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Voyage into Language

Author : David B. Paxman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351874152
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Voyage into Language written by David B. Paxman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought. Paxman illuminates how our thinking about language as a whole, as well as our exploration of languages, developed in ways parallel to our thinking about and exploration of the space we live in, our planet. To the factors to which scholars have generally attributed language thought in the early modern period-the refinement of tools in phonetics, grammar and linguistic history, and the increasing exposure to diverse languages as the world was explored and colonized-Paxman here adds another: spatial exploration and the novel application of spatial concepts. He suggests that language was an unfamiliar space that Europe entered and navigated, facing challenges similar to those posed by terrestrial navigation. He argues that spatial experience influenced linguistic thought in two ways. First, ordinary spatial experience-terrain and boundaries, near and far, journeys and paths, etc.-provided conceptual structures, often novel or inventive, that guided those who investigated the properties of language. Second, expanding horizons, the sense of terrestrial space, and recognition of the difficulties of representing and navigating a spherical earth contributed directly to language thought by offering conceptual structures applicable to this different and equally challenging domain. While Voyage into Language does contribute to the history of linguistics, more broadly it is a treatment of intellectual and cultural history, and an application of cognitive science to language study of the past. As such, it holds appeal for historians and literary scholars as well as linguists.

Voyage

Author : Sterling Hayden
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380017805
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Voyage written by Sterling Hayden and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent epic of the sea and a dynamic portrait of turn-of-the-century America.--Publishers Weekly

Voyage to the Island

Author : Raija Nieminen
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780930323622
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Voyage to the Island written by Raija Nieminen and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of the deaf librarian and mother of two who spent two years working with deaf children on the island of St. Lucia to help them better their lives.

Star Trek

Author : Michael J. Dodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671624927
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Star Trek written by Michael J. Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're an ensign in the Starfleet and you've been assigned to the Enterprise! With Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, you'll explore amazing new worlds. You might rescue an alien race from a deadly disease, or do battle with a Klingon spy, or time travel to another universe. If you make the right choices, you could be a hero and save the Enterprise. But be careful, or you, Captain Kirk, and Mr. Spock could all be in terrible danger. Of course, if you don't like the way your story is going, you can always go back and start a new one"--Back cover

Rhys Matters

Author : M. Wilson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137327901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Rhys Matters written by M. Wilson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhys Matters, the first collection of essays focusing on Rhys's writing in over twenty years, encounters her oeuvre from multiple disciplinary perspectives and appreciates the interventions in modernism, postcolonial studies, Caribbean studies, and women's and gender studies.

Voyage to Shelter Cove

Author : Ralph DaCosta Nunez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage to Shelter Cove written by Ralph DaCosta Nunez and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes homelessness in story form.

Voyage Into Substance

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262192231
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Into Substance written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyage into Substance reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment - a time when artist-scientists trekked across Egyptian deserts, astronomer-mariners navigated the Polar seas, and meteorologist-aeronauts "sailed" through the atmosphere's "waves," all seeking to discover and record the non-human likeness of the phenomenal world. By examining the popular, multi-national illustrated narratives and atlases of the period, the book relates the voyagers' attentive, firsthand mode of seeing and precise copying of the enduring and the ephemeral features of the environment (before the advent of photography) to the major philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic debates of the time. Arguing that these accounts disclose an anti-Picturesque tradition of representation, the book opens new doors to establish the persistence of a "plain," that is, a style of landscape depiction that culminates in 19th-century realism. Voyage into Substance analyzes a vast repertory of geological, mineralogical and biological treatises concerning the self-expressive physiognomy of the earth and shows them to be important precursors and allies of the non-fictional travel narrative. Intertwining art, literature, philosophy, geography, and the history of science, with the aid of 304 plates, the book adds significantly to all these disciplines and is a unique contribution to the field of art and architectural history as well as to modern intellectual history. Barbara Maria Stafford is Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Publication of this book was partially funded by the Millard Meiss Fund of the College Art Association of America and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Voyage

Author : Claude Sieber
Publisher : Quintessence Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780867152968
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Voyage written by Claude Sieber and published by Quintessence Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This unique and fascinating book, filled with brilliant photographs, offers a journey into the cosmos of the natural tooth. With cross sections and other unusual perspectives, these photographs demonstrate the unique structure and form of each tooth and their interplay with light reflection and absorption, both of which play decisive roles in the reconstruction of the tooth. Indeed, this understanding has greatly advanced the development and handling of new dental ceramics." "The author lures us into an extraordinary world of photography by which we experience the inner life and beauty of the natural tooth. This excellently designed volume will be of interest to not only dentists and dental technicians, but to anyone interested in the beauty of nature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Seeing Voices

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307365751
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Voices written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."

A Cruising Voyage Round the World

Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Cruising Voyage Round the World written by Woodes Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voyage of the Space Beagle

Author : A. E. van Vogt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765320773
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the Space Beagle written by A. E. van Vogt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. Reissue of a classic.

Voyage Into Language

Author : David B. Paxman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Into Language written by David B. Paxman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Drama in the Air

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1609770757
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Drama in the Air written by Jules Verne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Drama in the Air" is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon"

Voyage Through Space

Author : Ian Graham
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764160622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Through Space written by Ian Graham and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the sun, planets, moons, and other elements of our solar system; describes the stars and galaxies; and details human exploration of space.

History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel

Author : John Thomas Scharf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel written by John Thomas Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journey Back

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035352
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Journey Back written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses 18th-century black writers, the autobiographical writings of slaves, the works of Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, and Brooks, and traditional approaches to African-American literature.

History of the Confederate States Navy

Author : J. Thomas Scharf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book History of the Confederate States Navy written by J. Thomas Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: