epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Cappelen, Herman; Dever, Josh; & Josh Dever

The third sentence of this narrative continues to report James’ thought, but does so without saying (for example) ‘James thought that’ or ‘James thought “…”’. Free indirect discourse has interesting ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Paolo, Ezequiel A. Di; Cuffari, Elena Clare; Jaegher, Hanne De & Elena Cuffari & Hanne De Jaegher

Sensorimotor and organic bodies are transformed under the socially mediated and reflexive relations linguistic agents enter into to the point of becoming dependent on linguistic skills, broadly construed. Planning and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karen Sullivan

6 MALAPHORS AND OTHER ‘DUCKS OUT OF WATER’ Many mixed metaphors are actually combinations of metaphoric idioms.1 For instance, every single mixed metaphor in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grammar ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stephen J Barker [Barker, Stephen J]

end p.149 Another piece of evidence comes from comparing (29) and (30) below: (29) Jane saw a hippo yesterday. The hippo Jane saw yesterday was black. (30) Jane saw at ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:Sheidlower, Jesse [Sheidlower, Jesse]

4. to astonish; bring up short. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 139: Sands of Iwo Jima. That’s the one that really fucked me around. fuckass noun a despicable or contemptible ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Robert Alter

Happy the man: 1 Who has walked not in the wicked’s council nor in the way of offenders stood, nor in the session of scoffers sat. 2 But in the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Whyte [Whyte, Jamie]

Evil exists, and An all-good and all-powerful god exists. Their inconsistency is not immediately obvious, but inconsistent they are. An all-good god would want to avoid any evil he could ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Christopher J. Moore

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...

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; ...

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harris, Roy, de Saussure, Ferdinand

Chapter 3 [150] Identities, Realities, Values The foregoing considerations raise a crucial problem. It is all the more important in that the fundamental concepts of static linguistics are directly based ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Foster Wallace

NOTES 1 Richard Taylor, “Fatalism,” Philosophical Review, 71, 1 (1962): 56-66. 2 Richard Taylor, Metaphysics (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), ch. 5. 3 Steven Cahn, “Fatalistic Arguments,” this JOURNAL, 61, ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Elizabeth Morrison

N naval/navel naval: Referring to the navy [e.g., ships, personnel, bases, stores, etc.] (the newly appointed naval commander will inspect the naval base today) navel: The depression in the center ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:John H. McWhorter [McWhorter, John H.]

The question is why that same verdict doesn’t apply to the Russian blues, the Japanese and their materials, or even that other trait Whorfianism has applied to the Chinese, their ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1994-09-04 | Author:Steven Pinker [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: ...