Writing against Boundaries (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, #153)
Writing against Boundaries. Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context presents a series of essays by prominent scholars who critically explore the intersection of nation and subjectivity, the production of national identities, and the tense negotiation of multiculturalism in German-speaking countries. By looking at a wide spectrum of texts that range from Richard Wagner's operas to Hans Bellmer's art, and to literature by Aras OEren, Irene Dische, Annette Kolb, Elizabeth L...
Quranic Arabic (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
by Marijn Van Putten
What was the language of the Quran like, and how do we know? Today, the Quran is recited in ten different reading traditions, whose linguistic details are mutually incompatible. This work uncovers the earliest linguistic layer of the Quran. It demonstrates that the text was composed in the Hijazi vernacular dialect, and that in the centuries that followed different reciters started to classicize the text to a new linguistic ideal, the ideal of the 'arabiyyah. This study combines data from ancien...
Appropriate for a 1 or 2 term course in Abstract Algebra at the Junior level. This book explores the essential theories and techniques of modern algebra, including its problem-solving skills, basic proof techniques, many unusual applications, and the interplay between algebra and geometry. It takes a concrete, example-oriented approach to the subject matter.
Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia
This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has developed since the beginning of the 21st century, focusing in particular on new ways of communication. The authors, drawn from a range of countries, cultures and academic traditions, address and debate how today's globalised communication, media and new technologies are influencing and shaping the translation of humour. Examining both how humour translation exploits new means of communication and how the processes of humour translati...
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon comes an education in the art of articulation, from the King James Bible to Katy Perry… From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase—such as “O Captain! My Captain!” or “To be or not to be”—memorable. In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows...
An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
by Ahmad Al-Jallad
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains...
Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.
A Writer's Grammar is a lively, engaging, and writing-intensive introduction to grammar from a rhetorical and stylistic perspective. A Writer's Grammar makes clear and interesting the relationship between good writing and grammatical knowledge. Presenting grammatical concepts in a hierarchical manner, it builds logically from basic elements to more advanced concepts, showing how grammar affects a writer's style. Writing instruction within each section gives students guided practice to help the...
Texas Language Arts Synonyms and Antonyms Elementary Workbook
by Test Master Press
Topic-based practice questions for the 11+ exam. Bond English Assessment Papers 5-6 years includes: *20 carefully graded practice papers *comprehensive coverage of all key English skills *answers and tips available online *motivating progress chart *comprehensive parental advice *step-by-step support to help your child achieve 11 plus success. Bond is the number one series for 11 plus practice, with over 45 years of experience. Written by expert authors Bond Assessment Papers offer continuous...
An expert recognised for his uncovering of the hidden, and often secret meaning of words, Kevin Hall now shares his wisdom with us all. In "Aspire!", he teaches readers to understand what words mean in their purest sense and unlock their importance as they develop a thoughtful new vocabulary. As Stephen R. Covey so beautifully elucidates in his foreword, 'this masterfully written book will help you understand that words have an inherent power, a force capable of lighting one's paths and horizons...
Written for adult beginning learners, Literacy Plus, by Joan Saslow, offers instruction in survival English and basic literacy at the same time. Literacy Plus A is for students who are pre-literate in their own language and know no English. Literacy Plus B is designed to follow Literacy Plus A, or for students who are literate in their own language but not in English. This comprehensive standards-based course helps students make daily progress on the path to literacy and oral communication. (Ser...
Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” One would think, in a world homogenized by technology and social media, that differences between British English and American English would gradually disappear. Ask any recent traveler, though, and you’ll learn that plenty of linguistic idiosyncrasies persist, and new ones emerge all the time. Folks on both sides of the pond may be in closer touch tha...
The fun and fascinating follow-up to the international bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants Why do people put their "skeletons in a closet," "have a hunch," "get the cold shoulder," "get dressed up to the nines," or "call a spade a spade?" These phrases are used every day, yet most people have little or no idea where most of them come from. In Black Sheep and Lame Ducks, Albert Jack takes readers on a journey through the curious- and often bizarre-origins of hundreds of their favorite...
Flesh Becomes Word (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture)
by David Dawson
Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term "scapegoat" has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While William Tyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by Lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of vio...
Mittelhochdeutsch
Wie bei kaum einer anderen Epoche sind in Forschung und Lehre zum Mittelhochdeutschen UEberlieferungsgeschichte, Textphilologie, historische Linguistik und Literaturgeschichte aufs engste verbunden. In uber 30 Aufsatzen, die Kurt Gartner zu seinem 75. Geburtstag gewidmet sind, schreiten altere und jungere Kolleginnen und Kollegen das gesamte Feld seiner langjahrigen Arbeit auf diesen Gebieten ab. Das thematische Spektrum der Beitrage reicht von UEberlieferungsstudien (u.a. zu einer fruhen Meiste...