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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roberta mullini”
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  • Healing Words

    The Printed Handbills of Early Modern London Quacks

    by Roberta Mullini ...
    Series Book 18 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    During the English Restoration, London unlicensed health carers printed handbills as the easiest way to advertise their medical practices. In order to increase our awareness of irregular medical practitioners as a cultural phenomenon and examine their language, two collections of handbills have been transcribed. The study analyses the lexicon used to address readers, the traits of orality in ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • The Story of English in 100 Words

    by David Crystal, St Martins Press ...
    In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Indo-European Controversy

    Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics

    by Asya Pereltsvaig, Martin W. Lewis ...
    Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses. Using these techniques, researchers claim to have located the origin of the Indo-European language ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Medical Writing in Early Modern English

    Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Watching My Language:

    Adventures in the Word Trade

    by William Safire ...
    America's most entertaining language maven is back with more words to live by in his latest exploration of hot catchphrases, syntactical controversies, and other matters of national linguistic importance.Before you scratch that seven-year-itch, you might want to know where it came from. And before someone blurts, "You just don't get it," perhaps you should consult the Pulitzer Prize winning ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Words and the First World War

    Language, Memory, Vocabulary

    by Julian Walker ...
    "An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The SpectatorFirst World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped English and its relationship with other languages. He considers language in relation to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edited by Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Fixing English

    Prescriptivism and Language History

    by Anne Curzan ...
    Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have aspired to 'fix' the language, sometimes by keeping English exactly where it is, but also by trying to improve the current state of the language. Anne ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Haitian Creole Language

    History, Structure, Use, and Education

    by Elizabeth Barrows, Yves Dejean, Hugues St. Fort, Georges Fouron, Uli Locher, Serge Madhere, Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo, Mayra Cortes Piñeir, Jocelyne Trouillot-Lévy, Albert Valdman, Flore Zéphir, Nicholas Faraclas ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies
    The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Love's Redeeming Work

    The Anglican Quest for Holiness

    Edited by Geoffrey Rowell, Kenneth Stevenson, Rowan Williams ...
    There is a rich vein of writing within Anglican tradition that has helped to form the theology and spirituality of the contemporary church. For many readers, much of this material remains unfamiliar and is often difficult to access. Love's Redeeming Work draws together the works of major writers from the sixteenth century to the present day who have contributed to this development. Each selected ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Outlaw Rhetoric

    Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

    by Jenny C. Mann ...
    A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD