The Australian Way with Words
Author: Max Harris
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780855612986
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A Way with Words
Author: Daniel Darling
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1535995378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial media was made to bring us together. But few things have driven us further apart. Sadly, many Christians are fueling online incivility. Others, exhausted by perpetual outrage and shame-filled from constant comparison, are leaving social media altogether. So, how should Christians behave in this digital age? Is there a better way? Daniel Darling believes we need an approach that applies biblical wisdom to our engagement with social media, an approach that neither retreats from modern technology nor ignores the harmful ways in which Christians often engage publicly. In short, he believes that we can and should use our online conversations for good.
English, The Aussie Way
Author: Lynne Maree Walsh
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1681815656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a Sydney native, English, The Aussie Way: A Fun Guide to Australia’s Colourful Phrases, Words, and Expressions offers an amusing way for English or non-English speakers around the world to learn the colloquial phrases for which Australia is famous. This user-friendly reference provides words/phrases and meanings/synonyms by using an example sentence. Says the author, “For seven years I housed international students who were attending English language schools in Sydney, and I realised that although they had a good grasp of formal grammar, they struggled to understand not only colloquial English, but many of the commonly used phrasal verbs, which could not be found in a standard English/Spanish, French, etc., dictionary. It was then that I decided to start writing some of them down for future reference and it grew from there.”
Australian English Reimagined
Author: Louisa Willoughby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0429671113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralian English is perhaps best known for its colourful slang, but the variety is much richer than slang alone. This collection provides a detailed account of Australian English by bringing together leading scholars of this English variety. These scholars provide a comprehensive overview of Australian English’s distinctive features and outline cutting-edge research into the variation and change of English in Australia. Organised thematically, this volume explores the ways in which Australian English differs from other varieties of English, as well as examining regional, social and stylistic variation within the variety. The volume first explores particular structural features where Australian English differentiates itself from other English varieties. There are chapters on phonetics and phonology, socio-phonetics, lexicon and discourse-pragmatics as these elements are core to understanding any variety of English, especially within the World Englishes paradigm. It then considers what are arguably the most salient aspects of variation within Australian English and finally focuses on historical, attitudinal and planning aspects of Australian English. This volume provides a thorough account of Australian English and its users as complex, diverse and worthy of study. Perhaps more importantly, this volume’s scholars provide a reimagining of Australian English and the paradigm through which future scholars may proceed.
Word Up
Author: Mark McCrindle
Publisher: The ABC of XYZ
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1920831851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone says the English language is changing in this global digital age. Everyone says the generations don't understand each other. Word Up is the complete up-to-date Australian guide to where our language is headed. Fascinating, colourful, easy to use and full of surprises. Includes a youth lexicon.
The Psychopath Will See You Now
Author: Graham Barrett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1483692450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory is full of surprises. This book is about some of the big ones of the recent past, be they political upheavals, wars and atrocity of famine and diseases of mass destruction. But we also note the humor, or sense of the ridiculous, that is a key ingredient of the human experience. Trying to make sense of events as they occur is traditionally the job of the foreign correspondent, the man or woman on the ground. In a fast-moving collection of articles we travel the world with the author as he covers many major events, observing at first hand the end of the apartheid, the fall of the Soviet empire, the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, conflict in the Middle East, the reunification of Germany, the last quirky remnants of the imperial era, the hunt for the source of the AIDS virus, the origins of the crisis in the European Union, the horrors of the narcotics trade, the lifestyles of tyrants, royalty and those who live at the edge of the world. Through it we experience the extraordinary individuals who shape the history for good or for evil, or who entertain us through their exceptional personalities and ambitions. This is a rollicking journey of the discovery through a world that never ceases to excite, amuse, astonish or dismay.
The Superior Person's Book of Words
Author: Peter Bowler
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780879235567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.
New Trends in Lexicography
Author: Olga Karpova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2010-02-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1443820180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present book contains a collection of works developing new trends in theoretical and practical lexicography devoted to manifold description of lexis. All papers are divided into two main sections: Part I, Systemic and Cross-cultural Relations of Words in the Dictionary, presents analysis of cultural issues and phraseology with special reference to English dictionaries for general- and specific-purposes. The main focus is given to the principles of lexicographic presentation of non-equivalent lexis, idioms, clichés, nominations of non-verbal behaviour and proper names of people in bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. Part II, entitled Specialized Dictionaries: Traditions and Innovations, deals with peculiarities of Author Lexicography, Learners lexicography, LSP dictionaries, dictionaries of English verbs, and varieties of the English language in its synchronic and diachronic aspects. This book is based on plenary presentations of the VIIIth school on Lexicography “Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicography: A New Age of Theory and Practice” (Ivanovo State University, September 10–12, 2009) and continues the series of monographs devoted to theoretical and practical problems of modern and historical lexicography: Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures (2007) and Lexicography and Terminology: A Worldwide Outlook (2009) published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases
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Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 1370
ISBN-13:
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Author: Jane Grellier
Publisher: Cengage AU
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0170401626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Communications Toolkit contains practical advice, tips and strategies to enable learners to develop the communication skills needed to be successful students. The text helps students make a successful transition to tertiary studies, develop effective research skills for their discipline, approach academic writing with confidence, refine their writing skills, and enhance their face-to-face communication experience. This new edition includes more information than ever on active listening and dealing with conflict, while taking into account the changing nature of university studies as more and more students study and take courses online. New examples of online students’ communication work and new coverage of the communication challenges students face when going to university via an online channel deals with this diversity. The direct, inclusive, motivational and student-friendly text addresses both individual students and those working in seminar or workshop groups, and provides activities for both types of student throughout the book. The new CourseMate Express website offers students resources for learning and revision, making this the strongest communications textbook in the market today.
