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The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most common sayings!Nobody thinks twice about sayings like bite the bullet and the cat's out of the bag. But the strange and wonderful origins of these expressions are far from arbitrary: They are rooted in forgotten history. Within this book, you will discover the origins of idioms like:Why we say an unwell person is under the weather. It goes back to when sickly sailors and seafarers had to rest below deck!How come sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle is called riding shotgun.'In the Wild West, passengers had a crucial job: packing heat and preventing highway robberies!What's up with the phrase, cat got your tongue. Here's a hint: It doesn't have anything to do with cats!With over 100 pieces of original artwork, The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions is as beautiful as it is entertaining and informative. Read up on this fascinating history of the English language's 64 most popular idioms, and you will know what it really means when you say pass with flying colors, bury the hatchet, and rest on your laurels!

This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré's articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim to represent the author's groundbreaking work on terminology, both from a theoretical as from a methodological and applied point of view. Part I includes texts on three fundamental aspects of terminology as a field of knowledge: Firstly, general articles on the rethinking of proposals made by other authors and on the bases for the formulation of the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT). Secondly, articles that deal with the rethinking of the framework of this subject, with emphasis on specialised languages and communication. And thirdly, on the object of study: the terminological unit. Part II includes articles on methodology, international standards, and teaching terminology, and texts that deal with the intersection of terminology with other fields: Documentation, Translation, Neology, and Language Policy.

How social scientists'disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about itSocial scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can't agree on what these things are and how to identify them. How to tell if something is a religion or a cult or a sect? What is empathy? What makes this society a capitalist one? Disputes of this sort arise again and again in the social sciences.Abend argues that these disagreements have been doubly misconceived. First, they conflate two questions: how a social science community should use its most important words, and what distinctions it should accept and work with. Second, there's no fact of the matter about either. Instead, they're practical reason questions for a community, which aim at epistemically and morally good outcomes. Abend calls on social science communities to work together on their words, distinctions, and classifications. They must make collective decisions about the uses of words, the acceptability of distinctions, and the criteria for assessing both. These decisions aren't up to individual scholars; the community gets the last word. According to Abend, the common good, justice, and equality should play a significant role in the logic of scientific research.Gabriel Abend is professor of sociology at University of Lucerne and the author of The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics (Princeton).

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology, from Wüster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s. The volume also covers important topics which have significantly influenced Terminology and its evolution. These include variation, multidimensionality, conceptual relations, and equivalence, among others. The twenty-two chapters of the volume, all written by acknowledged experts in the field, explore the questions that different approaches seek to answer. They also describe the theoretical and methodological principles that were devised over the years to characterize, analyze, and represent terminological data. The semi-chronological, semi-thematic organization of chapters not only provides readers with a clear vision of the evolution of ideas in Terminology, but also gives them an understanding as to why some of these ideas were initially challenged. In addition to being accessible to readers unfamiliar with the basic theoretical principles in the field, the chapters provide a showcase of current research in the field, the challenges looming on the horizon, and finally future directions in terminological research. By bringing together work that is often disseminated in different forums and written in different languages, this volume provides a unique opportunity to look at how different theoretical approaches to Terminology offer complementary perspectives on terms, concepts and specialized knowledge, and help to further a better understanding of the complex phenomena that terminologists must successfully deal with in their work.

