Author: Frederick H. HackettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Pure English
Author: Frederick H. HackettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A Treatise on the English Language
Author: Simon KerlPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Politics and the English Language
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Author: Minae MizumuraPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538545
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional—and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages. Mizumura calls these writings "texts" and their ultimate form "literature." Only through literature and, more fundamentally, through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.
On the Essence of Language
Author: Martin HeideggerPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791462713
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.
A Treatise on the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language
Author: Alexander CrombiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Greene's Analysis. A treatise on the structure of the English language; or the analysis and classification of sentences and their component parts, etc
Author: Samuel S. GREENEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Treatise on the Structure of the English Language, Or, The Analysis and Classification of Sentences and Their Component Parts with Illustrations and Exercises Adapted to the Use of Schools
Author: Samuel Stillman GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
Author: John McWhorterPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592404944
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).
A Hand-book of the English Language
Author: Robert Gordon LathamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
