Language: history and general works

Have you ever wondered how you can find out more about a word: Where did it come from?

The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'?

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Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries.

Qu'il s'agisse des mobilites etudiantes, des migrations de population, des exportations de modeles d'enseignement et de manuels, de formation a distance des professeurs, etc.

This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes.

This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes.

Erste Periode: Wenn du ohne Angst, ohne peinliche Pannen und ohne "e;Ist das normal?

This book examines American cultural values and their expressions in everyday speech, particularly an American discourse strategy which the author coins as a metaphoric comparison'.

This book examines American cultural values and their expressions in everyday speech, particularly an American discourse strategy which the author coins as a metaphoric comparison'.

The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools.

Was ist so besonders an Wortern wie gabig oder gvatterle?

Language: The Basics provides a concise, plain language introduction to the study of language.

A imposicion do galego , o equilibrio , a liberdade de eleccion linguistica .

Language: The Basics provides a concise, plain language introduction to the study of language.

Die Gründung der Berliner Universität 1810 markierte einen deutlichen Einschnitt im wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Leben der preußischen Hauptstadt.

August Boeckh (1785–1867) verfügte über eine umfangreiche private Büchersammlung mit einem beeindruckenden Facettenreichtum.

Una travesía para descubrir por qué la lengua española es como es.

Uno de los libros del año para The New Yorker.

Este libro muestra el apasionante poder del lenguaje mediante anécdotas, intrigas extraordinarias y juegos literarios en torno a la palabra.

In diesem Band wird erstmalig die Sprachgeschichte der Region Dalmatien für den Zeitraum von 1797 bis heute skizziert.

Newman offers a unique account of eleven commonly used verbs of British English (eat, drink, sit, stand, lie, etc.

Newman offers a unique account of eleven commonly used verbs of British English (eat, drink, sit, stand, lie, etc.

Cada generación tiene una manera propia de hablar y hay palabras que le sirven para identificarse en contraposición a las generaciones anteriores y posteriores; son su seña de identidad.

This innovative collection explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between translation and anarchism, showing how the circulation of key authors and theories on a global scale has been underpinned by language and translation.

This innovative collection explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between translation and anarchism, showing how the circulation of key authors and theories on a global scale has been underpinned by language and translation.

Drawing on the rank-scale hypothesis of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this book explores the synergetic relationships among syntactic complexities at the sentence, clause, and group levels.

Applied theatre is a continually growing and diversifying field.

Applied theatre is a continually growing and diversifying field.

Drawing on the rank-scale hypothesis of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this book explores the synergetic relationships among syntactic complexities at the sentence, clause, and group levels.

'In this fascinating book, the historian Jean-Yves Mollier highlights the astonishing diversity of roles assumed by booksellers throughout the ages and the continents' Express'Jean-Yves Mollier .

This book examines how an English terminology can be used to describe European school systems.

This book examines how an English terminology can be used to describe European school systems.

The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools.

Ready to finally understand Italian without translating every word?

This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond.

This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond.

This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry.

This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry.

This is a book about the structure, history and evolution of the Japanese language.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations.

Dieses Buch bietet eine anschauliche, forschungsbasierte und doch allgemein verständliche Einführung in die Geschichte der Literatur von Wales von ihren Anfängen im Frühmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.