Bøger om Amerikansk-engelsk

"2023 is the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth. This collection of original essays offers a chance to reappraise his legacy not just as economist, but as political and moral philosopher, one of the leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment"--

Captive in the Underworld features the Hades/Persephone myth, retold as a standalone dark lesbian romance novel set in mythological ancient Greece.

I sin første samling efter modtagelsen af Nobelprisen er Louise Glück som vanligt både ligetil og gådefuld. Der er drømme, dialoger og dybe indsigter om stort og småt på disse sider, hvor et helt liv udfolder sig på få linjer – fra børn på bilens bagsæde til alderdommens resignation og dødens nærvær. Fra nærende vintermad til søvnige drinks i solen.

What do 'bimbo,' 'glitch,' 'savvy,' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been taken from other languages. This pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of borrowings in informal American English, based on a large database of citations from thousands of contemporary sources, including the press, film, and TV. It presents the United States as a linguistic 'melting pot,' with words from a diverse range of languages now frequently appearing in the lexicon. It examines these borrowings from various perspectives, including discussions of terms, donors, types, changes, functions, and themes. It also features an alphabetical glossary of 1,200 representative expressions, defined and illustrated by 5,500 usage examples, providing an insightful and practical resource for readers. Combining scholarship with readability, this book is a fascinating storehouse of information for students and researchers in linguistics as well as anyone interested in lexical variation in contemporary English.

This book addresses a research gap in the study of eugenics in fictional literature: the analysis of the nexus of eugenics and genetics in 21st-century novels, detached from their authors¿ ideological beliefs. It is based on an understanding of literature as an interdiscourse in Jürgen Link¿s sense. The study employs categories developed by Rabinow and Rose in the context of Foucault¿s concept of ¿biopower.¿ It thereby demonstrates that, though officially fallen from grace in light of the Nazi atrocities committed in the name of racial hygiene, eugenic ideas remain surprisingly resilient in the sciences as well as in fiction. Thus, the nexus between eugenics and genetics continues to serve as an important force in the structuring of scientific and contemporary popular (inter-)discourses.

This new third edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced American English Dictionary has been revised and updated to include up-to-date coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format.

Keeping up with change is challenging until you learn to see differently. Embrace seven innovation perspectives that will increase your ministry effectiveness.

Michi's cousin arrives at the karate dojo. Disrespect and Trouble come with him, causing problems. Makoto and Michi want to help Damian. But can the older kids teach Damian to fight his own negative traits, to succeed on his own?

As the coven grows closer to restoring energetic balance, all secrets are brought to light as the future of both humans and witches becomes uncertain, and the one who is pure of heart must risk everything to conjure the mystifying black hen.

A creepy, witchy Paranormal Women's Fiction from author J.C. Yeamans! Who knew one's life was so full of secrets-a husband's lies, a family history of witchcraft, a hidden coven, and supernatural beings, wreaking havoc in her town.

If you feel overwhelmed by the complexity of TOEFL, Collins Skills for TOEFL iBT® Test can help.This book helps you handle the integrated aspect of the tasks in the test, and give you tips and strategies for the different question types you will face.

An Amish cowboy's unexpected reunion with the girl who got away could heal his heart ... or break it forever. Daniel is the eldest of the six Miller siblings helping their Old Older Amish parents run the Circle M Ranch in northwestern Montana. Daniel can handle a blizzard, manage a roundup, even birth a calf. But what he can't do is forget Lovina Lapp, who broke his heart back in Lancaster County and married someone else. When their neighbors gather to help them bring the cattle down from the summer pastures, Daniel is staggered to see Lovina among them. His job is to keep the group safe for a week in the high country. But will he be able to protect his heart? After a chaotic childhood and a romance with Daniel Miller that ended when he chose Montana over her, Lovina learned the danger of loving a cowboy. She married another man instead-someone who was safe. But after God took her husband in a freak accident, an invitation to go with old friends to visit the national parks seems like a gift. Until she finds herself unexpectedly at the Circle M Ranch, where one look at Daniel tells her there is nothing safe about her feelings for him ...The Montana Millers. They believe in faith, family, and the land. They'll need all three when love comes to the Circle M!The Amish Cowboy is the first book in the Amish Cowboys of Montana romance series. Though the books can be read as standalones, there is a family thread running through them all. No strong language, just a loving kiss and a guaranteed happily ever after. Enjoy!

From bestselling author Gayle Boss (All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings) comes an illustrated Lenten reader filled with twenty-five of Earth's rare and wild creatures. Their stories, while tragic and uncomfortable, will wake readers to greater compassion and hope--which is what Lent, meaning "springtime," has always been for.

Ashta is an octopus that represents our crown chakra. We witness her brilliance and learn about her unique gifts as she introduces us to the connection we share with all living things through love. As we travel through her home in the ocean, Ashta teaches us the benefits of mindfulness and reminds us to believe in our own magic.

