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En la cola de Correos, un hombre solo. Ni por asomo: un escritor nunca está solo. En su cabeza encresta diálogos consigo mismo y con toda aquella que se cruza entre sus orejas, tiene a bien trenzar neuronas y acepta la invitación a dar otra vuelta de tuerca a las peculiaridades del lenguaje, a las maldiciones y milagros de las lenguas y a los infinitos recreos y abismos que la literatura posibilita y sugiere. ¿Y si hablar, leer y escribir no fueran...
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Get the Summary of Mark Forsyth's The Elements of Eloquence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Elements of Eloquence" by Mark Forsyth explores the power and intricacies of rhetorical devices in the English language. Forsyth delves into the allure of alliteration, as seen in Shakespeare's works and political slogans, and the subtlety of polyptoton, where a word is used in different forms to enrich the text....
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What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them "evaluative-descriptive terms." Others talk of "terministic screens" or discuss the way debates are "framed." Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak. Unspeak represents an attempt...
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This book introduces the reader to a new way of approaching political discourse which is called discursive political analysis (DPA). DPA takes the political realm as the kernel and conceptualizes political discourse as a functional tool which constantly modifies the agent's position vis-à-vis structural factors to achieve or maintain political hegemony. DPA can be viewed as a complementary aspect of political analysis and addresses a wide audience...
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"A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it's impossible to finish reading certain stories and why others carry the reader in a vivid rush to the end."
-Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life
In the spirit of Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, comes The Elements of Story, by Francis...
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Diamond BeeKeepers Presentation Diamond BeeKeepers is an experimental collection of poems that explores the ritualization of spontaneity. It tests the limits of logic and assonance to find the transcendental meaning behind sound forming, at least seeking a new meaning, deeper than the preestablished notions of the daily use of words. Unleashing, thus, a new experience of language through the poetic apparatus The Author Mario L. AMEHOU Mario Amehou...
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Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. Yet it needs but a moment's reflection to convince us that this naturalness of speech is but an illusory feeling. The process of acquiring speech is, in sober fact, an utterly different sort of thing from the process of learning to walk…
One theory is that primitive words were imitative of sounds:...
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Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names.
At least, they lacked names until now. Word Fugitives comes to the rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined...
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Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from?
From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered with hundreds of common idioms borrowed from ancient traditions and civilizations throughout the world. In Red Herrings and White Elephants, Albert Jack has uncovered the amazing and sometimes downright...
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Découvrez une révolution dans l'apprentissage des langues avec ce livre. Ce livre explore de manière exhaustive comment l'intelligence artificielle révolutionne la manière dont nous pouvons apprendre l'hébreu, offrant des exemples concrets et des études de cas.Plongez dans les fondements de l'IA, explorez les défis spécifiques de l'apprentissage de l'hébreu, et apprenez comment les technologies avancées peuvent personnaliser l'expérience...
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Learning a new language can be an overwhelming task, however "Arabic Shortcuts 1" using an expertly created solution to help you learn a variety of important Arabic phrases. Take the challenge of learning a new foreign language, we invest in you! Why not take a complete course. We support you with material.An e-book, YouTube video links to our course. no hidden cost and subscriptions.Here is the offer, you buy this e-book Arabic shortcuts, we provide...
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The conversations have been gathered, and narrated as an artist by the author. The author takes an abstract perspective of a conversation to assemble conversation essays. Conversation essays help to enhance reading, sharing, learning and presenting abilities of a person in any setting. The author associates abstract topics and relates these topics to conversations that are similar, diverse, parallel, angular, and criteria based for a differentiation...
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"EXPAND ARABIC Word vocabularies with this Arabic book, speak Arabic in any situation"Enhance spoken ARABIC with this book series 4 Inside access to:2000 Arabic word phraseSentence building and grammar rulesPhrase Builder30 Arabic expressions30 topics to speak What is in this Arabic book seriesThe topics in this series will be more challenging than the previous books. It covers areas to meet people in a meeting room, or colleagues with the same designation...
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The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume-an ideal introduction to his work.
On Language features some of Noam Chomsky's most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers...
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Partant d'expériences vécues, de témoignages recueillis et de recherches académiques, l'autrice décrit comment se vit l'expérience de l'insécurité linguistique au quotidien, surtout dans la francophonie, là o l'idée d'une langue unique, la même pour toutes et tous, est la plus forte. Elle montre que les discours sur la langue sont aussi des discours sur les personnes qui les parlent. L'insécurité linguistique peut être liée au sentiment...
17) Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes: A Companion to Wheelock's Latin and Other Introductory Textbooks
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Designed to accompany the Wheelock's curriculum.
From one of the country's leading Latinists, this reader is the perfect complement to any Latin program, and the first collection of entirely authentic classical Latin texts that beginning students, from the very first day of their introduction to Latin, can read and enjoy.
Beginning with simple graffiti, Scribblers, Scvlptors, and Scribes moves toward longer inscriptions and literary texts as students...
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Can AI truly fathom literary artistry or emotion? Is there space for machine-human partnership expanding creative frontiers? As artificial intelligence permeates our world, intriguing questions arise around its role in the arts.In The Future of Storytelling: AI and the Art of Flash Fiction, writer Charles Eugene Anderson chronicles his adventures on the frontier of AI-assisted fiction. With warmth and wit, Anderson welcomes you along his journey pioneering...
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Through the book, you'll be excited to see what's next and have a hard time stopping at the end of each chapter. With lots of excitement and strange happenings, you'll learn how real detectives handle a case. You may even solve the mystery before they do! With short, easy-to-read sentences, you'll breeze through, become friends with all the characters, and want to
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In this poignant memoir the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah, provides a fascinating window into the history and cultural soul of China. Combining personal reflections, rich historical insights, and proverbs handed down to her by her grandfather, Yen Mah shares the wealth of Chinese civilization with Western readers. Exploring the history behind the proverbs, she delves into the lives of the first and second emperors...
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