ilość książek w kategorii: 1602
A Hog on Ice: & Other Curious Expressions
ISBN: 9780060513290 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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72,61 zł |
World's Writing Syst C
ISBN: 9780195079937 / Angielski / Twarda / 968 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and...
Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in Eng...
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780,26 zł |
Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages
ISBN: 9780195129519 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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365,02 zł |
Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages
ISBN: 9780195129526 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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210,18 zł |
Vernacular Literacy: A Re-Evaluation
ISBN: 9780198236351 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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394,51 zł |
The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim
ISBN: 9780199266623 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. It includes the littoral regions of North and South America, Australasia, east and south-east Asia, and Japan, as well as the Pacific itself. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding.
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic d...
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989,10 zł |
The History and Power of Writing
ISBN: 9780226508368 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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163,80 zł |
Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care about Words
ISBN: 9780231044936 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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233,65 zł |
The Use of Words in Context: The Vocabulary of Collage Students
ISBN: 9780306422065 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion, speaker, and topic is a gross oversimplification. It also includes challenge, anxiety, emotion, fear, responsibility, faults of memory, and instants of pride. Out of the circumstances arise an increase in heart rate, a change in blood pressure, an abnormal pattern of breathing, a noticeable build up in perspiration, and an ongoing evaluation. For students this may be merely a grade or perhaps a series of evaluative remarks, possibly addressed both to the speaker and...
The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion, speaker, and topic is a ...
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384,63 zł |
Kannada Shabdmala: Kannda word book and work book for 2nd level
ISBN: 9781517248512 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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80,77 zł |
Feminist Stylistics
ISBN: 9780415050289 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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238,55 zł |
Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780415163989 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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134,81 zł |
Linguistic Epidemiology: Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780415297431 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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700,25 zł |
Orthography, Phonology, Morphology and Meaning: Volume 94
ISBN: 9780444891402 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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688,35 zł |
Language in Australia
ISBN: 9780521339834 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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534,22 zł |
Language, Religion and Politics in North India
ISBN: 9780595343942 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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123,72 zł |
The Writing Systems of the World
ISBN: 9780631180289 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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272,73 zł |
Spelling
ISBN: 9780792349587 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) are the findings that Wade-Woolley and Siegel obtained when they studied children for whom English was a second language. Although the second language speakers performed more poorly than the native speakers on tests of syntactic knowledge, phoneme deletion, and pseudoword repetition, the second language speakers were not worse than the native speakers in spelling. These results suggest that, even if children have not fully mastered the sound system of their second language, they need not be disadvantaged in spelling it. The findings appear to pose a challenge to views of reading and spelling...
are the findings that Wade-Woolley and Siegel obtained when they studied children for whom English was a second language. Although the second language...
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384,63 zł |
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. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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155,56 zł |
Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
ISBN: 9781403933812 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.
The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South ...
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384,63 zł |