Author: Hilary Wise
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113481707X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French. With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions. Topics covered include: * external influences on the language * word formation * semantic change * style and register In addition, the author looks at the relationship between social and lexical change and examines attempts at intervention in the development of the language. Each chapter is concluded by notes for further reading, and by suggestions for project work which are designed to increase awareness of specific lexical phenomena and enable the student-reader to use lexicographic databases of all kinds. The Vocabulary of Modern French is an accessible and fascinating study of the relationship between a nation and its language, as well as providing a key text for all students of modern French.

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Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Author: Michigan State University
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Masanori Kaji
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019020009X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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The reception of the periodic system of elements has received little attention among scientists and historians alike. While many historians have studied Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic system, few have analyzed the ways in which the scientific community perceived and employed it. American historian of science Stephen G. Brush concluded that the periodic law had been generally accepted in the United States and Britain, and has suggested the need to extend this study to other countries. In Early Responses to the Periodic System, renowned historians of science Masanori Kaji, Helge Kragh, and Gábor Palló present the first major comparative analysis on the reception, response, and appropriation of the periodic system of elements among different nation-states. This book examines the history of its pedagogy and popularization in scientific communities, educational sectors, and popular culture from the 1970s to the 1920s. Fifteen notable historians of science explore the impact of Mendeleev's discovery in eleven countries (and one region) central to chemical research, including Russia, Germany, the Czech lands, and Japan, one of the few nation-states outside the Western world to participate in the nineteenth-century scientific research. The collection, organized by nation-state, explores how local actors regarded the new discovery as law, classification, or theoretical interpretation. In addition to discussing the appropriation of the periodic system, the book examines meta-physical reflections of nature based on the periodic system outside the field of chemistry, and considers how far humans can push the categories of "response" and "reception." Early Responses to the Periodic System provides a compelling read for anyone with an interest in the history of chemistry and the Periodic Table of Elements.

Author: Winifred Gregory Gerould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1596

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Author: Louis Guillaume Figuier
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Raleigh Morgan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110810581
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Chaucer Society (London, England)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Loren Ruth Lerner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802058560
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1646

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Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.