On Language, A. Goodson; S. Coleridge

Автор: Pollock, Sheldon
Название: Language of the gods in the world of men
ISBN: 0520260031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520260030
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Explores the rise and fall of Sanskrit, India`s ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.

Автор: Labov
Название: The Language of Life and Death
ISBN: 1107656818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107656819
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: accounts of the danger of death, violence, premonitions and large-scale community conflicts. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader`s attention together with an analysis of how it is done.

Автор: Abberley
Название: English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914
ISBN: 1107101166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107101166
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical angle on current debates about language evolution and the language of science. Abberley offers fresh perspectives on authors including Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells, and genres including utopian, historical and science fiction.

Автор: Shapiro, Michael
Название: The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage
ISBN: 3319516817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319516813
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author's self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author's Languagelore blog. Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, especially cases where language is changing due to innovative usage.

In every case where an analysis contains technical or recondite vocabulary, a Glossary precedes the body of the essay, and readers can also consult the Master Glossary which contains all items glossed in the text. The unique form of the book's presentation is aimed at readers who are alert to the peculiarities of present-day American English as they pertain to pronunciation, grammar, and style, without "dumbing down" or compromising the language in which the explanations are couched.
This book is a treasure to be shared." Robert S. Hatten, The University of Texas at Austin"Jewel of a book. .

. . a gift to us all from Michael Shapiro.

Like a Medieval Chapbook it can be a kind of companion whose vignettes on language use can be randomly and profitably consulted at any moment. Some may consider these vignettes opinionated. That would be to ignore how deeply anchored each vignette is in Shapiro's long and rare polyglot experience with language.

It could well serve as a night table book, taken up each night to read and reflect upon --to ponder--both in the twilight mind and in the deeper reaches of associative somnolence. There is nothing else like it that I know of." James W. Fernandez, The University of Chicago

Автор: Goatly Andrew
Название: Language of Metaphors
ISBN: 0415586380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415586382
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, this title provides a model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as how we process them. It examines the distinction between literal and metaphorical language.