The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren write by Iona Opie. This book was released on 2000-08-31. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."
The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage
The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage write by Michael Shapiro. This book was released on 2017-02-28. The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore blog. Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, especially cases where language is changing due to innovative usage. In every case where an analysis contains technical or recondite vocabulary, a Glossary precedes the body of the essay, and readers can also consult the Master Glossary which contains all items glossed in the text. The unique form of the book’s presentation is aimed at readers who are alert to the peculiarities of present-day American English as they pertain to pronunciation, grammar, and style, without “dumbing down” or compromising the language in which the explanations are couched. “b>Praise for the First Edition “Michael Shapiro is one of the great thinkers in the realm of linguistics and language use, and his integrated understanding of language and speech in its semantic and pragmatic structure, grammatical and historical grounding, and colloquial to literary stylistic variants is perhaps unmatched today. This book is a treasure to be shared.” Robert S. Hatten, The University of Texas at Austin “Jewel of a book. . . . a gift to us all from Michael Shapiro. Like a Medieval Chapbook it can be a kind of companion whose vignettes on language use can be randomly and profitably consulted at any moment. Some may consider these vignettes opinionated. That would be to ignore how deeply anchored each vignette is in Shapiro’s long and rare polyglot experience with language. It could well serve as a night table book, taken up each night to read and reflect upon ––to ponder––both in the twilight mind and in the deeper reaches of associative somnolence. There is nothing else like it that I know of.” James W. Fernandez, The University of Chicago
Western Lore and Language
Western Lore and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Lore and Language write by Thomas L. Clark. This book was released on 1996. Western Lore and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Western Lore and Language is the first dictionary to document the extraordinary range of words that are an integral part of the West, old and new. Focusing on words that either originated in the West (forty-niner, skookum, quaking aspen), are used mainly in the West (butte, skink, Spanish sword), or are associated with the West (mesa, rodeo, surfer), Thomas Clark has compiled an entertaining and essential reference of the Western word. This generously illustrated resource gives readers everything they need to talk western: a pinch of Border Spanish, (Tex-Mex, Tejana, Spanglish), some California Mellow, a generous portion of Old West, and a broad scoop of New West (from vineyard cultivation to Valley Girl vapidity). For more serious readers, the dictionary also offers complete lexicological entries for each word - part of speech, pronunciation, definition, source, etymology, dates, cross-references, and editorial comments."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
What in the Word?
What in the Word? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What in the Word? write by Charles Harrington Elster. This book was released on 2005. What in the Word? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a humorous look at the English language, including information on word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation.
The Lore and Language of Flowers
The Lore and Language of Flowers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lore and Language of Flowers write by Anna Trenter. This book was released on 2004. The Lore and Language of Flowers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A beautifully illustrated gift book on the secret language and lore of garden flowers. With four seasonal sections full of information on each plant's medicinal properties, uses, magical qualities and related superstitions. Features a mixture of photographs alongside Cicely Mary Barker's exquisite artwork known for it's botanical accuracy, to make the perfect gift for every gardener. Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society who celebrate their bicentennial this year.
