Språk: historia och allmänt
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2 118 produkter
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
289 kr
Fröet till det svenska språket såddes för 5 000 år sedan, i området kring Svarta havet. Men det var först på 1300-talet som svenskan fick sin roll som ett eget språk, kopplat till nationen. Sedan dess har det utvecklats i nära samspel med landet där det talats och skrivits.
Genom att studera texter skrivna av kungligheter, lärarinnor, kanslister eller vetenskapsmän kan vi förstå hur språket användes – och hur människorna bakom orden tänkte och levde. Lingvisten Tore Janson visar i denna bok hur svenskans historia därmed också är en viktig del av Sveriges historia.
Med djup kunskap och pedagogisk blick lotsar han oss genom åtta sekler och öppnar dörrar till olika tider och språkformer.
Följ med på en lärd och underhållande resa från runskrifternas tidevarv till dagens digitala svenska!
- Nyhet
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
128 kr
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*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles apart, people look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see.Listen to these English, Icelandic and Iranic words and you can hear echoes of one of the most extraordinary journeys in humanity’s past. All three of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient ancestor.Five millennia ago, in a mysterious Big Bang of its own, this proto tongue exploded, forming new worlds as it spread east and west. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did this happen?In Proto, acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney sets off to find out. With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating the Caucasus, the Silk Roads and the Hindu Kush. We follow in the footsteps of nomads and monks, Amazon warriors and lion kings – the ancient peoples who spread these tongues far and wide. In the present, Spinney meets the linguists, archaeologists and geneticists racing to recover this lost world. What they have discovered has vital lessons for our modern age, as people and their languages are on the move again.Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
168 kr
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Ny upplaga med 30 nya uttryck! Kan man ha is i magen? Och glida på en räkmackaInget av dessa uttryck bör tolkas bokstavligt. Detsamma gäller den uppsjö av uttryck som vi till vardags slänger ur oss utan att egentligen tänka på vad vi säger. Alla uttryck har ett ursprung: många härrör från det gamla bondesamhället, några från sagor och fabler, och de allra flesta har sitt ursprung i Bibeln Kasta yxan i sjön, fara fram som ett Jehu och dansa efter någons pipa är bara några exempel. Vem kan då skapa ett nytt uttryck i språket? Svaret är: vem som helst! Den här boken tar i bokstavsordning upp drygt 200 av våra vanligaste svenska uttryck med dess betydelse och ursprung. Man får även veta i vilka språk motsvarande uttryck finns, och vad man säger då. Följ med på en spännande upptäcktsresa i vårt språk. Kerstin Johanson har tidigare gett ut ett stort antal böcker, bl a Engelska uttryck och Ordbok för tänkare samt citatserien Bra citat om...
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
191 kr
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The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating. Her witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the period show how its legend derives more from later centuries’ mythmaking than from the often grim reality of the period itself. She examines its defining figures and movements: the enduring legacy of Niccolò Machiavelli, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of the Medici and fall of the Borgias, the astonishing artistic achievements of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Cellini, the impact of the Inquisition and the expansion of secular Humanism. Palmer also explores the ties between culture and money: books, for example, could cost as much as grand houses, so the period’s innovative thinkers could only thrive with the help of the super-rich. She offers fifteen provocative and entertaining character portraits of Renaissance men and women, some famous, some obscure, whose intersecting lives show how the real Renaissance was more unexpected, more international and, above all, more desperate than its golden reputation suggests.Drawing on her popular blogs and writing with her characteristic energy and wit, Palmer presents the Renaissance as we have never seen it before. Colloquial, funny and brilliant, you would never expect a work of deep scholarship to make you alternately laugh and cry.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
108 kr
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Sail in on a shrimp sandwich and other curious Swedish sayings Every country has them culturally unique expressions that bring colour to everyday language and provoke a laugh or two in literal translation. Swedish contains all manner of weird and wonderful sayings, many without obvious equivalents in English. Here we roll out some of the funniest and learn a little about their origins and usage you ll never get caught buying a pig in a sack again!
