Semantic Antics

Author : Sol Steinmetz
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780307497789

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Semantic Antics by Sol Steinmetz Pdf

"My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion." Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish." In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.

Author : Robert Fedell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977254845

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This is a collection of poems worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Author : Rosalind Dixon,Adrienne Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417570

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The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective by Rosalind Dixon,Adrienne Stone Pdf

Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. This contributed volume will help its wide audience including scholars, students, and practitioners understand the dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems.

Author : United States. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : PURD:32754079148122

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The United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals by United States. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit) Pdf

Author : Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495639

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Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard Pdf

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.

Author : Mark Richard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192580573

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Meanings as Species by Mark Richard Pdf

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primary thesis is that a word's meaning - in the sense of what one needs to track in order to be a competent speaker - is the collection of assumptions its users make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is something that is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and typically evolving in so far as what constitutes a meaning changes in virtue of the interactions of speakers with their (linguistic and social) environment. Meanings as Species develops and defends the analogy between the biological and the linguistic, and includes a discussion of the senses in which the processes of meaning change are and are not like evolution via natural selection. Richard argues that thinking of meanings as species supports Quine's insights about analyticity without rendering talk about meaning theoretically useless. He also discusses the relations between meaning as what the competent speaker knows about her language, meaning as the determinant of reference and truth conditions, and meaning qua what determines what sentence uses say. This book contains insightful discussions of a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, including: relations between meaning and philosophical analysis, the project of 'conceptual engineering', the senses in which meaning is and is not compositional, the degree to which to which referential meaning is indeterminate, and what such indeterminacy might tells us about propositional attitudes like belief and assertion.

Author : Ronald L. Jackson II,Michael A. Hogg
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781412951531

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Encyclopedia of Identity by Ronald L. Jackson II,Michael A. Hogg Pdf

Alphabetically arranged entries offer a comprehensive overview of the definitions, politics, manifestations, concepts, and ideas related to identity.

Author : David Shariatmadari
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781324004264

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Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari Pdf

A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents. Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain. Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. But despite these advances, much of what people believe about language is based on folklore, instinct, or hearsay. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words. Exploding nine widely held myths about language while introducing us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics, Shariatmadari is an energetic guide to the beauty and quirkiness of humanity’s greatest achievement.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210006360992

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Official Congressional Directory by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : David Allen,Tina Blythe
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807775462

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The Facilitator's Book of Questions by David Allen,Tina Blythe Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Silver Lake Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Copyright and electronic data processing
ISBN : 9781563437458

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The Value of a Good Idea by Anonim Pdf

Sur la couverture "Fair use on the Internet; copyrights and trademarks; licenses and permissions; negotiating tactics"

Author : Gary Lee Berry
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449095550

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A Handicapped Cowboy's Story by Gary Lee Berry Pdf

Life's unfolded in such an unbelievable and downright bloody way that I reckoned I'd spin a tale ok? Now, have you ever watched a police show on TV, or caught a movie that had you wonder "Hey, there really can't be folks out there like that. Folks don't do those things. Shoot! Some beer bellied, pipe-smoking author or screen writer dreamed them up. Ain't no real live hoods, or crooks like that, is there? Well, amigo, I grew up in Texas, around folks who rode, roped and branded, understand? I got away from that in my teens and began stealing cars and burglarizing homes and small businesses. I ended up in various Texas city and county jails, even pulled a quarter of a year behind bars for one offense. I never served any "hard time" but I had amigos who did, so I walked the walk and talked the talk and no one messed with me. Then I had a drunken car wreck, broke my neck (a hangman's break). I spent five and a half months in a coma and the Lord God messed with me. So here I am and here's my story. Gary Lee Berry

Author : Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110214307

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship by Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph Pdf

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on language and race and on Indian writing systems. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781439139400

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The Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer Pdf

Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.

Author : Thomas O. Scarborough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666734935

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Everything, Briefly by Thomas O. Scarborough Pdf

“As a man thinks, so is he.” Personally, and socially, so is he. Yet if this is true, then "as a man thinks" has led us into the thick of global crisis. What exactly is it, about our thinking, that fails us? What has gone so wrong? There are firm reasons why we may hope for new direction. Firstly, we have a new view of the connectedness of all things. Never before has this encompassed so much. It makes a crucial difference to philosophy. Secondly, when we recast philosophy’s high-level concepts in more concrete terms, it becomes possible to discuss them without confusion. This is the method of this book. There is much of interest for the theologian, too. Legendary film director Ingmar Bergman once wrote, “What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not?” His “can not” had to do with what Professor Karen Barad calls the “hegemony of physics”. Everything, Briefly details why it is impossible, in fact, to believe in a closed universe of cause and effect.