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A Taste for Language

Author : James Ray Watkins
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080932931X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Taste for Language written by James Ray Watkins and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book about the American Dream as it has become embodied in the university in general and in the English department in particular,” writes James Ray Watkins at the start of A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies. In it, Watkins argues that contemporary economic and political challenges require a clear understanding of the identity of English studies, making elementary questions about literacy, language, literature, education, and class once again imperative. A personal history of university-level English studies in the twentieth century, A Taste for Language combines biography, autobiography, and critical analysis to explore the central role of freshman English and literary studies in the creation and maintenance of the middle class. It tells a multi-generational story of the author and his father, intertwined with close reading of texts and historical analysis. The story moves from depression-era Mississippi, where the author's father was born, to a contemporary English department, where the author now teaches. Watkins looks at not only textbooks, scholars, and the academy but also at families and other social institutions. A rich combination of biography, autobiography, and critical analysis, A Taste for Language questions what purpose an education in English language and literature serves in the lives of the educated in a class-based society and whether English studies has become wholly irrelevant in the twenty-first century.

The Taste of Words

Author : Raza Mir
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 935118725X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Taste of Words written by Raza Mir and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been enchanted by the spoken cadence of an Urdu couplet but wished you could fully understand its nuances? Have you wanted to engage with a ghazal more deeply but were daunted by its mystifying conventions? Are you confused between a qataa and a rubaai, or a musadda and a marsiya? In Urdu Poetry, Raza Mir offers a fresh, quirky and accessible entry point for neophytes seeking to enhance their enjoyment of this vibrant canon—from the poems of legends like Mir Taqi Mir and Mirza Ghalib to the lyrics of contemporary game changers like Javed Akhtar and Gulzar. Raza Mir’s translation not only draws out the zest and pathos of these timeless verses, but also provides pithy insights and colourful trivia that will enable readers to fully embrace this world.

Perspectives on Taste

Author : Jeremy Wyatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579697
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Taste written by Jeremy Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at the heart of lively debates in philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy. Our everyday lives are suffused with discussions about taste. We are quick to offer familiar platitudes about taste, but we struggle when facing the questions that matter—what taste is, how it is related to subjectivity, what distinguishes good from bad taste, why it is valuable to make and evaluate judgments about matters of taste, and what, exactly, we mean in speaking about these matters. The essays in this volume open up new, intersecting lines of research about these questions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. They address the notion of aesthetic taste; connections between taste and the natures of truth, disagreement, assertion, belief, retraction, linguistic context-sensitivity, and the semantics/pragmatics interface; experimental inquiry about taste; and metaphysical questions underlying ongoing discussions about taste. Perspectives on Taste will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, and experimental philosophy.

Taste Your Words

Author : Bonnie Clark
Publisher : WorthyKids
ISBN 13 : 9781546015178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Taste Your Words written by Bonnie Clark and published by WorthyKids. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach kids about the power of words and the importance of kindness with this charming picture book that cleverly illustrates why we should think before we speak. Amera's having a bad day. Her best friend ruined her cupcake and they both said mean things. When Amera brings her bad mood home with her, her mom tells her to "taste her words." Amera's mean words taste like rotten eggs, spoiled milk, and lemons! As Amera realizes that her mean words make her feel bad and others feel worse, she starts saying the kindest, sweetest words she can find. This picture book is an excellent resource for parents who want to teach their kids to think before they speak. With humorous text and lively illustrations, Clark and Bright make it easy for even the youngest children to understand the power of their words.

Tastes We Live By

Author : Marco Bagli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110626861
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Tastes We Live By written by Marco Bagli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taste is considered one of the lowest sensory modalities, and the most difficult to express in language. Recently, an increasing body of research in perception language and in Food Studies has been sparkling new interest and new perspectives on the importance of this sense. Merging anthropology, evolutionary physiology and philosophy, this book investigates the language of Taste in English, and its relationship with our embodied minds. In the first part of the book, the author explores the semantic dimensions of Taste terms with a usage-based approach. With the application of experimental protocols, Bagli enquires their possible organization in a radial network and calculates the Salience index of gustatory terms in both American and British English. The second part of the book is an overview of the metaphorical extensions that motivate the polysemy of Taste terms, with the aid of corpus analysis methods and various texts. This book is the first to review systematically and in a usage-based perspective the role of the sensory domain of Taste in English, showing a more complicated picture and suggesting that its under-representation and difficulty of encoding does not correspond to lack of importance.

Yum!

Author : Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781404810211
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Yum! written by Dana Meachen Rau and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the sense of taste and how it affects the body.

A Taste for China

Author : Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199950989
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book A Taste for China written by Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of modernity. Chinoiserie is no mere exotic curiosity in this culture, but a potent, multivalent sign of England's participation in a cosmopolitan world order.

