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The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary
ISBN: 9780198605126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary is a brand new dictionary that is ideal for beginners learning Classical Greek at the college level. It covers over 20,000 Greek words and phrases in clear, user-friendly translations, and over 4,000 English words in common usage. The dictionary also offers help with Greek to English sentence construction and prose composition, and provides grammatical guidance with tables of irregular verbs and a glossary of grammatical terms. Additional information includes a list of numerals, a guide to pronunciation, and a map of Greece.
The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary is a brand new dictionary that is ideal for beginners learning Classical Greek at the college le...
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72,59 zł |
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The Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780198611868 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 21728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-22 dni roboczych. Eighty years ago, the "greatest work in dictionary-making ever undertaken" was completed. And with its enormous range, unparalleled historical depth, detailed etymologies, and inexhaustible supply of illustrative quotations, it has enriched the lives of writers, readers, and word-lovers of all stripes ever since. Begun in 1857, published in ten volumes in 1928, subsequently revised and expanded to 20 volumes in 1989, and now adopted to the electronic age, the OED has become the most venerated and most beloved English-language reference ever compiled. The key feature of the...
Eighty years ago, the "greatest work in dictionary-making ever undertaken" was completed. And with its enormous range, unparalleled historical depth, ...
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4513,59 zł |
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The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780198612582 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 2424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-22 dni roboczych. When the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, appeared years ago, the public response was extraordinary. The AP and UPI announced publication over their newswires. Time and Newsweek ran full-page articles. The New Yorker published an extensive essay. Virtually every major paper in American and in Great Britain covered the event. And from every corner, the praise was lavish. Time called it "a scholarly Everest." Newsweek, "a celebration of language." And Herbert Mitgang, in The New York Times, called the new OED...
When the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, appeared years ago, the public response was extraordinary. The AP and UPI a...
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2096,64 zł |
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Color Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780198614401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. This is a major new edition of the best-selling Color Oxford English Dictionary, offering the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary. Based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus--the same database that informs the Oxford English Dictionary--the Color Oxford English Dictionary provides an up-to-date selection of 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions. Definitions are given in a clear, simple style, avoiding technical language, and are easier to understand than ever before, plus there are hundreds of notes on spelling and...
This is a major new edition of the best-selling Color Oxford English Dictionary, offering the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essent...
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61,19 zł |
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The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780198643395 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 1103 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-22 dni roboczych. The first new Hindi-English dictionary in over a century, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary is the comprehensive reference to modern standardized language, both spoken and literary. This handy paperback dictionary is designed to meet the needs of the growing number of people now learning to speak Hindi. It provides translations for over 36,000 headwords, using illustrative material to show words in use.
Students of Hindi and South Asian studies of all kinds will find extensive coverage of historical Hindi, together with the most up-to-date colloquial and literary... The first new Hindi-English dictionary in over a century, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary is the comprehensive reference to mode...
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152,58 zł |
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Lexicography and the OED : Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
ISBN: 9780199251957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.
The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore ...
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483,89 zł |
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries : Volume 2: 1785-1858
ISBN: 9780199254705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia.
During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of... The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785...
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433,62 zł |
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries : Volume 1: 1567-1784
ISBN: 9780199254712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. The first of three volumes (volume 2, 1785-1874, forthcoming in 2005; volume 3, 1874 to present, forthcoming in 2007) comprising a complete history of the recording of English cant and slang - the jargon of sport, trade, and crime - which give unparalleled insights into the history of slang and the people who used it. Provides information on words and their meanings such as 'ziff' (a young thief), 'bundletail' (a short fat or squat lass), and 'arsworm' (a little diminutive fellow).
The first of three volumes (volume 2, 1785-1874, forthcoming in 2005; volume 3, 1874 to present, forthcoming in 2007) comprising a complete history of...
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1319,69 zł |
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English Dictionaries, 800-1700 : The Topical Tradition
ISBN: 9780199291045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. This fascinating study explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and 1700. A form of early dictionary, these lists followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history of the time, providing us with evidence on cultural history and linguistic development. Professor Hullen draws on many examples to provide an insight into this lexicographical tradition.
" This fascinating study explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and ...
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534,17 zł |
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A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages
ISBN: 9780226079370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work contains more than 1,000 groupings of synonyms from the principal Indo-European languages. Buck first tabulates the words describing a particular concept and then discusses their etymological and semantic history, tracing changes in meaning of the root words as well as presenting cases indicating which of the older forms have been replaced by...
Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachro...
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287,43 zł |
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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
ISBN: 9780231072427 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psycho...
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543,49 zł |
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The Columbia Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations
ISBN: 9780231104340 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Because his plays, poems, and sonnets are inexhaustible sources of insight into the human condition, Shakespeare is the most quoted--and probably also the most misquoted--writer in the English language. In this topically arranged collection of Shakespeare quotations, the largest of its kind, writers and speakers can find not only an excellent saying on any of 600 subjects, but can be assured of the right wording and the precise source: play, act, scene, line, and character speaking. And if they remember a wonderful passage but forget who said it and in which play, a keyword index will lead...
