1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910586572903321

Autore

Culpeper Jonathan <1966-, >

Titolo

History of English / / Jonathan Culpeper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-29404-2

1-280-25400-9

9786610254002

0-203-02350-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 p.)

Collana

Language workbooks

Classificazione

18.04

Disciplina

420/.9

Soggetti

English language - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [124]-129) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; USING THIS BOOK; 1 THE BIRTH OF ENGLISH; 2 INVESTIGATING CHANGE IN ENGLISH; 3 SPELLINGS AND SPEECH SOUNDS; 4 BORROWING WORDS; 5 NEW WORDS FROM OLD; 6 CHANGING MEANINGS; 7 GRAMMAR I; 8 GRAMMAR II; 9 DIALECTS IN BRITISH ENGLISH; 10 STANDARDISATION; 11 WORLD ENGLISHES; APPENDIX I: READING AN OED ENTRY; APPENDIX II: THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY TREE; APPENDIX III: PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION; APPENDIX IV: A 'MINI-CORPUS' OF TEXTS; APPENDIX V: SOME ANSWERS; APPENDIX VI: INTERNET RESOURCES; APPENDIX VII: GENERAL READING; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

This is a superb introduction to all the key areas of language and linguistics. Written in clear and concise sections this is the essential guide to this core subject.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996208534403316

Autore

Doorman Maarten

Titolo

Art in progress : a philosophical response to the end of the avant-garde / / Maarten Doorman ; translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-95882-0

9786610958825

90-485-0513-5

0-585-49537-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

111.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Progress

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Doorman, Maarten -- Introduction -- 1. Perspectives On Progress: A History -- 2. From The Ancients And The Moderns: A Door To The Future -- 3. From Romanticism To The Avant-Garde -- 4. On Making Revolution -- 5. Innovation In Painting And Architecture: De Stijl -- 6. The End Of Art -- 7. A New Approach To An Old Concept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Of Names

Sommario/riassunto

In this challenging essay, Maarten Doorman argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism, he claims, have had a crippling effect on art, leaving it in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context; the concept of progress, then, is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. The history of art, in fact, can be seen as a process of constant accumulation, works of art commenting on one another and enriching one another's meanings. It is these complex interrelationships and the progress they create in both art and its observers that Doorman, in a display of great philosophical erudition, defends.