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En la cola de Correos, un hombre solo. Ni por asomo: un escritor nunca está solo. En su cabeza encresta diálogos consigo mismo y con toda aquella que se cruza entre sus orejas, tiene a bien trenzar neuronas y acepta la invitación a dar otra vuelta de tuerca a las peculiaridades del lenguaje, a las maldiciones y milagros de las lenguas y a los infinitos recreos y abismos que la literatura posibilita y sugiere. ¿Y si hablar, leer y escribir no fueran...
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What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them "evaluative-descriptive terms." Others talk of "terministic screens" or discuss the way debates are "framed." Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak. Unspeak represents an attempt...
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The significance of "meaning" goes beyond the word-level. Few disciplines, if at all, would do away with the knowledge and principles of semantics in their spoken and written discourse. ILLUDS is an illustrative dictionary of semantics aiming to provide language researchers with the key terms, terminologies, and phrases with even slight or indirect relation to semantics that appear in linguistics coursebooks and reference books. About 150 references...
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Get the Summary of Mark Forsyth's The Elements of Eloquence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Elements of Eloquence" by Mark Forsyth explores the power and intricacies of rhetorical devices in the English language. Forsyth delves into the allure of alliteration, as seen in Shakespeare's works and political slogans, and the subtlety of polyptoton, where a word is used in different forms to enrich the text....
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Este estudio lingüístico examina la frecuencia de uso del sujeto pronombre personal (SPP) en el español de Bogotá Colombia en niños monolingües entre los cinco y ocho años. Esto con el fin de determinar la presencia del sujeto tácito o explícito en sus discursos orales. La investigación analiza las variables de género edad persona gramatical tiempo verbal y discurso contexto para comprender la utilización del SPP en el español como lengua...
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"A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it's impossible to finish reading certain stories and why others carry the reader in a vivid rush to the end."
-Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life
In the spirit of Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, comes The Elements of Story, by Francis...
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This book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, primarily aimed at those involved in linguistic analysis and description in the field and at those preparing for such fieldwork. It explains commonly used methods for displaying aspects of a speech wave, such as waveform graphs, spectra, spectrograms, fundamental frequency graphs (pitch graphs), and intensity graphs. It illustrates how the results of acoustic...
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Diamond BeeKeepers Presentation Diamond BeeKeepers is an experimental collection of poems that explores the ritualization of spontaneity. It tests the limits of logic and assonance to find the transcendental meaning behind sound forming, at least seeking a new meaning, deeper than the preestablished notions of the daily use of words. Unleashing, thus, a new experience of language through the poetic apparatus The Author Mario L. AMEHOU Mario Amehou...
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Essential preparation for the new SAT Writing and Grammar Section. “Homework Helpers: English Language & Composition” is a user-friendly review book that will make any student-or those trying to help them-feel like he or she has a private tutor. Each chapter includes detailed questions that allow students to assess how well they've mastered each idea. Not only does the author provide the right answers to these self-study questions, but also detailed...
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A philosopher takes a second look at sayings, proverbs, and bits of homespun wisdom.
These short, stimulating, and entertaining capsules of philosophy delve into the familiar words that live in our consciousness yet are rarely examined. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practice what you preach? Is the grass always in fact greener on the other side of the fence, and is there ever smoke without fire? Is beauty always in the eye...
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Discover hundreds of entertaining and often hilarious etymological journeys, by the bestselling author of Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?
English is filled with curious, intriguing and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:
• Read between the Lines
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• Put a Sock in It
• Close, but No Cigar
• Bring Home the Bacon
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In the vast tapestry of human history, words have been the silent architects, building bridges, sparking revolutions, and sculpting societies. "Warriors of Words" dives deep into the potent world of rhetoric, unraveling its profound impact on civilizations across epochs.From the compelling oratories of Ancient Greece, where philosophers like Aristotle laid the very foundations of rhetorical techniques, to the impassioned speeches of Winston Churchill...
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The parents of second language children are often seen but not heard in schools. This book is unique in addressing the many issues facing parents of children whose first language is different from that of the school classroom.
Drawing on teaching theory, the book provides these parents with a wealth of practical information, guidelines and checklists, enabling them to ask schools intelligent and challenging questions to test whether their children's...
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Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. Yet it needs but a moment's reflection to convince us that this naturalness of speech is but an illusory feeling. The process of acquiring speech is, in sober fact, an utterly different sort of thing from the process of learning to walk…
One theory is that primitive words were imitative of sounds:...
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Découvrez une révolution dans l'apprentissage des langues avec ce livre. Ce livre explore de manière exhaustive comment l'intelligence artificielle révolutionne la manière dont nous pouvons apprendre l'hébreu, offrant des exemples concrets et des études de cas.Plongez dans les fondements de l'IA, explorez les défis spécifiques de l'apprentissage de l'hébreu, et apprenez comment les technologies avancées peuvent personnaliser l'expérience...
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Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902—1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms, some still adhere to the empirical level. Through a forum sponsored by the American Folklore Society, the diverse answers to the question of such a theory arrived at substantial agreement:...
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Learning a new language can be an overwhelming task, however "Arabic Shortcuts 1" using an expertly created solution to help you learn a variety of important Arabic phrases. Take the challenge of learning a new foreign language, we invest in you! Why not take a complete course. We support you with material.An e-book, YouTube video links to our course. no hidden cost and subscriptions.Here is the offer, you buy this e-book Arabic shortcuts, we provide...
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Multilingualisms vary. Given such variation, how can those from essentially mono-chromatic, monolingual backgrounds begin to appreciate the colorful multilingual realities of the majority world? This question led to the symposium Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World, May 10—15, 2018, in Penang, Malaysia. This resulting four-part collection of papers:
• focuses on different models for understanding the dynamics of multiples-multiple...
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