Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - 230 sider MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... felt like a torpid larva , with all systems on low power , as I waited to break the cocoon of school . In slighting the men who taught us English , I do some injustice to one man , A. B. Belcher , whose very diffidence had charisma . He ...
... felt like a torpid larva , with all systems on low power , as I waited to break the cocoon of school . In slighting the men who taught us English , I do some injustice to one man , A. B. Belcher , whose very diffidence had charisma . He ...
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... felt so comfortable in that world . My deep immersion meant another batch of jargon , and I learned in a personal way how group language includes and excludes ; how much it is part of belonging to a group to speak their special speech ...
... felt so comfortable in that world . My deep immersion meant another batch of jargon , and I learned in a personal way how group language includes and excludes ; how much it is part of belonging to a group to speak their special speech ...
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A Memoir Robert MacNeil. CHAPTER SIX felt very close to their generation , people of my parents ' I age ; young adults after World War I , marching in the army of the disillusioned . I had heard so much about it that I felt I knew their ...
A Memoir Robert MacNeil. CHAPTER SIX felt very close to their generation , people of my parents ' I age ; young adults after World War I , marching in the army of the disillusioned . I had heard so much about it that I felt I knew their ...
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Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse Gisli Palsson Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1993 |