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Word On The Street

Author : John Mcwhorter

Publisher : Basic Books

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 14,41 MB

Release : 2009-03-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0786731478

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Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments, linguist John McWhorter considers speech patterns and regional accents to demonstrate just how the changes do occur. Wielding reason and humor, McWhorter ultimately explains why we must embrace these changes, ultimately revealing our American English in all its variety, expressiveness, and power.



The Word on the Street

Author : Rob Lacey

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 19,19 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 0310922674

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A "Bible" that talks today's language - gritty, earthy, witty - A "Bible" for those who've never read the Bible, and for those who've read it too much.



The Word on the Streets

Author : Brooks E. Hefner

Publisher : University of Virginia Press

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 47,50 MB

Release : 2017-10-27

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0813940427

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From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism—one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity. The dawn of the modernist era witnessed a transformation of popular writing that demonstrated an experimental practice rooted in the language of the streets. Emerging alongside more recognized strands of literary modernism, the vernacular modernism these writers exhibited lays bare the aesthetic experiments inherent in American working-class and ethnic language, forging an alternative pathway for American modernist practice. Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres—from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska—employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.



We Beat the Street

Author : Sampson Davis

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 26,99 MB

Release : 2006-04-20

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780142406274

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Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental professions, they made a pact among themselves that they would become doctors. It took a lot of determination—and a lot of support from one another—but despite all the hardships along the way, the three succeeded. Retold with the help of an award-winning author, this younger adaptation of the adult hit novel The Pact is a hard-hitting, powerful, and inspirational book that will speak to young readers everywhere.



Street Messages

Author : Nicholas Ganz

Publisher : SCB Distributors

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 43,98 MB

Release : 2015-08-31

Category : Art

ISBN : 918563980X

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There is plenty of creativity within the international graffiti and street art scene. Writing text messages in public spaces has been a unique art form and a means of communication between humans for thousands of years. Many street artists work only with text, written messages or poems, and not necessarily only with colourful murals, styles, tags and logos. Street Messages is the first publication that delivers a deep insight into this literary form of expression in the world of global street art. We are confronted with a vast amount of written information in the form of advertising and street or shop signs every single day of our lives. Reading and decoding this information has become a daily routine. Apart from the texts that are trying to sell us something or direct us somewhere, the streets are full of artistic and poetic forms of expression – messages written by graffiti and street artists. Street Messages offers a historic background to written messages in public spaces and introduces more than 80 artists from across the world who work exclusively or partly with text. The vast body of information and numerous exclusive quotes and words of wisdom makes Street Messages the first book to shed some light on this as yet undocumented form of street art culture. Features artwork by Banksy, Dolk, Ben Eine, Faith 47, Flint..., Kid Acne, Know Hope, Mobstr, Skki and many others.



The Street

Author : Ann Petry

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 28,89 MB

Release : 2013-08-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0547525346

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.



The Street Bible

Author : Rob Lacey

Publisher :

Page : 528 pages

File Size : 11,40 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780007107902

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An engaging new translation of the Bible into the language of the city. Rob Lacey reworks the metaphors, situations, and speech patterns of the Bible to create a real impact on the modern, urban reader.



Wall Street Words

Author : David Logan Scott

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 22,47 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780618176519

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Words Onscreen

Author : Naomi S. Baron

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 27,76 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0199315760

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In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.



Vine Street

Author : Dominic Nolan

Publisher : Hachette UK

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,85 MB

Release : 2022-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781472288868

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***BEST CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES*** ***CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMES*** 'Brings the obsessional dread of James Ellroy to 1940s London.' IAN RANKIN 'Extraordinary...a career-defining performance.' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'This is crime writing of the highest quality' DAILY MAIL SOHO, 1935. SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH. A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code. The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blackshirts, ponces and tarts so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early. But Geats - a good man prepared to be a bad one if it keeps the worst of them at bay - knows the dark seams of the city. Working with his former partner, mercenary Flying Squad sergeant Mark Cassar, Geats obsessively dedicates himself to finding a warped killer - a decision that will reverberate for a lifetime and transform both men in ways they could never expect. 'Savage, beautiful, mesmeric...a very special book.' CHRIS WHITAKER 'A stirringly ambitious novel that pairs the scope of James Ellroy's LA CONFIDENTIAL with the psychological depth of Graham Greene's BRIGHTON ROCK. Extraordinary.' A. J. FINN 'A tour de force. A brilliant marriage of tension and rich detail.' HARRIET TYCE 'Nolan is set to become Britain's Michael Connelly' DAILY MAIL 'An epic, brutal, blockbuster of a crime novel. It's the best film noir you've never seen complete with a love story that might just rip your heart out.' TREVOR WOOD 'An enthralling tale that takes you into the seamy heart of Soho's past. Written in Nolan's visceral, muscular prose, it is a joy to read.' LESLEY KARA 'A rich, ambitious, masterpiece of a crime novel' OLIVIA KIERNAN 'Poetic and tragic...but also vibrant, with a great depth of world and character' JAMES DELARGY