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
148 kr
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019‘Richly evocative and entertaining.’ – Guardian‘A delightful read.’ – Tatler‘An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!’ – AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colourful roots are varied – from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers’ slang – and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne. (‘Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!’) Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humour and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline and tells of its unlikely re-emergence in the twenty-first century. With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is an essential document of recent history – a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy and ingenious language.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
110 kr
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The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today, and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements, or evidence of slipping standards. What is the future for the English language? Will Standard English continue to hold sway, or we are witnessing its replacement by newly emerging Englishes?ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
263 kr
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'Moving, beautiful and important' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Punchy and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES As Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. From Northern Italy, she spoke a dialët that Sophia, like so many children and grandchildren of migrants, can understand but can’t speak. With the death of the language, Sophia would lose a culture, a history, an inheritance – a whole world.This tragedy reaches far beyond her family. Globally we are witnessing an unprecedented mass extinction event. By the end of this century half of the world’s 7000 languages will be gone, killed by war, climate breakdown, migration, nationalism or neglect, along with the vital knowledge that they have sustained for centuries.Award-winning journalist Smith Galer has journeyed across continents and generations to report from this disappearing world. From Ghana to Greece, Ecuador to Oman, California to the UK, she meets people experiencing this loss at first hand – but also campaigners and linguists who prove that a multilingual future is still possible. Her travels ultimately lead her back to where she began: to Italy, and the tiny mountainside village where the church bells still ring out for her Nonna.How to Kill a Language is an impassioned investigation into a hidden global crisis, and a call to speak, read and write the languages of our world, before it’s too late. 'An extremely moving, passionate plea' CAL FLYN ‘Beautiful, thought-provoking, and compelling' SUSIE DENT
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
129 kr
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Denna mycket omtyckta kommer nu i en nyutgåva.Språkets nära koppling till vardagslivet gör att de flesta har åsikter om det, men hur är det egentligen - vad är fakta och vad är myt? Är en kärring någon man håller kär? Finns order lagom bara i svenskan? Har eskimåerna så många fler ord för snö än vad vi har? Hotas det svenska språket av invandringen? Har engelskan fler ord än svenskan? Detta och mycket mer klarar Mikael Parkvall ut i "Lagom finns bara i Sverige". Trots sin akademiska utgångspunkt tar sig Parkvall an ämnet på ett lättsamt och humoristiskt sätt. En mycket välskriven och läsvärd bok!"Lärorikt som det är, är detta också bland de mest lättlästa och underhållande bidragen till språkvetenskaplig allmänbildning som man kan föreställa sig" Arthur Holmer, BTJ "Den är skriven med mycket humor och mycket sakkunskap" Ingalill Mosander, SVT:s Gokväll"Frejdigt och roligt" Bo Löfvendahl, SvD"Parkvalls bok är värd stor spridning" Knut Warmland, Värmlands Folkblad
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
125 kr
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"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we perceive the world." Observer*Does language reflect the culture of a society? *Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? *Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? In Through the Language Glass, acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes. A delightful amalgam of cultural history and popular science, this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind.
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
228 kr
Vad heter du? Den frågan har du fått många gånger.Men varför heter du? Den frågan har du kanske inte tänkt på så ofta. Hur kommer det sig att du över huvud taget har ett namn, och varför ser det ut som det gör? Det vill Sverker Johansson berätta om i denna underhållande och tankeväckande bok. Med blick för såväl de stora utvecklingslinjerna som för de kuriösa exemplen rör han sig mellan alla tider och platser för att fånga in namntraditionernas mångfald.
Beroende på var vi hamnar i tid och rum kan ett förnamn bestämmas utifrån veckodag, förfäder, vilka onda andar som ska luras eller vad modern ser när barnet föds. Förutom förnamn kan vi ha efternamn – men också föräldranamn, gårdsnamn, bynamn, barnnamn, kastnamn, mellannamn, generationsnamn eller tillnamn baserade på allt från lyten via yrken till tv-program. Visste du till exempel att Caligula betyder barnstövlar, att John är det vanligaste förnamnet på Wikipedia, att delfiner har namnmelodier och att Mao Zedongs mellannamn Ze kommer från en dikt som hans släkt i fjorton generationer hämtade namn ur?
