Wat is de rol van gevoel in de argumentatie in het Nederlands recht, in ISIS-filmpjes en in de zelfverdediging van dopingzondaar Lance Armstrong? En hoe werkt de betoverende zang van castraten, de emotie van Mahler, Lou Reed en Prince?

'Beïnvloeden met emoties' is een inspiratiebron voor mensen die beter willen begrijpen hoe mensen elkaar ontroeren of overtuigen, en welke rol emoties daarin spelen. Het boek geeft in meer dan dertig essays voorbeelden van het effect van emoties in toespraken,...

Een van de meest fascinerende taalkundigen van de Lage Landen is 75 geworden! Naar aanleiding van die verjaardag selecteerde Joop van der Horst een honderdtal columns die hij in de loop van zijn carrière publiceerde in o.a. De Standaard, Leidsch Dagblad en Onze Taal. Met humor en een scherpe pen ontrafelt hij de wonderen van de Nederlandse taal. Zijn toegankelijke en vermakelijke stijl maakt taalevolutie begrijpelijk voor iedereen, van de nieuwsgierige leek tot de doorgewinterde taalexpert.

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This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization.

Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew...

This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal English of the Early Modern period. The book is organised into eight thematic sections: private diaries; personal daybooks and accounts; autobiographical material; letters; personal documents (wills and contracts); official documents by naive writers; records of spoken evidence given in court; and records of speech forming the basis of Court cases. Texts are arranged by type and ea...

How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. This work offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions.

The Second 100 Japanese Kanji adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome the initial difficulty of reading kanji and writing kanji and quickly master the basic Japanese characters that are fundamental to this language.

For courses in English Composition. The platinum standard of handbooks - unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool designed to help readers find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, this meticulous handbook combines comprehensive research and documentation with grammar coverage that is second to none.

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From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.

The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades ...