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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... speech - its rise and fall and its rhythms — were English . My father's speech , acquired in Montreal , was more flatly Canadian . He was the constant reader and collector of books , but for much of my childhood he was away at sea . It ...
... speech - its rise and fall and its rhythms — were English . My father's speech , acquired in Montreal , was more flatly Canadian . He was the constant reader and collector of books , but for much of my childhood he was away at sea . It ...
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... speeches of the Chorus and the King . The English Prince of Henry V ( written at the same time as Hamlet ) is the Danish Prince with reversed polarity , as they say in television , when they can make a positive negative or the black ...
... speeches of the Chorus and the King . The English Prince of Henry V ( written at the same time as Hamlet ) is the Danish Prince with reversed polarity , as they say in television , when they can make a positive negative or the black ...
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... speech . It has always been and it remains so . The very word language means tongue . The ability to read and write is , at the most , five thousand years old , while speech goes back hundreds of thousands , perhaps a million years , to ...
... speech . It has always been and it remains so . The very word language means tongue . The ability to read and write is , at the most , five thousand years old , while speech goes back hundreds of thousands , perhaps a million years , to ...
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Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse Gisli Palsson Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1993 |