately useful language, learners are truly and meaningfully communicating with each other from the very beginning. Most of all, learners are communicating as Arabs themselves do: in Modern Standard Arabic on paper, and orally in the colloquial.Arabic instructor and Ph.D. student in second language acquisitionTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsGeneral Introductionالوِحدة الأولى (First Unit)الدرس الأوّل: أنا طالب.الدرس الثاني: أنا من بيروت.الدرس الثالث: مدينة ... كبيرة أو صغيرة؟قواعد (Grammar)Possession in Arabic (my, your)الدرس الرابع: كيف الطقس في بيروت؟قواعدThe Definite Article الـSun and Moon Lettersالدرس الخامس: فيه ثلج كثير في شمال العِراق.أغنية: كيف الطقس في نيسان؟الدرس السادس: أنا لابس قميص أحمر.الدرس السابع: أيام الأسبوعقواعدGrammar (قواعد): Arabic pluralالدرس الثامن: انتَ ساكِن في بيت ولا في شقّة؟قواعدThe Construct (الإضافة) الدرس التاسع: كيف بتروح للصفّ؟الدرس العاشر: كم أخ وأخت عندك؟قواعدPossession in Arabic, continuedThe DualPossession with عند الدرس رقم ١١: أبوي أستاذ وأمّي طبيبة.الدرس رقم ١٢: الأكل والشُربالدرس رقم ١٣: عندي درس عربي الساعة ١٠الدرس رقم ١٤: العالم العربي كبير.قواعدThe Construct (الإضافة), continuedThe Comparative and Superlativeالدرس رقم ١٥: مُراجعةأغنية: البيت الأبيض بابه أحمرالوحدة الثانية: المطار الدرس الأوّل: أسمي سارةقواعدThe Nisba Adjective (النسبة)Subject Markers and Verb Conjugation:Present Tense Subject MarkersThe prefix بـالدرس الثاني: العنوان بأمريكا ولاّ بلبنان؟ الدرس الثالث: سارة حدّاد الوحدة الثالثة: التاكسي الدرس الأوّل: الحمد لله على السّلامة! قواعدWanting with بدّ الدرس الثاني: أهلا وسهلا فيك بلبنان!قواعدConstruct (إضافة) Phrases and Noun-adjective PhrasesMore on the Comparativeالدرس الثالثالنصّ الأوّل: المسافات بين المُدن اللبنانيّةالنصّ الثاني: مُذكّرات سارةقواعدPast Tense ConjugationListing Verbs in Word Listsالوحدة الرابعة: بيت الطلّابالدرس الأوّل: كيف مُمكن أساعدك؟قواعدThe Present Tense after "Helping" Wordsجواز سفركالدرس الثاني: سارة رَح تسكن معك بالغرفةقواعدObject Pronounsالدرس الثالث: قراءةالنصّ الأوّل: الجامعات اللبنانيّةالنصّ الثاني: مذكّرات سارة قواعدعَدَد and رقمكم ساعة؟Hollow Verbsمراجعة أغنية: سافر دانWriting non-Arabic Names Typically or Exclusively MSA WordsMSA and Spoken Arabic Pronunciationالوحدة الخامسة: الأكل الدرس الأوّل: وين مفتاح الغرفة؟قواعدArabic Roots, Roots and Verbs, Root TypesAn Hour Agoالدرس الثاني: أنا باحبّ الفول كثير!قواعدPlural Subject Markersالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعدMore on the Conjugation of Verbs Derived from Different Types of Rootsتعبان، زعلان، جوعان الوحدة السادسة: زيارة الجامعة الأمريكيّة في بيروت الدرس الأوّل: أهلاً وسهلاً فيكم بالجامعة!قواعدPlural Subject and Possessive Pronounsالدرس الثاني: أنا باحبّ الرياضة كثير! الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة الوحدة السابعة: الملابس والألوان الدرس الأوّل: بدّي فستان فولكلوري.قواعدVerb StemsBuilding Verbs with more than One Suffixلوني المفضل الدرس الثاني: نُمَر امريكيّة ولاّ أوروبيّة؟قواعدPlural Patterns: Sound and Brokenالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعد سيكون Non-human Pluralsمراجعةأغنية: أبو يوسف كسرة أو ضمّة؟الوحدة الثامنة: مطعم سقراطالدرس الأوّل: وين مطعم سقراط؟قواعدGiving Commandsالدرس الثاني: الجامعة الأمريكيّة في بيروت الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة الوحدة التاسعة: التسوّقالدرس الأوّل: أنا ما جيت علبنان حتى أشوف المولات. الدرس الثاني: مولات عمّانقواعد (هُم) يُحبّونالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكرات راميقواعدRelative PronounsAdverbials Ending in اًالوحدة العاشرة: أكل لذيذ، طقس جَميل، وصَديق لَطيف الدرس الأوّل: يا ريت فيه مترو أو باصات مريحة! الدرس الثاني: شو بتحبّي تعملي بجونيه؟ الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكرات راميThe Particle أنْ in فصحىبسبب/لأنّمراجعةأغنية: عندي درس الساعة ١١ الوحدة رقم ١١: مُدُن لُبنانيّة الدرس الأوّل: عندنا أصحاب مسيحيين وأصحاب مسلمين. قواعدعجبتك حريصامنظر ما فيه أحلى منّهالدرس الثاني: بيروتقواعدThe Case System in فُصحىDifferent Meanings of مِنالدرس الثالث: مذكرّات سارةVerb-subject (Dis)agreement in فُصحىالوحدة رقم ١٢: الطقس الدرس الأول: ممكن تعملي "سكي" بالجبل قبل الظهر، وتسبحي على الشطّ بعد الظهر! 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