Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 24 February 2011
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A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy
A dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press collected together. They had pursued their rounds for many years without meeting with any incident of an unusual kind, but to-night, according to the assertions of several, there prevailed, to begin with, an exceptionally solemn and thoughtful mood among two or three of the oldest in the band, as if they were thinking they might be joined by the phantoms of dead friends who had been of their number in earlier years, and now were mute in the churchyard under flattening mounds.
This reader collects and introduces important work on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.
Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Wennerstrom considers the role of prosody in a variety of discourse genres and offers an over-all framework within which future analysis might continue.
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 12 January 2011
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Gossip Girl, The Carlyles #3: Take a Chance on Me
Boyfriend and best friend drama turn the UES into an all-out warzone. While Baby's doing some soul searching, Avery's taking no prisoners at her new internship—or in her battle with resident queen-bee Jaqueline. If you're not careful, you just might get caught in the crossfire.
Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 19 December 2010
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Long Afternoon Of Earth
This is one of those books to force the mind away from the everyday, the mundane, the what's-happening-today-in-Bongo Bongoland-and-what-are-we-doing-about-it that has our minds squeezed so tight we can't think further than the next daily broadcast of the world news and the next spoon-fed opinion from our favorite demigogue. The planet earth has a future that might, or mightn't include a fragile, two-legged creature who thinks he owns it all. In this book it includes him, but he doesn't own it.
