Historical Language – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 4

Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Writing from Invention to Decipherment

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select…

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J P Mallory
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered

A lifetime's study brings revealing expertise to an oft-misunderstood topic in human history--the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans.

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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Thinking in Chinese and English

Do Chinese and English speakers think differently? While the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis --- the idea that language determines thought --- has long been discredited, this book offers a mo…

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Jennifer Manoukian
Purist Pursuits

Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Man…

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Ben Schott
Schott's Significa

SCHOTT IS BACK - and better than ever.From the mind behind the million-copy bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and secret languages of our modern…

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Rodney Ast, Roger S Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, Roberta Casagrande-Kim
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3

Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 presents 232 new or re-edited texts from the excavations conducted at the site of Amheida (Trimithis in the Roman period and Setwah in earlier times). In addition to the G…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Al-An&,
The Book of Rain

The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist…

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Caroline Adderson,
A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

A funny new fable about artistic creation and chasing fame, imagined by award-winning author Caroline Adderson, and inspired by one of Japan's most famous haikus, "The Old Pond."Bash¿, a 17th-ce…

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Dekuan Huang,
Chinese Paleography

This book offers an introduction to ancient Chinese characters, addressing the origin and development of ancient writing, the theoretical method of learning ancient Chinese characters, evolution of ancien…

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Penny Penny

Yogo Yogo

Product Information The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South…

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Teaching the Mexican Revolution

Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legaciesThe Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, film, song, and popular culture. An enduring part of the cultural memory of Mexican an…

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Teaching the Mexican Revolution

Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legaciesThe Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, film, song, and popular culture. An enduring part of the cultural memory of Mexican an…

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters "One of the greatest writers of…

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New Directions in Digital Textual Studies

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging examination of the interactions between the history of the book and digital humanities.

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New Directions in Digital Textual Studies

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging examination of the interactions between the history of the book and digital humanities.

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Global Asias

"Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowled…

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