Opracowanie stanowi przegląd rosyjskiej i polskiej frazeologii, będącej odzwierciedleniem specyficznego doświadczenia językowego obu narodów w ramach historyczno-społecznych przemian ostatnich trzydziestu lat. Zamysłem autorów było wyselekcjonowanie, skonfrontowanie i opisanie aktywnie używanych frazeologizmów, którymi posługują się Rosjanie i Polacy, mówiąc o zjawiskach społeczno-politycznych. Autorzy prezentują jednostki frazeologiczne, spośród których na pierwszy plan wysuwają się te najnowsze, choć już utrwalone w obu językach. To właśnie one – pojawiając się w reakcji na aktualne wydarzenia – pozwalają bardziej obrazowo i precyzyjnie mówić o otaczającej rzeczywistości (na przykład жирные коты / tłuste koty; стеклянный потолок / szklany sufit; дорожная карта / mapa drogowa; альтернативная реальность / alternatywna rzeczywistość; критическая масса / masa krytyczna). Рецензированная монография – значимая веха в изучении языкового наследия, оставленного в русском и польском языках в период «лихих девяностых» и «шоковой терапии». Следы политических и экономических потрясений, оставленные этой эпохой, уже глубоко въелись в языковое лицо России и Польши. И авторы книги, внимательно и с пониманием вглядевшись в это лицо, создали его адекватный портрет. [...] Нет сомнений в том, что книга окажется востребованной не только в лингвистическом кругу, но и в широкой читательской аудитории обеих наших стран. Z recenzji prof. Walerego Mokijenki Tematyka książki dotyczy zjawisk językowych obecnych w języku rosyjskim i polskim, ujawniających się we współczesnych mediach. Wpływ życia społeczno-politycznego na język nie budzi wątpliwości, a zadaniem badaczy jest uchwycenie i opisanie zachodzących zmian. Z tego zadania Autorzy wywiązują się bardzo dobrze. [...] Praca będzie niezwykle użyteczna dla przyszłych i już pracujących rusycystów, a także dostarczy wielu ciekawych informacji badaczom frazeologii oraz studentom kierunków filologicznych i dziennikarskich. Z recenzji dr hab. Alicji Nowakowskiej

The new edition of Talking Medicine – Czech for Medical Students develops the Czech language skills required for communication with Czech patients in hospitals. It includes more exercises that utilize different kinds of practice and self-assessment activities. These exercises include gap filling, sentence transformation, multiple choice questions, word and phrase matching, jokes and crosswords to make the book more challenging and more fun. The book is English-based and is therefore suitable both for classroom use and for self-study. Vocabulary and phrases are organized according to specific medical areas. The textbook contains recordings of all the dialogues, useful phrases and some additional listening comprehension exercises. Fourth revised English edition Soundcloud channel with online audio tracks.

Geeraerts'book offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of linguistic research on the meanings of words from the mid-19th century though the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and the dominant figures of five traditions: historical‐philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neo-structuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. In addition to the main theoretical currents of lexical semantics, it also covers also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution. The text was translated into Czech by Aleš Klégr.

Learn English with this fun course for complete beginners. Simple exercises and lively audio will have you speaking and reading more than 500 words in no time! PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need paper and a pen or pencil to complete the exercises.The perfect introduction to English vocabulary and grammar, English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course provides children aged 6-9 with the support they need as they take the first steps towards learning English as a foreign language.Equally effective for home study or the classroom, this carefully leveled English-language course assumes no previous knowledge of English. It takes children through the basics of the language, helping them use and understand elementary English clearly and confidently.Vocabulary is taught through attractive illustrations and reinforced with audio resources. Each language/grammar point is explained in a dedicated panel, accompanied by clear examples of how it's used, and reinforced by exercises. At the back, there is a handwriting guide, grammar overview, and a glossary of language terms used throughout the book.Building on the worldwide success of the English for Everyone series, the Junior Beginner's Course contains everything a child needs to acquire a firm grasp of English in a fun and interactive way.

Este es un diccionario bastante atípico. En principio, se trata de una obra pensada para ayudar a los visitantes argentinos a comprender palabras y expresiones uruguayas como boniato, lampazo, champión o caldera. Pero ¿es solo eso?… Su subtítulo: Pequeño diccionario ilustrado de uruguayismos para porteños, bien podría haber sido Pequeño diccionario para el desprolijo que todo rioplatense lleva dentro, y resultaría un buen complemento. O Pequeño diccionario para armar tremendas polémicas en las tertulias de boliche con la barra de amistades, y resultaría un perfecto título futurológico. Pequeño diccionario para atizar sensibilidades varias, sin duda, también aplicaría. La propuesta de Gustavo Fripp encierra todo eso y más, y nos invita incluso a participar activamente, sabiendo que pocas cosas suelen entusiasmar más a los hablantes de una lengua que discutir sobre ella, sobre el vocabulario propio y ajeno. Por añadidura, el autor nos propone reencontrarnos con un estilo de humor irreverente, común en ambas orillas, que recupera la carcajada como una consecuencia natural de la crítica y del ejercicio de mantener la mente afilada para resistir tiempos duros.