Mycket pekar på att vi bär namn inte så mycket för att kunna tilltalas som för att kunna omtalas…
"Denna historiska rundvandring är både lärorik och väl genomförd."Fokus
"Sverker Johanssons bok Hur var namnet? plockar fram något som är så vardagligt att vi knappt tänker på det och gör det ytterst intressant och spännande."BTJ
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
141 kr
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From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes. 'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.'DARA Ó BRIAIN'Such fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.'TIM HARFORDThe Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.'Alex Bellos is a dazzling polymath whose cleverness and ingenuity are on full display in this utterly brilliant and original collection of linguistic puzzles. This book is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.'JOSHUA FOER, co-founder of Atlas Obscura and author Moonwalking with Einstein'An irresistible linguistic workout - challenging and deeply satisfying.'GASTON DORREN, author of Lingo and Babel'For all the language and puzzle fans in your life!' GRETCHEN McCULLOCH'A cornucopia of ingenious and insightful challenges.' DAVID CRYSTAL'This compendium of puzzles is a great idea.' MICHAEL ROSEN'You'll love what Alex Bellos has done here.' GYLES BRANDRETH'Tantalisting.' THE ECONOMIST'The perfect way to pass the time.' BBC SCIENCE FOCUS
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
205 kr
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*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles apart, people look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see.Listen to these English, Icelandic and Iranic words and you can hear echoes of one of the most extraordinary journeys in humanity’s past. All three of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient ancestor.Five millennia ago, in a mysterious Big Bang of its own, this proto tongue exploded, forming new worlds as it spread east and west. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did this happen?In Proto, acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney sets off to find out. With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating the Caucasus, the Silk Roads and the Hindu Kush. We follow in the footsteps of nomads and monks, Amazon warriors and lion kings – the ancient peoples who spread these tongues far and wide. In the present, Spinney meets the linguists, archaeologists and geneticists racing to recover this lost world. What they have discovered has vital lessons for our modern age, as people and their languages are on the move again.Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
263 kr
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*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles apart, people look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see.Listen to these English, Icelandic and Iranic words and you can hear echoes of one of the most extraordinary journeys in humanity’s past. All three of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient ancestor.Five millennia ago, in a mysterious Big Bang of its own, this proto tongue exploded, forming new worlds as it spread east and west. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did this happen?In Proto, acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney sets off to find out. With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating the Caucasus, the Silk Roads and the Hindu Kush. We follow in the footsteps of nomads and monks, Amazon warriors and lion kings – the ancient peoples who spread these tongues far and wide. In the present, Spinney meets the linguists, archaeologists and geneticists racing to recover this lost world. What they have discovered has vital lessons for our modern age, as people and their languages are on the move again.Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.
Kartonnage, Svenska, 2016
132 kr
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Vad rymmer det svenska ordförrådet? Hur hänger orden ihop med hur vi tänker?Boken bjuder på en upptäcktsfärd genom språket, ger oss verktyg att hantera det med och öppnar våra sinnen för den stora ordglädjen.Här kan du som läsare ta dig fram bland synonymer och metaforer, tillverka nya eller återupptäcka mycket gamla ord, prova ut liknelser och mycket annat.Ordförrådet är en slösande rik och generös bok som visar vägen till ordförrådets alla vinklar och vrår. Läs Ordförrådet från pärm till pärm eller använd den som idébok för utforskning och experiment. Gör det på egen hand eller tillsammans med andra.Ordförrådet är en bok att ständigt ha till hands för den som vill ha ett ord med i laget.Nu i efterlängtad nyutgåva.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
145 kr
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'A fiendishly good read!'Mignon Fogarty, Grammar GirlThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conquest and colonialism. It wreaks merciless havoc upon grammar and spelling. It turns clinical terms into insults and children's tales into filthy euphemisms.With an emphasis on understanding where the foulest words in the English language came from-and the disgusting and hilarious histories behind them-this book demonstrates the true filth of our everyday words. But this book is more than just a list of vulgar words and salacious slang. It's a thoughtful analysis of why we deem words as being inappropriate as well as revealing 'good words' that have surprisingly naughty origins.Dirty-minded word nerds and lewd linguistics lovers will derive unadulterated pleasure in leering at the origins of swear words, sexual lingo, inappropriate idioms, violent vocabulary, and terminology for bodily functions-not to mention the unexpectedly foul origins of words you thought were perfectly innocent. If it's inappropriate, stomach-churning, uncomfortable, or offensive, this book reaches into the dark recesses of history and exposes them for all to see.True to the Chambers brand, this book combines humour, scholarly research and a beautiful design. It is a book to enjoy, collect and revisit time and time again.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
211 kr
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'The most delightful parts of Rare Tongues are the most eccentric... extremely interesting.' - The Scotsman'Any book such as this ... is to be welcomed with sobbing gratitude.' - The Spectator'Thought-provoking' - Kirkus'A fresh and personal perspective' - K. David Harrison An enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world.From the whistling languages of La Gomera in the Canary Islands and the Hmong people in East and Southeast Asia, to the wars and clashes in Sri Lanka and the conservation efforts in Hawaii and New Zealand, Rare Tongues draws attention to how language and culture are becoming increasingly homogenous, and what we risk losing as a result.In Rare Tongues, linguist and writer Lorna Gibb explores the history of these languages, the cultures they belong to and the tales they tell. The languages, and the efforts being made to preserve them, offer us a glimpse into what we can learn from each of them, and what they teach us about our planet, about medicine, about indigenous culture and tradition, even the history of all mankind.At once entertaining and informative, Lorna Gibb makes a compelling case for the preservation of the rich linguistic diversity of our world, and expertly shows why it matters for us all.
