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Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. But social media isn't just an engine of linguistic change - it's also a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch our language evolve in real time.
| LCC: | P120.I6 .M28 2019 |
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| FDC: | 302 |
Since its publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman’s Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. This new edition has been extensively updated throughout. Major structural changes include new chapters on Functional Heads and Head Movement and on Relativized Minimality. Discussions of a number of topics missing from or not paid due attention in the first edition have been integrated or expanded.
| LCC: | P158.2 .H34 1994 |
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| FDC: | 415 |
Language and Meaning provides a clear, accessible and unique perspective on the philosophical and linguistic question of what it means to mean. Looking at relationships such as those between literal and non-literal meanings, linguistic form and meaning, and language and thought, this volume tackles the issues involved in what we mean and how we convey it.
| LCC: | P325 .B47 2018 |
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| FDC: | 401 |
Anthropologists have always put language at the centre of their agenda. So too have linguists. Linguistic anthropology, the amalgam of the two disciplines, aims to document and examine how language mirrors social structure and culture-specific thought patterns.
| LCC: | P35.D35 2012 |
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| FDC: | 306 |
The combination of extensive coverage and outstanding clarity, simplicity, and economy, makesthis dictionary ideal for home, school and office use.
| LCC: | PC4640 .C53 1992 |
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| FDC: | 463 |
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca - its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric 'rise of English' has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy. But the rise of English has very real donwsides as well.
| LCC: | PE1073.4 .S35 2022 |
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| FDC: | 306 |
This book covers all areas of the English curriculum with the exception of reading and literature: grammar, usage, sentence structure, composition, speaking and listening, mechanics, reference tools, vocabulary development, and the history of the language.
| LCC: | PE1112 .W324 1982 |
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| FDC: | 808 |
| LCC: | PE1408 .B883823 2020 |
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| FDC: | 808 |
| LCC: | PE1408 .B8838233 2017 |
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| FDC: | 808 |
This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past fifteen years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford’s major new textbook Analysing English Sentences, and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.
| LCC: | PE1441 .R36 2009 |
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| FDC: | 428 |
In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the nineteenth century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime example.
| LCC: | PE1450 .W38 2019 |
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| FDC: | 428 |
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes - moral, religious, political and social - that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works.
| LCC: | PG3326 .Z4 1992 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
This rich selection of four short stories by the great 19th century Russian author of Dead Souls includes The Nose, a savage satire of incompetent bureaucrats and the snobbery and complacency of the Russian upper classes; Old Fashioned Farmers, a sketch depicting an elderly couple who live a happy but simple life in rustic seclusion; The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ican Nikiforovich, one of Gogol's most famous comic series; and The Overcoat, an exceptionally moving tale - considered a masterpiece of the form - about a poor and much-ridivuled St. Petersburg official.
| LCC: | PG3333 .A6 1992 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
Besides the brilliant title story, a cunningly wrought narrative of romance and murder in the haute bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg, this volume includes all five stories originally collected as The Tales of the Late P. Belkin.
| LCC: | PG3347 .A2 1994 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. The Kreutzer Sonata (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in the matters of sex. In The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted with death. How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritiau lcrisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy's work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master.
| LCC: | PG3366 .A13 1993 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
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