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The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde...
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Cet abécédaire reprend des mots du langage courant souvent employés à mauvais escient...
C'est un support pédagogique listant de A à Z les éléments d'une science, d'un art, d'un parti pris.
L'Abécédaire que vous tenez en main en ce moment liste des mots qui font partie du langage courant et que nous employons souvent de manière empirique, sans vraiment en connaître le ou les différents sens.
500 millions, vous aviez bien lu, nous sommes...
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El léxico de El Quijote, concebido a modo de diccionario, explica y aclara vocabulario, expresiones y refranes que aparecen en El Quijote, que, en la actualidad, por no ser habituales o haber cambiado de significado, pueden llevar a confusión a los lectores de tan magna obra.
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Juan Hernández Herrero (Salamanca) es licenciado en Medicina y especializado en cardiología. Ha sido durante años profesor de Cardiología en la Universitat Autònoma...
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Whether you're a translator, interpreter, terminologist, or just someone who is passionate about language, "Terminology extraction for translation and interpretation made easy" is your guide to creating terminology extraction lists quickly and easily—while keeping your client's data safe.
This book provides a step-by-step guide to terminology extraction by showing you how you can automate the creation of terminology extraction lists as much as possible....
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This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art.⍾⍾Tattoos are everywhere: one in three of us has at least one. Body art is one of the most popular ways of expressing our identity and beliefs.⍾⍾But whether we're aware of it or not when we choose a design to be permanently inked on our skin, a...
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Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.-Margaret Atwood
This exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality.
When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and...
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We live our lives word by word-to build our relationships, to convey our points of view, to object to wrongs done to us or to others, to comfort our children and our friends. We also use the wrong words-sometimes unknowingly-and get ourselves into situations we'd rather not be in.
As Stephen R. Covey points out in his introduction:
• Words sell and words repel
• Words lead and words impede
• Words heal and words kill
Kevin hall...
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Here is a book for anyone tired of speaking flat, colorless, homogenized English. Pennsylvania Dutchman Gary Gates provides a glossary, read-aloud section, songs, recipes, and more in this delightful, introduction to Dutch-ified English.
Learn the meaning of "rutch" and "spritz," what a "clod" and a "crotch" are, how to pronounce and make "Cussin Rache's Snitz and Knepp," and what has happened to food when it's "all." Spice up your vocabulary with...
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The Queen's English has no place across the pond, where a long history of defiance, creativity, and originality has made its way into the everyday vocabulary of Americans coast-to-coast. God Bless America is an informative and entertaining guide to the meaning and history beneath our uniquely American words and phrases. Robert Hendrickson makes it clear that whether you're ordering "fried chicken" or heading out to see a "movie," you are celebrating...
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Here is a book for anyone tired of speaking flat, colorless, homogenized English. Pennsylvania Dutchman Gary Gates provides a glossary, read-aloud section, songs, recipes, and more in this delightful, inwaluble introduction to Dutch-ified English. Learn the meaning of "rutch" and "spritz," what a "clod" and a "crotch" are, how to pronounce and make "Cussin Rachel's Snitz und Knepp," and what has happened to food when it's all. As you read this book...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Professor and the Madman tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Simon Winchester's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter summaries •...
32) The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary : a memoir
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"What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks, and its quiddities than the former chief editor of the OED,...
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From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language—""so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy""—and pays homage to the great dictionary
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"William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others--like bedazzled, hurry, critical, and anchovy--are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. Many other famous and lesser-known writers have contributed to the popular lexicon. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Sir Walter...
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"Most people think of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a distinctly British product. Begun in England one hundred and fifty years ago, it took over sixty years to complete and when it was finally finished in 1928 the British Prime Minister heralded it as a 'national treasure.' This book shows that the dictionary is not as 'British' as we all thought. The linguist and lexicographer, Sarah Ogilvie, combines her insider knowledge and experience...
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