Bilingual thematic dictionaries / / Martin Stark

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965657103321
• Autore: Stark M. P (Martin P.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston, : Walter de Gruyter, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-43034-7; 9786613430342; 3-11-025889-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (500 p.)
• Collana: Lexicographica
• Classificazione: ET 580
• Disciplina: 413.028
• Soggetti: Dictionaries, Polyglot; Linguistics
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature and Development of the Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as a Hybrid Lexicographic Genre -- 3. Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 4. Approaches to Evaluating the Usefulness of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 5. The Compilation of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries: Choices and Recommendations -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1) A Checklist of Monolingual Learner's Dictionary Features and Choices -- Appendix 2) A Checklist of Thematic Dictionary Features and Choices -- Appendix 3) A Checklist of Existing BTD Features and Choices -- Appendix 4) A Sample of the EFL Questionnaire Version A (for French Learners of English) -- Appendix 5) Location Guessing Experiment: List of BTD Categories -- Appendix 6) Location Guessing Experiment: List of 10 Words -- Appendix 7) Search Report Experiment: Answer/Search Report Sheet -- Appendix 8) A Cumulative Checklist of Actual and Potential BTD Features and Choices -- Appendix 9) Location Guessing Experiment: Guessed Locations for Each Word -- Appendix 10) Location Guessing Experiment: No. of Correct Guesses for each Word -- Appendix 11) Location Guessing Experiment: Correct Answers and Participants' Answers -- Abstract -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is concerned with bilingual thematic dictionaries (BTDs). The three chief aims of the research project are: 1) to identify the characteristic features of the bilingual thematic dictionary, 2) to gauge its usefulness, and 3) to make suggestions as to how it could be improved. Various approaches are adopted in order to reveal the nature of the BTD. The typological approach considers the lexicographic genres (bilingual, thematic, and pedagogical) which have been combined to create this hybrid reference work. Particular attention is paid to the BTD's immediate forerunner and closest lexicographic relative: the monolingual thematic learner's dictionary. Detailed textual analyses of contemporary thematic dictionaries identify the characteristic features of the macrostructure, microstructure, and other components from a structural perspective. In order to evaluate the usefulness of the BTD features identified, the textual analyses are supplemented by three pieces of user research involving a questionnaire (to elicit learners' opinions), a test (on the effectiveness of the access structure), and an experiment (to discover how a learner uses a BTD).

The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas : essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / / W. Norris Clarke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970650403321
• Autore: Clarke W. Norris (William Norris), <1915->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 9786612698859; 9780823236671; 0823236676; 9780823246823; 0823246825; 9781282698857; 1282698850; 9780823238361; 0823238369; 9780823229307; 0823229300
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 271 p. )
• Disciplina: 149.91
• Soggetti: Thomas, --Aquinas, Saint, --1225?-1274
• 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 (p. 233-259) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Reprinted articles -- Twenty-fourth award of the Aquinas medal, by the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to W. Norris Clarke, SJ -- Interpersonal dialogue : key to realism -- Causality and time -- System : a new category of being? -- A curious blind spot in the Anglo-American tradition of antitheistic argument -- The problem of the reality and multiplicity of divine ideas in Christian neoplatonism -- Is the ethical eudaimonism of Saint Thomas too self-centered? -- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.
• Sommario/riassunto: W. Norris Clarke has chosen the fifteen essays in this collection, five of which appear here for the first time, as the most significant of the more than seventy he has written over the course of a long career. Clarke is known for his development of a Thomistic personalism. To be a person, according to Saint Thomas, is to take conscious self-possession of one's own being, to be master of oneself. But our incarnate mode of being human involves living in a body whose life unfolds across time, and is inevitably dispersed across time. If we wish to know fully who we are, we need to assimilate and integrate this dispersal, so that our lives become a coherent story. In addition to the existentialist thought of Etienne Gilson and others, Clarke draws on the Neoplatonic dimension of participation. Existence as act and participation have been the central pillars of his metaphysical thought, especially in its unique manifestation in the human person.The essays collected here cover a wide range of philosophical, ethical, religious, and aesthetic topics. Through them sounds a very personal voice, one that has inspired generations of students and scholars.