Category: Linguistics

By John David Hawkins

This is often an version of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the past due Hittite states of Turkey and Syria. those inscriptions, surviving principally on stone, contain monuments of kings to their reigns and works in addition to the humbler memorials of subordinates. a number of worthwhile survivals of records within the type of lead strips supply us a special kind of record: letters and financial texts. contemporary discoveries have better the decipherment and figuring out of those inscriptions to some degree the place new and entire translations should be provided, and the presentation of this in English will lead them to to be had for the 1st time to the broad viewers of the English-speaking global. whilst we're able to current extra trustworthy texts than these that have seemed in versions hitherto considered as usual.

By Charles Eugène de Ujfalvy de Mező-Kövesd

By Mardy Grothe

The work of art in eating places are on a par with the meals in museums.

America is a gigantic frosted cupcake in the course of hundreds of thousands of ravenous people.

Critics are like pigs on the pastry cart.

Describing anything through pertaining to it to a different factor is the essence of metaphorical suggestion. it's one of many oldest actions of humankind—and some of the most extraordinary while performed skillfully. all through background, many masters of metaphor have crafted observations which are so fabulous they've got taken up an enduring place of abode in our minds.

In I by no means Metaphor I Didn't Like, citation maven Dr. Mardy Grothe fixes his awareness at the 3 superstars of figurative language—analogies, metaphors, and similes. the result's a unprecedented compilation of approximately 2,000 feats of organization that may entertain, train, and sometimes motivate citation fanatics everywhere.

In this highbrow smorgasbord, the writer of Oxymoronica and Viva los angeles Repartee explains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth means earlier than taking readers on a journey of history's maximum be aware images. In chapters on wit, love, intercourse, level and reveal, insults, politics, activities, and extra, you'll find quotations from Aristotle and Maya Angelou to George Washington and Oprah Winfrey.

By B. Finney

By Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred

By Brian Nolan, Carlos Periñán-Pascual

There's a becoming wisdom of the importance and cost that modelling utilizing info expertise can carry to the functionally orientated linguistic firm. This contains a spectrum of parts as assorted as suggestion modelling, language processing and grammar modelling, conversational brokers, and the visualisation of advanced linguistic info in a sensible linguistic standpoint. This edited quantity bargains a suite of papers facing diverse facets of computational modelling of language and grammars, inside a practical viewpoint at either the theoretical and alertness degrees. consequently, this quantity represents the 1st example of up to date functionally orientated computational remedies of a number of vital language and linguistic matters. This e-book provides present learn on functionally orientated computational types of grammar, language processing and linguistics, inquisitive about a largely sensible computational linguistics that still contributes to our realizing of languages inside a useful and cognitive linguistic, computational study schedule.

By John Wilkins

Works of the precise Reverend John Wilkins' (1708). including an summary of Dr. Wilkin's 'Essay in the direction of a true personality and a Philosophical Languages, ' a comic strip of the lifetime of the writer and an account of his writings. With an introductory essay at the common Language flow in England, France and Germany within the seventeenth and 18th century through Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker.

By Nicholas Daly

Nicholas Daly explores the preferred fiction of the ''romance revival'' of the overdue Victorian and Edwardian years, concentrating on authors comparable to Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Drawing on contemporary paintings in cultural experiences, Daly argues that those experience narratives supplied a narrative of cultural swap at a time whilst Britain used to be attempting to accommodate the ''new imperialism.'' The presence of a style comparable to romance inside modernism, he claims, may still strength a wondering of the standard contrast among excessive and pop culture.

By Living Language

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