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
120 kr
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An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.It was one of history’s great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE, a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For the next three thousand years, wedge-shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the great kingdoms of Mesopotamia. And then…the meaning of the characters was lost. London, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands have captured the Victorian public’s imagination. Assyria, Babylon, the mighty Persian Empire… these civilizations had gone down in the annals as the great antagonists to ancient Greece and ancient Israel. What did these “bad guys” of Western history have to say for themselves? What were their values, their rituals, their understandings of their place in the universe? What was it like simply to be human at the dawn of recorded history? Enter a swashbuckling archaeologist, a suave military officer turned diplomat, and a cloistered Irish rector, all vying for glory in a race to decipher the script that would enable humans to peer farther back into our history than ever before. From the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, let The Mesopotamian Riddle whisk you off on “an epic intellectual adventure” (The Wall Street Journal) through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand where we came from—and where we perhaps might go.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
140 kr
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'A tour de force' Alice Roberts'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age.While this radical new work is not shy to reject outdated ideas about language, it builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language that will find widespread acceptance as a new standard account for how humanity began.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
198 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
128 kr
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'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...'Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use. Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
160 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNA SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident.In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections of the ancient world to the embattled public resources we cherish today. Along the way, they introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanours committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts.
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
180 kr
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"Ty åligger äfven Academien att utarbeta en Svensk ordabok och Gramatica, jemte
sådana Afhandlingar som bidraga Kunna till stadga och befordran af god Smak."
Så lyder paragraf 23 i Svenska Akademiens stadgebok från 1786. Instiftaren, Gustaf III, gav alltså
Akademien i uppdrag att utarbeta en ordbok över svenska språket. Resultatet blev en historisk
ordbok som beskriver svenskt skriftspråk från Gustav Vasas tid till våra dagar. Det dröjde dock till
sent 1800-tal innan arbetet kom i gång på allvar. Då tillsattes en ordboksredaktion i Lund som under
de följande 140 åren träget arbetade sig genom hela alfabetet, från A till Ö. Svenska Akademiens
ordbok, oftast förkortat SAOB, kom den att kallas. 1898 publicerades det första bandet av SAOB och
hösten 2023 nådde man fram till öxla – den allra sista ordboksartikeln i det avslutande trettionionde
bandet. Därmed hade ett närmast oöverskådligt stort arbete från flera generationer språkvetare vid
ordboksredaktionen i Lund slutförts. Så har också projektets omfattning bara några få motsvarigheter
i världen.
Den här jubileumsboken, i form av en antologi med bidrag från såväl akademiledamöter
och ordboksmedarbetare som ordboksläsare, undersöker SAOB och dess betydelse för svenska
språket. Bland skribenterna återfinns ledamöterna Jila Mossaed och Tomas Riad, liksom SAOB-fansen
Sara Lövestam och Fredrik Lindström.
