Linguistics Reference
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Pennebaker, James W. [Pennebaker, James W.]

The words people use in their conversations, e-mails, and letters predict where they rank in the social hierarchy surprisingly well. As you might guess, status is revealed by function words ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Guy Deutscher

THE PRISON-HOUSE OF LANGUAGE By far the most famous claim that Nietzsche never made was: “We have to cease to think if we refuse to do so in the prison-house ...
( Category: Linguistics Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Barry Farber

Un-American Sounds So far we’ve shied away from words containing sounds that don’t exist in English. The real world won’t be so protective. “Un-American” sounds are exaggerated as an obstacle ...
( Category: Instruction Methods March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Singh, Simon [Singh, Simon]

5 The Language Barrier While British codebreakers were breaking the German Enigma cipher and altering the course of the war in Europe, American codebreakers were having an equally important influence ...
( Category: Cryptography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Tobias Smollett

PART VI IT must be a slight fabric, indeed, said Demea, which can be erected on so tottering a foundation. While we are uncertain, whether there is one deity or ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-06-11 | Author:Raymond Charles Barrett

IX - The Story Proper * The correct short story possesses unity of form as well as unity of plot. In the novel there may be wide gaps of time ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Bellos, David [Bellos, David]

SEVENTEEN The Third Code: Translation as a Dialect What language do you speak? That sounds like a merely factual inquiry with an uncomplicated answer, whatever it is. But as I ...
( Category: Dictionaries March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * SPEECH: KNEBWORTH, JULY 29, 1865. * * * [On the above date the members of the "Guild of Literature and Art" proceeded to the neighbourhood of Stevenage, ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free distribution of electronic works, by ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 25,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * End of Project Gutenberg Etext Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans * * * Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A free ebook from ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * VIII. We have left our eighteenth-century novelists--Fielding, Richardson, and Smollett--safely behind us, with all their solidity and their audacity, their sincerity, and their coarseness of fibre. They ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER XII * * * OF THE THREE FOREIGN MEN UPON THE COAST It must have been eleven or twelve o'clock before I awoke, and it seemed to me in ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Adam Jacot De Boinod

Loosely bolted And though four wheels are faster, there is many a pitfall: sakapusu (Sranan Tongo, Surinam) an unreliable vehicle, so called because you always need to get out (saka) ...
( Category: Word Lists March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Adam Jacot De Boinod

ANORAKS Or else give it up entirely and settle on a worthwhile and productive hobby: notaphily (1970) the collecting of paper currency as a hobby deltiologist (1959) a collector of ...
( Category: Language March 25,2014 )