Der "Gesenius" ist zu einem Begriff geworden. Es handelt sich um die 18. Auflage des zuerst 1810/12 und 1815 von dem Hallenser Alttestamentler und Orientalisten Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) herausgegebenen, seitdem immer wieder bearbeiteten Handwörterbuchs für die hebräische und aramäische Sprache des Alten Testaments: eines Standardwerkes für Generationen von Studenten, Pfarrern und Lehrern. Der Unterschied der 18. gegenüber der 17. Auflage besteht hauptsächlich darin, dass das Wörterbuch auf den gegenwärtigen Stand der hebräistischen und semitistischen Kenntnis gebracht wurde, deren Kunde seit dem 1. Weltkrieg beachtlich gewachsen ist. Gleichzeitig wurde versucht, die Vorzüge des alten "Gesenius" (z.B. übersichtliche Gliederung der Artikel) zu bewahren.

Die Theorie der Übersetzung antiker Literatur wurde bislang meist nur im Zusammenhang der Übersetzungsarbeit selbst oder unter übergreifender, zum Beispiel sprachphilosophischer Fragestellung diskutiert. Die Forschung beschränkte sich dabei in der Regel auf wenige Texte prominenter Autoren wie Schleiermacher, Humboldt, Wilamowitz und Schadewaldt. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert neben diesem Kanon zahlreiche weniger bekannte Dokumente. Dadurch gelingt es, die kanonischen Texte zu kontextualisieren, die Kontinuität der Debatte bis in die Gegenwart nachvollziehbar zu machen und der Theoriegeschichte eine tragfähige Grundlage zu geben.

Youth media present socio-cultural tendencies which young people reflect in their language and thus often set linguistic trends. Or does it work the other way round? In either case, there is a close connection between youth culture and youth language, which in Catalonia is heightened by the encounter between two languages and cultures, Spanish and Catalan. Against his background, the author contrasts and compares linguistic products of young Catalans with the language used in youth broadcasts and publications in Catalan communication media.

More than 2000 science and nature quotations are covered in this useful and entertaining guide.There are quotations about agriculture, anthropology, astronomy, the atom, energy, engineering, genetics, medicine, physics, science and society, and research.

Would you like to give your pupils more opportunities to speak to each other in English? Are you looking for fun activities you know they will enjoy? Do you need materials that are easy to use and quick to prepare? Then Primary Communication Box is just what you need. It contains over 50 photocopiable speaking activities designed to encourage real communication in the primary classroom. * Lots of different activity types including information gaps, role plays, class surveys and open discussions mean your lessons are varied. * Activities based on realistic speaking situations so that pupils can cope in the real world. * Pupils are encouraged to work in pairs, small groups and with the whole class to share ideas and opinions in meaningful contexts. * Many of the activities are suitable for learners preparing for the Cambridge Young Learners English Tests. * Clear step-by-step teaching notes make preparation easy.

The emergence of human culture is generally traced to the development of a social order in which males hunted large game animals and females had access to the meat. This book presents a new theory of how this culture originated. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Christopher Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a gradual extension of primate behaviour and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution spearheaded by women. Culture became established, says Knight, when women realized that men armed with hunting weapons could not be trusted to share the spoils of the hunt with women and offspring...

Are you constantly looking for extra activities for your young students? Are you always short of time? Primary Activity Box will help you out. This photocopiable resource book contains a wide variety of games and activities designed to supplement your coursebook. - Each of the games and activities is designed to make learning fun. - The material is very easy to use - every activity has clear step-by-step instructions explaining what you need before class, how to set the activity up in the classroom and ideas for optional follow-up tasks. - The material comes with a cassette containing listen- and-do activities, creative dictations as well as a range of songs, rhymes and chants. - There are extra game templates to help you adapt the activities to your individual learners. - The wide range of activities means that the material is suitable for different learning and teaching styles.

This is the first etymological dictionary of Proto-Celtic to be published after a hundred years, synthesizing the work of several generations of Celtic scholars. It contains a reconstructed lexicon of Proto-Celtic with ca. 1500 entries.

The first edition of this widely used work has been reprinted many times over two decades. With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, it provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical termsmostly Greek and Latinthat students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or to find useful in their writing. Now the Second Edition offers new features that will make it still more useful:A completely revised alphabetical listing that defines nearly 1,000 terms used by scholars of formal rhetoric from classical Greece to the present day.A revised system of cross-references between terms.Many new examples and new, extended entries for central terms.A revised Terms-by-Type listing to identify unknown terms.A new typographical design for easier access.

Activities designed to teach all phonics skills. There are large letter activities, large picture activities, bingo-style cards, and 530 mini-cards!

Posthumously published, the great man's trenchant, provocative and authoritative guide to the use and abuse of the English language. Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in 1995, occupied a unique position in the world of English letters: elder statesman, former angry young man, latter-day curmudgeon and, above all, comic novelist of genius. In all his work, and throughout his life, the use and abuse of the English language was one of his principal concerns. The King's English pungently, entertainingly and concisely conveys his love and knowledge of the subject to new generations of readers and writers. Here can be found all those linguistic pitfalls ('crescendo', 'disinterested', 'enormity') which lie in wait for the ignorant or the careless. And if you've ever wondered whether it's acceptable to start a sentence with 'and', or what you risk revealing about yourself by your pronunciation of 'liqueur', or whether or not to cross your 7s in the French style, Amis has the answer. By turns reflective, acerbic, combative and controversial, The King's English will find a place on the shelves of anyone who values the English language and cares about the way in which it is used.

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, a catalog of the languages that details their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and lists published material on them.

A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages. "The Languages of Urban Africa" consists of a series of case studies, framed by introductory and concluding chapters, which address four main themes. The first is the history of African urban languages. The second set of case studies focuses on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities. The volume then moves on to explore the relationship between language and identity in the urban setting. The final two case studies in the volume address the evolution of urban languages in Africa.

The first translation into English and the first detailed interpretation of Hegel's System der Sittlichkeit (1802-3) and of Philosophie des Geistes, the two earliest surviving versions of Hegel's social theory. Hegel's central concept of the spirit evolved in these two works. An 87-page interpretation by Harris precedes the translations.

Neuroscience has long been focused on understanding neural plasticity in both development and adulthood. Experimental work in this area has focused almost entirely on plasticity at excitatory synapses. A growing body of evidence suggests that plasticity at inhibitory GABAergic and glycinergic synapses is of critical importance during both development and aging.
The book brings together the work of researchers investigating inhibitory plasticity at many levels of analysis and in several different preparations. This topic is of wide relevance across a number of different areas of research in neuroscience and neurology. Medical problems such as epilepsy, mental illness, drug abuse, and movement disorders can result from malfunctioning inhibitory circuits. Further, the maturation of inhibitory circuits may trigger the onset of critical periods of neural circuit plasticity, raising the possibility that such plastici periods could be reactivated for medical benefit by manipulating inhibitory circuitry.