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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover): John Koenig The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
John Koenig 1
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now-from the creator of the popular online project of the same name. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: "sonder." Or maybe you've watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That's called "lachesism." Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you've never actually experienced. That's "anemoia." If you've never heard of these terms before, that's because they didn't exist until John Koenig began his epic quest to fill the gaps in the language of emotion. Born as a website in 2009, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has garnered widespread critical acclaim, inspired TED talks, album titles, cocktails, and even tattoos. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows "creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have," says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, funny, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition-from "astrophe," the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to "zenosyne," the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives, which have far more in common than we think. With a gorgeous package and beautifully illustrated throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and people everywhere.

The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback): Aristotle The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
Aristotle
R95 R76 Discovery Miles 760 Save R19 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics… Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to garner influence in the assemblies, councils, and law courts of ancient Greece. In response to this, both politicians and ordinary citizens became desperate to learn greater skills in this area, as well as the philosophy behind it. This treatise was one of the first to provide just that, establishing methods and observations of informal reasoning and style, and has continued to be hugely influential on public speaking and philosophy today. Aristotle, the grandfather of philosophy, student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great, was one of the first people to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing logic, morality, aesthetics, politics, ethics, and science. Although written over 2,000 years ago, The Art of Rhetoric remains a comprehensive introduction for philosophy students into the subject of rhetoric, as well as a useful manual for anyone today looking to improve their oratory skills of persuasion.

The Mascot Chapter Book - Sound-Out Phonics Books Help Developing Readers, including Students with Dyslexia, Learn to Read... The Mascot Chapter Book - Sound-Out Phonics Books Help Developing Readers, including Students with Dyslexia, Learn to Read (Step 8 in a Systematic Series of Decodable Books) (Paperback)
Pamela Brookes
R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Prophecy (Paperback): W.E. Vine Prophecy (Paperback)
W.E. Vine
R631 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R115 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Sign Language Workbook - Exercises to Build Your Signing Vocabulary (Paperback): Rochelle Barlow American Sign Language Workbook - Exercises to Build Your Signing Vocabulary (Paperback)
Rochelle Barlow
R592 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R83 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Sign Language Dictionary for Beginners - A Visual Guide with 800+ ASL Signs (Paperback): Tara Adams American Sign Language Dictionary for Beginners - A Visual Guide with 800+ ASL Signs (Paperback)
Tara Adams
R666 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R90 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Well I Never Knew That! - Who Put the Great in Great Britain? (Hardcover): Peter Ryding Well I Never Knew That! - Who Put the Great in Great Britain? (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding 2
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume looks at the legacy of British history in the way we talk and the things we say. It takes us from the departure of the Romans from Britain up to and including the Middle Ages.

Well I Never Knew That! - Do Spies Win Olympic Medals? (Hardcover): Peter Ryding Well I Never Knew That! - Do Spies Win Olympic Medals? (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding 2
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume looks at the impact of evergreen activities - sports, games and gambling - upon the way we talk and the things we say. Peter Ryding takes us from cricket to roulette via some very tricky and diverting tangents.

Well I Never Knew That! Did Noah Invent Tennis? - An Historic Miscellany (Hardcover): Peter Ryding Well I Never Knew That! Did Noah Invent Tennis? - An Historic Miscellany (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author presents a humorous journey through the English language, exploring the fascinating facts and phrases that make English so rich and exciting.

The Dictionary People - The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback): Sarah Ogilvie The Dictionary People - The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
Sarah Ogilvie
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By the time it was finished in 1928 its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from archaeologists and astronomers to murderers, naturists, novelists, pornographers, queer couples, suffragists, vicars and vegetarians. Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. She traces the lives of thousands of contributors who defined the English language, from the eccentric autodidacts to the family groups who made word-collection their passion. With generosity and brio, Ogilvie reveals, for the first time, the full story of the making of one of the most famous books in the world - and celebrates to sparkling effect the extraordinary efforts of the Dictionary People.

Politics and the English Language (Hardcover): George Orwell Politics and the English Language (Hardcover)
George Orwell; Introduction by D J Taylor
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it, he argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows. First published in Horizon in 1946, Orwell's essay was soon recognised as an important text, circulated by newspaper editors to their journalists and reprinted in magazines and anthologies of contemporary writing. It continues to be relevant to our own age.

