Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries

Author: Martin Stark
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110258897
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 501

Book Description
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).

Descriptionary

Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816059263
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
Presents definitions for terms relating to specific subjects by combining elements of a reverse dictionary and a thesaurus, covering the environment, the arts, clothing, religion, slang, furniture, and technology.

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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1262

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Damn! Why Didn't I Write That?

Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher: Quill Driver Books
ISBN: 9781884956171
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Offers encouragemet to amateur writers who want to support themselves by writing. Describes the process from idea, research, query letters, and proposals to agents, contract negotiations, and promotion.

A Dictionary of Musical Quotations

Author: Ian Crofton
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN: 9780825671753
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
Over 3,000 sayings about music, musicians, and music-related topics.

Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations (Expanded Second Edition)

Author: David Grambs
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393351025
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 672

Book Description
The unmatched guide—and perfect gift—for stymied scribes and working wordsmiths everywhere, now expanded and updated. A singular and indispensable reference tool, The Describer's Dictionary—now expanded and updated—has served for over twenty years as the go-to resource for writers who are determined to capture the world in just the right words. The dictionary uses a unique reverse definition-to-term format that makes it easy to zero in on the term you're seeking. Turn to the new section on sensory impressions, for example, to find vivid terms for "loud or jarring," such as "grating," "harsh," "piercing," "blaring," "thunderous," "cacophonous," and "raucous." And at the end of each section dozens of illustrative passages by notable fiction and nonfiction authors—including Donna Tartt, Michael Lewis, Zadie Smith, Khaled Hosseini, and Paul Theroux—bring the terminology to life. New in this edition: • Hundreds of additional definitions, terms, and synonyms • Brand-new categories, including "Physical States and Symptoms," "Temperament and Behavior," "Rooms and Interior Spaces," "Weather and Forces of Nature," and "The Solar System" • Over 400 new quotations from books, periodicals, and digital media by established and rising literary stars • An index of the more than 600 authors quoted in the book

Relationshifting: Tools for Living Quantum Resplendency

Author: Dr. Angela Longo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475950755
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
Our lives are supposed to be resplendent, radiant, and glorious. Instead, what most of us experience is a life filled with struggle, conflict, and illness. Relationshifting creates a bridge to a new life based upon Dr. Angela Longos more than forty years of clinical experience. Dr. Longo offers an overview of the eight bottom lines, which she defines as the eight major ways in which we block the flow of positive energy into our lives. She explains how to shift that energy to resplendent living by relationshifting through quantum resplendencya quantum way of living. The Relationshifting workbook includes explanations and exercises using the following tools: Heartwaving is an easy-to-use technique used to shift old, unproductive patterns to resplendency. Bathwaves are Longos self-created energy patterns based upon her beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, habits, words, actions, values, and emotions. Love Letters are messages she sends to herself to guide her to living resplendency. Triunity shows her she is actually three beings in onepromoting understanding of her larger persona. Eternalbeing indicates the larger, unique purpose of her life. Muscle testing helps to assess her perceptions and patterns. Shifting the Eight Bottom Lines, the eight judgments that keep her from changing her Bathwaves to living resplendency. Relationshifting demonstrates the fact that when you are living in the resplendent way, life is EEEZYan eternal, emergent, entanglement as a zestful you.

Copy Editor

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Category : Copy editing
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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School Library Journal

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Category : Children's libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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The Oxford Reverse Dictionary

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Publisher: OXFORD University Press
ISBN: 9780198601760
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Have a word on the tip of your tongue? Unlike a thesaurus, where you look up alternatives to a word you know, or a dictionary, which defines a familiar word, this dictionary helps with words you are vaguely aware of, but can't bring to mind. Some 31,000 entries are listed under a wide range of subject areas and key words.