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by Kendall, Elisabeth, Manning, Julie C.
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This popular book is an entertaining and straightforward guide to themost commonly confused words in English today, with real examples ofgood and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear.
El volumen incluye contribuciones sobre los aspectos ideológicos de la traducción: las políticas de traducción, edición y cultura; las reescrituras y lecturas de textos antiguos; la traducción de documentos oficiales; el proceso y las estrategias de traducción y la recepción de …
This work explores how phenomena of secularization were expressed in the literature dating from the 11th to the 15th century. Exemplary analyses show how the concepts of the aesthetic and the religious in these texts overlapped and at the same time began to diverge from one anot…
This work explores how phenomena of secularization were expressed in the literature dating from the 11th to the 15th century. Exemplary analyses show how the concepts of the aesthetic and the religious in these texts overlapped and at the same time began to diverge from one anot…
Translating for younger audiences is in need of critical investigation, as children's and teenagers' literature and media products are being increasingly globalized and glocalized, with translation playing an important role in the process. Media phenomena such as Harry Potter an…
The book analyses a mode of apophasis in contemporary theoretical discourse. It explores the relationship between negative theology and Jacques Derrida's textual practice, as well as the similarities between apophasis and the trope of transgression in the works of Maurice Blanch…
Dictionary of authentic American proverbs
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"Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Compiled by Wolfgang Mieder, a key figure in the field of proverb studies, this compendium features nearly 1,500 proverbs with American origins, spanning the 17th …
Building on the original 1918 essay that formed the Strunk and White style guide, an introduction to the practices and importance of good grammar passionately advocates on behalf of reversing the modern decline of correct language use.
"Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, lead…
The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix "be-" in prose texts. "Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between" and "betwixt" are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study dr…
Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective…
"An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English. "If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd sound like an American." "English accents are the sexiest." "Americans have ruined the English language." "Technology means everyon…
Das Frühneuhochdeutsche Wörterbuch ist ein alphabetisch geordnetes Bedeutungswörterbuch der Varietäten des Hochdeutschen des 14. bis 17. Jahrhunderts. The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German from the 14th to 1…
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.
The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. Interdisciplinarity and dialogism inform the volume, which invites its readers to set sail on a journey across different disciplinary and linguistic seas, and to explo…