Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

3 Staging Law There is little doubt that from a phenomenological point of view, law stages the world for us. We are the prized audience for such a staging, the ...
( Category: Architecture April 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Keach, William.

5 “‘A SUBTLER LANGUAGE WITHIN LANGUAGE’” 1. SHELLEY’S IMAGINING of a communicative engagement between men “whom education and a certain refinement of sentiment have placed above the use of vulgar ...
( Category: British & Irish April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Hafez, Kai

3. Excursus—The Crisis of the Middle Class: The Social Darwinism of Cultural Difference Frankfurt-based philosopher Axel Honneth has criticized social theory for its economistic and power-political determinism. For too long, ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-25 | Author:Whorf, Benjamin Lee,Lee, Penny.,Levinson, Stephen C.,Carroll, John B. [Whorf, Benjamin Lee]

Reprinted from pp. 75–93, Language, culture, and personality: Essays in memory of Edward Sapir, edited by Leslie Spier (Menasha, Wis.: Sapir Memorial Publication Fund, 1941). The article was written in ...
( Category: Semantics April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Fan (Gabriel) Fang;

Table 5.1 Respondents’ self-evaluation of English accents and their desired accent Evaluation Response count (%) Accents to aspire to Response count (%) Not satisfied at all 34 (11.0%) Sounds like ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-24 | Author:Roger Kreuz [Kreuz, Roger]

Autocratic regimes with a low tolerance for dissent have found nonliteral forms of criticism to be particularly problematic. (The North Korean ban on sarcasm was reported by a number of ...
( Category: Parodies April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:Dilys Rose [Rose, Dilys]

A Game of Hell Glorious my arse! says Sir Patrick, thumping his glass on the table and setting the many candles in the room aquiver. As if a Stadtholder o ...
( Category: Genre Fiction April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Nicholas C Rossis [Rossis, Nicholas C]

Horses * * * Like fights, horses are a staple of many a genre. Even if not many of them are around nowadays, it pays to know how to describe ...
( Category: Word Lists April 4,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-12 | Author:Michael Drayton

POLY-OLBION: THE THIRTEENTH SONG The Argument THIS song our shire of Warwick sounds; Revives old Ardens ancient bounds. Through many shapes the Muse heere roves; Now sporting in those shady ...
( Category: Shakespeare April 4,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Martial

57 Does it surprise you, my dear poet friend, That when I ask you round to dine I send Some lines of verse? Though Jupiter has his fill Of nectar ...
( Category: Medieval April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | Author:Richard Lederer

a moot point buckle. fasten together; fall apart: a. Safe drivers buckle their seat belts. b. Unsafe buildings buckle at the slightest tremor of the earth. trip. to stumble; to ...
( Category: Vocabulary, Slang & Word Lists April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Stirling, Bruce

( Category: GRE April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mingming Liu

Chen names this phenomenon dou-(dis)harmony and offers an explanation based on a context-dependent expected value . Specifically, dou carries a presupposition that the number of ‘NPs’ (people in (4)) that ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mann, Jenny C.;

45. For example, in an essay that otherwise celebrates the mixture of genres and styles within the Arcadia, Stephen Greenblatt writes, “There are moments—particularly in Book II of the revised ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]

—I don't know the rest of it! But 'tis late; suppose we go?" And he went on setting forth his theories in the street. Frederick, without listening to him, was ...
( Category: Literary April 3,2020 )