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A Dictionary of Selected Adjectives for all Ages provides the meanings of over one thousand of the most frequently used adjectives in the English Language. This is accompanied by phonetic symbols using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to facilitate pronunciation. All teachers and students of English in primary and secondary schools will find this dictionary to be a valuable pedagogical instrument. Moreover, teacher trainees and university students whose major is English, Literature, Linguistics, and Culture will find it greatly useful. Interestingly, there is no dictionary extant that focuses on a single part of speech, not in the Caribbean or elsewhere. This dictionary is the first in a series of similar dictionaries, each concentrating on different parts of speech.
RIGHT WORD FINDER is a cleverly designed literary tool for assisting writers of all ages and specializations in finding adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs that are more expressively precise and colorful than those most typically used. RIGHT WORD FINDER is an ideal tool for use in conjunction with any academic composition. RIGHT WORD FINDER provides the writer with numerous options from which to choose in describing individual emotions or feelings, and any attributes of themselves, others, and things one observes. RIGHT WORD FINDER is organized in Five Dimensions, as shown below: ONE: Happiness/Elation/Contentment TWO: Sadness/Gloom/Depression THREE: Fear/Panic/Alarm FOUR: Anger/Disgust FIVE: Adjectives to describe perceptions
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The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. On the basis of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, it analyses the semantics of English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality, which are mainly based on the study of modal verbs. In a first step, it is shown that the set of meanings expressed by extraposition constructions with deontic adjectives is quite different from the set of meanings identified in the literature on modal verbs. Adjectival complement constructions lack the directive meanings of obligation or permission, whic...
The Five-Factor Model Across Cultures was designed to further an understanding of the interrelations between personality and culture by examining the dominant paradigm for personality assessment - the Five-Factor Model or FFM - in a wide variety of cultural contexts. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory about personality traits and culture that is extremely relevant to personality psychologists, cross-cultural psychologists, and psychological anthropologists.
This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of jurilinguistics that not only presents the latest international research findings among academics and practitioners, but also provides a new approach to the phenomena and nature of communicative flexibility, legal genres, vulnerability of interlingual legal communication, and the cultural landscape of legal translation.
Critical overview of latest developments Contributors are internationally renowned experts in the field Very few comparable publications First in a new series Editor will be president of European Association of Personality Psychology 2000-2002
Examination Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Marburg (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: The following paper consisting of three main parts, namely an analytical, a didactic and an empirical section, seeks an approach to second language learners' acquisition and comprehension of certain word-formation rules. The study is based on questionnaires filled in by students of the grammar school Martin-Luther-Schule Marburg who are taking English as their special subject. The thirteenth graders are all German native speakers who have been taught English since the fifth grade. If word-form...