History Of Language – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 5

Cleophilus' de Coetu Poetarum and Iustus Lipsius' Somnium

Providing the first edited text, translation and commentary of two Renaissance dream-narrative satires, this edition sheds light on the period's literary history and reception of classical texts. Cleophil…

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Jean Starobinski,
Action and Reaction

A study of the word pair action and reaction embracing philosophy, semantics, literature, and science.

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Dan Fante
Fante

No two lives could have been more different, yet similar in a few essential ways than John and Dan Fante′s. As father and son, John and Dan Fante were prone to fights, resentment and extended periods of s…

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Megan C Reynolds
Like

"A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language"--

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Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Edward Wilson-Lee
The Grammar of Angels

'Ingenious... a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a Renaiss…

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Sandra Laugier,
Wittgenstein

"A holistic introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy that approaches him as a philosopher of ordinary life. One of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's most consequential claims was that the meaning of…

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Paul Dickson
G.I. Jive

The language of American World War II military service began to evolve with the first draftees of 1940. Their emerging vocabulary was irreverent, creative, and often obscene, influenced by the worlds of m…

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Sara Cassidy,
Star Sailor, the Story of Words

Humans need words to communicate, whether they are spoken, written, signed or even sung. But what exactly is a word? And why does the way we use words continue to change?The English language has morphed, …

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Robert Horton, Robert Animikii Horton
The Song of the Stars

Since the earliest days of human memory, countless generations have turned their eyes to the skies in wonder, drawing patterns, understanding the stars' connection to cycles and events, and carrying their…

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Silvia Valisa
The Periodical Life of Modernity

The Milan-based publishing firm Sonzogno was an essential yet historically overlooked cultural player in nineteenth-century Italy. Positioning Sonzogno as both exceptional in its commercial success and em…

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D B Dowd
Reading Pictures

A history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into today's age of digital mediaOf all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the w…

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Matthew P Brown
The Novel and the Blank

"This book explores eighteenth-century British American print shops, highlighting their diverse output--including blank forms, novels, and religious tracts-and their impact on literary culture, the p…

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Yujie Chen
A Grammar of Central Plains Mandarin

This grammar presents a linguistic study of the Shangshui dialect, which belongs to Central Plains Mandarin. The latter is a sub-branch of Mandarin and is spoken over a vast region of the middle of China …

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The Invention of a Language of Emptiness

This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the "Chojang chungga-ŭi" (The Meaning of the "Middle and Provisional" in the "First Stanza"), a little-known…

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Melissa Adler
Peculiar Satisfaction

How Thomas Jefferson's vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it -- and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Inde…

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Michael M Grynbaum
Empire of the Elite

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue , Vanity Fair , The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through t…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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John Edgar Wideman
Languages of Home

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman's most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America's changing landscape and chro…

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