Semantic Antics
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Semantic Antics
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Author : Sol Steinmetz
language : en
Publisher: Random House Reference
Release Date : 2009-02-04
Semantic Antics written by Sol Steinmetz and has been published by Random House Reference this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-04 with Reference categories.
"My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion." Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish." In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.
Semantic Antics
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Author : Robert Fedell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-24
Semantic Antics written by Robert Fedell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-24 with categories.
This is a collection of poems worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
The Invisible Constitution In Comparative Perspective
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Author : Rosalind Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-08
The Invisible Constitution In Comparative Perspective written by Rosalind Dixon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with Law categories.
Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. This contributed volume will help its wide audience including scholars, students, and practitioners understand the dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems.
The United States Court Of Customs And Patent Appeals
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Author : United States. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The United States Court Of Customs And Patent Appeals written by United States. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Foreign trade regulation categories.
Reagan Congress And Human Rights
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Author : Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-16
Reagan Congress And Human Rights written by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-16 with History categories.
Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.
Meanings As Species
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Author : Mark Richard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-23
Meanings As Species written by Mark Richard 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 2019-07-23 with Philosophy categories.
Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primary thesis is that a word's meaning - in the sense of what one needs to track in order to be a competent speaker - is the collection of assumptions its users make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is something that is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and typically evolving in so far as what constitutes a meaning changes in virtue of the interactions of speakers with their (linguistic and social) environment. Meanings as Species develops and defends the analogy between the biological and the linguistic, and includes a discussion of the senses in which the processes of meaning change are and are not like evolution via natural selection. Richard argues that thinking of meanings as species supports Quine's insights about analyticity without rendering talk about meaning theoretically useless. He also discusses the relations between meaning as what the competent speaker knows about her language, meaning as the determinant of reference and truth conditions, and meaning qua what determines what sentence uses say. This book contains insightful discussions of a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, including: relations between meaning and philosophical analysis, the project of 'conceptual engineering', the senses in which meaning is and is not compositional, the degree to which to which referential meaning is indeterminate, and what such indeterminacy might tells us about propositional attitudes like belief and assertion.
Encyclopedia Of Identity
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Author : Ronald L. Jackson II
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2010-06-29
Encyclopedia Of Identity written by Ronald L. Jackson II and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with Psychology categories.
Alphabetically arranged entries offer a comprehensive overview of the definitions, politics, manifestations, concepts, and ideas related to identity.
Don T Believe A Word The Surprising Truth About Language
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Author : David Shariatmadari
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Don T Believe A Word The Surprising Truth About Language written by David Shariatmadari and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents. Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain. Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. But despite these advances, much of what people believe about language is based on folklore, instinct, or hearsay. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words. Exploding nine widely held myths about language while introducing us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics, Shariatmadari is an energetic guide to the beauty and quirkiness of humanity’s greatest achievement.
The Facilitator S Book Of Questions
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Author : David Allen
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2004
The Facilitator S Book Of Questions written by David Allen and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Education categories.
The Value Of A Good Idea
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing
Release Date : 2002
The Value Of A Good Idea written by and has been published by Silver Lake Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Copyright and electronic data processing categories.
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