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Format: XV, 332 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0521461464

Content: The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy both in the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. The New York Times ridiculed the new dictionary's alleged failure to label slang in a now-famous editorial that began, "A passel of double-domes at the G. & C

Content: Merriam Company joint in Springfield, Mass., have been confabbing and yakking for twenty-seven years...and now they have finalized...a new edition of a swell and esteemed book."

Content: The attack was joined by Life magazine, the Saturday Review, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and other magazines and newspapers across the country. Critics charged that Webster's Third had abandoned its responsibility to uphold standards of good English and that it would encourage permissiveness in the teaching of English. Rejoinders by the dictionary's editor, Philip Babcock Gove, and sympathetic journalists and scholars had little effect

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Lexikografie ; Sprachverfall ; Ideologie ; Geschichte 1961-1965 ; Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language unabridged ; Sprachkritik ; Geschichte 1961-1965 ; Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language unabridged ; Amerikanisches Englisch ; Geschichte 1961 ; Gove, Philip Babcock 1902-1972 ; Lexikografie ; Amerikanisches Englisch ; Lexikografie ; Geschichte 1961 ; Wörterbuch

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Format: 191 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0195042700 , 0195089642

Content: "Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally available for representation. On the contrary, these essays present discussions of experiences and concepts that challenge, defeat, or block representation. Physical pain, physical labor, the hidden reflexes of cognition and its judgments about the coherence or incoherence of the world are all phenomena that test the resources of language. Using primarily literary sources (works by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others), Scarry also draws on painting, medical advertising, and philosophic dialogue to probe the limitations of expression and representation. Resisting Representation celebrates language. It looks at the problematic areas of expression not at the moment when representation is resisted, but at the moment when that resistance is at last overcome, thus suggesting a domain of plenitude and inclusion." http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/90022508-d.html.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Literatur ; Sprache ; Wirklichkeit ; Geschichte ; Englisch ; Werbesprache ; Schmerz ; Großbritannien ; Werbung ; Analgetikum ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Sprache ; Wirklichkeit ; Darstellung ; Wissensrepräsentation ; Wissensrepräsentation ; Literatur ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 262 Seiten)

ISBN: 9781350115545 , 9781350115521 , 9781350115538

Content: "From short paratactic sentences to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump's idiolect is highly distinctive from that of previous Presidents of the USA. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump's language and argues that his speech style, often underestimated by the media, is strategically implemented as a persuasive device. The chapters examine Trump's tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, presidential debates and reality TV appearances, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. Also scrutinised is Trump's deviant use of nicknames, the definite article and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents, which is tailored to a specific political purpose. Drawing on techniques from corpus linguistics, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump's language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon"

Note: Introduction: From fake news to tremendous success / Matthias Eitelmann and Ulrike Schneider -- It's just words, folks. It's just words : Donald Trump's distinctive linguistic style / Jesse Egbert and Douglas Biber -- I know words, I have the best words : repetitions, parallelisms, and matters of (in)coherence / Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam and Gintarė Grigonytė -- A man who was just an incredible man, an incredible man : age factors and coherence in Donald Trump's spontaneous speech / Patricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider -- Very emotional, totally conservative, and somewhat all over the place : an analysis of intensifiers in Donald Trump's speech / Ulrike Stange -- Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted, and failing New York Times : nicknames in Donald Trump's tweets / Jukka Tyrkkö and Irina Frisk -- I'm doing great with the Hispanics. Nobody knows it : the distancing effect of Donald Trump's the plurals / Ulrike Schneider and Kristene K. McClure -- Either we WIN this election, or we are going to LOSE this country! : Trump's warlike competition metaphor / Anthony Koth -- Silence and Denial Trump's discourse on the environment / Marta Degani and Alexander Onysko -- Donald Trump's "fake news" agenda : a pragmatic account of rhetorical delegitimization / Christoph Schubert -- Sorry not sorry : political apology in the age of Trump / Jan David Hauck and Teruko Vida Mitsuhara -- Great movement vs. crooked opponents : is Donald Trump's language populist? / Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-350-11551-4

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Trump, Donald 1946- ; Englisch ; Politische Sprache ; Rhetorik ; Diskursanalyse ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781350115545

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Author information: Schneider, Ulrike 1982-

