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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The home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning. Comprehensive and authoritative, this dictionary is the ideal Italian to English and English to Italian bilingual dictionary for advanced students of Italian and professionals. It has been revised and updated to cover all the latest changes in both languages, for example, the internet, computing and business.

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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...

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.

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...

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.

Incorporating detailed discussions of critical reading, m...

The guide for novice researchers who want to master how to produce first-class research their contemporaries will want to read!

Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field.

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Set in midcentury America, At Last explores a rich family saga centered on two fierce and competitive matriarchs whose intertwined lives reflect the complexities of family, tradition, and personal ambition. “Whole lives course down the decades, and every minute is conveyed with Silver’s signature combination of toughness and grace,” (Laird Hunt).

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Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translation of children's books has increased at a rapid pace. Research across a number of disciplines has contributed to a developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. The purpose of this Reader is to reflect the diversity and originality of approaches to the subject by gathering together, for the first time, a range of journal articles and chapters on translation for childr...