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Writing has become an indispensable and inherent part in the daily routine of western societies. We learn how to read and write without considering the significance of a literate culture, being interested in how oral cultures develop to literate cultures, or what impact literacy has on a culture. These considerations will be subject of this paper. The initial chapter provides a short overview of previous research in the field of orality and literacy. Following Dürscheid, chapter two defines the concept of literacy and orality, whereby the latter concept will be subdivided into primary and secondary orality. In order to clarify which techniques oral cultures used before the evolution of writing, chapter three discusses the characteristics of oral cultures that have been determined by Walter Ong. Subsequently, I will focus on the shift from orality to literacy showing that writing was not simply invented but made its transition in evolutionary stages, i. e. from pictographic precursors of writing to a fully developed phonetic writing system. The last chapter concentrates on the impact of literacy on the society making clear that the evolution of writing affected entire social areas and led to the emergence of crucial developments in politics, philosophy, and theology.

This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters are women.¿The authors, also women, are from three diverse American ethnic groups from both the North and South. Through a close reading of several novels, Babakhani shows how the reinvention of cultural traditions serves these women writers as a political, decolonial, and feminist tool. Babakhani situates her readings in a critique of the concepts of realism and magical realism. ¿Because magical realism sets realism against magic and implies binary oppositions, Babakhani proposes "cultural realism" as a revisionary concept that takes the cultural importance of rituals and beliefs seriously, without simply dismissing them as superstition.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: In 1852 one of the most famous slave-narratives and a best-selling novel, Uncle Tom¿s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published. The book is steeped in history because it aroused 19th century American society to set against the institution of slavery. In Uncle Tom¿s Cabin slavery disrupts whole families and can only be saved by the heroic mothers within the novel. The book is often regarded as an example of early feminism because it demonstrates the moral power of women within the novel. For that reason, this term paper deals with virtues of True Womanhood and the role of mothers in Uncle Tom¿s Cabin. It is concerned with the question how Harriet Beecher Stowe uses the selected mothers to argue against slavery.

Tesis de Máster del año 2018 en eltema Interpretación / Traducción , Nota: 8, Universidad de Sevilla, Materia: Máster en Traducción e Interculturalidad, Idioma: Español, Resumen: El humor es un elemento que forma parte de nuestra lengua, de nuestra cultura y en general de muchas situaciones en nuestro día a día. Como recurso lingüístico, está presente en la literatura, pasando por la prensa, en la televisión, en internet y en los demás medios audiovisuales; en este sentido, las personas somos consumidores de humor en mayor o menor medida. La cuestión se complica cuando el humor que consumimos procede de otro país: es aquí, donde el papel del traductor es un elemento fundamental para que las obras de humor de un país puedan exportarse a otro sin que éstas pierdan su gracia natural y sigan teniendo el mismo éxito que en el país de origen.Basándome en un estudio de caso, el objetivo central de este trabajo es realizar un análisis de la traducción del humor tomando como referencia un corpus representativo de la serie televisiva The Big Bang Theory, partiendo de su original en inglés a sus doblajes en alemán y en español. Asimismo, se hará una clasificación de los tipos de humor que se dan dentro de la serie y se analizará la adaptación de cuestiones humorísticas de una lengua a otra, teniendo en cuenta los elementos asociados a la cultura y a la traducción audiovisual con las dificultades que esto supone. Se valorará críticamente y se analizará la afinidad en la traducción.

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the manner in which violence is represented in two significant Afro-American autobiographies, Frederick Douglass` Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (hereafter shortened as Narrative) and Richard Wright`s Black Boy. As Afro-American autobiography has always been a ¿mirror¿ to U.S. society, it will be interesting to see how these autobiographies taken from different periods of American history deal with the race-oriented problem of ¿violence¿. As we will see, the very first Afro-American autobiographies, so-called slave narratives, already included representations of violence that documented the atrocities that black people had to endure. Remarkably, Richard Wright`s Black Boy shares many textual features of the slave narratives, such as the escape from the South after a traumatizing experience of violence.

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Introduction to Literature, language: English, abstract: The question that characterizes the beginning of Charlotte Perkins Gilman¿s short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) is one that many women in the nineteenth and twentieth century will likely have posed to themselves. ¿What is one to do?¿ Gilman¿s narrator asks repeatedly, when, as a woman in the late nineteenth century, one has no choice but to assume the role of the helpless wife and mother under the oppression of male authority. The Yellow Wallpaper challenges this stereotypical image of womanhood as well as the unequal relationships between women and men that come along with a male dominated society and its ideology of ¿masculine rationality vs. feminine irrationality¿ (Rodriguez Salas 2012). As a result of being diagnosed with, what was then called, ¿nervous prostration¿ ¿ generally regarded as hysteria ¿ and prescribed the ¿rest cure¿ (Gilman 1935), Gilman also explores and brings to light the problematic views on and treatment of mental health in the nineteenth and twentieth century. At the time, hysteria was primarily associated with passivity, the result of leading a ¿softer life¿ and having an overactive imagination ¿ all stereotypically feminine behaviours ¿ and was thus diagnosed primarily in women (Kahane 1995: 10). In her autobiography Gilman talks about how she was not allowed to write, paint or have more than ¿two hours¿ intellectual life a day¿ and how she was supposed to ¿live as domestic a life as possible¿ (Gilman 1935), all of which are elements that are closely reflected in the protagonist¿s diagnosis in The Yellow Wallpaper.