Main Trends in the Science of Language (Routledge Revivals)
Main Trends in the Science of Language (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Roman Jakobson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1317857380

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First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and international research centres in the social sciences, as well as with groups of individual scholars. The book examines the position of linguistics in the years surrounding the publication of the book before considering the subject’s potential, future development. It looks at linguistic vistas, the place of linguistics among the sciences of man and linguistics and natural sciences. This book will be of interest to the educated reader, research workers, and professional associations as well as to national and international institutions that organize, plan and finance scientific research.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006)
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006)

Author: Thomas F. Glick

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1351676172

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First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. In Europe, the Islamic world, South and East Asia, and the Americas, individuals built on earlier achievements, introduced sometimes radical refinements and laid the foundations for modern development. Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This comprehensive resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. It also looks at the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted. Written by a select group of international scholars, this reference work will be of great use to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields, including medieval studies, world history, history of science, history of technology, history of medicine, and cultural studies.

Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966)
Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966)

Author: Roger Fowler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1351347691

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First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and metre of English poetry is deconstructed. Language and its emotive structure is analysed, while the middle chapters of the book address the interaction of linguistic dimensions. Two medievalist scholars conclude the volume, giving a well-rounded examination to the broad and complex study of literary style in the English language. This book is suitable for students and scholars concerned with English literature and linguistics.

Elizabethan Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
Elizabethan Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Neil Rhodes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1317620410

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The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the development of new styles of comic prose and drama in Elizabethan England. In defining ‘grotesque’, the author considers the stylistic techniques of Rabelais and Aretino, as well as the graphic arts. He discusses the use of the grotesque in Elizabethan pamphlet literature and the early satirical journalists such as Nashe, and argues that their work in turn stimulated the growth of satirical drama at the end of the century. The second part of the book explains the importance of Nashe’s achievement for Shakespeare and Jonson, concluding that the linguistic resources of English Renaissance comedy are peculiarly – and perhaps uniquely – physical.

I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)
I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Paul Russo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 1317527798

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A pioneering critic, educator, and poet, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) helped the English-speaking world decide not only what to read but how to read it. Acknowledged "father" of New Criticism, he produced the most systematic body of critical writing in the English language since Coleridge. His method of close reading dominated the English-speaking classroom for half a century. John Paul Russo draws on close personal acquaintance with Richards as well as on unpublished materials, correspondence, and interviews, to write the first biography (originally published in 1989) of one of last century’s most influential and many-sided men of letters.

The Apple and the Spectroscope (Routledge Revivals)
The Apple and the Spectroscope (Routledge Revivals)

Author: T R Henn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1135049343

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First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950. A request for lectures of this kind came originally from a group of science students and the response was such that a course of this nature ran yearly. The purpose was to provide students from disciplines other than the humanities with the opportunity to feed their interest in English poetry and literature.

Communicating in Digital Age Corporations
Communicating in Digital Age Corporations

Author: Anna Danielewicz-Betz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-23

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 113755813X

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The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, sociology, and critical organisational studies as applied to the corporate world. It offers a first-hand insight into primary business discourse with a deeper understanding and analysis of business processes and mechanisms underlying and reflected in enterprise software-mediated communication. It answers the question what ‘doing business’ in the digital age is about and illustrates ‘business discourse’ from practitioners’ point of view. Grounded in the analysis of empirical data, pertaining both to internal and external business communication, the author reflects on the reality of accelerated and pressurised communication in global IT corporations. Following a communication-centred approach, this monograph puts the topic of enterprise software-mediated business discourse into a multi-layered perspective of how global corporations operate, what their primary goals are, and what kind of (political) power they execute. Moreover, it demonstrates how profit-driven corporations can be viewed and interpreted as strategically acting systems within a specific sociological framework.

A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)
A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

Author: G Gaskell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 1302

ISBN-13: 1317589416

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G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, first published in 1923, examines several different aspects of religion, including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity, providing explanations of gods, events, and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or the history of religion.

The Study of Language in 17th-Century England
The Study of Language in 17th-Century England

Author: Vivian Salmon

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9027286116

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This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the ‘universal language’.