Taste

Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133057
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Taste written by Denise Gigante and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: div What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of taste serves to mediate aesthetic judgment and consumerism, gusto and snobbery, gastronomes and gluttons, vampires and vegetarians, as well as the philosophy and physiology of food. The author advances a theory of taste based on Milton’s model of the human as consumer (and digester) of food, words, and other commodities—a consumer whose tasteful, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth’s feeding mind, Lamb’s gastronomical essays, Byron’s cannibals and other deviant diners, and Kantian nausea, Taste resituates Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics. /DIV

Taste

Author : Kate Colquhoun
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408834081
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Taste written by Kate Colquhoun and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and diverse as a five-course dinner.

The Man Who Tasted Words

Author : Dr. Guy Leschziner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250272378
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Tasted Words written by Dr. Guy Leschziner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us. Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable? The Man Who Tasted Words shows that what we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning—the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance—is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control. In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner explores how our nervous systems define our worlds and how we can, in fact, be victims of falsehoods perpetrated by our own brains. In his moving and lyrical chronicles of lives turned upside down by a disruption in one or more of their five senses, he introduces readers to extraordinary individuals, like one man who actually “tasted” words, and shows us how sensory disruptions like that have played havoc, not only with their view of the world, but with their relationships as well. The cases Leschziner shares in The Man Who Tasted Words are extreme, but they are also human, and teach us how our lives and what we perceive as reality are both ultimately defined by the complexities of our nervous systems.

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Author : David Shariatmadari
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324004266
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language written by David Shariatmadari and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents. Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain. Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. But despite these advances, much of what people believe about language is based on folklore, instinct, or hearsay. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words. Exploding nine widely held myths about language while introducing us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics, Shariatmadari is an energetic guide to the beauty and quirkiness of humanity’s greatest achievement.

Teaching Taste

Author : Karen Wistoft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863351621
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Taste written by Karen Wistoft and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How we taste and eat is just as central in a civilization perspective as what we know and think. Meal communities are important contributors to the creation of a community of opinions based on sense, emotion and taste. This is the reason for writing Teaching Taste. The historical part analyses Danish children's cookbooks. When did the view of taste change from a norm that was met to a sense and ability that everyone, including children, possesses? The systematic part identifies seven dimensions of taste: pleasant taste, healthy taste, sensed taste, moral taste, religious taste, loving taste and trendy taste and how to teach them. The didactic part answers how can we teach about, through and for taste. The book is written for teachers, trainee teachers and students on courses in Home Economics, Food Knowledge and Food Education. The book ends with a ready-to-use teaching handout"--

Tea & Taste

Author : Tania M. Buckrell Pos
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764319594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Tea & Taste written by Tania M. Buckrell Pos and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has there been a book focusing on the theme of tea as it relates to both the fine and decorative arts. Through over 330 beautiful color images and a fascinating and informative text, the book explore the history of tea and its impact on the development of porcelain, furniture, silver, and the other decorative arts. In addition to tea pots, cups and saucers, kettle stands, tea caddies, silver wares, and more, there is a wide selection from the fine arts, from maritime painting, to portraiture and still life, which captures the romance of tea.

Fluent Forever

Author : Gabriel Wyner
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 038534810X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Fluent Forever written by Gabriel Wyner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Taste What You're Missing

Author : Barb Stuckey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190739
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Taste What You're Missing written by Barb Stuckey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The science of taste and how to improve your sense of taste so that you get the most out of every bite"--

A Taste for Writing: Composition for Culinarians

Author : Vivian C. Cadbury
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781133277910
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book A Taste for Writing: Composition for Culinarians written by Vivian C. Cadbury and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TASTE FOR WRITING: COMPOSITION FOR CULINARIANS, Second Edition is the ideal resource to help culinary arts students and professionals master key grammar principles and writing practices while learning to express themselves as confidently on the page as they do in the kitchen. The author's signature writing style is engaging and accessible. Drawing on the language of food and cooking, she explains even the most difficult topics in a way sure to spark students' interest and encourage mastery of the material. Key concepts are brought to life through the analysis of student and professional writing samples, as well as the use of vivid examples from the food industry and popular culture. A variety of exercises leads students through all phases of the writing process, from the creative right-brain activities of generating ideas and writing a first draft to the analytical left-brain skills required for effective revision and editing. Although created specifically for culinary arts students and professionals, this one-of-a-kind book can be used by all readers to develop their skills in - and taste for - writing. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

What Can I Taste?

Author : Annie Kubler
Publisher : Small Senses
ISBN 13 : 9781846433757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book What Can I Taste? written by Annie Kubler and published by Small Senses. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a soft, fruity banana to sweet trickles of juice, babies explore the sense of taste.