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A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:34:57 +0000

An introduction to Roman law

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:57:42 +0000

Russian surnames

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:37:32 +0000

Language Selection and Switching in Strasbourg

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:44:02 +0000

The term code-switching is used to describe the mixing of different language varieties which result from language contact. This is the first full-length study to examine code-switching in a European context. Throughout history, Alsace has been a meeting place of the Roman and Germanic worlds. Today most of the population speak a German dialect, alternating with French, which is the language of public life, education, and the media. Gardner-Chloros describes this exemplar of code-switching, investing the many layers of significance of this mode of speech in the Alsatian community.

Politeness phenomena in England and Greece

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:59:06 +0000

Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of great interest to those who study language in its social context. This book presents the first application of Brown and Levinson’s ground-breaking theoretical work in a full-length comparative case study. Maria Sifianou draws her data from a variety of sources, including literature (particularly drama), questionnaires, and personal observation. She attempts to discover the principles underlying social interaction in both intracultural and intercultural contexts, and discusses the extent to which the concept of politeness is common to different cultures. She argues that politeness is conceptualized differently and thus manifested differently in the two societies under study: Greeks tend to use more „positive“ politeness devices than the English, who prefer more „negative“ devices. Positive politeness is more closely related to friendliness, negative politeness to formality. Sifianou’s analysis illustrates and supports the general claim that, despite popular stereotypes, there can be no objective verification for the view that one nation is more polite than another.

A New Introduction to Bibliography

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:58:32 +0000

Ronald B. McKerrow’s An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography, showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on Elizabethan printing – the period from 1560 to 1660. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and, although McKerrow covered the period up to 1800, he did not describe the technology of the machine-press period. Gaskell incorporates work done since McKerrow’s day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book production, making this book essential to students of literature, scholars, printing historians, librarians, and booklovers.

The Life and Times of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić 1787-1864

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:56:41 +0000

The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Hrvatsko-srpski & English Dictionary

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:36:50 +0000

The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:43:06 +0000

Edited by P. S. Falla.

The legacy of the middle ages

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:48:37 +0000