Scripture and Its Interpretation – A Global, Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible (Paperback): Michael J. Gorman Scripture and Its Interpretation – A Global, Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible (Paperback)
Michael J. Gorman
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Top-notch biblical scholars from around the world and from various Christian traditions offer a fulsome yet readable introduction to the Bible and its interpretation. The book concisely introduces the Old and New Testaments and related topics and examines a wide variety of historical and contemporary interpretive approaches, including African, African-American, Asian, and Latino streams. Contributors include N. T. Wright, M. Daniel Carroll R., Stephen Fowl, Joel Green, Michael Holmes, Edith Humphrey, Christopher Rowland, and K. K. Yeo, among others. Questions for reflection and discussion, an annotated bibliography, and a glossary are included.

Wit and Wisdom of Africa - Proverbs from Africa and the Caribbean (Paperback): Patrick Ibekwe Wit and Wisdom of Africa - Proverbs from Africa and the Caribbean (Paperback)
Patrick Ibekwe
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Iimbali Zamandulo - Stories of the Past (1838-1910) (Paperback): Jeff Opland, Peter Mtuze Iimbali Zamandulo - Stories of the Past (1838-1910) (Paperback)
Jeff Opland, Peter Mtuze
R390 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R85 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Iimbali Zamandulo – ‘Stories of the Past’– is a selection of historical testimonies produced by Xhosa-speaking residents of the Eastern Cape between 1838 and 1910. These narratives offer fresh insights into the history of the Xhosa-speaking peoples, providing their own perspectives on their own past. The volume contains recollections reaching back to seventeenth-century dynastic disputes, to a period preceding the southward migrations in the early nineteenth century into territories settled by Xhosa-speaking peoples. It passes on through those migrations, the clashes and resettlement of peoples and of individuals, the contest for land throughout the century, and on to the struggle for social control and the assertion of cultural identity by the century’s end. To a remarkable extent, we are lent intimate access here to the lives of ordinary people, seeking better pastures for themselves, their families and their livestock; hunting, fighting and, above all, confronting personal conflict in their choices between mission Christianity and ancestral beliefs; between support for their chiefs or the colonial authorities; between active or passive resistance to encroachment on their territory; and between colonial distortions purveyed in the schools and their receding grasp of their own sustaining histories.

What's in a Name? - Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain (Hardcover): Sheela Banerjee What's in a Name? - Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain (Hardcover)
Sheela Banerjee
R581 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R108 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A brilliantly enlightening book . . . at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail' Michael Rosen Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents. In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK. Blending history, memoir and politics, What's in a Name? is a celebration of Britain's rich multiculturalism, an ode to friendship and a testament to all the stories held within our names.

The Greatest Invention - A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Paperback): Silvia Ferrara The Greatest Invention - A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Paperback)
Silvia Ferrara; Translated by Todd Portnowitz
R299 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R65 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' The Spectator This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in fact, it has many beginnings, not only in Mesopotamia, 3,100 years before the birth of Christ, but also in China, Egypt and Central America - and it certainly has a middle, one that snakes through the painted petroglyphs of Easter Island, through the great machines of empires and across the desks of inspired, brilliant scholars, the end of the story remains to be written. The invention of writing allowed humans to create a record of their lives and to persist past the limits of their lifetimes. In the shadows and swirls of ancient inscriptions, we can decipher the stories they sought to record, but we can also tease out the timeless truths of human nature, of our ceaseless drive to connect, create and be remembered. The Greatest Invention chronicles an uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research and the faint, fleeting echo of writing's future. Professor Silvia Ferrara, a modern-day adventurer who travels the world studying ancient texts, takes us along with her; we touch the knotted, coloured strings of the Incan khipu and consider the case of the Phaistos disk. Ferrara takes us to the cutting edge of decipherment, where high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye, and further still, to gaze at the outline of writing's future. The Greatest Invention lifts the words off every page and changes the contours of the world around us - just keep reading. 'The Greatest Invention is a celebration not of achievements, but of moments of illumination and "the most important thing in the world: our desire to be understood".' TLS

