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Floriography

Author : Jessica Roux

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 15,21 MB

Release : 2020-09-15

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1524866342

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A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication. It soared in popularity during the 19th century, especially in Victorian England and the U.S., when proper etiquette discouraged open displays of emotion. Mysterious and playful, the language of flowers has roots in everything from the characteristics of the plant to its presence in folklore and history. Researched and illustrated by popular artist Jessica Roux, this book makes a stunning display piece, conversation-starter, or thoughtful gift.



Re-awakening Languages

Author : John Hobson

Publisher : Sydney University Press

Page : 490 pages

File Size : 17,54 MB

Release : 2018-08-30

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 174332099X

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The Indigenous languages of Australia have been undergoing a renaissance over recent decades. Many languages that had long ceased to be heard in public and consequently deemed 'dead' or 'extinct', have begun to emerge. Geographically and linguistically isolated, revitalisers of Indigenous Australian languages have often struggled to find guidance for their circumstances, unaware of the others walking a similar path. In this context Re-awakening Languages seeks to provide the first comprehensive snapshot of the actions and aspirations of Indigenous people and their supporters for the revitalisation of Australian languages in the 21st century. The contributions to this volume describe the satisfactions and tensions of this ongoing struggle. They also draw attention to the need for effective planning and strong advocacy at the highest political and administrative levels, if language revitalisation in Australia is to be successful and people's efforts are to have longevity.



A Victorian Flower Dictionary

Author : Mandy Kirkby

Publisher : Ballantine Books

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 25,4 MB

Release : 2011-09-20

Category : Nature

ISBN : 0345532864

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“A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.” Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings—love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now, modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom, and this book will share the historical, literary, and cultural significance of flowers with a whole new generation. With lavish illustrations, a dual dictionary of flora and meanings, and suggestions for creating expressive arrangements, this keepsake is the perfect compendium for everyone who has ever given or received a bouquet.



A Victorian Rose

Author : Catherine Palmer

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 31,58 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Christian fiction

ISBN : 9780842319577

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In Yorkshire in 1839, widow Clemma Laird meets Dr. Paul Baine, who is rumored to have an immoral medical practice, but when Clemma discovers how he has been seeking atonement for his past sins, she is able to help him accept Christ's salvation.



The Languages and Linguistics of Australia

Author : Harold Koch

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 523 pages

File Size : 45,74 MB

Release : 2014-08-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110279770

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Book Description

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.



The Languages of Australia

Author : R. M. W. Dixon

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 574 pages

File Size : 17,92 MB

Release : 2011-01-20

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1108017851

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This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.



Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry

Author : Barbara Barrow

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 18,79 MB

Release : 2019-05-29

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0429575203

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Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent ideas about popular sovereignty. While Victorian scientists studied the origins of speech, the history of dialects, and the barrier between human and animal language, poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Thomas Hardy drew on this research to explore social unrest, the expansion of the electorate, and the ever-widening boundaries of empire. Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry recovers unacknowledged links between poetry, philology, and political culture, and contributes to recent movements in literary studies that combine historicist and formalist approaches.



Atlas of the World's Languages

Author : R.E. Asher

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1009 pages

File Size : 23,17 MB

Release : 2018-04-19

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1317851080

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Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.



Morphology and Language History

Author : Claire Bowern

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 39,34 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027248141

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This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.



The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

Author : Claire Bowern

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 1179 pages

File Size : 14,45 MB

Release : 2023-03-16

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0198824971

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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.