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Author : Steven D. Price
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616082475
Collects phrases that were once part of everyday speech, but no longer are due to the evolution of language and cultural changes.
Author : David Grambs
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780393292510
"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear. This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language. A selection: egrutten: having a face swollen from weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Drinking Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019604409
Author : Simon Hertnon
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1632204533
Afterwit, agathism, ambsace, anacampserote, antepenultimate, antimony, and more! “When a word perfectly captures a human truth, humans respond to it in the same way that they respond to a beautiful melody. They smile. They nod their heads. They tell others of their discovery.” So says Simon Hertnon in his introduction to Endangered Words, and after wrapping your tongue around the lexical rarities he offers up to his readers, you’ll have to agree! Hertnon provides one hundred hand-selected rarities, and, in a virtuoso display of concinnity, breathes life into them with his lucid descriptions of their meaning and engaging examples of their usage. Perhaps you are an arriviste enjoying a newfound sense of nikhedonia as you demonstrate your sprezzatura in a given subject. Or maybe you are a desipientplutomaniac destined to a life of poshlost. If this doesn’t describe you, then take your pick of the many wonderful words in this book: Omnistrain Trilemma Aporia Or maybe these are all schlimmbesserungs! Thanks to Endangered Words, you no longer have to be at a loss for words or reach for the clichéd and commonplace. The English language is brimming with ambrosial alternatives, and this compendium offers the cream of the crop. Filled with words to be treasured for their elegant precision, from apophenia to zemblanity, Endangered Words is the perfect handbook for writers, an excellent resource for communicators, and an entertaining read for anyone with an appetite for the very brightest gems of the English language.
Author : Leone Stumbaum,Katrin Cornell
Publisher : Blake Education
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 1865099392
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112204325700
Author : Eliot Schrefer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545470018
From National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos -- and herself -- from a violent coup. Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good.When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos, she's not thrilled to be there. Then Otto, an infant bonobo, comes into her life, and for the first time she feels responsible for another creature.But peace does not last long for Sophie and Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out in the country, the sanctuary is attacked, and the two of them must escape unprepared into the jungle. Caught in the crosshairs of a lethal conflict, they must struggle to keep safe, to eat, and to live. In ENDANGERED, Eliot Schrefer plunges us into a heart-stopping exploration of the things we do to survive, the sacrifices we make to help others, and the tangled geography that ties us all, human and animal, together.
Author : Colin McNairn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781632208989
What do “the whole kit and caboodle,” “the whole shebang,” “the whole megillah,” “the whole enchilada,” “the whole nine yards,” “the whole box and dice,” and “the full Monty” have in common? They’re all expressions that mean “the entire quantity,” and they’re all examples of the breadth and depth of the English-speaking world’s vocabulary. From the multitude of words and phrases in daily use, the author of this delightful exploration into what we say and why we say it zeroes in on those expressions and sayings and their variations that are funny, quirky, just plain folksy, or playfully dressed up in rhyme or alliteration. Some may have become clichés that, as it’s said with “tongue in cheek,” should be “avoided like the plague.” Others have been distorted, deemed politically incorrect, or shrouded in mystery and must bear some explanation. Among the topics the author delves into are expressions that shouldn’t be taken literally (“dressed to kill” and “kick the bucket”), foreign expressions that crept into English (“carte blanche,” “carpe diem,” and “que sera, sera”), phrases borrowed from print ads and TV commercials (“where there’s life, there’s Bud” and “where the rubber meets the road”), animal images (“a barrel of monkeys” and “chasing your tail”), and food and drink (“cast your bread upon the water,” “chew the fat,” “bottom’s up!”, and “drink as a lord”). Here’s a book for everyone who delights in the mysteries of language and the perfect gift for all the “wordies” in your life.
Author : Andrei Marmor,Scott Soames
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191654756
This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062086587
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822038362976
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : UOM:39015009034862
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253040374
“A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore.” —Choice In 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might—opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right—in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the fourteenth century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the nineteenth century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by such modern-day politicians as Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women’s rights, and the civil rights movement—and by looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time, and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.
Author : Denise Pivarnik-Nova
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781506224664
Provides a comprehensive review of exam topics, from key terminology to essay writing, and includes test-taking strategies and full-length practice tests.
Author : M. Pratt-Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230115378
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the construction of race, class, and gender categories and social justice outcomes is analyzed. An applied transdisciplinary model - integrating law, sociology, history, and social movement theory - demonstrates how marginalized groups are oppressed by ideologies of power and privilege in the legal system, the education system, and the media. Pratt-Clarke documents the effects of racism, patriarchy, classism, and nationalism on Black females and males in the single-sex school debate.