Caught in the Web of Words
Title | Caught in the Web of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300089196 |
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)
A Web of Words
Title | A Web of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Gray |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780820330051 |
Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South.
Lexical Meaning in Context
Title | Lexical Meaning in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Asher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2011-03-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139501313 |
This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike.
The Web of Words
Title | The Web of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard F. Huppé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
"In The Web of Words, Professor Bernard F. Huppe presents a method for the close reading and structural analysis of Old English poetry. In a brief introduction he outlines this method, then shows how it operates through his analyses of four Old English poems selected as being representative of the body of Old English religious verse"--Back cover.
Writing for the Web
Title | Writing for the Web PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Felder |
Publisher | New Riders |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0321794435 |
Many books offer instruction on how to use software programs to build Web sites, podcasts, and illustrations. But 'Writing for the Web' explains when and why an author might choose an illustration over a photograph, motion graphics over text, or a slice of Beethoven's Fifth over the sound of a bubbling brook. Focusing on storytelling techniques that work best for digital media, this book describes the essential skills and tools in a Web author's toolbox, including a thorough understanding of grammar and style, a critical eye for photography, and an ear for just the right sound byte for a podcast.
The World Book Encyclopedia
Title | The World Book Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Letting Go of the Words
Title | Letting Go of the Words PDF eBook |
Author | Janice Redish |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2012-08-14 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0123859301 |
"Learn how to have great conversations through your site or app. Meet your business goals while satisfying your site visitors' needs. Learn how to create useful and usable content from the master - Ginny Redish. Ginny's easy-to-read style will teach you how to plan, organize, write, design, and test your content"--