An Account Of Some Recent Discoveries In Hieroglyphical Literature, And Egyptian Antiquities
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia
Dreyer's English meets Schott's Original Miscellany in this delicious tour of the lesser-known wonders of the language world, perfect for language lovers, word nerds, and the incurably curious. A delightful rollick through language unlike any you've ever experienced. As the inventor of the bestselling game about words, League of the Lexicon, Joshua Blackburn has created an A-Z that's part-encyclopedia, part-treasure map, and an all-around joy for anyone interested in words and language. Meticulously researched, joyfully written, and beautifully designed, The Language-Lover's Lexipedia dives into the quirky, the curious, and the unexpected to reveal a world of language you never knew existed. Discover the biting humor of Scottish insults (you're talking mince), the curious history of the Chinese typewriter, and the strange yet vivid color names of Elizabethan England--like "dead Spaniard" and "lusty gallant." Whether it's the dark history of the Index of Banned Books or the bewildering grammar of Yoda, each pithy entry is brimming with knowledge and wit. Illustrated with enchanting line art that evokes a 19th-century reference book, The Language-Lover's Lexipedia is as visually delightful as it is intellectually captivating. It's stuffed with quirky lists, surprising facts, and illuminating stories, making it the ultimate gift for any language lover. Want to uncover the secret of Ikea product names? Decode the euphemisms of Victorian England? Or understand why pedants are pedantic? This book has you covered--and then some. Blackburn's infectious enthusiasm turns linguistic oddities into pure entertainment and offers up endless rabbit holes to dive down, with each thoughtful entry promising to charm, educate, and tickle. From the linguistic history of marijuana to the origins of nonsense, The Language-Lover's Lexipedia is a must-read for anyone who revels in the beauty, humor, and sheer weirdness of language.
Kate Heiss: Evening Primrose Artisan Art Notebook (Flame Tree Journals)
Jade Mosinski: Garden Bees (Foiled Slimline Journal)
A new title in the Flame Tree Slimline Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring lined pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect slipped into handbags, for personal use or as a dazzling gift. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious, the Slimline Journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3D masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list and robust ivory text paper, printed with lines. THE ARTIST. Jade Mosinski is a Derbyshire-based designer and illustrator who loves to create beautiful and intricate illustrations inspired by the natural world, using detailed linework. She also likes to create more colourful, feminine patterns, with bolder shapes and imagery. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers (Foiled Slimline Journal)
A new title in the Flame Tree Slimline Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring lined pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect slipped into handbags, for personal use or as a dazzling gift. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious, the Slimline Journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3D masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list and robust ivory text paper, printed with lines. THE ARTIST. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. Van Gogh painted a series of pictures depicting sunflowers, having first been inspired by the yellow flowers in Paris when he saw them growing in the gardens of Montmartre. Sunflowers were symbolic of life and hope to the artist, and could also be associated with his concept of the sun - glowing, yellow and hopeful. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
The Poet in You
A poem is like a butterfly. A moment seeds itself inside us. A memory. An experience when we saw, we felt, perhaps even, we knew. There is a poet in all of us. However unknown or neglected that part of us may be, it is there, often just waiting for the right conditions to present themselves. Jay Ramsay presents a workbook which guides you into writing poetry--a unique exploration and synthesis between poetry and personal development. Specially designed for people who may be longing to write, as well as those who already are, Ramsay's particular gift is to teach poetry primarily from inspiration and imagination rather than intellectual technique.
Life-Writes
The second most common question a writer is asked is, 'where do your ideas come from?' (The first is, 'Do you make any money from it?') Experienced writers don't go looking for ideas; ideas come to them. An experienced writer just has the knack of spotting what makes a good story or what will make a good story once it's been given the right spin, because none of us, if we're honest, will let reality get in the way of a saleable piece of work. Editors are looking for an element of action, drama or surprise, even in non-fiction. It's what catches their attention and makes them pause to read further; and the key to any editor's heart is originality. Not necessarily a new departure in style or genre, but a refreshing and original slant on a popular theme. Life-Writes helps you to find and develop ideas with editor appeal.,
Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)
A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640-1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory. This book studies the position of four translators in these debates on the 'New Philosophy' Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker, Pieter Balling, Abraham van Berkel, and Stephan Blankaart. It presents a comparative history of their Dutch translations of philosophical treatises by Ren矇 Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, and Benedictus de Spinoza. A combined methodology of computational and qualitative analysis offers new insights into the form and function of translated philosophical texts within the intellectual debates about language, reason, and knowledge that were partly inspired by those texts. These insights change our understanding of the crucial function of translations, multilingualism, and linguistic purism in the Dutch Early Enlightenment.