Let's Sign BSL Flashcards - Early Years and Baby Signs (British Sign Language) (Cards): Cath Smith Let's Sign BSL Flashcards - Early Years and Baby Signs (British Sign Language) (Cards)
Cath Smith; Illustrated by Cath Smith
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Language, society and communication - An introduction (Paperback, 2nd ed): Z. Bock, G. Mheta Language, society and communication - An introduction (Paperback, 2nd ed)
Z. Bock, G. Mheta
R625 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R47 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

We live in a multilingual, transforming society in which language plays a dynamic and central role. We use it every day for communication and it is not possible to imagine life without it - it is generally recognised as a mark of what makes us human. But how often do we think about exactly what language is and how we actually use it? Language, society and communication introduces established and new linguistic concepts and theories, and links these to contemporary issues in society and the media, including new social media, with a particular focus on southern Africa. Language, society and communication explores how language is intricately bound up with issues of power, status and identity. It explores the tension between the diverse nature of everyday language practices, on the one hand, and the societal pressures towards managing and containing this diversity, on the other. It also demonstrates the relevance of linguistic study (e.g. phonology and syntax) to real world problems (e.g. analysis of a child's acquisition of language), within a southern African context. Study questions and case studies, which relate the theoretical ideas discussed to current research, are provided at the end of each chapter. Language, society and communication is aimed at undergraduate students studying linguistics, language and communication and related fields such as language education.

Chronicles of Dissent - Interviews with David Barsamian, 1984-1996 (Paperback): Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian Chronicles of Dissent - Interviews with David Barsamian, 1984-1996 (Paperback)
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
R896 R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Save R133 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wee Book a Glesca Banter - An A-Z of Glasgow Phrases (Paperback): Iain Gray The Wee Book a Glesca Banter - An A-Z of Glasgow Phrases (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R95 R76 Discovery Miles 760 Save R19 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Fonetiek (Afrikaans, Paperback, 5de uitgawe): Anna E. Coetzee Fonetiek (Afrikaans, Paperback, 5de uitgawe)
Anna E. Coetzee
R325 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R24 (7%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Fonetiek (2018) is 'n verbeterde, bygewerkte uitgawe van die vierde uitgawe van Fonetiek (1988). Soos sy voorganger stel die boek beginners in staat om fonetiek maklik en vinnig te bemeester. Daar is egter genoeg stof en bronverwysings om ook die meer gevorderde gebruiker te prikkel. Fonetiek is veral praktykgerig. Dit bied insig in die klanke en die klanksisteem van Afrikaans, asook in die wyse waarop dit verskil van die klanke en klanksisteme van Engels en ander Suid-Afrikaanse tale. Die nut van fonetiese transkripsies by lemmas in woordeboeke word uitgelig. Die optekening en beskrywing van werklike uitspraak met behulp van fonetiese tekens is onontbeerlik vir taalnavorsing, veral vir die optekening van streeks- en sosiale varieteite en die uitspraak van sprekers van ander tale vir wie Afrikaans nie 'n huistaal is nie. 'n Studie van Fonetiek sal die gebruiker dus toerus met kennis vir die onderrig van klanke en klanksisteme, met kennis om taalnavorsing te onderneem, om klankbeelding in poesie te waardeer en om woordeboeke daagliks nuttig in ons multitalige wereld te gebruik. Anna Coetzee, binnelands en buitelands bekend in taalkundige kringe, tree in 2005 af na 12 jaar in die onderwys en 30 jaar by Wits en RAU/UJ, waarna sy vir nog ses jaar as 'n spesiale professor in die Departement Afrikaans by UJ diens doen. Sy was tot in 2005 redakteur van die geakkrediteerde Tydskrif vir Taalonderrig / Journal for Language Teaching, en medewerker van verskeie akademiese tydskrifte, onder meer in die redaksionele paneel van die internasionale tydskrif Multilingual Matters. Sy is die skrywer van talle akademiese artikels asook resensies en besprekings in vaktydskrifte en boeke en het as skrywer, redakteur of mederedakteur bygedra tot verskeie publikasies. Anna was aktief betrokke by 'n hele aantal binnelandse en buitelandse taalorganisasies. Sy dien onder meer in die Taalkommissie van die SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns en ontvang saam met die ander lede van die Taalkommmissie die Langenhovenprys vir die 2002-uitgawe van Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreels. Sy was vir ses jaar ? verteenwoordiger op die Wereldraad van die Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (FIPLV) en het die 21ste wereldkongres van die liggaam in Suid-Afrika georganiseer. Sy het talle referate by vakkongresse binne- en buitelands gelewer en gereeld in radio-, TV- en ander aanbiedings in haar vakgebied opgetree. Onderrig- en doseerwerk het haar na aan die hart gele. Benewens studieleiding aan talle doktorale en MA-studente in haar hoofdissiplines Klankleer, Woordbou en Sosiolinguistiek, was een van haar belangrikste bydraes die suksesvolle indiensopleidingskursus vir onderwysers van Afrikaans as Tweede of Addisionele Taal wat sy vir agt jaar bestuur het.

