Wordwatching Field Notes From An Amateur Philologist

Author : Julian Burnside
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922247170
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wordwatching written by Julian Burnside and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bonzer discussion of the strange pedigree of the naughty, nice, and, sometimes, obscene English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the bestselling Wordwatching, words are a source of both pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill. Comprising many essays, dealing with a vast array of subjects as diverse as deadlines, fancy words, the problems with ‘issue’, odd sounds, oxymorons, and the fallacy of ‘wading in’, Wordwatching is a fascinating demonstration of the power and the pleasure of the English language. Told with Julian Burnside’s sparkling wit, it is lively, illuminating, and perfect for every book-lover.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319625128
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minimal English for a Global World written by Cliff Goddard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, it contains essays and studies by leading experts exploring the value and application of ‘Minimal English’ in various fields, including ethics, health, human rights discourse, education and international relations. In doing so, it provides informed guidelines and practical advice on how to communicate in clear and cross-translatable ways in Minimal English. This innovative edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, language education and translation studies.

Author : William Maley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000224082
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diplomacy, Communication, and Peace written by William Maley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is composed of interconnected essays which reflect on challenging new issues related to diplomacy, communication, and peace. This book begins by drawing out some of the challenges for diplomacy that arise from modern theories of semantics and of strategic communication, as well as those posed by the need for secrecy, and by the activities of agents of influence. It then proceeds to examine important issues in contemporary diplomacy, including refugee diplomacy, humanitarian diplomacy, sovereignty, norms, and consular activities. It concludes with an exploration of dilemmas that confront attempts to promote peace through multilateral means, such as the limitations of peacemaking diplomacy, the difficulty of promoting democratic governance, and the problems associated with dealing with morally repugnant actors. The book is grounded in the conception of diplomacy as a social practice with multiple players, and recognises that ‘the state’ has many different elements, and that ‘state actors’ live in worlds shaped not just by their relations with other states, but also by their own complex domestic politics. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy, foreign policy, and International Relations.

Author : Antony Loewenstein
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522854183
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Israel Question written by Antony Loewenstein and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and international criticism over its military aggression, Israel asserts the right of the Jewish state to exist in Palestine. On the other, the Palestinian people struggle, some peacefully, some violently, for survival. Far beyond Israel's disputed borders, in New York and Washington, London and Paris, Sydney and Melbourne, the conflict is replayed in passionate public debate by Holocaust survivors, Zionist organisations, Arab advocates, the anti-war movement, newspaper columnists, presidents and prime ministers, and politicians and activists of all shades. In MY ISRAEL QUESTION, a young Australian Jew, Antony Loewenstein, asks how much Zionism - the ideology of Jewish nationalism - is to blame for this intractable conflict. He fearlessly investigates the ways in which the Jewish diaspora in Australia and elsewhere have campaigned on Israel's behalf, in the media and in political and business spheres. He also considers the historical rationale for Zionis - including the centuries of virulent European antisemitism from which it grew - and asks how relevant and sustainable twentieth-century Zionism is today. A searching discussion from a significant new voice in one of the most important debates of our times.

Author : Graham Maddox
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522870309
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepping Up to the Plate written by Graham Maddox and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans call themselves a democracy, but they are not. America has redefined democracy to make it conform to the capitalist economy and rule by wealth elites. When American leaders say they wish to make the world safe for democracy, they really mean that they want the world, including Australia, to subsume itself into this US project. Any process resulting in Australia absorbing more of the United States' corporatist political culture will result in the serious erosion of our own democratic ideals. Australia should resist this, especially at a time when such corporatist politics is losing its legitimation. We are better served by our own robust system of democracy.

Author : Eva Desiree van den Berg
Publisher : Blue Dome Press
ISBN 13 : 1935295950
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language of the Heart written by Eva Desiree van den Berg and published by Blue Dome Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to examine how Sufi thought might provide critical understanding of contemporary life and a pathway towards the recovery of a more meaningful existence. Rumi’s mystical teachings are of great value at a time of rampant materialism and indiscriminate consumerism, and have the potential to illuminate the precarious state of the world, as well as revitalize contemporary social critique, eco-philosophy and bio-semiotics in what is increasingly being regarded as a post-secular age.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Burnside
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733644031
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Privilege written by Julian Burnside and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned barrister, ethicist and human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC's grandparents lived in a world of handsome cars, elegant tennis parties and coiffed women. As a five-year-old, he saw privilege before he heard the word or learned its meaning. In this powerful broadside that takes in politicians and infamous legal cases, Julian Burnside explores the concept of privilege and the people who have it.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2242 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Israel Question written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: