Language arts & disciplines

The Interpretation of Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale in China

by Chiara Romagnoli

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Local Library, Global Passport: The Evolution of a Carnegie Library

by J. Patrick Boyer

This colourful story of one town's library provides material enough for a movie as it reveals universal patterns about love of reading and battles for books while librarians, politicians, architects, educators,...

The Essential Library For Irish-Americans

by Morgan Llywelyn

Ireland is in the news and a center of international attention in this decade. This book is an instructive, opinionated, annotated list of books that anyone in America who is Irish or interested in the Irish...

Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction

by Jo Walton

It’s 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in “Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction,” history is driven both by big events and by small temptations…

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The Blog & the Journal - Writing About You -

by Cecilia Tanner & Luana Mercy

The BLOG & the JOURNAL explores the fascination of keeping a journal which is the very fascination of life, - its novelty, its unpredictability, its new twists. By expressing yourself in your solitude, you can...

America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries

by Edward L. Ayers

These readings provide a glimpse of the vast sweep and profound breadth of Americans' war among and against themselves, adding crucial voices to our understanding of the war and its meaning.

Volume 3 | 2009 - Varia - Cognitextes

by Association française de linguistique cognitive

Sommaire : Sonja Erlenkamp, « Gesture verbs » / Maarten Lemmens, Emilie L’Hôte, Reframing treason: metaphors of change and progress in new Labour discourse

Volume 4 | 2010 - Unison in multiplicity: Cognitive and typological perspectives on grammar and lexis - Cognitextes

by Association française de linguistique cognitive

Sommaire : William Croft, Relativity, linguistic variation and language universals / Åke Viberg, Basic Verbs of Possession / Caroline Imbert, Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: A typological insight

Volume 5 | 2010 - Grammaires en Construction(s) - Cognitextes

by Association française de linguistique cognitive

Ce volume rassemble une sélection de contributions présentées au troisième colloque international bisannuel de l'AFLiCo (http://www.aflico.fr/colloque.html) à l'Université Paris X - Nanterre en mai 2009....

Volume 6 | 2011 - Varia - Cognitextes

by Association française de linguistique cognitive

Sommaire : Nick Riemer, La conception syntaxique de la polysémie : une critique / Silva H. Ladewig, Putting the cyclic gesture on a cognitive basis / Takahiro Morita, Intratypological Variations in Motion...

Ricochet

by Seymour Mayne & Sabine Huynh

Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception...