Words, Language & Grammar
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Even without checking this against the original Greek, the spirit of this analysis is clear. Pseudo-Longinus is performing textual semiotics. And he is performing an act of criticism—at least according ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Shaun Usher

Winchester Sunday My dearest Fanny—doubly dear to me now for her dear sake whom we have lost. She did love you most sincerely, and never shall I forget the proofs ...
( Category: Photo Essays February 15,2016 )
epub |eng, eng | 2006-02-11 | Author:Charles Yang

As we look at how the different language types are distributed around the world, there is no hint of a significant interaction between language type and culture type. Japanese, Mongolian, ...
( Category: Child Psychology February 12,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-02-11 | Author:Heinrichs, Jay [Heinrichs, Jay]

He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill’d in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair ’twixt south and south-west side. There are scores of hair-splitting logical fallacies; ...
( Category: Rhetoric February 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Standage, Tom [Standage, Tom]

“THE ART OF PRINTING SHOULD is outwardly thIQ BE ENCOURAGED” In May 1765 news reached the American colonies that the government in London had passed “an act for granting and ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies February 8,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Johann Gottfried Herder [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

SECTION TWO No, I am not jumping ahead. I do not suddenly ascribe to man—as an arbitrary qualitas occulta—a new power providing him with the ability to create language. Instead ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louise DeSalvo

29. Hailstorms A few years ago, my husband and I were staying at a castle in Tuscany. This was a rustic place with few creature comforts—no heat, no air-conditioning, uneven ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 7,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

PART IV When I went over on Easter Day I heard the chapel–gossips complimenting cousin Holman on her daughter's blooming looks, quite forgetful of their sinister prophecies three months before. ...
( Category: British & Irish February 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stacey D'Erasmo

It isn’t until midway through the story that the first-person narrator reveals himself and reveals that he’s been narrating all along. He slips into a scene that at first doesn’t ...
( Category: Authorship February 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-11 | Author:Quinn, Arthur

Lord Angelo dukes it well. MM 3.2.100 Wouldst thou be window’d in great Rome and see Thy master. A&C 4.14.72 Taint him with license of ink. If thou thou’st him ...
( Category: Speech January 27,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Arthur Quinn

VI More than Enough THE MOST INFLUENTIAL work written in early modern Europe on the figures of speech was De Copia by Erasmus. As the title suggests, Erasmus was primarily ...
( Category: Speech January 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ina Lipkowitz

Creme Boylede Take creme or mylke, & brede of paynemayn, or ellys of tendyr brede, an breke it on þe creme, or ellys in þe mylke, an set it on ...
( Category: Linguistics January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Allen, Mike

13: A Synthesis and Extension of Constructivist Comforting Research Mike Allen From the late 1970s constructivist theory proposed analyzing messages and relationships based on the cognitive trait of cognitive complexity ...
( Category: Speech January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * THE MOVING FINGER The news of Mrs. Grancy's death came to me with the shock of an immense blunder--one of fate's most irretrievable acts of vandalism. It ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVI "Forthwith a guard at every gun Was placed along the wall; The beacon blazed upon the roof Of Edgecombe's lofty hall; And many a fishing bark put out, ...
( Category: Anthologies January 21,2016 )