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 286 Seiten)

ISBN: 9781350086890 , 9781350086913

Content: Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid? Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime and science fiction, South African Writing in Transition explores how concerns about time and temporality have shaped literary form across the country's literary culture. Establishing new connections between leading literary voices and lesser known works, the book explores themes of truth and reconciliation, disappointment and betrayal--Provided by publisher

Note: Introduction / Rita Barnard -- Revolutionary times: Mongane Wally Serote and Cold War fiction / Monica Popescu -- After Marikana: the temporalities of betrayal / Annel Pieterse -- Still waiting?: writing futurity after apartheid / Katherine Hallemeier -- Precarious time and the aesthetics of community / Sarah Lincoln -- Storying trauma: Unconfessed as a site of political possibility / Erica Still -- Reach forward, into the past: nostalgia as post-transitional mode / Erica Lombard -- Crime fiction in a time of AIDS: South African muti noir / Brenna M. Munro -- Queer returns in postapartheid short fiction: S.J. Naud's The alphabet of birds / Andrew van der Vlies -- History and the genres of modernity: Marlene Van Niekerk's Agaat / Lily Saint -- Transition as democratic form: the unfinishable work of Ivan Vladislavi? / Chris Holmes -- Conclusion: reading in transition / Tsitsi Jaji

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-3500-8688-3

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Südafrika ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Apartheid ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.5040/9781350086913

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Format: 303 S.

ISBN: 0820444367

Series Statement: Studies on Cervantes and his times 8

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Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , Romance Studies , English Studies

Keywords: Spanisch ; Roman ; Rezeption ; Englisch ; Geschichte 1550-1865

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Author information: Ter Horst, Robert 1929-

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Format: XXIV, 624 S.

Edition: 1. print.

Language: English

Keywords: Englisch ; Kinderliteratur ; Geschichte Anfänge-1950 ; Englisch ; Kinderliteratur ; Geschichte

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Format: 289 S. , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 311013408X

Series Statement: Netherlands phonetic archives 9

Note: Zugl.: Edinburgh, Univ., Diss., 1989

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Obstruent ; Sprachproduktion ; Englisch ; Obstruent ; Lautquantität ; Englisch ; Obstruent ; Hochschulschrift

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Format: XI, 552 S. , Ill, graph. Darst. , 1 CD (12 cm)

ISBN: 9783868211283

Series Statement: Heidelberger Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft 11

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Wortfeld ; Denken ; Verb ; Kollokation ; The New York Times ; Englisch ; Wortfeld ; Nomen ; love ; Kollokation ; The Washington Post ; Englisch ; Wortfeld ; Nomen ; result ; Kollokation ; The Washington Post ; Englisch ; Wortfeld ; Nomen ; trouble ; Kollokation ; The Washington Post ; Englisch ; Wortfeld ; Nomen ; work ; Kollokation ; The Washington Post ; Hochschulschrift

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Format: vii, 213 Seiten , Illustrationen

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9780823284252

Content: Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grief than as an action to be performed, well or badly.Active deaths belie narratives of helplessness and loss through which mortality is too often read and instead suggest how marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some early modern strategies for dying resonate with descriptions of politicized biological life in the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, or with ecclesiastical forms. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Drama ; Sterben ; Geschichte 1570-1625 ; Hochschulschrift

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Format: 156 S.

ISBN: 0820420999

Series Statement: [American university studies / 04] 166

Content: This book represents a fresh look at four Recusant writers of the sixteenth century - John Fisher, Thomas More, Robert Southwell, and Benedict Canfield - each imprisoned for the practice of his Catholic faith. All are united by the additional bond that while in prison, they wrote books in which they stated their ultimate belief that the crown of martyrdom awaited those who persevered. At times polemical, at other times reflective and consolatory, these men encapsulated the best of traditional Catholic thought for an audience living in shifting and perilous times. This book offers a new evaluation of an old and vital tradition, one too often neglected by traditional literary studies.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Recusants ; Englisch ; Gefangenenliteratur ; Recusants ; Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Fisher, John 1459-1535 ; More, Thomas 1478-1535 ; Southwell, Robert 1561-1595 ; Benedikt von Canfield 1562-1610 ; Aufsatzsammlung