American Indian, Russian, German, Icelandic, French, and other stories — 48 in all — among them "The Tinder-box," "The Nightingale," and "How to Tell a True Princess."
This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and roles of the language in every part of the globe and shows how English rose to international pre-eminence.
With approachable but impeccable scholarship fourteen experts chart the history of written and spoken English in all its rich and protean variety. Their accounts are made vivid with examples drawn from an immense range of documentary evidence including letters, diaries, and private records. They explore and explain the mixture of gradual and rapid change in the words, meanings, grammar, or pronunciation of English at different times and in different places. They examine the three-century rise of standard English and received pronunciation and consider their current status and wellbeing.
This book will appeal to everyone with a keen interest in the English language and its development.
Usually illustrated dictionaries address children, but THIS dictionary is intended for adults, including professionals in many fields of human activity. Over 28 000 illustrations will help you quickly understand how called any portion of an internal combustion engine, the element of Construction, the type of shoes or hair, mythological character, a tool surgeon, Suit card, the type of wiring, plant-and a lot more! Therefore it is useful not only for foreigners to learn English, but also for themselves "media" language.
Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such fundamental paradoxes as to whether we acquired our greatest gift in order to talk or so as to be able to think, and as to why human beings should, as experience constantly confirms, contribute information for the well-being of others at their own expense and for no apparent gain: which if this is one of language's main functions appears to make its possession, in Darwinian terms, a disadvantage.
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
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A Brief History of the Paradox Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Because paradoxes show great minds at once at their most inspired and befuddled, a book like this makes an excellent introduction to philosophy in general.
By treating how different thinkers deal with a problem, Mr. Sorensen provides a sort of whistle-stop tour of Western thought. originally posted 2007-07-9; updated 2007-08-21
