Posted: Mar 26, 2022 2:39 am
1. Cognitive Discourse Analysis: An introduction - Thora Tenbrink
2. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender And Identity- And Why This Harms Everybody – Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
3. A History of the World in 12 Maps – Jerry Brotton
4. Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language – Patricia T. O’Connor & Stewart Kellerman
5. Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning - Jenefer Philip, Rebecca Adams & Noriko Iwashita
6. Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
7. Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World - Nataly Kelly & Jost Zetzche
8. English Words: A Linguistic Introduction - Heidi Harley
9. Questions: Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives Jan P. de Ruiter (Ed.)
10. Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey
11. English Prepositions: Their meanings and uses - R.M.W. Dixon
12. Draußen vor der Tür - Wolfgang Borchert
202 pp.
I was minded to read this again because of its theme of the aftermath of war.
The work is a drama that was first performed on the Radio in early 1947 and deals with the return of a German soldier to his native Hamburg after the war's end.
I dug out my old, heavily annotated copy that I used when I was studying German, oh so long ago.
It opens thus:
Ein Mann kommt nach Deutchland.
Er war lange weg, der Mann. Sehr lange. Vielleicht zu lange. Und er kommt ganz anders wieder, als er wegging.
A man comes to Germany. He was long away, the man. Very long. Perhaps too long. And he comes back as a different man from the one who left..
The play is vivid, abstract, surreal and stylized. It reminds us that wars don't end when the shooting stops.
I also found a performance of the work (in German) on Youtube. (How I would have loved having this resource back in the early 90's!)
Edit for capitalization of German nouns...duh
2. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender And Identity- And Why This Harms Everybody – Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
3. A History of the World in 12 Maps – Jerry Brotton
4. Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language – Patricia T. O’Connor & Stewart Kellerman
5. Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning - Jenefer Philip, Rebecca Adams & Noriko Iwashita
6. Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
7. Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World - Nataly Kelly & Jost Zetzche
8. English Words: A Linguistic Introduction - Heidi Harley
9. Questions: Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives Jan P. de Ruiter (Ed.)
10. Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey
11. English Prepositions: Their meanings and uses - R.M.W. Dixon
12. Draußen vor der Tür - Wolfgang Borchert
202 pp.
I was minded to read this again because of its theme of the aftermath of war.
The work is a drama that was first performed on the Radio in early 1947 and deals with the return of a German soldier to his native Hamburg after the war's end.
I dug out my old, heavily annotated copy that I used when I was studying German, oh so long ago.
It opens thus:
Ein Mann kommt nach Deutchland.
Er war lange weg, der Mann. Sehr lange. Vielleicht zu lange. Und er kommt ganz anders wieder, als er wegging.
A man comes to Germany. He was long away, the man. Very long. Perhaps too long. And he comes back as a different man from the one who left..
The play is vivid, abstract, surreal and stylized. It reminds us that wars don't end when the shooting stops.
I also found a performance of the work (in German) on Youtube. (How I would have loved having this resource back in the early 90's!)
Edit for capitalization of German nouns...duh