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The Secret Life Of Words
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Author : Henry Hitchings
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2009-09-29
The Secret Life Of Words written by Henry Hitchings and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try admiral, landscape, and marmalade, just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change, and remind us of our past. Henry Hitchings delves into the insatiable, ever-changing English language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages—many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as shampoo from Hindi and kiosk from Turkish. From the Norman Conquest to the present day, Hitchings narrates the story of English as a living archive of our human experience. He uncovers the secrets behind everyday words and explores the surprising origins of our most commonplace expressions. The Secret Life of Words is a rich, lively celebration of the language and vocabulary that we too often take for granted.
The Secret Lives Of Words
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Author : Paul West
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2000
The Secret Lives Of Words written by Paul West and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekly".
The Secret Lives Of Words
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Author : Richard A. LaFleur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Secret Lives Of Words written by Richard A. LaFleur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with English language categories.
The Secret Lives of Words: From Rome to Apalachicola will transport you back to ancient Rome and introduce you to the Romans' words, and countless aspects of their daily lives., that have journeyed across the sea (mare, as in marine and even marinara), and through the centuries (centuriae) and settled in sunny Apalach. - publisher
Word By Word
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Author : Kory Stamper
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Word By Word written by Kory Stamper and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Reference categories.
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
The Secret Life Of Pronouns
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Author : James W. Pennebaker
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-08-23
The Secret Life Of Pronouns written by James W. Pennebaker and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A surprising and entertaining explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don't notice) reveal our personalities, emotions, and identities. We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into who we are, how we think, and what we feel. In The Secret Life of Pronouns, social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics-in essence, counting the frequency of words we use-to show that our language carries secrets about our feelings, our self-concept, and our social intelligence. Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints. Using innovative analytic techniques, Pennebaker X-rays everything from Craigslist advertisements to the Federalist Papers-or your own writing, in quizzes you can take yourself-to yield unexpected insights. Who would have predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay is likely to make lower grades in college? Or that a world leader's use of pronouns could reliably presage whether he led his country into war? You'll learn why it's bad when politicians use "we" instead of "I," what Lady Gaga and William Butler Yeats have in common, and how Ebenezer Scrooge's syntax hints at his self-deception and repressed emotion. Barack Obama, Sylvia Plath, and King Lear are among the figures who make cameo appearances in this sprightly, surprising tour of what our words are saying-whether we mean them to or not.
The Secret Life Of Books
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Author : Tom Mole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-02
The Secret Life Of Books written by Tom Mole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-02 with categories.
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves, give them as gifts, write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. The Secret Life of Books is about everything that isn't just the words. It's about how books transform us as individuals, the stories they tell us about ourselves. It's about how books - and readers - have evolved over time. And it's about why, even with the arrival of other media, books still have the power to change our lives. In this stylish and thought-provoking meditation, Tom Mole looks at everything from binding innovations to binding errors, to books defaced by lovers, to those imprisoning professors in their offices, to books in art, to burned books, to the books that create nations, to those we'll leave behind. A striking text in a stunning package, it will change how you think about books.
The Secret Life Of Words
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Author : Henry Hitchings
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-02
The Secret Life Of Words written by Henry Hitchings and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with History categories.
Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change and remind us of our turbulent past. Henry Hitchings delves into our promiscuous language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as shampoo from Hindi and kiosk from Turkish. From the Norman Conquest to the present day, Hitchings narrates the story of English as an archive of our human experience and uncovers the secrets behind everyday words. This is a celebration of our language; after reading it, you will never again take the words we use for granted.
The Secret Life Of Words
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Author : Henry Hitchings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Secret Life Of Words written by Henry Hitchings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with English language categories.
The Secret Life Of Words
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Author : Isabel Coixet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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The Secret Lives Of Colour
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Author : Kassia St Clair
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-10-20
The Secret Lives Of Colour written by Kassia St Clair and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.