To Be Or Not To Be A Word
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To be or not to be a Word
Author: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2014-10-02
This book discusses the nature and definition of what a word is in Linguistics. This is not an easy task since the term subsumes a wide range of phenomena explored from an even wider array of perspectives. Although words are the most accessible linguistic units from the speaker’s introspection viewpoint, they are, at the same time, an incredibly elusive reality for the linguist. Issues such as their definition, theoretical status, limits, characteristics, and psycholinguistic reality are still controversial and open for debate. This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest discussions on the nature of word in Modern Linguistics. It gathers together under a single collective volume different views of what a word is from a wide range of diverse methodological and theoretical linguistic frameworks, such as phonological theory, linguistic typology, lexical generative morphology, generative syntax, cognitive grammar, and construction grammar. Despite their different backgrounds, all these papers are geared towards the same goal: to offer a detailed account of what a word is in their respective fields. All in all, this collection of papers offers different perspectives that will contribute to provide some answers to the myriad of questions that a simple phrase such as to be or not to be a Word brings to the fore.
Hamlet
Hamlet, probablemente compuesta entre 1599 y 1601, transcurre en Dinamarca y relata cómo el príncipe Hamlet lleva a cabo su venganza sobre su tío Claudio quien asesinase al padre de Hamlet, el rey, y ostenta la corona usurpada así como nupcias con Gertrudis, la madre de Hamlet. La obra se traza vívidamente alrededor de la locura (tanto real como fingida) y el transcurso del profundo dolor a la desmesurada ira. Además explora los temas de la traición, la venganza, el incesto y la corrupción moral.
To Be or Not to Be
Author: Douglas Bruster
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2007-02-15
Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech asks us to ask some of the most serious questions there are regarding knowledge and existence. In it, Shakespeare also expands the limits of the English language. Douglas Bruster therefore reads Hamlet's famous speech in "slow motion" to highlight its material, philosophical and cultural meaning and its resonance for generations of actors, playgoers and readers.