Del 1499 - Uni-Taschenbücher
Deutsche Sprache gestern und heute
Häftad, Tyska, 2007
308 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
188 kr
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Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it. Do you know the name for someone who loves reading in bed, or what a binfluencer does? How about the medieval invention of Lubberland as a place for lazy teenagers, or the story of Mayday as a request for help? Lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent does and here are her greatest discoveries.From wabbit to dust bunnies, and from the strange history of arse to the best ways to describe moonlight, Words for Life offers a full year's supply of verbal vitamins guaranteed to brighten and boost every day. Here you will learn of the Mother-in-Law's Dream as well as the Yuleshard, and discover expressions that can fix (or at least nail) the problems of modern life, whether dealing with unrequited love or unsatisfactory politicians, eating a whole packet of biscuits or forgetting someone's name.From starting January 1 with your best foot forward (qualtagh) to leaping happily into the unknown (with a drink in your hand) on 31 December, here is the perfect guide to ensure your best year yet - and 365 words you'll want to keep for life.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2021
129 kr
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Ibland dyker det upp uttryck som kanske känns främmande för att de inte används så ofta, som att någon persons svaga punkt är dennes akilleshäl är något som många känner till. Men varifrån kommer det uttrycket och en del andra uttryck, kanske mindre kända, som ibland dyker upp. Här får vi på ett pedagogisk sätt reda på bakgrunden till dem och när de används. Boken sammanfattar tolv berättelser ur den grekiska mytologin relaterade till just de uttryck vi ibland använder oss av. Berättelserna är vackert illustrerade av akvareller.Den andra delen av boken, inspirerad av berättelserna, reflekterar över likheterna i våra olika världskulturer samt några filosofiska principer bakom dessa uttryck.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
485 kr
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Are you curious to know what all languages have in common and how they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their past? Now in its fourth edition, this fascinating book guides beginners through the rich diversity of the world's languages. It presupposes no background in linguistics, and introduces key concepts with the help of problem sets, end-of-chapter exercises and an extensive bibliography. It is illustrated with detailed maps and charts of language families throughout, and engaging sidebars and 'food for thought' boxes contextualise and bring the languages to life with demographic, social, historical, and geographical facts. This edition has been extensively updated with a new section on the languages of the Caribbean, new problem sets, and an updated glossary and index. Supplementary online materials includes links to all websites mentioned, and answers to the exercises for instructors.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
143 kr
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**‘Unmissable’ Stephen Fry'A delight' Katherine Rundell‘Illuminating’ Susie Dent'Brilliant' Philippa Perry'Enthralling' Jeanette WintersonWhat do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By 1928, its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from astronomers to murderers, naturists, pornographers, suffragists and queer couples.Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. Here, she reveals, for the first time, the full story of the making of one of the most famous books in the world - and celebrates the extraordinary efforts of the Dictionary People.'An astonishing book' Sunday Times'Utterly fascinating, entertaining, astonishing and as clever as a box of monkeys ... I completely love it' Joanna Lumley‘A fascinating and delightful exploration of the Victorian world … Wonderful’ Nicola Shulman, TLS Podcast** A Financial Times, TLS and Daunt Books Book of the Year **
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
160 kr
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Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating book, now available in an updated B-format edition, traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading, Fischer turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent writing systems and scripts.With the Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, innovative re-inventions of reading emerged – silent and liturgical reading; the custom of lectors; reading’s focus in general education – whereupon printing transformed society’s entire attitude to reading. Fischer charts the explosion of the book trade in this era, its increased audience and radically changed subject-matter; describes the emergence of broadsheets, newspapers and public readings; and traces the effect of new font designs on general legibility.Fischer discusses society’s dedication to public literacy in the sweeping educational reforms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and notes the appearance of free libraries, gender differences in reading matter, public advertising and the ‘forbidden’ lists of Church, State and the unemancipated. Finally, he assesses the future, in which it is likely that read communication will soon exceed oral communication through the use of the personal computer and the internet, and looks at ‘visual language’ and modern theories of how reading is processed in the human brain. Asking how the New Reader can reshape reading’s future, he suggests a radical new definition of what reading could be.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
120 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our livesSpecial commendation from the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize'A gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'[A] thoughtful, eye-opening book' ALICE VICENT, author of Why Women Grow'A fascinating look at how we talk about women' WASHINGTON POST'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPHFrom the dawn of Old English to the present day, Dr Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words we have used to describe women and the experiences they might share including menstruation, sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, paid and unpaid work. Along the way, she argues that as women have made slow progress towards equality, we've lost some of the most eloquent parts of our vocabulary for our lives.Inspired by Nuttall's deep knowledge of the English language as well as conversations with her teenage daughter, this is a book for anyone who loves language, and for feminists who want to look to the past in order to move forward.'Sharply funny and wonderfully shareable . . . Incredible' WOMAN AND HOME'This superb book teems with historical marvels and their 21st century resonances' REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred'A great book on the history of women's words in the English language' NEW EUROPEAN'Even longtime word enthusiasts will find plenty of new trivia' NEW YORKER'A must-have for any lover of language, history or women' BUZZ MAGAZINE'Entertaining' SPECTATOR'Edifying and enlivening' BOSTON GLOBE'There is a nugget of joy and wisdom on every single page' VICTORIA WHITWORTH, historian and author of Swimming with Seals