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"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy." In this extraordinary work of scathing satire, Ambrose Bierce provided new humorous definitions of the words that formed the lexicon of contemporary American life. Accumulated over three decades for a series of magazines and newspapers, the entries in The Devil's Dictionary painted a revealing portrait of late 19th-century American life, with all its contradictions and hypocrisies laid bare. Bierce's fantastic wit and incredible gift for irony shine through this true masterpiece of American literature. This handsome hardback edition with dust jacket makes a wonderful gift or collectible of this classic work of satire.

This collection advocates for languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time.

Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, modes and media in circulation during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these have impacted our daily lives in terms of the various meanings they express.

Covering a vast variety of flower, funghi and mosses in the language of the people of Scotland.

Building on the previous edition's success, this book tells the story of English from its early stages to today's still-evolving language, using real examples to show important influences, grammatical development and links to our linguistic past.

Lexical Innovation in World Englishes provides new insights into World Englishes through the analysis of lexical aspects of different varieties which can illustrate the dynamic character and nature of a language variety.

Our American SayingsBy: Dolores Jean CalhounDolores Jean Calhoun began collecting idioms some time ago, and over time they began to add up. Fascinated by the seemingly endless turns of phrase, Calhoun found interest in their distinctly American wisdom and humor. She soon discovered that there may be a saying for nearly every situation humans can find ourselves in, including popular American sayings like "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water," to more obscure phrases like "Scarcer than hen's teeth." Calhoun takes care in collecting and unveiling the meaning of phrases that most of us take for granted. Readers will find not only the phrases themselves but Calhoun's definitions and stories from her life of the times when these phrases either applied directly to her or when their meanings were finally made clear. Our American Sayings is a carefully crafted testament to homespun, American wisdom that offers something for readers of all ages.

The context for the teaching and learning of English for specific disciplinary purposes is undergoing profound changes under the influence of economic globalization and new digital communication technologies. English in the Disciplines demonstrates how fundamental principles of ESP, to tailor language learning materials to the needs of sp

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom-based research. This book is key reading for all pre- and in-service teachers of EFL as well as researchers in this field.

A collection of short, fiction and factual stories, of up to two thousand words. In it there are also rhymes and jokes. This is a quote from inside the book cover: 'Some are long And some are true There are ones that are short And others are blue All are thought provoking With funny ones worth a giggle or two.' The book goes to 120 interesting pages filled with factual matters some of which are historical. The book takes a different slant on life, by looking at the humourous and silly matters or events.

How high are you? Let Miracle Bud tell you. No matter what level of stoned you are, this book will help you enjoy the buzz.Portend the potency of your pot with Miracle Bud. Place the Miracle Bud Leaf in the palm of your hand, watch how it moves, and then consult the ?Levels of Stoned? table to see if you are Buzzed, Blazed, or Zzzzzz. Then get lost in the hilarious illustrations and mind-bending facts, figures, and deep thoughts that will help you enjoy the high. Need something to do with your session friends? Activities abound, like making up dialogue to muted television shows. Got the munchies? No problem, microwave recipes will satisfy your cravings quickly. Need to laugh more? Check out the twisted trivia. Miracle Bud is the perfect companion for when you smoke pot.

With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.

Die Grundthese des Buches ist, dass die meisten unserer Ortsnamen in Wirklichkeit aus der keltischen Sprache kommen. Es gelang denn auch, zahlreiche Namen auf ihre keltischen Bestandteile zurückzuführen und ihre wahre Bedeutung zu entschlüsseln. Im Lexikon finden sich beispielhaft Hunderte Deutungen von Ortsnamen vorwiegend aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Dazu kommen Orte aus Europa und sogar von andern Kontinenten. Die vollkommen neuen Deutungen ermöglichen einen einzigartigen Blick in die Welt und auf die Werte unserer Vorfahren. Besonders spannend: Die über zweihundertfünfzig erstmals hier dargestellten urkeltischen Wörter ermöglichen dem Leser, selbst Ortsnamen zu deuten. Mithilfe dieser urkeltischen Worte werden zwei alte Inschriften neu übersetzt.Die Folgen der Entdeckungen in diesem Buch für die Kenntnis der Kelten und deren Sprachen sowie für die germanischen und indogermanischen Sprachen sind kaum abzuschätzen. Beispielsweise legt die Einfachheit der urkeltischen Worte nahe, dass sie zur indogermanischen Ursprache gehören.

Following the significant advance of English in Ireland during the 18th century, the restoration of Irish as the vernacular language formed a key part of a broad cultural Revival movement from the late 19th century. Many of those who fought figuratively or literally for independence learned Irish to varying degrees of success or broadly supported the aims of the Revival movement. Significant policy measures to promote Irish were adopted following independence in 1922, particularly in the fields of education, legal status and public administration. Despite decades of contestation around revitalisation, Irish continues to enjoy institutional supports denied to many other European minority languages but remains weak as a community language.¿Published in the centenary year of the foundation of the Irish state, this book reviews one hundred years of government policy on Irish and assesses its relative success or failure. Based on theoretical perspectives on language policy and revitalisation of minority languages, it analyses the development and implementation of Irish language initiatives in five thematic areas: speakers, the Gaeltacht, education, legislation and broadcasting. Each chapter includes an overview of the topic and a detailed case study on an aspect of it, drawing heavily on archival sources related to both the state and civil society organisations.

This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Comic Latin Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The Latin TongueThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Les stations de télévision en langue celtique: TG4 (Irlande), S4C (pays de Galles), BBC Alba (Ecosse), France 3 Bretagne et Brezhoweb (Bretagne) s¿appuient sur des langues dont les démographies restent, pour certaines, aléatoires. L¿irlandais, le gallois, le gaélique d¿Ecosse et le Breton dépendent pour leur survie, de lois, de plans, de stratégies initiés par divers gouvernements ainsi que de l¿application de la charte européenne des langues régionales et minoritaires. Dans un environnement désormais bilingue, plusieurs facteurs vont jouer un rôle crucial pour la survie de ces langues: l¿enseignement, l¿opinion publique et les stations de télévision. Celles-ci affrontent non seulement une concurrence féroce dans un espace audiovisuel ultra-fragmenté, mais doivent aussi sans cesse accroître leurs audimats et leurs parts de marché afin de maintenir ou d¿augmenter des subventions trop souvent jugées insuffisantes. L¿avenir de ces télévisions territorialisées, se trouve dans la déterritorialisation par internet et par la télévision connectée, de leurs flux d¿émissions grand public, en particulier les sitcoms et les soap operas dont le sous-titrage optionnel en anglais ou en français est susceptible d¿étendre leurs audiences ainsi que leurs budgets.

Reune nueve estudios sobre los efectos sociales y linguisticos del bilinguismo en Ecuador, Peru y Bolivia, que versan sobre el mantenimiento del quechua, el espanol andino y la media lengua, basados en muestras espontaneas.

Die Jugendübersetzungen antiker Lyrik von J. H. Voß entstanden im Wechselspiel mit seiner frühen dichterischen Produktion, waren aber ansatzweise bereits dem normativen Antike-Ideal verschrieben, welches Voß'wirkungsmächtigen Homer-Übersetzungsarbeiten zugrunde lag. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Genese des Voß'schen Übersetzungswerkes und beleuchtet ihre Verknüpfung mit den literaturgeschichtlichen Konstellationen im ausgehenden 18. Jh.