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Lost in Translation - An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words

Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through tree leaves? Or that there's a Swedish word that m...

Sejong Korean Vocabulary and Grammar 1A

This is the completely renewed Sejong Korean Series edited by the King Sejong Institute and first published in 2022. The series consists ...

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes - Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Everett was a missionary with a plan to convert the Pirahas, but they ended up converting him. Over time, he learnt their language and be...

Speaking Korean for Beginners - Free MP3 Audio Download

This book has been compiled so that readers can study spoken Korean on their own, acquiring both fluency and accuracy by listening to the...

Course in General Linguistics

Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as the...

A Little Book of Language

A history and discussion of language written specifically for a young audience in an accessible and entertaining style. He sheds light on...

Sejong Korean Vocabulary and Grammar 2B

This is the completely renewed Sejong Korean Series edited by the King Sejong Institute and first published in 2022. The series consists ...

How Dead Languages Work

Different languages have different personalities, and there is a lot that can be lost in translation. This volume offers an engaging and ...

Morphosyntax - Constructions of the World's Languages

Build and operate multi-GNSS and multi-frequency receivers with state-of-the-art techniques using this up-to-date, complete and easy-to-f...

Sejong Korean Vocabulary and Grammar 1B

This is the completely renewed Sejong Korean Series edited by the King Sejong Institute and first published in 2022. The series consists ...

Confabulations

John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction i...

Lexicon of Baltic Mythology

The present volume is an alphabetically arranged lexicon of mythological terms of Baltic mythology. The terms are analyzed in their histo...

My First 500 Korean Words - Book 2

With the second book of our best-selling "My First 500 Korean Words" series, you can effectively expand your Korean vocabulary from a beg...

The Secrets of Words

"A conversation with the founder of modern linguistics on the history of science, the limitations of technology, the current state of bra...

The Power of Language - How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds

"This revolutionary book goes beyond any recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its vir...

The Visual Language of Comics - Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporar...

The Power of Language - Multilingualism, Self and Society

Why should we learn more than one language? Can it change the way we think? Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You...

GRAMMAR OF WORDS 3E OTL P - An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology

Geert Booij's popular textbook has been revised and updated. It covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of words, ex...

Sejong Korean Student Book 1B - English Edition - Free MP3 Download

This is the completely renewed Sejong Korean Series edited by the King Sejong Institute and first published in 2022. The series consists ...

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies - Interdisciplinary Approaches

In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly sh...

Seeing and Perceiving - Synesthetic Perception, Embodied Intersubjectivity, and Gender Masquerade in Siri Hustvedt's Works

Siri Hustvedt is one of the few contemporary US-American authors who consistently engages with the questions of seeing and perceiving in ...

The Turning Key - Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse since 1800

The World Beyond - Developing Critical Environmental Literacies in EFL

Environmental approaches in ELT have gained momentum in recent years. There is a large body of eco-artefacts across a plethora of media w...

Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing

This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces...

The Islamic banking system - Not conductive to the start-up of young, innovative business firms

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 1,3, Ben Gurion University (Middle East ...

Methods of characterization, character foils (in Jane Austen`s Novels)

Seminar paper from the year 1993 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Ruhr-University of Bochum, course: ...

Postcolonial Theory in William Shakespeare¿s The Tempest

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Obe...

Les Misérables - Volume I - Fantine - Book Fifth ¿ The Descent and Book Sixth - Javert

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT**...

Jewish New York in Abraham Cahan's "The Rise of David Levinsky" and Henry James' "The American Scene"

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Tel Aviv University Department of English (Tel Aviv Univ...

Differences in the usage of finite adverbial concessive clauses. A replication study of "Gender Differences in English Syntax" by Britta Mondorf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, Johannes Gutenberg Uni...

Was the Union of 1707 a takeover by the English?

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Univ...

New Selves - Issues of Identity in the Caribbean Canadian Poetry of Claire Harris and Olive Senior

The aim of the following paper is an analyses of selected poems of Claire Harris and Olive Senior in regard of the theme that connects th...

From ¿Song of Myself¿ to ¿Howl¿. Walt Whitman as pioneer to the Beat Generation

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für E...

The Reimagining Ireland Reader - Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future

To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection o...

Online Sex Talk and the Social World - Mediated Desire

This book develops a feminist and queer linguistic account of the construction of sex, sexuality, and desire through a linguistic and dis...

"They wanted no excuse for being there": The Africanist Presence in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

Essay from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Carl von Ossietzky University o...

How¿can the subaltern speak?' - A Semiotic Reading of Fugard, Soyinka and Wannus's Selected Plays as Theatres of Resistance

This book tackles the experience of previously-colonized people and how they are portrayed on stage as subalterns, especially in the Afri...

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has beco...

Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental healt...

Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection - Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection

Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can ...

Ambiguity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

Charlotte Brontë's final novel Villette (1853) is associated with ambiguity because of its open ending: Does M. Paul return to narrator-p...

A Plurilingual Analysis of Four Russian-American Autobiographies - Cournos, Nabokov, Berberova, Shteyngart

Among the many examples of Russian-American émigré literature, a number of less known authors moved to the USA, following their predecess...

Outlook & Insight - New Research and Reflections on Arthur Koestler's "The Gladiators"

The title of this volume, "Outlook and Insight", is deliberately evocative of Koestler's "Insight and Outlook" (1949), an investigation o...

Pacific Pidgins and Creoles - Focus on Tok Pisin

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg...

The Gnostic devil in Bulgakov's "Master and Margerita"

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Russian / Slavic Languages, grade: 96%, eqals 1,0, The University of Western Ontario, course: The...

Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband - Eu - L

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general lingu...

The Role of Women in Gothic Novels - 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole, 'The Italian' by Ann Radcliffe, 'Melmoth the Wanderer' by Charles Robert Maturin

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, University of Osnabrück, language: English, ab...

From Formal Linguistic Theory to the Art of Historical Editions - The Multifaceted Dimensions of Romance Linguistics

Romance is a fertile ground for linguistic research. Instead of limiting their studies to one specialised area, some Romance scholars hav...

Language in Ahmadou Kourouma´s "Allah n¿est pas obligé" - Intercultural Dialogue in Literary Aesthetics

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - French - Literature, Works, LMU Munich (Fakultaet fuer Sprac...

Greek - Latin - Slavic - Aspects of Linguistics and Grammatography

This edited work is intended for classical philologists and a broad range of scholars working in theoretical, historical, and comparative...

Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education

This edited book uses the concept of diversity in child foreign language education as a major organizing principle. Since a foreign langu...

Trauma's Gap. How the Recipient's Triggered Agency in Amy Waldman's novel "The Submission" and Michael Moore's Movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" Creates a New Pattern of Narrative Memory by Turning Ungrievable into Grievable Lives

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,3, Leiden University, language: English, abst...

Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer¿s "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Koblenz-L...

Guide to Canadian English Usage: The Essential English Resource for Canadian Writers & Editors

The only resource of its kind, the Guide to Canadian English Usage, Second Edition, provides Canadians with straightforward, authoritativ...

Rock'n'Roll vs. Lipsi - the Influence of American Popular Culture on the GDR

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berl...

HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Derbyshire, Desmond C. / Pullum, Geoffrey K. -- Part I: Grammatical Sketches -- Outline of Contents for eac...

How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis - A Multimodal Introduction

"How great to have this practical introduction to doing critical discourse analysis, especially one that provides examples of multimodal ...

The syntax of medieval Occitan

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publicat...

Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity it...

Humor in Mark Twain¿s 'The Awful German Language'

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik...