Author: English languagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The illustrated national pronouncing dictionary of the English language
Author: English languageThe Cabinet dictionary of the English language
Author: English languageThe Pen and the People
Author: Susan WhymanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Noah WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language
Author: John WalkerLanguage and Culture
Author: David NunanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135153914
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars’ and teachers’ narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity. What makes this book stand out is the way in which authors meld traditional ‘academic’ approaches to inquiry with their own personalized voices. This opens a window on different ways of viewing and doing research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. What gives the book its power is the compelling nature of the narratives themselves. Telling stories is a fundamental way of representing and making sense of the human condition. These stories unpack, in an accessible but rigorous fashion, complex socio-cultural constructs of culture, identity, the self and other, and reflexivity, and offer a way into these constructs for teachers, teachers in preparation and neophyte researchers. Contributors from around the world give the book broad and international appeal.
The Excelsior pronouncing dictionary of the English language
Author: William Nicholson (of Halifax.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Possibility of Language
Author: Alan K. MelbyPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027283575
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explore this general — domain distinction and come to some uncommon conclusions about the nature of language. Domain language is claimed to be made possible by general language, while general language is claimed to be made possible by the ethical dimensions of relationships. Domain language is unharmed by the constraints of objectivism, while general language is suffocated by those constraints. Along the way to these conclusions, visits are made to Descartes and Saussure, to Chomsky and Lakoff, to Wittgenstein and Levinas. From these conclusions, consequences are drawn for machine translation and translator tools, for linguistic theory and translation theory. The title of the book does not question whether language is possible; it asks, with wonder and awe, why communication through language is possible.
A dictionary of the English language
Author: Robert Joseph SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language
Author: P. Austin NuttallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description