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This book provides an overview of the changes of the Second-Language Learning discursive formation and the Identity discursive formation in Russian history. It proposes an explanatory model in which small-scale linguistic detail is joined with larger-scale language units in order to illuminate matters of cultural importance in their linguistic guise.
Dostoevskij's of literary portraits are verbal accounts in which physical appearance and facial expression are described not only to evoke a visual image, but more specifically to discern the inner man. Dostoevskij was a close observer of the physical properties of his characters. He employed them to delineate psychological and moral disposition.
Foreword - Introduction - Research on Russian argots and jargons - Definitions of concepts and problems of terminology - Taboo varieties of the Russian language - Expanding the vocabulary - Phonetics and intonation - Stress - Conclusion.
Introduction - Preliminaries - Trends of previous semantic studies of spatial prepositions - Insufficiencies of the standard approaches - Hypotheses to be considered - The framework - Geometric descriptions - Semantic Conditions - Pragmatic - Use types - On comprehension and production - Place-functions and Prepositions of Direct Location - Specific direct location - General direct location - Summary - Path-functions - Latives. Dynamic equivalents to the prepositions of location - Adlative Paths - Concluding issues - On how English. Polish, and Russian structure space - The potential for extending the analysis.
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A typology of Czech and Russian prepositions - Source and Goal Prefixes in Czech and Russian - Path Prefixes in Czech and Russian - The prefix no-/po- Conclusion: spatial and abstract prefixes.
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. In his analyses of the writings of this period, Thomas G. Winner illuminates the aesthetic and linguistic characteristics of these works and shows how poetry and linguistics can be combined.
Introduction - Fire as the Essential Element of Life and Art - Poetic Expansion of Experience through Metempsychosis - The Transformation of Literary Legacy into Poetry - The Confluence of Parts into a Whole Titles. Epigraphs and the Collections - Conclusion.