1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461918603321

Autore

Wolfson Nessa

Titolo

CHP, the conversational historical present in American English narrative [[electronic resource] /] / Nessa Wolfson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, Holland ; ; Cinnaminson, U.S.A., : Foris Publications, 1982

ISBN

3-11-085169-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 p.)

Collana

Topics in Sociolinguistics ; ; 1

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Tense

English language - Spoken English - United States

English language - United States - Tense

Narration (Rhetoric)

Electronic books.

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. [119]-122) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Internal analysis -- Chapter 3 Field methodology -- Chapter 4 Sociolinguistic analysis -- Chapter 5 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Author index -- Subject index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785652003321

Titolo

Conference interpreting [[electronic resource] ] : current trends in research : proceedings of the International Conference on Interpreting--What Do We Know and How? : Turku, August 25-27, 1994 / / edited by Yves Gambier, Daniel Gile, Christopher Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997

ISBN

1-283-04712-8

9786613047120

90-272-8560-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Benjamins translation library ; ; v. 23

Altri autori (Persone)

GambierYves <1949->

GileDaniel

TaylorChristopher

Disciplina

418/.02

Soggetti

Communicative competence

Congresses and conventions

Translating and interpreting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141096903321

Titolo

A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa / / editors, Johan Christoph Bürgel, Christine van Ruymbeke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2011

Leiden : , : Leiden University Press, , 2011

ISBN

9786613231956

9781283231954

1283231956

9789400600140

9400600143

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Iranian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

RuymbekeC. van (Christine van)

BürgelJ. Christoph

Disciplina

891.5511

Soggetti

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim" -- 1. Nizami's World Order -- 2. The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Layli u Majnun -- 3. Descriptions and Images - Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizami's Iskandar Nama,Firdawsi's Shah Nama and Amir Khusraw's A'ina-yi -- 4 Nizami's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life -- 5. Drinking from the Water of Life - Nizami, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature --

6. The Enigma of Turandot in Nizami's Pentad. Azada and Bahram between Esther and Sindbad -- 7. What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila-Dimna stories? -- 8. The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizami's Iqbal Nama -- 9. A Mystical Reading of Nizami's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar -- 10. The Nizami Manuscript of Shah Tahmasp: A Reconstructed History -- 11. Nizami Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry -- 12.



Teucros in Nizami's Haft Paykar -- 13. "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizami on Animal and Man.

Sommario/riassunto

Includes thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan.