Author : Robin Adamson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1853599492
This book aims to find out whether French, one of the great languages of the world, is in crisis or not. It traces the history and development of language defence in France and examines the sometimes contradictory attitudes of French people to their beloved language. It assesses the necessity for and the usefulness of the many activities in defence of French and suggests what its future might be.
Author : Joachim Du Bellay
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 1939
Category : French language
ISBN :
Author : Joachim Du Bellay
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780772720214
Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781884964367
Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674615663
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Author : Adrian Battye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136903356
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social and historical context, the authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the language in a lively and accessible way. A variety of topics is covered, including the distribution of French in the world, the historical development of standard French, the sound system of French, its sentence patterns, and its stylistic and geographical variations. Fully updated and revised, this new edition places a greater emphasis on sociolinguistics. To make the book more user-friendly, the following new features have been added: * a further reading guide at the end of each chapter * a glossary of linguistic terms * an expanded bibliography and index.
Author : Helen Kraus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199600783
This study looks at the representation of gender issues in 'Genesis' 1-4 in five influential translations from the Hebrew original. Each chapter contains a textual analysis section that provides detailed and clearly structured analysis of specific verses.
Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192634402
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today.
Author : Laurence de Looze
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442624124
From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation’s statement that Jesus is “the Alpha and Omega,” we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, he traces the use of alphabetic letters and their significance from Plato to postmodernism, offering a fascinating tour through Western history. A sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet, The Letter and the Cosmos is illustrated with copious examples of the visual and linguistic phenomena which de Looze describes. Read it, and you’ll never look at the alphabet the same way again.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1970
Category : France
ISBN :