Word-Formation - European Languages
This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 5 offers 26 descriptive portraits of word-formation in Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages of Europe that exemplify the range of structures made possible by the word-formation processes discussed in the previous volumes.
Schott's Significa
From the author of the international bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes a visually rich book that breaks down the colorful language and systems of signs that make up the vocabulary of our world. Here is an obsessive and fascinating look at the systems of language and knowledge that surrounds us. Ben Schott breaks down the lingo, slang, and jargon found in dozens of fascinating professions, events, and subcultures--from the insider language used in casino gambling to the NYC diamond district and professional sommeliers to London cabbies. For those who love language and wish to gain access to rarified worlds, this book is an elegant and smart look at so much hiding in plain sight around us. With its gorgeously erudite and detailed design, full-color photos throughout, and thoroughly researched survey of lingo and culture, Schott's Significa will change how you see the world.
A Novel Approach
Finally-a book on writing that understands how your ADHD brain worksADHD can throw so many hurdles in your path that writing a book feels impossible. A Novel Approach: Strategies for ADHD Writers is written with those obstacles in mind.This book is for you if: You're tired of writing advice that isn't designed for an ADHD brainYou want to write a book but can't get organized enough to startYou have a lot of unfinished books because you keep getting distracted by new ideasYou struggle with motivation, procrastination or forgetfulness so the writing never gets doneYou sit down to write, only to lose focus five minutes laterWith this book, you'll learn how to: Organize your ideas into a framework that will guide you from your first page to the lastDevelop a writing routine that's customized to your unique situation and needsStay focused and motivated all the way through your draft, even when you'd rather be doing anything elseTurn your ADHD into a creative advantage by tapping into your strengthsFull of exercises, case studies and thought-provoking advice, A Novel Approach will show you how to develop new habits and practices that work with, not against your ADHD. ADHD doesn't have to get between you and your dream of being an author! It's time to rewrite the story you've been telling yourself about what you can do, because your ADHD doesn't get the final word-you do.
Useless Etymology
Did you know that an "astronaut" is literally a "star sailor," that a thesaurus is, in fact, a "treasure trove" of words, and that someone who is "sinister" is actually just "left-handed"? Have you ever wondered why English isn't considered a Romance language if 60% of our words are Latin-derived? Did Shakespeare really invent 1,700 words, and if not, why the heck do we say that he did? Why is the English language stuffed with so many synonyms? Let's be real: English can seem pretty bonkers. And, well, sometimes it is. But through thorough thought and a pinch of curiosity, method can be found within the madness of our modern tongue-even within the disparate pronunciation of the words "through," "thorough," and "thought." Derived from Germanic, Romance, Hellenic, Semitic, African and Native American languages, English contains multitudes. It has been (and continues to be) transformed by war and conquest, art and literature, science and technology, love and hate, wit and whim. Useless Etymology takes readers on a time-traveling adventure to unlock the beauty, wonder, and absurdity within our everyday words, how they came to be, and the unexpected ways their origins weave a global, cross-cultural labyrinth of meaning. Filled with fun facts and delightful discoveries, this is an enlightening read for anyone who wants to know more about why the English language works the way that it does.
L.S. Lowry: Seascapes Set of 3 MIDI Notebooks
Shrink-wrapped set of 3 midi notebooks, each with a different painting by L.S. Lowry. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. The Lowry Seascapes Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features a collection of three midi, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! Lowry is home to the world's largest public collection of paintings and drawings by LS Lowry. Lowry is one of Britain's most recognisable painters, best known for his popular mill scenes and industrial landscapes, along with portraits and seascapes.
