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A Hog on Ice: & Other Curious Expressions
ISBN: 9780060513290 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. He's as independent as a hog on ice
Where did expressions like this come from anyway? Now finally we'll know what "letting the cat out of the bag" or "going on a wild-goose chase" refers to. In this fun collection of more than 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that we use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced them back through the years -- in some cases centuries -- in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, or at the very least, to give us his expert opinion when facts... He's as independent as a hog on ice
Where did expressions like this come from anyway? Now finally we'll know what "letting the cat o... |
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54,42 zł |
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Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages
ISBN: 9780195129519 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control, raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic pronouns, and verb movement.
This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective bas...
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1032,73 zł |
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Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages
ISBN: 9780195129526 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control, raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic pronouns, and verb movement.
This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective bas...
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739,46 zł |
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English Vocabulary Elements
ISBN: 9780195168020 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary. English Vocabulary Elements (EVE) helps develop familiarity with over 350 Latin and Greek word elements in English, and shows how these roots are the building blocks within thousands of different words. Along the way the authors introduce and illustrate many of the fundamental concepts of linguistics. Offering a thorough approach to the expansion of vocabulary, EVE is an invaluable resource that provides students a deeper...
This unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientif...
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351,04 zł |
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Vernacular Literacy : A Re-Evaluation
ISBN: 9780198236351 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book contains first-hand information on the history, economics, and politics surrounding literacy issues all over the world. Discussions are supported by case-studies of campaigns to promote vernacular languages, and examples of how people relate to their languages in different cultures. Providing a non-Western perspective, the contributors question traditional notions of the uses of literacy.
This book contains first-hand information on the history, economics, and politics surrounding literacy issues all over the world. Discussions are supp...
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495,92 zł |
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The History and Power of Writing
ISBN: 9780226508368 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Cultural history on a grand scale, this immensely readable book-the summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars of the book-is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology.
Traversing four millennia, Martin offers a chronicle of writing as a cultural system, a means of communication, and a history of technologies. He shows how the written word originated, how it spread, and how it figured in the evolution of civilization. Using as his center the role of printing in making the written way of thinking dominant, Martin... Cultural history on a grand scale, this immensely readable book-the summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars of the book-is ...
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147,54 zł |
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Words on Words : A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Words
ISBN: 9780231044936 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Lists words and terms, useful to journalists and students of the English language, including etymology, usage, and interesting facts.
Lists words and terms, useful to journalists and students of the English language, including etymology, usage, and interesting facts.
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229,18 zł |
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Kannada Shabdmala: Kannda Word Book and Work Book for 2nd Level
ISBN: 9781517248512 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Kannada Shabdamala is 2nd level Kannada text and work book. This attractive book is used by Vedic Vidyalay 2nd year Kannada students who attend aftweekly class.
Kannada Shabdamala is 2nd level Kannada text and work book. This attractive book is used by Vedic Vidyalay 2nd year Kannada students who attend aftwee...
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79,18 zł |
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Feminist Stylistics
ISBN: 9780415050289 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Feminist Stylistics introduces readers to a range of issues and skills in the analysis of texts from a feminist perspective. Sarah Mills uses close language study and linguistic theory to set out the rationale for feminist text analysis. She examines sexism, political correctness, reader positioning, narrative, agency, discourse, character and role analysis - and sets the examination of literary texts alongside texts such as newspapers, pop songs and advertisements. Feminist Stylistics presumes no prior knowledge of either feminist or stylistic theory. Each chapter shows how the issue has...
Feminist Stylistics introduces readers to a range of issues and skills in the analysis of texts from a feminist perspective. Sarah Mills uses close la...
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219,80 zł |
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Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780415163989 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. They provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further study. Language Workbooks can be used for independent study or as part of a taught class.
Vocabulary: * covers issues such as the power of words to influence our perceptions * looks at the origins of words from English and other languages * explores the relationships between the meanings and shapes of words * examines the correlation of different kinds of words with different style... Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. They provide comprehensive coverage of ...
