Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions, Paperback - Tim Cassedy

DescriptionTim Cassedy's fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identi...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people ...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 - Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, Vishvajit Pa

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Reducere. An introduction to six common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guideline...

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Publisher: Peter Lang LtdAuthor(s): Michael BroersIllustration(s): 7 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2017Dimensions...

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutio...

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012 - Sidney Tarrow

Reducere. How can I tell if a Bible verse is literal or figurative? What's the difference between a metaphor and a simile? How can I understand a parable? An...

Reducere. Far from your typical text on speech education, this delightfully illustrated book encourages lively participation in each activity and focuses on ...

Through the lens of his own family's history, Peter Gumbel explores issues of identity, nationality and belonging after Brexit.

Drawing on hundreds of sources, this innovative book combines the history of scholarship, science, philosophy and religion to demonstrate how chang...

In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pre...

Reducere. Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is becau...

Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, David Braine draws on insig...

Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction of figures of transgression (e.g. traitors, deserters, refugees) in a var...

DescriptionThe Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Dolly (Professor, University of Stavanger) JorgensenIllustration(s): 13 b 26 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...

A study of the origins of speech, from Indology to Anthroposophy

The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of languag...

Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, ...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well...

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been dr...

DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

Publisher: The Noverre PressAuthor(s): Kellom TomlinsonIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2009Dimens...

Reducere. This major study explores the spatial history of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial formation between the early nineteenth century and the end of...

Reducere. Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over...

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In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of re...

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Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and differen...

Reducere. This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century ...

Reducere. Far from your typical text on speech education, this delightfully illustrated book encourages lively participation in each activity and focuses on ...

Revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. This book explores how this classical idea can be applied to ...

DescriptionWhat do TESOL teachers actually teach? What do they know about language, about English and the ways it is used in the world? How do they...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsEllen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusal...

A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the...

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Reducere. The Wheel of Time (R) is a PBS Great American Read Selection Now in development for TV Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jord...

Emotional Lives offers a cultural study of the growing importance of people's emotions in public life, and the role of the mass media in shaping pe...

This is not your usual 'I grew up as a white person in Africa' combined with an 'I worked in a difficult, dangerous place and this is what happened...

Reducere. DescriptionAge and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explo...

Reducere. DescriptionWith his trademark exploration of the meaning of adult faith in an age marked by new understandings of cosmology, anthropology, quantum ...