This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and...Lasīt vairāk
The author of this volume examines the historical development and popularization of the ideological concept of the Volksgemeinschaft. This is a process of scientification, which the author describes using the examples of sociology, history, economic...Lasīt vairāk
Jewish Monotheism is built on a fundamental assumption: God has spoken to the Jews and commanded them to follow His law. But what exactly are - Gods words? This monograph examines the notion of word in Ancient Judaism fr...Lasīt vairāk
A great read for those who appreciate seeing the whimsy in words, as Warren remarkably achieves etymological entertainment.?BooklistYou cant stop language, because when alls said and done is never....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226600222)
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across litera...Lasīt vairāk
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Manfred Hainzmann, Gerhard Bauchenhenss, Gerhard Bauchhenss
Sērija : Mitteilungen Der Prahistorischen Kommission
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, ISBN-13: 9783700180654)
Corpus Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum edits religious inscriptions with a probably Celtic background from the Roman provinces offering an in-depth epigraphic, linguistic, historical and iconographic analysis. Fasciculus 1 of th...Lasīt vairāk
Language is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether its the use of literally to mean figuratively, or the way young people use LOL or business jargon like Whats the ask?it often seems as if...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826356567)
From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, thatscandal derives from the Latin for...Lasīt vairāk
McKeown and Smith present a textbook and workbook for medical students teaching them the Latin and Greek words, prefixes, and suffixes that make up modern medical terminology. As an alternative to the conventional memorizing of word lists, they offer...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625341709)
In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries made their way around the gl...Lasīt vairāk
"A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive."Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two...Lasīt vairāk
Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication?Drawi...Lasīt vairāk
The Etymology, Phonology, Semantics and Morphology of the word Moor from Ancient Times.Hieroglyphics begins to take on a lettering system in the form of an upper Kemetic Script known as Proto- Sinatic or Ancient Moabite/Cannanite from which the Greek...Lasīt vairāk
