[PDF] Bright Shiny Words eBook

Author : Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0673363201

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Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Author : James Frey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006179564X

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#1 National Bestseller “A sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical, tense, and surprisingly touching, it is a portrait of a city onto which so many millions have projected so many dreams. . . . Compelling, cinematic. . . . It achieves the very essence of Los Angeles’s fractured, unpredictable, loopy nature.” — Vanity Fair “A captivating urban kaleidoscope. . . . James Frey got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park. . . . He became a furiously good storyteller.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191645427

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In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai Lama on happiness. The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.

Author : Oxford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199739277

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The Oxford American Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus Third Edition is a portable, all-in-one reference, seamlessly combining dictionary and thesaurus entries into one text. In addition to finding meanings, synonyms, and antonyms for a word together in one entry, users will appreciate a selection of the most helpful extra features.With up-to-date content backed by Oxford's language research program, and with an open, accessible new interior design, this is the ideal reference source for anyone requiring authoritative lexical information.

Author : Komal Gupta
Publisher : Zorba Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9386407574

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Words in writing come out as expressions of ourselves , expressions of our perceptions of the world we live in. In this poetry book ,Of Silhouettes, Words and Moonflowers, poems allude to the vast array of experiences we go through in life . Some life defining, some hilarious, others a pointer to the direction of our lives. It is an attempt to forge stories in poems in a candid wordy way ,through a series of themes. Come along , enjoy the journey through paths of poems that seek to connect.

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199641609

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The word is central to both naive and expert theories of language. Yet the definition of 'word' remains problematic. The 42 chapters of this Handbook offer a variety of perspectives on this most basic and elusive of linguistic units.