Placing Words
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Placing Words
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Author : William J. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005-08-26
Placing Words written by William J. Mitchell and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-26 with Architecture categories.
Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA. The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns," he observes. In Placing Words, Mitchell looks at the ways in which urban spaces and places provide settings for communication and at how they conduct complex flows of information through the twenty-first century city. Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information—from one device to another in the urban scene—creates a digital network that also exists in physical space. Placing Words examines this emerging system of spaces, flows, and practices in a series of short essays—snapshots of the city in the twenty-first century. Mitchell questions the necessity of flashy downtown office towers in an age of corporate Web sites. He casts the shocked-and-awed Baghdad as a contemporary Guernica. He describes architectural makeovers throughout history, listing Le Corbusier's Fab Five Points of difference between new and old architecture, and he discusses the architecture of Manolo Blahniks. He pens an open letter to the Secretary of Defense recommending architectural features to include in torture chambers. He compares Baudelaire, the Parisian flaneur, to Spiderman, the Manhattan traceur. He describes the iPod-like galleries of the renovated MoMA and he recognizes the camera phone as the latest step in a process of image mobilization that began when artists stopped painting on walls and began making pictures on small pieces of wood, canvas, or paper. The endless flow of information, he makes clear, is not only more pervasive and efficient than ever, it is also generating new cultural complexities.
Words In Time And Place
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Words In Time And Place written by David Crystal and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have never heard before, find out fascinating facts behind everyday words, and be surprised at how lively and varied the English language can be. Published to critical acclaim in 2009, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is the first comprehensive thesaurus in the world to arrange words by meaning in order of first recorded use. Using its unique perspective on how the English language has developed, Words in Time and Place takes 15 themes and explores the language in these areas over time - explaining when new words appeared, where they came from, and what such changes say about times in which they emerged. The themes chosen are varied, universal topics and show the semantic range of the thesaurus and what it can tell us about the words used in areas of everyday life. Learn about the different words for dying and money, or types of pop music, as well as words for a privy, oaths, and words for being drunk. Written by the world's leading expert on the English language, David Crystal, the book carries his trademark style of engaging yet authoritative writing. Each chapter features an introduction to the language of that topic, followed by a timeline of vocabulary taken from the historical thesaurus showing all the synonyms arranged in chronological order. The timelines are annotated with additional quotations, facts, and social and historical context to give a clear sense of how words entered the English language, when, and in which context they were used. Words in Time and Place showcases the unique and excellent resource that is the Historical Thesaurus and reveals the linguistic treasures to be found within. This fascinating book will appeal to anyone with an interest in words and in the development of the English language.
Putting Words Into Place
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Author : Frederick Nellist
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-10
Putting Words Into Place written by Frederick Nellist and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Poetry categories.
My poetry shows no extravagance, but a concise awareness of things that matter most to me. I have a constant urge to create pictures in the mind based on common phrases and words and endeavour to put them in a frame. I am attatching my photo to be used with my "about me" The inner design I leave in you expert hands but the book but the book must start with the poem,"In The Beginning" and end with the poem, "Speak as you Find".
The Place Of Words
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Author : Michael P. Fitzsimmons
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
The Place Of Words written by Michael P. Fitzsimmons and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with History categories.
As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded. In the early years of the Republic, the Académie Française, the royal body responsible for the French language, was suppressed by the National Convention at the urging of the Abbé Grégoire and the artist Jacques-Louis David. However, by 1795, the National Convention recognized that language could be used to its advantage, leading it to commission a fifth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, which would unquestionably become the most controversial edition in the Académie's history. The National Convention expected this dictionary to champion the ideals of Revolution and Republic, but when it appeared three years later it did quite the opposite. Instead, the fifth edition virtually ignored the Revolution and the linguistic innovations that had transformed the French language, even omitting two of the most famous and enduring neologisms spawned by the Revolution--ancien régime and Terror. Present-tense definitions of abolished institutions and anachronistic values dominated the work and the Revolution was consigned to a brief and hastily-prepared supplement at the end of the second volume. Because of its failure to capture the current state of the French language, most contemporaries judged it harshly, and its deficiencies led the Parisian publisher Nicolas Moutardier to publish a competing dictionary in 1802. The dictionary became the focus of protracted litigation that Napoleon Bonaparte's government increasingly used to assert its control over language. Indeed, Bonaparte met personally with the commission of the Institut National (the republican successor to the Académie) and made clear his desire that the new edition not contain revolutionary neologisms. Eager to see the new edition appear, the Bonapartist regime committed financial resources and established a timetable for its completion within five years. However, it was only in 1835, after the fall of Bonaparte and the Bourbons, that the sixth edition would appear. Although the Académie was one of the most prominent institutions under the Old Regime, scholarship on the Académie remains largely neglected. Drawing on previously untapped sources in the Archives de l'Institut and Archives Nationales, The Place of Words is the first book-length study of the controversial fifth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Spanning more than half a century of changing regimes, this study provides unique insight into the ways in which each government, from the publication of the fourth edition in 1762 to the sixth in 1835, viewed the role of language as an instrument of control.
Life Skill Lessons Work Place Words
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Remedia Publications
Release Date :
Life Skill Lessons Work Place Words written by and has been published by Remedia Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Words From The Low Place
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Author : Oliver T. Reid
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-12-05
Words From The Low Place written by Oliver T. Reid and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Religion categories.
If you can identify with: pain, stinking thinking, loss, divorce, lust, suicide, low self-esteem, rejection, a broken relationship with Jesus Christ, and much more. Look no farther. This book inspires both the Christian and Nonbeliever not to discard or despise, but embrace, and rebound from their low places in their lives. All that read this book will hopefully understand why God has allowed and elected low places in their life to reveal a greater purpose, and a higher calling in them. Keep in mind all you have to do is be willing to read this book. Study it perpetually. Practice it often. Implement what you have studied and read daily.
Good Words Ed By N Macleod
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Author : Norman Macleod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Good Words Ed By N Macleod written by Norman Macleod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
An Actor S Work
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Author : Konstantin Stanislavski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-02-07
An Actor S Work written by Konstantin Stanislavski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-07 with Art categories.
At last, Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavski's huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English, remaining faithful to the author's original intentions within a colloquial and readable style for today's actors.
Justice Of The Peace And Local Government Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Justice Of The Peace And Local Government Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Justices of the peace categories.
Colloquial Urdu
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Author : Tej K Bhatia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-11-10
Colloquial Urdu written by Tej K Bhatia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-10 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Colloquial Urdu is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Written by experienced teachers for self-study or class-use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Urdu.