The World In A Phrase

Author : James Geary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781608197620

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The World in a Phrase by James Geary Pdf

Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of its greatest practitioners, including Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker; great French aphorists like Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and Chamfort; philosophers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein; as well as prophets and sages like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Jesus. In our modern age, The World in a Phrase explores how aphorisms still retain the power to instigate and inspire, enlighten and enrage, entertain and edify. James Geary is the author of The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses. He lives in London with his wife and three children. "James Geary's celebration of the smallest-and sometimes wisest-of literary forms. Geary defines the characteristics of aphorisms and discusses their history and their role in his life, and shares the work of renowned aphorists from Buddha to Dr. Seuss."-Associated Press

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175004142306

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The Shakespeare Phrase Book by John Bartlett Pdf

Author : Nicola Edwards,Manu Montoya
Publisher : Caterpillar Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838913270

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What a Wonderful Phrase by Nicola Edwards,Manu Montoya Pdf

Have you ever wondered why we talkabout 'buttering someone up' or wherethe phrase 'it's raining cats and dogs'actually comes from? What does it meanto 'comb the giraffe' in France or to 'weara cat on your head' in Japan?Also available This beautifully illustrated collection of curious phrases from around the world is a voyage of cultural discovery.

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Allusions
ISBN : 1840223103

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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Pdf

This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429983549

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The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin! The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Eric Dondero R.,Eric Dondero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 0971853312

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Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book by Eric Dondero R.,Eric Dondero Pdf

Author : Don Cupitt
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048114

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Turns of Phrase by Don Cupitt Pdf

Presents a Devil's Dictionary of the author's own ideas, with cross-links from entry to entry guiding the reader around his system. This title points out that the non-arrival of the Kingdom left the early Christians looking up vigilantly towards a better world that was yet to come.

Author : Edwin Hamlin Carr
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547306504

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Putnam's Phrase Book by Edwin Hamlin Carr Pdf

Putnam's Phrase Book is about the art of letter writing and how to charm friends and family with your devilish and ornate epistolary skill. Contents: "A Dictionary of Six Thousand Expressions and General Phrases for Use in Conversation, Social Letter Writing, and Public Speaking; A Sample Letter Showing how this Book may be Used in Preparation of Social Letters; A Guide to Phrases for Use in Preparing One's Letters if the Sample Letters are not Satisfactory; One Hundred Social Letters; Of Condolence; Of Congratulation; Of Friendly Appreciation With Gifts"

Author : DeliadaSousa Correa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351554220

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Phrase and Subject by DeliadaSousa Correa Pdf

The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry. This innovative collection of interdisciplinary essays provides a valuable introduction to the field, mapping the contours of recent research and investigating the mutual aesthetic influence of the two arts and their common historical ground. The examination of literary works using music as an analogy for literary composition and agent of cultural value, and the consideration of musical works whose structure is derived from literary models will excite the interest of both professional scholars and students in the fields of musicology, literary studies and modern European languages. (Legenda 2006) Delia da Sousa Correa is Lecturer in Literature at The Open University. She is the author of George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture (2002) and editor of

Author : Moritz Ertheiler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : German language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102776143

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A Phrase Book in English and German ... by Moritz Ertheiler Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Knowles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191578564

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Elizabeth Knowles Pdf

This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. What is a ham-and-egger? What are Anglo-Saxon attitudes? Who or what is liable to jump the shark? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? The answers to these and many more questions are in this fascinating book. Here in one volume you can track down the stories behind the names and sayings you meet, whether in classic literature or today's news. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled bank of reference and language online resources, this dictionary covers classical and other mythologies, history, religion, folk customs, superstitions, science and technology, philosophy, and popular culture. Extensive cross referencing makes it easy to trace specific information, while every page points to further paths to explore. A fascinating slice of cultural history, and a browser's delight from start to finish. What is the fog of war? Who first wanted to spend more time with one's family? When was the Dreamtime? How long since the first cry of Women and children first? Where might you find dark matter? Would you want the Midas touch? Should you worry about grey goo?

Author : Stefan Fatsis
Publisher : HMH
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780547524313

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Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis Pdf

This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Author : Daniel García Velasco,Jan Rijkhoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110198673

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The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar by Daniel García Velasco,Jan Rijkhoff Pdf

The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C. Dik's Functional Grammar. In its current form, FDG has an explicit top-down organization and distinguishes four hierarchically organized, interacting levels: (i) the interpersonal level (language as communicational process), (ii) the representational level (language as a carrier of content), (iii) the morphosyntactic level and (iv) the phonological level. Together they constitute the grammatical component, which in its turn interacts with a cognitive and a communicative component. This comprehensive approach to linguistic analysis is also reflected in this volume, which contains rich and substantial contributions concerning many different aspects of the noun phrase. At the same time, the analysis of a major linguistic construction from various perspectives is an excellent way to test a new model of grammar with regard to some of the standards of adequacy for linguistic theories. The book contains several papers dealing with matters of representation and formalization of the noun phrase (the articles by Kees Hengeveld, José Luis González Escribano, Jan Rijkhoff and Evelien Keizer). Other contributors are more concerned with the practical application of the model with regard to discourse-interpersonal matters (Chris Butler, John H. Connolly), whereas the chapters by Dik Bakker and Roland Pfau and by Daniel García Velasco deal with morphosyntactic issues. In all, the variety of issues addressed and the range of languages considered prove that one of the important advantages of the FDG model is precisely the fact that grammatical phenomena can be treated from a semantic, pragmatic, morpho-syntactic, phonological or textual perspective in a coherent fashion.

Author : Malaya Gangopadhyay
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8120803779

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The Noun Phrase in Bengali by Malaya Gangopadhyay Pdf

The notions of Karaka and Vacya comprising a theory of co-reference in Syntactico Semantics is an established theory in Indian Grammar.In relation to the descriptive analysis of Bengali noun-phrase the complexity of Karaka-Vacya configuration has been discussed in this book. Also the notion of role and the notion of ergative have been dealt with.

Author : Pieter de Haan
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9051831234

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Postmodifying Clauses in the English Noun Phrase by Pieter de Haan Pdf

This book reports on the results of a project whose aim was to give a detailed description of a number of syntactic properties of postmodifying clauses in the English NP, and study the way in which some of these properties are related to each other in a variety of text tyoes. The study is based on an examination of the Nijmegen Corpus, which consists of slightly over 130,000 words of running text. The structure of the NP is described basically in terms of four constituents: DeterminerPremodifierHeadPostmodifier No fewer than 2,430 occurrences of postmodifying clauses in NPs were analysed. A numerical coding scheme was designed, in which 26 different variable features were encoded, describing the properties the postmodifying clauses. These were processed and statistically analysed. The book discusses the methodology adopted and the results of the statistical analyses. Among the properties described are the function of NPs with postmodifying clauses, the structure of these NPs, the realisation and reference of the heads of these NPs, the specific types of postmodifying clause, the actual link words used, the clause patterns occurring in the postmodifying clauses, and the verb phrases in the postmodifying clauses.