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Level: 11+Subject: English Covering all required curriculum content, this book of English assessment papers offers clear assessment testing for KS2, and includes advice from teachers on how best to use the tests in order to move up to the next level. With a simple layout in black and white, these English tests are designed to mimic the real tests, encouraging children to gain confidence through the assessment process. Children will enjoy practising the key English skills lear...

Exam Board: Edexcel, AQA, OCR & WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE Grade 9-1Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015, First Exams: June 2017 However you like to learn, Letts will get you through your GCSE 9-1 exam. Have a go at hands-on activitiesExam-style questions like the real thingKey words and summaries throughoutAudio walk-throughs for every topic(download at lettsrevision.co.uk/GCSE) This revision guide will help you get GCSE 9-1 exam-ready! It covers ev...

In dieser Arbeit werden theoretische Zielsetzungen verfolgt, die der Autor unter dem Begriff der semantischen Valenztheorie seit Beginn der Valenzforschung bearbeitet. Die Problemfelder der drei Studien "Modifikatoren als Komponenten der Wortbedeutung", "Wortbildung und Valenz" und "Pronomen und Valenz" erweisen sich dabei keineswegs als nur marginal. Mit ihrer Untersuchung wird die Tragfahigkeit des erweiterten semantischen Valenzkonzeptes des Autors gepruft und prazisiert, das u.a. eine Valenz...

This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate words reveal the infrastructure of the actual and mental lexicon, assuming that language mirrors thought. Sovran aims to elucidate their infrastructure and the metaphorical and perceptual models that constitute abstract concepts, dealing finally...

Professor Donno's fully annotated edition, based on the Folio text, explains Shakespeare's language in its sixteenth -century social and dramatic context. The introduction emphasises the play's Illyrian setting, a locale that distances the mad actions of the romantic lovers and the comic Sir Toby with his crew from the real world where the wind blows and the rain falls, The play's major themes and characters are defined against their counterparts in Shakespeare's sources and against later parodi...

This major publication is a history of the semantic tradition in philosophy from the early nineteenth century through its incarnation in the work of the Vienna Circle, the group of logical positivists that emerged in the years 1925-1935 in Vienna who were characterised by a strong commitment to empiricism, a high regard for science, and a conviction that modern logic is the primary tool of analytic philosophy. In the first part of the book, Alberto Coffa traces the roots of logical positivism in...

Empleando como corpus de analisis las unidades fraseologicas de diferentes lenguas (espanol, gallego, italiano, ingles, bulgaro, croata...), los dieciseis articulos que componen este volumen analizan los mecanismos figurativos desde opticas distintas y complementarias (semantica, sintaxis, terminologia, etnolinguistica, psicolinguistica...). Los trabajos contenidos en el libro confirman el papel fundamental que juega el lenguaje figurado en el retrato (comparativo o no) de nuestra percepcion de...

A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack-a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton-explains why puns matter: They revolutionized language and played a pivotal role in making the modern world possible. Skillfully weaving together stories and evidence from history, brain science, pop culture, literature, anthropology, a...

In an effort to counter the marginalization of indirect translation in systematic research, this book establishes innovative theoretical and methodological grounds and mitigates terminological instability in the field. In so doing, it unsettles the binary paradigms still predominant in translation research, such as original versus translation and source versus target culture/language/text. The contributors focus on the indirect translation of literature and cover a variety of European and Asia...

First published in 1985, this book studies several common items in English conversation known variously as 'discourse particles', 'interjections', 'discourse markers', and, more informally, 'hesitations' or 'fillers'. While the analysis primarily focuses on 'like', 'well' and 'you know', the larger concern is the entire set of items of which these are members and as such 'I mean', 'now', 'oh', 'hey', and 'aha' are also examined. These discourse particles are analysed at length and then a framewo...

'[A] clever, cosmic, moving and funny parenting physics and poetry adventure . . . It's wonderful' Max Porter via Twitter'Clear, nimble and dexterous' Ocean Vuong'It's a magical book. An incantation to be fully present, fully concerned, fully alive' Luke KennardIn this highly original book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how his daughter's birth at a time of great global uncertainty inspired him to rediscover with fresh urgency the importance of language as a realm of 'intimacy...