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109,87 zł |
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Linguistic Epidemiology : Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780415297431 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese.
The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become... This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, ...
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659,55 zł |
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Orthography, Phonology, Morphology and Meaning
ISBN: 9780444891402 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over a decade. However, notwithstanding the energetic research effort and despite the fact that there are many points of consensus, major controversies still exist.
This volume is particularly concerned with the putative relationship between language and reading. It explores the ways by which orthography, phonology, morphology and meaning are interrelated in the reading process. Included are theoretical discussions as well as reviews of experimental evidence by... The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over a decade. Howev...
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241,78 zł |
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Building Academic Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780472085897 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Building Academic Vocabulary was written because English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students often complain that they don't have the vocabularies they need for college courses. Building Academic Vocabulary will help students develop lexical precision as they work in such often exercised modes as cause-effect, general description, description of processes, or comparison/contrast. Each unit focuses on 10-15 key vocabulary items within a certain essential meaning area. Each unit also highlights--and lightly exercises--20-25 additional vocabulary items that provide a broader and...
Building Academic Vocabulary was written because English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students often complain that they don't have the vocabular...
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126,99 zł |
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Language in Australia
ISBN: 9780521339834 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Language in Australia provides a wide-ranging account of the present linguistic situation in Australia, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. The focus is mainly descriptive, and the chapters aim to provide a comprehensive overview and summary of what is known about Australia's languages as well as a guide to current areas of research interest. Throughout the volume, the contributors pay special attention to issues arising from the socio-historical situation in which Australia's languages and language varieties coexist. The volume covers both indigenous and non-indigenous languages,...
Language in Australia provides a wide-ranging account of the present linguistic situation in Australia, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. ...
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451,28 zł |
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Language, Religion and Politics in North India
ISBN: 9780595343942 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is recognized as a classic study both of the politics of language and religion in India and of ethnic and nationalist movements in general. It received overwhelmingly favorable reviews across disciplinary and international boundaries at first publication, characterized as "a masterly conceptual analysis of language, religion, ethnic groups, and nationhood," "a monumental work," "of interest to all political scientists," one that "should be required reading for any politically concerned person" in the United Kingdom (from a TLS review), a work whose "value and importance...can...
This book is recognized as a classic study both of the politics of language and religion in India and of ethnic and nationalist movements in general. ...
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121,29 zł |
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The Writing Systems of the World
ISBN: 9780631180289 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the development of language itself.
His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system of the ancient Near East; he describes Chinese writing, discussing why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for more than 3,000 years; he ranges... This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writin...
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230,41 zł |
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The Story of A : The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter
ISBN: 9780804731751 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural power of such apparently neutral statements as "A is for apple." The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for...
Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of te...
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146,63 zł |
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Introduction to Historical Linguistics
ISBN: 9780819114600 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior. Discussions include such diverse topics as the classification of languages, sound and grammar changes, reconstruction, and social and psychological factors involved in the history and development of language.
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human cultur...
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410,95 zł |
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Enigmas of The English Alphabet
ISBN: 9781420874143 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. English is the most used language in the World. In fact, there are more people learning it as a second language than there are native speakers. Nevertheless, English has a number of peculiar features that are not well known, not only to foreign language students, but even to those who were born in it. This work focuses on the written representation of the English language, particularly its spelling rules (or lack of them), from the viewpoint of a foreign language speaker who may be used to specific rules in his own language and may be wondering: 'What exactly are the rules for English?'
English is the most used language in the World. In fact, there are more people learning it as a second language than there are native speakers. Nevert...
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69,55 zł |
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Better Spelling in 30 Minutes a Day
ISBN: 9781564142023 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Presents a self-instruction program to improve spelling skills and outlines how to proofread and avoid spelling errors.
Presents a self-instruction program to improve spelling skills and outlines how to proofread and avoid spelling errors.
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62,63 zł |
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