Words Of A Century
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Words Of A Century
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Author : Stephen Lucas
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009
Words Of A Century written by Stephen Lucas 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 2009 with Oratory categories.
Boldly breaking the mold of previous anthologies, Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999 contains the complete--and authentic--texts of the best American speeches of the twentieth century as delivered to their immediate audiences. It features a remarkable array of speakers, from Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, and Carrie Chapman Catt to Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Barbara Jordan. As diverse in type as they are in subject matter, the speeches open a unique window on the twentieth century, and many continue to resonate in our own time. Each is preceded by a headnote with background on the speaker, the occasion, and the impact of the speech. More than 2,000 annotations identify people, events, and textual references that help bring the speeches to life for today's readers. This exceptional anthology is ideal for courses in rhetoric, political communication, and twentieth century American history, as well as for anyone interested in the artistry and impact of the spoken word.
Twentieth Century Words
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Author : John Ayto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Twentieth Century Words written by John Ayto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Civilization, Modern categories.
In Our Own Words
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Author : Senator Robert Torricelli
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-10
In Our Own Words written by Senator Robert Torricelli and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with History categories.
Presents a collection of oratory including sermons, speeches, courtroom arguments, radio broadcasts, eulogies, and commencement addresses.
Collins English Dictionary
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Collins English Dictionary written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with English language categories.
Words And Things
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918*
Words And Things written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918* with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
Twentieth Century Words
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Author : John Ayto
language : en
Publisher: OXFORD University Press
Release Date : 1999
Twentieth Century Words written by John Ayto 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 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A landmark book for the end of the century, presenting an overview of the development of English vocabulary from 1900 to the present day. There will be ten chapters, one for each decade, that will provide an introduction to the decade, with areas of particular importance and interest noted,and a presentaion of new words for that decade. The selected entries will be both new words, and words that have important new meanings. They will be listed alphabetically in a dictionary-style presentation, with the earliest recorded date of each word entered, and an exemplary quote also given.The source for the entries will be the OED2, and the Additions Series, as well as unpublished material from the New Words group in the OED Department. In addition to the main alphabetic sequence of entries, there will also be boxed panels covering specific aspects of a decade's vocabulary e.g.words arising directly from World War II for the 1940s. There will also be cross-chapter panels, for example 'insults of the century'. Examples of new words and their, perhaps surprising, earliest recorded dates: 'astronaut' - first coined in the 1920s when it was still an ambition. 'fruit machine' - 1930s; 'discotheque' - 1950s; 'pager' - 1960s
The Chronology Of Words And Phrases
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Author : Linda Flavell
language : en
Publisher: Kyle Cathie Limited
Release Date : 1999
The Chronology Of Words And Phrases written by Linda Flavell and has been published by Kyle Cathie Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Starting from 1066 and working through to the modern-day green movement, with a nod towards the invention of playing cards, the California Gold Rush and the first recorded blizzard along the way, The Chronology of Words and Phrases links hundreds of words and phrases with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which gave them life. A words book for historians and a history book for wordsmiths, it will have pride of place in any book lover's collection." --Book Jacket.
Ten Thousand Words How To Pronounce Them
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Author : Josephine Turck Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Ten Thousand Words How To Pronounce Them written by Josephine Turck Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with English language categories.
Keywords For Today
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Author : The Keywords Project
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Keywords For Today written by The Keywords Project 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 2018-09-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural appropriation and from market to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. This book sketches these histories in ways that illuminate the political bent and values of our current society. Written by The Keywords Project, an independent group of scholars who have spent more than a decade on this work, Keywords for Today updates and extends Raymond Williams's classic work, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. It updates some 40 of Williams's original entries and adds 86 new entries, ranging from access to youth. The book is both a history of English, documenting important semantic change in the language, and a handbook of current political and ideological debate. Whether it is demonstrating the only recently-acquired religious meaning of fundamentalism or the complicated linguistic history of queer, Keywords for Today will intrigue and enlighten.
Words Books Images And The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Words Books Images And The Long Eighteenth Century written by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors, and, more recently, on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book’s every word and image.