Download or read book A House of Words written by Norman Ravvin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli
Download or read book House of Words written by Jonathan Potter and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Build me a house of words, / A house of how and why, / and I will live in it with you/ Under the silent sky, / For we will tell each other/ Things we would deny/ And believe them by and by." Jonathan Potter's House of Words is a collection of poems arranged in four movements echoing the structure of an Elizabethan sonnet. Each poem here represents a single stressed syllable pursed between lips, cobbling pillar and post, rafter and roof, where stars are nails and the night is a hammer falling. The book opens in wonder, dwelling in a world in which words and the gestures of language provide access to the freshness deep down things. But even in that initial movement, a gap is evident which grows as it confronts contradiction and death. Subdued recedings of resignation follow, tentatively emerging into the light of faith. House of Words is the inaugural publication of Korrektiv Press.
Download or read book House First Words Board Books written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the ideal kind of kid-design, smartly conceived to appeal to and engage little readers, and requiring no explanation or instructions. —The New York Times With five books to read and enjoy, House is an interactive read-aloud box set that allows for imaginative play. Little readers will have fun as they identify objects inside a house then play with and arrange the books and box like a puzzle. This set of five board books encourages reading and promotes early learning, while helping babies and toddlers develop vocabulary, fine motor skills and pattern recognition. From award-winning artist, illustrator, and character designer Michael Slack • Five books in one boxed set • Fun book and playset for babies and toddlers; allows for open-ended play • Designed to promote early learning, pattern recognition, language acquisition, and fine-motor skills Fans of First Words (Bright Baby), Tabbed Board Books: My First Words: Let's Get Talking! (My First Tabbed Board Book), and First 100 Words will love this book. • Makes a great baby shower gift • Artists, designers, architects, and collectors will love the visually distinctive packaging, modern aesthetic and artistic style • Ideal first words board book for babies
Download or read book The City of Words written by Alberto Manguel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'And yet stories, even the best and truest, can't save us from our own folly. Stories can't protect us from suffering and error, from natural and artificial catastrophes, from our own suicidal greed. The only thing they can do is ... offer consolation for suffering and words to name our experience. Stories can tell us who we are ... and suggest ways of imagining a future that, without calling for comfortable happy endings, may offer us ways of remaining alive, together, on this much-abused earth.' Based on Canada's 2007 CBC Massey Lectures (to be broadcast in Australia by ABC Radio National in April 2008), Alberto Manguel's The City of Words takes a fresh look at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies. We strive to build societies with sets of values all citizens can agree on. But something has gone wrong- race riots in France, political murder in the Netherlands, bombings in Britain and Bali - are these symptoms of a multicultural experiment gone awry? Why is it so difficult for us to live together when the alternatives are demonstrably horrifying? With his trademark wit and erudition, Alberto Manguel suggests a fresh approach- we should look at what visionaries, poets, novelists, essayists and filmmakers have to say about building societies. Perhaps the stories we tell hold secret keys to the human heart. From Cassandra to Jack London, the Epic of Gilgamesh to the computer Hal in 2001- A Space Odyssey, Don Quixote to Atanarjuat- The Fast Runner, Manguel draws fascinating and revelatory parallels between the personal and political realities of our present-day world and those of myth, legend and story.
Download or read book A House of Words written by Clifford Bax and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deschler s Precedents of the United States House of Representatives written by Lewis Deschler and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasure house of the Language written by Charlotte Brewer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past, a testament to the richness of the English language today, and a guarantor of future understanding of the language. In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped--the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928--and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into a twenty-first-century electronic medium. Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up to date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices. With humor and empathy, she portrays the predilections and personalities of the editors, publishers, and assistants who undertook the Sisyphean task of keeping apace with the modern explosion of vocabulary. Utilizing rich archives in Oxford as well as new electronic resources, the author uncovers a history no less complex and fascinating than the Oxford English Dictionary itself.
Download or read book Words from the White House written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.
Download or read book Constitution Jefferson s Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secrets of Words written by Noam Chomsky and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Moro draws Chomsky out on today’s misplaced euphoria about artificial intelligence (Chomsky sees “lots of hype and propaganda” coming from Silicon Valley), the study of the brain (Chomsky points out that findings from brain studies in the 1950s never made it into that era’s psychology), and language acquisition by children. Chomsky in turn invites Moro to describe his own experiments, which proved that there exist impossible languages for the brain, languages that show surprising properties and reveal unexpected secrets of the human mind. Chomsky once said, “It is important to learn to be surprised by simple facts”—“an expression of yours that has represented a fundamental turning point in my own personal life,” says Moro—and this is something of a theme in their conversation. Another theme is that not everything can be known; there may be permanent mysteries, about language and other matters. Not all words will give up their secrets.
Download or read book The Social Life of Words written by Laura Wright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselves Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.
Download or read book Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons written by John Hatsell and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A House of Cards written by Percival Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pilgrim in the Palace of Words written by Glenn Dixon and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. Some six thousand languages are still spoken on the planet, and author Glenn Dixon – an expert is socio-linguistics and a tireless adventurer – travels to the Earth's four corners to explore the way these languages create and mould societies. As one philosopher said, languages are Houses of Being. After doing graduate work in linguistics, Dixon wanted to visit these houses or "palaces" himself – to stroll along their sidewalks, knock on their doors, and peek in their windows. He wanted to see what they were hiding in their basements ... even if it meant a little bit of trouble. In some cases, a whole lot of trouble! Join him on his adventure as, with wit and humour, he works toward a real understanding of how and why we communicate the way we do in the Global Village.
