Woorden weven gaat over het vergelijken van belangrijke begrippen in het Nederlands en verwante talen. Woorden als 'duurzaamheid', 'echtheid', 'kunst', 'liefde', 'natuur', 'recht', 'trouw', 'vrijheid' en 'waarheid', en ook woordparen zoals 'hoog' en 'laag', 'links' en 'rechts', blijken niet overal precies hetzelfde te betekenen. De verschillen worden vaak duidelijk als er oudere talen bij worden betrokken, bijvoorbeeld het Grieks, en uiteindelijk ook de Indo-Europese oertaal. Deze vergelijkin...

'Actieve hand, complexe beweging, dominantieconditie, fonotaxis, gebonden morfeem, hanteerclassifier, lexicaal gebaar, niet-manuele modificeerder, orale component, pro-drop, enzovoort, termen waarvan u de betekenis vindt in dit woordenboek van de gebarentaalwetenschap.Dit boek is het eerste lexicon van gebarentaalwetenschap, in Nederland en wereldwijd. Het Lectoraat Dovenstudies van de Faculteit Educatie van de Hogeschool Utrecht heeft, met vereende krachten een meesterwerk tot stand gebracht...

Whether we allow audiences to know that a text is a translation or to see the person responsible for translating it are questions that have dominated discussions about translation throughout history. Despite becoming one of the most ubiquitous terms in translation studies, however, the concept of translator invisibility is often criticized for being vague, overly adaptable, and grounded in literary contexts. This interdisciplinary volume therefore draws on concepts from fields such as sociolo...

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. The book's expansive historical purview illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds, drawing on the ideas of some of history's greatest thinkers and th...

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides; composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms; and, English-Greek glossaries.

Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics. A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languages. Explores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and sounds. Introduces psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues, including language acquisition, neu...

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic.

From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.

Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look like a rather chaotic set of arbitrary patterns, linguistic science has revealed that these patterns can actually be understood as the result of a small number of grammatical principles. This lively introductory textbook is designed for undergraduate students in linguistics, English and modern languages with relatively little background in the sub...

The fully updated new edition of the essential single-volume reference, covering the full fields of linguistics and phonetics

Now in its seventh edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics remains the definitive resource work for students of linguistics and phonetics. Originally created by David Crystal and revised for the new seventh edition with Alan C. L. Yu, this dictionary features a wealth of new entries by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolingui...