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A tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages explores the history, geography, linguistics, and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs.
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out...
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University of Minnesota Press
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[2022]
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"Three centuries of English idioms - their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations. To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the first truly all-encompassing etymological guide to both their meanings and origins. Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly...
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What does it mean to talk like an American? According to John Russell Bartlett's 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, it means indulging in outlandish slang-splendiferous, scrumptious, higgeldy piggedly-and free-and-easy word creation-demoralize, lengthy, gerrymander. American English is more than just vocabulary, though. It's a picturesque way of talking that includes expressions like go the whole hog, and the wild boasts of frontiersman Davy Crockett,...
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Rares sont les sociétés contemporaines qui ne sont pas pluriculturelles et plurilingues, en raison notamment de l'émergence de l'anglais comme nouvelle lingua franca et de l'augmentation des flux migratoires des quarante dernières années. Dans un contexte de mutations sociales et économiques mondiales sans précédent, les défis posés par les politiques linguistiques et culturelles font désormais partie intégrante de notre quotidien. Mais...
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Bienvenido a Europa como nunca la has visto: a través de las peculiaridades de sus idiomas y dialectos.
Gaston Dorren mezcla la lingüística y la historia cultural y nos conduce a un fascinante tour por el continente, desde el protoindoeuropeo (el antepasado común de las lenguas europeas) hasta el triunfo del inglés, pasando por las complejidades de los plurales del galés y la pronunciación checa. Por el camino aprenderemos por qué el esperanto...
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En Colombia tenemos el privilegio de consolidar creativos proyectos interinstitucionales con cierta periodicidad. Esta nueva obra editada por la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y el Instituto Caro y Cuervo recoge aportes de diversas latitudes y promete ser, en su área, un presupuesto insalvable. Palenque (Colombia): oralidad, identidad y resistencia, editada por Graciela Maglia y Armin Schwegler, incluye experiencias académicas y contextos sociales...
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Essai d'un linguiste polyglotte.
Essai d'un linguiste polyglotte sur la diversité linguistique, la complexité des langues, les différences et parentés entre les langues et les effets de la disparition de certaines. Avec quarante langues supplémentaires abordées, des développements sur le romani et l'inuit, des ajouts sur le genre grammatical et la féminisation, des remaniements au texte présentant l'alphasyllabaire guèze.
Découvrez une...
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Esta obra presenta una serie de conceptos con que la posmodernidad cuestiona el funcionamiento de las esferas del poder, y aborda diversos casos donde se tensan y convergen las lenguas dominantes con las prácticas y usos menores que la resisten. La descripción de los fenómenos abordados, y las confrontaciones interdisciplinarias en que se apoya el texto, se ven facilitadas por su tono ensayístico.
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Esta obra contiene los resultados de una investigación realizada en el marco de la Maestría en Educación –Énfasis en Cognición– de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia) que permitió analizar, desde el enfoque de la lingüística sistémico-funcional y la lingüística textual, un tema poco explorado: las dificultades que enfrentan los docentes al escribir, las estrategias cognitivas y metacognitivas que utilizan y el tipo de textos que producen....
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Si es cierto que la vida sobre la tierra es un paso más en la evolución hacia la complejidad de la materia que se creó después del Big Bang,
el desarrollo del lenguaje humano y especialmente de la gramática, que es su núcleo esencial y diferenciador, constituye la piedra angular del desarrollo de la complejidad alcanzada por el cerebro humano y sus complejas creaciones.
Este libro muestra que la gramática es natural en los dos sentidos posibles:...
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This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family...
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The Comparative Vocabulary Study Guide, Spanish to English to Italian, highlights over 7,000 selected Spanish words that have either the same spelling and meaning as their English and Italian counterparts or contain easily recognizable English and Italian meanings. This guide jump-starts the student into a knowledge of Spanish or English or Italian, or all three, by concentrating on easily recognizable words common to these languages. It teaches a...
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Profanity is dynamic, ever-changing, constantly shifting in form and meaning over time. We might find it unbelievable today, but during the Middle Ages "By God's bones!" and "God's truth!" were far more offensive than "c*nt", "sh*t" and piss—all three of which were mundane enough to appear in maps and other official records as part of medieval street names! "Queer" meant "peculiar". a "bitch" was simply a female dog and both men and women of all...
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En el tránsito del siglo XIX al siglo XX, un influyente grupo de intelectuales conservadores impulsó y combinó múltiples prácticas culturales tendientes a estudiar y promover una lengua "pura" y "uniforme", convencidos de su potencial para (re)construir la comunidad nacional a partir de valores cristianos y de la exaltación del patrimonio cultural hispánico. En este contexto, algunos de ellos recurrieron a una herramienta muy particular: la...
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Une critique historique et factuelle du mythe de l'innéisme langagier.
La psycholinguistique et la linguistique générative se sont efforcées, durant plusieurs décennies, de promouvoir l'idée selon laquelle les langues humaines émergeraient à partir d'une sorte de grammaire universelle inscrite dans le patrimoine génétique de notre espèce. Aucune donnée empirique ne vient corroborer cette croyance. Si les mécanismes neurocognitifs qui...
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This etymological tour de force was written by a self-taught farmer's son who became a world-famous linguist and senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. By the time he was a teenager, Henry Bradley (1845-1923) had immersed himself in several classical languages. His achievements were ultimately recognized with honorary degrees from Oxford and Heidelberg, and fellowships at Magdalen College and the British Academy. This 1904 work represents...
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Our everyday language is full of surprises; its origins are stranger than you might think. Any word might be knocked and buffeted, subjected to twists and turns, expansions and contractions, happy and unhappy accidents. There are intriguing tales behind even the most familiar terms, and they can say as much about the present as they do the past.
Busking, for instance, originally meant piracy. Grin meant to snarl. A bimbo was a man; nice meant ignorant;...
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