Handbook of Political Discourse (Hardcover): Piotr Cap Handbook of Political Discourse (Hardcover)
Piotr Cap
R5,685 Discovery Miles 56 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Synthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse extends. Drawing on rich and dynamic models in critical cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, metaphor analysis, context, and multimodality studies, leading scholars provide tools to analyse a broad range of traditional and modern genres of political communication. Taking a historical dive into formative traditions in political discourse, including rhetoric and social and poststructuralist theories, this Handbook revises these classical models of political communication against new empirical contexts, to offer the most fruitful, objective and universal methodologies to date. Examining propaganda, advertising, political speeches and election campaigns, this Handbook pays particular attention to newly arising genres and discourses which reflect the momentous changes in the public domain, fuelled by recent and developing events including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. Drawing diverse insights from a wide array of disciplines, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of political theory, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, discourse analysis and communication studies who are looking for innovative methodologies with which to analyse political discourse.

Scripture as Real Presence - Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church (Hardcover): Hans Boersma Scripture as Real Presence - Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church (Hardcover)
Hans Boersma
R670 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R119 (18%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

This work argues that the heart of patristic exegesis is the attempt to find the sacramental reality (real presence) of Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures. Leading theologian Hans Boersma discusses numerous sermons and commentaries of the church fathers to show how they regarded Christ as the treasure hidden in the field of the Old Testament and explains that the church today can and should retrieve the sacramental reading of the early church. Combining detailed scholarly insight with clear, compelling prose, this book makes a unique contribution to contemporary interest in theological interpretation.

Vox Populi - Populism as a Rhetorical and Democratic Challenge (Hardcover): Ingeborg van der Geest, Henrike Jansen, Bart van... Vox Populi - Populism as a Rhetorical and Democratic Challenge (Hardcover)
Ingeborg van der Geest, Henrike Jansen, Bart van Klink
R3,292 Discovery Miles 32 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This timely and engaging book examines the rise of populism across the globe. Combining insights from linguistics, argumentation theory, rhetoric, legal theory and political theory it offers a fully integrated characterization of the form and content of populist discourse. Throughout the book, eminent scholars address questions central to the topic, such as: how does populism manifest itself rhetorically; how does it relate to liberal democracy; and how can the populist challenge be confronted? Carefully selected case studies are used to examine how populist behaviour deviates from that which we would expect to be the norm in a liberal democracy, for example through the use of obnoxious language and refusal to substantiate vulgar claims. The book also provides key insights into more fundamental issues, such as the opposition between the 'real' people versus the elite and the longing for a 'Heimat'. Offering an in-depth analysis and evaluation at the intersection of language, law and politics, Vox Populi will be of great benefit to students and scholars from a range of disciplines.

Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts - Advances in Language-Sensitive Management... Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts - Advances in Language-Sensitive Management Research (Hardcover)
Philippe Lecomte, Mary Vigier, Claudine Gaibrois, Betty Beeler
R3,033 Discovery Miles 30 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides readers with the latest research on the dynamics of language and language diversity in professional contexts. Bringing together novel findings from a range of disciplines, it challenges practitioners and management scholars to question the conventional understanding of language as a tool that can be managed by language policies that 'standardize' language. Each of the contributions is designed to recognize the strides that have been made in the past two decades in research on language and languages in organizational settings while addressing remaining blind spots and emerging issues. Particular attention is given to multilingualism, sociolinguistic approaches to language in the workplace, migration challenges, critical perspectives on the power of language use and the management of organizations as dialogical, discursive spaces. Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts offers new insights into familiar and less familiar issues for international business scholars, sociolinguists, management practitioners and business communication scholars and experts, and brings understanding to the central role that language usage and linguistic diversity play in organisational processes.

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