Angela Harding: Coastlines Set of 3 MIDI Notebooks
Shrink-wrapped set of 3 midi notebooks, each with a different print by Angela Harding. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. A collection of three Midi notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design from Angela Harding: Cornish Path, Curlew Cry and Harbour Whippets. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! Printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding trained in Fine Art at Leicester Polytechnic and Nottingham Trent University. She now lives in the UK's smallest county, Rutland, where she works from her garden studio in Wing. Angela has received commissions for her illustration work from most of the UK's major publishers, and her unique and distinctive style has become recognizable to nature lovers and book lovers alike. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Jade Mosinski Set of 3 Standard Notebooks
Shrink-wrapped set of 3 standard A5 notebooks, each with a different design. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. A collection of three A5, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful bee design from Jade Mosinski. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! Jade Mosinski is a Derbyshire-based designer and illustrator who loves to create beautiful and intricate illustrations inspired by the natural world, using detailed linework. She also likes to create more colourful, feminine patterns, with bolder shapes and imagery. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Thomas Kinkade Set of 3 Standard Notebooks
Shrink-wrapped set of 3 standard A5 notebooks, each with a different design from the popular Thomas Kinkade. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. A collection of three A5, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful artwork from Thomas Kinkade Studios: Italian Caf矇, Wine Country Living and Reflections of Faith. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light(TM), emphasized simple pleasures and inspirational messages through his art--and the branded products created from that art. From textiles, to collectibles, to music and books, Thom believed that both the ability and the inspiration to create his paintings had been given to him as a gift. His goal as an artist was to bring peace and joy into peoples' lives through the images he created. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Mobile Learning for Undergraduates
Technology has affected every aspect of human life, amongst all the things teaching learning has no exemption. The study incorporates the enthrallment to find the impact of digitalization on education. Digital teaching has injected action and autonomy by engaging the students and by letting them experience the process of learning. By centralizing the learning experience, the natural workflow is noticed by learners and educators. In this research, it is found that the digital teaching-learning theories such as RAT, SAMR, TPACK, Digital Blooms, and Connectivism concerning Vygotsky's theory have helped teachers and students to outline their critical thinking, innovation and reformation through problem-solving techniques.
ESP Learning in Chinese Employment-Oriented University
This book included two academic articles. One article explored the English learning motivation in English for Specific Purposes in Chinese employment-oriented university, concluding that teacher-related motivation plays the important role in ESP learning. The other one explored the application of project-based learning in the English for Specific Purposes class, and the approach's role in improving students' English proficiency, as well as two employability soft skills-team cooperating, and problem-solving, concluding that PBL approach contributes obviously to the improvement of student's team cooperating and problem-solving, rather than English proficiency compared with traditional approach.
From Language to Language
In this engaging humanist text, a renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural divides. Informed by his own multicultural background--African, French, and American--Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of translation in this thoughtful text. Although translation often produces a relationship of profound inequality between dominant and dominated languages, it can also be a source of dialogue and exchange, including in situations of asymmetry, particularly regarding colonialism, where the interpreter becomes a true cultural mediator. To praise translation, "the language of languages," is to celebrate its plurality and equality, because to translate is to give hospitality in one language to what has been thought in another. It is to create reciprocity, a shared sense of humanity, and to imagine a positive version of the Tower of Babel.
Linguistics and Oral History
This edited volume brings together linguistic and oral history practitioners to explore the intersections between both disciplines. This book is comprised of contributions from linguists (corpus linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists and second language acquisition experts) to present how they investigate oral history texts from a linguistic perspective as well as contributions from oral history practitioners who focus on language-related aspects of their subject. In presenting perspectives from both disciplines, this book exposes the synergies that exist between oral history and linguistics including methodological parallels in constructing and analysing written transcriptions of spoken events, analytical approaches to determining salient themes and linguistic items, relevant theoretical perspectives that frame discourse practices in oral histories and the practical considerations facing researchers when investigating large samples of spoken discourse. This book shows that oral historians and linguists are often doing the same things in different ways and makes the case for more collaboration between the disciplines to promote exchange of ideas, efficiency of practice and reciprocal progression.
Conspiracy as Genre
From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects. It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies. Across three parts, the book theorizes how conspiracy narratives are told, what they do in the social world, and how they circulate these social meanings. Part One offers semiotic and narrative analyses of the language of conspiracy as a genre. Part Two examines the social effects of these narratives, arguing that elite conspiracy is a means to stabilize social power, looking in particular at gender-related conspiracies around feminism, abortion and trans rights. Part Three considers the circulation of conspiracies and the ideologies they narrate, using unique mixed methods approaches to look at multilingual data in sites and communities in Brazil, Germany, and the USA.
Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature
This book develops a cognitive stylistic exploration of readers' emotional experiences of literature. Adopting Possible Worlds Theory as a framework, the volume constructs a stylistic analysis of some of the ways in which novels elicit readers' emotions. A typology of past, present, and future textual actual and possible worlds is formulated to frame analysis of three novels: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway. The author integrates close stylistic analysis with the use of empirical data drawn from reader interviews and online reader reviews. The analysis of these diverse 20th-century novels works to show the utility of the typology for analysis formulated for this book, as well as to demonstrate the value of incorporating empirical reader data in analysis of the ways in which novels may affect readers' emotions.