Because his plays, poems, and sonnets are inexhaustible sources of insight into the human condition, Shakespeare is the most quoted--and probably also...
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510,97 zł |
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Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages
ISBN: 9780231115681 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by an estimated two thousand people? What Western European language is not known to be related to any other language family in the world--and is considered by linguists to be one of the most difficult to learn? These are only a few of the questions language lovers, linguists, and lay readers will be able to answer with the Dictionary of Languages--an easy-to-navigate, authoritative guide to the world's languages and language groups at...
Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by...
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411,97 zł |
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Caught in the Web of Words : James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780300089196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.
"It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human... This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and b...
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343,67 zł |
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Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained
ISBN: 9780312198442 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. Betty Kirkpatrick has complied and exhaustive dictionary--a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language. Sample entries from Cliches Let the cat out of the bag is an idiom cliche meaning to reveal a secret. In origin it refers allegedly to a fairground tick by which traders sold unwary buyers a cat in a bag, assuring them it was a pig. The buyers did not realize their mistake until they let the cat out of the back, by which time it was too late. Bite the bullet is an idiom cliche meaning to steel oneself to accept... Betty Kirkpatrick has complied and exhaustive dictionary--a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language. <... |
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94,46 zł |
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British English for American Readers : A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life and Literature
ISBN: 9780313278518 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. How does a vicar differ from a rector? Is a marquis a lord? Where are the Home Counties? Is someone who is dead chuffed happy or angry? Americans reading British literature, come upon such unfamiliar terms and generally have to rely on contextual clues. For the legions of readers of Dickens and Trollope, of Agatha Christie, John LeCarre, and P.D. James, of Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, of Noel Coward and Tom Stoppard--to name a few--as well as viewers of British film and television imports, this helpful and entertaining guide defines the kinds of things that British authors thought needed... How does a vicar differ from a rector? Is a marquis a lord? Where are the Home Counties? Is someone who is dead chuffed happy or angry? Americans r... |
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502,43 zł |
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A Dictionary of Japanese Loanwords
ISBN: 9780313287411 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. Recent studies report that Japanese is the second most productive source of new loanwords to English. Such studies indicate that English-speaking countries are paying more attention to Japan than ever before. This dictionary lists and defines hundreds of terms borrowed from Japanese that are now used in English-language publications. Entries provide variant spellings, pronunciation, etymological information, definitions, and illustrative quotations. These quotations were collected from books, newspapers, magazines, novels, texts, advertisements, and databases published or distributed in... Recent studies report that Japanese is the second most productive source of new loanwords to English. Such studies indicate that English-speaking c... |
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429,66 zł |
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Speaking of Animals : A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
ISBN: 9780313294907 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal metaphors that are current in American English. It is comprehensive, historical, and metaphor-based. Each entry refers to the other dictionaries that catalog that same metaphor, and the dates of first appearance in writing are supplied, where possible, for both the metaphor and the name of the source. The main text is organized alphabetically by metaphor rather than by animal or animal behavior; all the metaphors are classified according to their animal... No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal metaphors th... |
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502,43 zł |
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Random House Japanese-English English-JapaneseDictionary
ISBN: 9780345405487 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. RANDOM HOUSE
JAPANESE-ENGLISH ENGLISH-JAPANESE DICTIONARY RELIABLE, DETAILED, AND UP-TO-DATE * More than 50,000 entries, including the most common meanings * Two sections, Japanese-English and English-Japanese * All entries, from A to Z, in a single alphabetical listing * Japanese terms shown in romanized Japanese and standard Japanese characters * Hundreds of new words, including eizu (AIDS) and nyuryoku (computer input) * Thousands of idioms, phrases, and common expressions illustrate typical usage * Includes Japanese cultural items, such as yobiko (cram... RANDOM HOUSE
JAPANESE-ENGLISH ENGLISH-JAPANESE DICTIONARY RELIABLE, DETAILED, AND UP-TO-DATE * More than 50,000 entries, including the... |
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42,48 zł |
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Rh Webster's Dictionary 4th Edn
ISBN: 9780345447258 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2001 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-20 dni roboczych. The Timeless Resource No Word User Can Be Without-Now Completely Revised and Updated in a New Edition
- More than 75,000 entries - More than 150 new illustrations - Helpful supplements on writing, usage, and metric measurements - Updated geographical and biographical entries integrated throughout the easy A to Z listing - Common abbreviations - Hundreds of word histories and etymologies - Clear and easy-to-understand usage notes and labels - Features the latest business and computer terms Random House Webster's Dictionary is your one-stop reference book. Based on the... The Timeless Resource No Word User Can Be Without-Now Completely Revised and Updated in a New Edition
- More than 75,000 entries - More... |
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37,76 zł |
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