Author: W. Rowlinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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This unique guide combines an up-to-date French grammar with an accessible, comprehensive bi-lingual dictionary of over 45,000 words and phrases in the French language. It presents all the basic grammar of modern French clearly and simply, using hundreds of helpful examples taken from everyday speech, newspapers, and magazines, and offers a glossary of grammatical terms as well as a full index. Clear labels to each section direct the user to the appropriate word or idiomatic expression, and an integrated pronunciation guide makes sure that even the novice will speak French correctly. Ideal for travel, business, or study, this comprehensive, single-volume guide to all aspects of the French language is indispensable for anyone who hopes to speak French like a native.
Author: Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192634402
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today.
Author: W. Rowlinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198603412
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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"Oxford Easy Grammar" texts cover all the fundamental and essential points of a language's grammar in a clear and user-friendly way, with every grammatical point clearly explained and backed up by examples in English before being illustrated in the foreign language.
Author: Peter France
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199247844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).
Author: David Andress
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191009911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This volume covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.
Author: Martin Cutts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199233458
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Plain English is an essential tool for effective communication. Information transmitted in letters, documents, reports, contracts, and forms is clearer and more understandable when presented in straightforward terms. The Oxford Guide to Plain English provides authoritative guidance on how towrite plain English using easy-to-follow guidelines which cover straightforward language, sentence length, active and passive verbs, punctuation, grammar, planning, and good organization.This handy guide will be invaluable to writers of all levels. It provides essential guidelines that will allow readers to develop their writing style, grammar, and punctuation. The book also offers help in understanding official jargon and legalese giving the plain English alternatives.This guide gives hundreds of real examples and shows 'before and after' versions of texts of different kinds which will help readers to look critically at their own writing. Helpfully organized into 21 short chapters, each covering a different aspect of writing. Clearly laid out, and easy to use,the Oxford Guide to Plain English is the best guide to writing clear and helpful documents.
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0425228614
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Updated design and ultra-clear text offering up-to-date coverage of all the essential day-to-day vocabulary makes The Oxford New French Dictionary the perfect guide to the French language in the 21st century. This essential reference includes: • Over 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations of essential, everyday vocabulary • New, ultra-clear text, for quick, easy reference • Special warning symbols make slang and informal language easily identifiable • Convenient tables of regular and irregular French verbs • Extra help with frequently used words—the building blocks to learning a language
Author: Peter Meijes Tiersma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199572120
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 665
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This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume addresses areas such as the history and structure of legal languages, its meaning and interpretation, multilingualism and language rights, courtroom discourse, forensic identification, intellectual property and linguistics, and legal translation and interpretation. Encyclopedic in scope, the handbook includes chapters written by experts from every continent who are familiar with linguistic issues that arise in diverse legal systems, including both civil and common law jurisdictions, mixed systems like that of China, and the emerging law of the European Union.
Author: Martine Robbeets
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198804628
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.
Author: Adam Ledgeway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199677107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Series statement "Oxford linguistics" from jacket.
