Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Was ist ein Sackmann? Wozu diente ein Reibnagel? Diese und tausende andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch. Das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch (DRW) ist ein nützliches Instrument für (fast) jeden historisch arbeitenden Wissenschaftler. Erfasst es doch weit über das enge Korsett seines Namens hinaus die gesamte ältere deutsche Sprache, soweit sie in weiterem Sinne rechtliche Relevanz hat. Das DRW enthält somit neben juristischen Fachbegriffen alle Wörter der Alltagssprache, sofern sie in rechtlichen Kontexten auftreten. So wird beispielsweise das Adjektiv nackt behandelt aufgrund seiner rechtsrelevanten Bedeutung als Indiz für einen Ehebruch. Ob dies nun der Müller ist, der Reichserbkammertürhüter oder der Sautter (Schneider): Bekannte und unbekannte Berufe, Ämter und Dienstbezeichnungen werden angeführt, sobald sich ein rechtlicher Kontext belegen lässt. Die Wörter werden in ihren unterschiedlichsten Bedeutungen erklärt, Beispiele für ihre Verwendung unter Berücksichtigung regionaler Besonderheiten aufgelistet. Das bearbeitete Quellencorpus reicht hierbei vom Beginn der schriftlichen Überlieferung im 6. Jahrhundert bis etwa 1800. Der Begriff Deutsch wird zudem weit gefasst; nach der Theorie des 19. Jahrhunderts, in dem das DRW konzipiert wurde, diente er als Oberbegriff für die gesamte westgermanische Sprachfamilie, so dass selbst die friesische, niederländische, altsächsische und angelsächsische noch der deutschen sprache in engerm sinn zufallen , wie Jacob Grimm 1854 definiert hat. Längst haben daher neben den Rechtshistorikern die Sprachwissenschaftler das DRW als wichtige Informationsquelle für sich entdeckt. Aber auch für quellennah arbeitende Historiker, Kunsthistoriker, Religionshistoriker und Archivare ist das DRW ein vielfach gebrauchtes Hilfsmittel. Obgleich primär der Rechtsgeschichte verhaftet, war das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch von Anfang an interdisziplinär aufgestellt. Der Gründungs

Learn to speak, read and write Japanese quickly using manga comics strips! If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off -- following Nuria, a journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encountering a mysterious "shadow" or kage. Use your knowledge of hiragana and katakana from Volume 1 to help you decipher hundreds of new kanji vocabulary -- without romanizations! Learn to form complex sentences, with relative clauses, honorific forms and more! Learn hundreds of useful words and phrases -- from how to order food in a restaurant to dealing with unexpected events and emergencies Five manga episodes are woven throughout the book, reinforcing your language skills A bidirectional dictionary and answer keys for all the exercises are included! Learn Japanese with Manga is designed for self-study by adult learners, but is also suitable for classroom use. Audio recordings by Japanese native speakers are available for free online to help you improve your pronunciation and listening skills. With a focus on the casual speech used by young people in Japan today, you'll find yourself speaking and writing Japanese before you know it!

In Breaking Ground on Your Memoir, Linda Joy Myers (President of the National Association of Memoir Writers) and Brooke Warner (Publisher of She Writes Press) present from the ground up—from basic to advanced—the craft and skills memoirists can draw upon to write a powerful and moving story, as well as inspiration to write, finish, and polish their own story. Full of rich insights and practical advice and strategies, Breaking Ground on Your Memoir offers all the tools writers need to write a powerful, publishable memoir. In this book you will discover: • how to get focused on what your memoir is about—your themes. • how to build the structure of your story. • techniques to make your memoir come alive. • the secrets of craft: how to write a great scene, colorful and memorable descriptions, narration, and flashback. • how to connect with your reader using through-threads and takeaway so they’ll keep turning the pages, and learn something about their own lives by reading your book. Visit the authors online at WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com.

Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about children’s literature.

How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? ... And who is the face that launched a thousand ships? Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used. For example, did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch? Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!

Swift changes in educational technology are transforming the landscape of our society and how we transfer knowledge in a digital world. Teachers, administrators, and education students need to stay abreast of these developments. Yet while the new educational software, technologies, and networks may be available, the learning theories and methods required to take complete advantage of the tools are often neglected.

Learning theories are a crucial element of education studies for anyone involved with students from pre-school to higher education and business training. This book is a substantive dictionary of over 500 terms relating to learning theories and environments. Definitions range from approximately 100 to 700 words, and each term is identified by the primary type of learning theory to which it applies: cognitivism, constructivism, behaviorism, humanism, or organizational learning. An annotated bibliography provides further resources to the most important writings about learning theories.

Children’s literature delights in made-up words, nonsensical terms, and creative nicknames, but how do you translate these expressions into another language? This book provides a new approach to translation studies to address the challenges of translating children’s literature. It focuses on expressive language (nonsense, names, idioms, allusions, puns, and dialects) and provides guidance for translators about how to translate such linguistic features without making assumptions about the reader’s capabilities and without drastically changing the work. The text features effective strategies for both experienced translators and those who are new to the field, including exercises and discussion questions that are particularly beneficial for students training to be translators. This learner-friendly book also offers original contributions to translation theory in light of the translation issues particular to children’s literature.

Grammar Books/Grammar Workbooks include additional presentation and practice for grammar topics covered in the Student's Book.

With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts. The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to (im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis, identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody, and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication, sociology, and psychology.

Grammar Books/Grammar Workbooks include additional presentation and practice for grammar topics covered in the Student's Book.

The Akan language is a group of dialects within the larger Niger-Congo language, whose other branches include Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo and Zulu. The subgroup of Akan known as Twi includes the dialects of Akuapem and Asante. This guide features Asante Twi. The Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast are the largest ethnic group in both countries, and have a population of roughly 20 million people. Akan cultural traditions, such as the vibrant kente cloth and folktales of Anansi the spider, are known world-wide. Ghana's rapid economic growth, due to its gold, cocoa and petroleum industries, has led increased interest in Twi by non-Akan speakers. This unique, two-part resource provides travellers to Ghana and the Ivory Coast with the tools they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant communication on a variety of topics. Ideal for business-peoples, travellers and aid workers. Features: 4,000 dictionary entries; Phonetics that are intuitive for English speakers; Essential phrases on topics such as transportation, dining out and business; Concise grammar and pronunciation sections.

In the history of the Western musical tradition, the Baroque period traditionally dates from the turn of the 17th century to 1750. The opening of the period is marked by Italian experiments in composition that attempted to create a new kind of secular musical art based upon principles of Greek drama, quickly leading to the invention of opera, and the closing of the period is marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach on 28 July 1750 in Leipzig and George Frideric Handel’s last English oratorio, Jephtha, completed the following year in London. Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about baroque music.

Rules for Writers supports students from a wide range of backgrounds with accessible explanations, step-by-step advice, class-tested examples, and opportunities to practice and build their writing, grammar, and research skills--all at a tremendous value.