Language Arts & Disciplines

This textbook is designed for students of Chinese as a second/foreign language who have had three years of study at college. Focus on topics of international business and foreign trade, the book offers advanced training in vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric. With an emphasis on...

The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff (Editor) - 9th Edition Countless publishing professionals have learned the details of their business from this classic guide for publishers, editors and writers. In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago...

This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local...

Author: Bertha SiertsemaPublisher: SpringerPublished: 01/01/1955Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54dISBN: 9789401765046

The Elements of Style' is widely considered America's most beloved grammar book. This is the most trusted writer's guide to English-this is the book that generations of writers have relied upon for timeless advice on grammar, diction, syntax, sentence construction, and other writing essentials....

Most of us are lucky enough to fall in love and have our love returned. But some of us, spend our time on something that is a lot like love, but not love. It is toxicity in disguise. And this book, is for all...

Het Romeinse recht is een van de belangrijkste rechtstreekse voorouders van het huidig Westeuropese recht, waar ook het Belgische recht deel van uitmaakt. Daarom is de studie van het Romeinse recht niet alleen belangrijk vanuit rechtshistorisch oogpunt, maar is het evenzeer buitengewoon nuttig en...

Ce troisieme volet du "dictionnaire de logopedie" s'inscrit comme une suite logique des deux ouvrages qui l'ont precede. Apres avoir envisage le langage oral, son evolution normale et les troubles qui peuvent entraver son developpement, les auteurs se devaient de prolonger leur reflexion en...

Author: E. LamottePublisher: PeetersPublished: 01/01/1987Pages: 504Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 10.40h x 6.80w x 1.00dISBN: 9789042928282Language: FrenchThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

En un siecle de fer , de signes et de prodiges, qui interroge les cieux et scrute les Ecritures, quelles interpretations recoit l'Apocalypse, avec ses descriptions de fleaux et de cataclysmes, mais aussi ses recits de visions de signes grandioses et de noces eternelles...

Author: Y. DuhouxPublisher: PeetersPublished: 01/01/1983Pages: 111Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9789042920668Language: FrenchThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

Decouvert dans une tombe du Moyen Empire sous le temple funeraire de Ramses II, le Papyrus dramatique du Ramesseum a ete diversement etudie et interprete. En etudiant les structures du document et en confrontant les hypotheses, une nouvelle interpretation se fait jour, rendant mieux...

L'Empire ottoman rassemblait des populations tres diverses par la confession, par l'ethnie, par la nationalite. Comment les habitants, par-dela ces appartenances distinctes, vivaient-ils et percevaient-ils la coexistence dans leur vie concrete? Que retiraient-ils de cette experience quotidienne de la difference? Quels moyens utilisaient-ils pour...

Paul Ricoeur, dans Soi-meme comme un autre, porte une attention particuliere a l'ethique de l'amitie chez Aristote. Gaelle Fiasse expose dans son livre quels sont les enjeux ethiques et metaphysiques d'une telle lecture du philosophie grec. Elle montre comment Ricoeur s'approprie et se separe...

Le premier objectif que se sont fixe les editeurs de L'homme et son langage est de porter a la connaissance des enseignants et des etudiants francophones la pensee d'Eugenio Coseriu en rassemblant en deux volumes les etudes les plus significatives dans lesquelles ce linguiste...

Cette deuxieme edition, entierement revue et augmentee, tient compte des nouveautes intervenues depuis 1991 et se distingue de la premiere par de tres nombreux changements, les uns, ponctuels, les autres, plus substantiels (plan, terminologie, etc.). Dans cet ouvrage, les etudes morphologiques et syntaxiques sont...

This book is the first comprehensive study of Hittite phonology conducted from a descriptive perspective and the first to use the results of experimental phonetics and phonological typology.Author: Sylvain PatriPublisher: BrillPublished: 03/28/2019Pages: 748Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.70lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.80dISBN: 9789004394230Language: FrenchAbout the...

In her descriptive grammar of Nganasan Beáta Wagner-Nagy presents a comprehensive description of modern Nganasan, considering a number of typological aspects. Presented in a traditional structure the grammar serves as future reference of Nganasan within the field of Uralic studies.Author: Wagner-NagyPublisher: BrillPublished: 10/18/2018Pages: 602Binding...

With world-wide environmental destruction and globalization of economy, a few languages, especially English, are spreading, while thousands others are disappearing, taking with them cultural, philosophical and environmental knowledge systems and oral literatures. This book serves as a manual of effective practices in language revitalization.This...

Lausberg's Handbook of Literary Rhetoric is an internationally acclaimed, standard reference work on rhetorical techniques in classical literature, ancient and modern. This translation makes it available for the first time to the English-speaking world.Author: LausbergPublisher: BrillPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 956Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.95lbsSize: 9.58h x 6.38w...