The Seventh Function Of Language
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The 7th Function Of Language
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Author : Laurent Binet
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-05-04
The 7th Function Of Language written by Laurent Binet and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with Fiction categories.
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.
The Seventh Function Of Language
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Author : Laurent Binet
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-08-01
The Seventh Function Of Language written by Laurent Binet 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 2017-08-01 with Fiction categories.
From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn’t an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . murdered? In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva—as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory (starting with the French version of Roland Barthes for Dummies). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious “seventh function of language.” A brilliantly erudite comedy that recalls Flaubert’s Parrot and The Name of the Rose—with more than a dash of TheDa Vinci Code—The Seventh Function of Language takes us from the cafés of Saint-Germain to the corridors of Cornell University, and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.
The Seventh Function Of Language
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Author : Laurent Binet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08
The Seventh Function Of Language written by Laurent Binet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08 with Fiction categories.
The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.
Civilisations
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Author : Laurent Binet
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-04-15
Civilisations written by Laurent Binet and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with Fiction categories.
It's world history. But not as we know it. c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them. Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. Even when captured, his faith in his mission is unshaken. Thirty years after that, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in a Europe ready for revolution. Fortunately, he has a recent guidebook to acquiring power - Machiavelli's The Prince. So, the stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and, when the Aztecs arrive on the scene, for a great war that will change history forever. 'Binet's best book yet: the work of a major writer just hitting his stride. A delightful counterfactual novel' ***** - Daily Telegraph
A A
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Author : Dimitris Anastasiou
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-07-29
A A written by Dimitris Anastasiou and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A=-A is a beautiful, dark and surreal story, about a man called Alpha whose world is quite literally turned upside down for a day. As he wanders the streets of his hometown, reality flips on its axis, sending him and the reader on a wild and extraordinary journey. This wholly immersive, escapist, psychedelic mystery centres around two profound philosophical questions: in a strange and unreliable world, can we be certain of anything? And if we stop craving certainty - and entertain doubt - what new possibilities become available to us? 'Gloriously odd, deeply moving . . . In short: a trip.' - Niall Griffiths, winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2020
The Passenger
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Author : Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2021-04-01
The Passenger written by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Fiction categories.
'Gripping' - Telegraph 'Brilliant' - Sunday Times 'Riveting' - Guardian The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses destroyed. Turned away from establishments he had long patronised, betrayed by friends and colleagues, Otto finds his life as a respected businessman has dissolved overnight. Desperately trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape this homeland that is no longer home. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Shot through with Hitckcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.
Language Conflict And Language Rights
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Author : William D. Davies
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-09
Language Conflict And Language Rights written by William D. Davies 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 2018-08-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An overview of language rights issues and language conflicts with detailed examination of many cases past and present around the world.
An Introduction To Language And Linguistics
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Author : Ralph Fasold
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-06
An Introduction To Language And Linguistics written by Ralph Fasold 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 2006-03-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics (theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change), and in addition provides full coverage of contextual linguistics, including separate chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language. There are also up-to-date separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, child language acquisition, and second-language learning. The breadth of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses on language and linguistics offered by departments of English, sociology, anthropology, and communications, as well as by linguistics departments.
Strange Heart Beating
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Author : Eli Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2017-05-04
Strange Heart Beating written by Eli Goldstone and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with Fiction categories.
Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together. A darkly funny, seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender.
Diglossia And Language Contact
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Author : Lotfi Sayahi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Diglossia And Language Contact written by Lotfi Sayahi 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 2014-04-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa. It uses sociohistorical information and a wide range of data sets, including electronic communication, to provide a comprehensive picture of the past and present language situation in the region.