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Complete Dictionary of Symbols
by Jack Tresidder  Publisher Comments The Complete Dictionary of Symbols is an engaging and accessible guide to more than 2,000 major themes, figures, and symbols that are commonly found in myth, art, and literature. Drawing on classical mythologies, Biblical themes, and traditional symbols...
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1001 Symbols
by Jack Tresidder Publisher Comments Pleasingly chunky and vibrantly colorful, this pocket-sized compendium covers iconography from around the world and is perfect for travel and museum outings. Author Jack Tresidder examines common imagery in art, religion, and literature, revealing hidden...
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A House with Seven Windows: Short Stories (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
by Kadia Molodowsky Synopsis A House with Seven Windows by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits--tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited--or ordinary people: Jews in pre-...
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Early Trilingualism: A Focus on Questions
by Julia D Barnes Book News Annotation Barnes (humanities and education, U. of Mondragon, Spain) presents a case study of a child living in the Basque Country in Spain, who has been brought up in three languages--English, Basque and Spanish--from birth. The study examines her general...
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Multilingual Living: Explorations of Language and Subjectivity
by Charlotte Burck Publisher Comments Multilingual Livingpresents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and...
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Speaking of Chinese : a Cultural History of the Chinese Language (78 Edition)
by Raymond Chang Synopsis Not a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth....
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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert...
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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran — the...
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Polish Writers on Writing (Writer's World)
by Adam Zagajewski Publisher Comments Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and internationally renowned Bruno Schulz, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a...
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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguisti)
by Kendall King Publisher Comments In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguistics to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated...
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Intimations of Differnce (06 Edition)
by Jelen Book News Annotation Baron (1887-1956) began to write stories in Hebrew when she was 15, and continued after she emigrated from her native Russia to Palestine in 1910. She eventually won broad recognition and multiple honors. Jelen (English and Jewish studies, U. of...
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Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax #16: The Feature Structure of Functional Categories: A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects
by Elabbas Benmamoun Publisher Comments Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical...
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Language Variation in South Asia
by William Bright Publisher Comments South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years...
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Vice Slang
by Tom Dalzell Synopsis Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol...
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He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization Among Black Children
by Marjorie H Goodwin Synopsis ..."carefully researched and clearly written....Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and acress contexts." --American Ethnologist...
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Matrix of Language : Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology (96 Edition)
by Donald Brenneis Publisher Comments The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their readability, present a range of methodological approaches and well-known case studies...
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How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics
by Calvert Watkins Publisher Comments In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that...
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Mutilingualism from Infancy to Adolescence: Noam's Experience
by Eduardo D. Faingold Book News Annotation Faingold (Spanish and linguistics, U. of Tulsa) is a native or near- native speaker of four languagesSpanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, and English. In this unique case study, he traces the acquisition, loss, and re-acquisition of these four languages in...
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Confessions (07 Edition)
by Kang Zhengguo Publisher Comments A revealing memoir of human resilience in the face of nightmarish power. With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square...
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A Natural History of Latin
by Tore Janson Publisher Comments How Latin conquered the world, and why it is still a force to be reckoned with....
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