World Englishes and Social Media
As social media keeps changing, so does the representation of World Englishes across the wide range of platforms available. This edited volume explores the different varieties of English on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Social media platforms showcase an ever-increasing diversity in languages and varieties of languages used on them. Divided into three parts, the book focuses in turn on language variation in digital contexts, identities and social meaning making, and metalinguistic commentary, and ends with a discussion chapter providing an overview of World Englishes and social media. Investigating these areas in detail, the book covers a wealth of topics, including ethical questions and research methodology, linguistic features and creativity, and meta-discourse. By offering up-to-date coverage of English use across different platforms, it provides an in-depth insight into the dynamic space of language variation online.
Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context
In null instantiation (NI) an optionally unexpressed argument receives either anaphoric or existential interpretation. One cannot accurately predict a predicator's NI potential based either on semantic factors (e.g., Aktionsart class of the verb) or pragmatic factors (e.g., relative discourse prominence of arguments), but NI potential, while highly constrained, is not simply lexical idiosyncrasy. It is instead the product of both lexical and constructional licensing. In the latter case, a construction can endow a verb with NI potential that it would not otherwise have. Using representational tools of sign based construction grammar, this Element offers a lexical treatment of English null instantiation that covers both distinct patterns of construal of null-instantiated arguments and the difference between listeme-based and contextually licensed, thus construction-based, null complementation.
Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners
This book brings together research on second language pragmatics in the underexplored context of EFL primary classrooms. Presenting studies from Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, the book offers a rich exploration of different topics, such as learners' pragmatic performance, awareness and development, learners' and teachers' views on pragmatic instruction, and investigations concerning material use and lesson planning. The studies feature a range of data sources including animated films, arts-based instruction, classroom discourse, narrated picture-based tasks, questionnaires and interviews, introducing the reader to a wealth of opportunities for evaluating young learners' engagement with pragmatics. Being the first edited volume to provide an overview of the rapidly growing area of young learner pragmatics, it will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and language teachers.
Language and Social Justice
Language, whether spoken, written, or signed, is a powerful resource that is used to facilitate social justice or undermine it. The first reference resource to use an explicitly global lens to explore the interface between language and social justice, this volume expands our understanding of how language symbolizes, frames, and expresses political, economic, and psychic problems in society, thus contributing to visions for social justice. Investigating specific case studies in which language is used to instantiate and/or challenge social injustices, each chapter provides a unique perspective on how language carries value and enacts power by presenting the historical contexts and ethnographic background for understanding how language engenders and/or negotiates specific social justice issues. Case studies are drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and the Pacific Islands, with leading experts tackling a broad range of themes, such as equality, sovereignty, communal well-being, and the recognition of complex intersectional identities and relationships within and beyond the human world. Putting issues of language and social justice on a global stage and casting light on these processes in communities increasingly impacted by ongoing colonial, neoliberal, and neofascist forms of globalization, Language and Social Justice is an essential resource for anyone interested in this area of research.
Pattern, Construction, System
Construction Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar take different approaches to the study of lexico-grammar, based on language as a cognitive and as a social phenomenon respectively. This is the first book to bring the two approaches together, using corpus-based Pattern Grammar as an underlying descriptive framework, in order to present a comprehensive and original treatment of verb-based patterns in English. It describes in detail two processes: deriving over 800 verb argument constructions from 50 verb complementation patterns; and using those constructions to populate systemic networks based on 9 semantic fields. The result is an approach to the lexis and grammar of English that unifies disparate theories, finding synergies between them and offering a challenge to each. Pattern Grammar, Construction Grammar and Systemic-Functional Grammar are introduced in an accessible way, making each approach accessible to readers from other backgrounds. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Reading and Writing for Change
How can creative writers and readers be active agents in fighting social injustices? With many writers oblivious to how their writing may actually uphold the very problems they seek to undo, this book both assists writers to identify the unrecognized connections between creative writing and processes of power, and equips them with the knowledge to produce works that project kindness and change. Beginning with an exploration of literature's connections with power and focusing on social voice, representation and whose stories are told, the book moves on to emphasize how stories are told, highlighting the political implications in textual presentation and prevalent standards for judging literary merit. Considering how power operates in, through and around stories at the level of form, structure, and narrative order but also through grammar, style, and figurative language, author Amelia Walker outlines strategies for analyzing texts that draw on theories from Indigenous studies, literary criticism, philosophy, cultural studies, education, journalism, and creative writing theory. Featuring writing and reading activities that translate important theories into practical craft tools, Reading and Writing for Change builds ideas for writers and readers seeking to unbalance the dynamic between literature and power in support of change and to disrupt the status quo and imagine life differently.
