Culture and customs of Indonesia

Indonesian cultures include those of forest-dwelling hunters and foragers, rice growers, fisher folk, village artisans, urban office and factory workers, intellectuals, artists, wealthy industrialists, street vendors, and homeless people. They involve villagers in customary societies, sophisticated and cosmopolitan urbanites, as well as people who struggle to survive on city streets: begga…

The art of translation

The Art of Translation by Jiří Levý was first published in 1963. It was welcomed by readers and expert reviewers alike as the most valuable work on problems of literary translation published in Czechoslovakia. The author successfully combined the approaches of the theoretician, systemic analyst, historian, critic, teacher and populariser. He does not present dry-as-dust theory, but direc…

The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of …

This volume grew out of a workshop organized by us, Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah, at the 17th International Conference of Historical Linguistics in Madison, Wisconsin (31 July–5 August 2005). Our respective research in Germanic and Tibeto-Burman morphological case marking convinced us of the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical de…

Pragmatics and discourse: a resource book for students

Edition

2nd ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780415446686

Collation

xv, 239 p. ; 25 cm.

Series Title

Routledge English language introductions series

Call Number

401.41 CUT p

Vague language explored

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

140398817X (cloth)

Collation

xiii, 251 p. ; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

401.43 VAG v

Bilingual education: a reference handbook

This text is intended as an introduction to bilingual education. It describes the evolution of bilingual education in the United States with an emphasis on its relationship to educational and civil rights reform. Federal, state, and district policies affecting the implementation of bilingual programs are identified, along with related legal, political, demographic, and economic factors and…

How to say it: choice words, phrases, sentences & paragraphs for every situation

How to Say It® is a practical, easy-to-use book that tells you what to say and how to say it. Its flexible approach helps you fashion compelling letters in little more time than it takes to handwrite or type them. How to Say It® features comprehensive, versatile lists of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that allow you to express yourself on any subject in your own voice and style.

Picturing the book of nature: image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century …

In the sixteenth century, it became common for medical students across Europe to learn about plants in the summer and to attend dissections in the winter. Though today we may regard botany and anatomy as distinct disciplines, in the past they both belonged to the study of medicine. As other historians have already noted, medical botany and human anatomy came to striking prominence in the s…

Advertising and public relations

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780816079612

Collation

xviii, 161 p. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

Career launcher

Call Number

659.023 TYM a

Pragmatics and non-verbal communication

Pragmatics is by its nature a cross-disciplinary subject, with its roots in philosophy and linguistics, but reaching out into cognitive science, psychology, sociology and even the study of non-human animal communication. I have done my best to make the book self-contained and self-explanatory, and to present the arguments in a non-technical way. I therefore hope that it will be of interes…