Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'History of grammar books'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'History of grammar books.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Poujat, Sandra. "Le Roman national de la langue française. Imaginaires linguistiques et stylistiques de la Révolution française à la Troisième République." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL077.
Full textThis thesis is a study of the construction of a national imagination by the French language during the long 19th century (1789-1920), both from a linguistic perspective, through the emerging concept of a national language, and from a stylistic point of view, through the rise of the French style as a category. The hypothesis defended here is that the national language, in France, is less the product of a linguistic policy than a discursive construct elaborated by grammar books between the French Revolution and the Third Republic. 19th century grammarians decided that it was the duty of literature to illustrate the national language, at a time when grammar and literature were indissociable. In fact, that literature should be influenced by reflections in which language and nation are associated is inevitable: writers, especially at the end of the century, approached style according to the notion of “Frenchness”, which is at once political, ideological, and imaginary. Such a notion asserted the existence of a French style, as opposed to non-French styles that failed to abide by the alleged tradition of the so-called genius of the French language. This thesis first explores the linguistic imagination that influenced the national language in the grammar books of the 19th century. It then moves on to the writers’ use of the imaginary notions related to a specifically French style. Last but not least, it examines the style of some of the authors who wrote during the Third Republic, and seeks to identify what was perceived as a specifically French style (as in the works of Renan, Daudet, Barrès, Maurras or France), and what was perceived as an antinational style (as in the works of Goncourt, Louÿs, Huysmans, Mallarmé, Valéry, Suarès, Péguy, Fargue, Claudel, Gide, Proust or Giraudoux)
Finer, Daniel L. "The formal grammar of switch-reference." New York : Garland, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=xkxiAAAAMAAJ.
Full textGrimshaw, Jane B. "English wh-constructions and the theory of grammar." New York : Garland Pub, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=hLJZAAAAMAAJ.
Full textLeahy, Angela [Verfasser], and Jenny [Akademischer Betreuer] Williams. "The representation of work in German grammar books / Angela Leahy. Gutachter: Jenny Williams." Frankfurt am Main : Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main, 2004. http://doras.dcu.ie/18005/.
Full textChan, Kenneth, and n/a. "Chinese history books and other stories." University of Canberra. Creative Communication, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061020.144139.
Full textMüller, Torsten. "Football, language and linguistics time-critical utterances in unplanned spoken language, their structures and their relation to non-linguistic situations and events /." Tübingen : Narr, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=mlhiAAAAMAAJ.
Full textGornall, Alastair Malcolm. "Buddhism and grammar : the scholarly cultivation of Pāli in Medieval Laṅkā." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608160.
Full textBork, Debora J. "History and criticism of photographically illustrated children's books /." Online version of thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11490.
Full textZussman, Na'ama. "Artists' Books---Both Map and Territory." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590433.
Full textThe field of artists' books is a realm in which a phenomenon is mapped and territorialized. This is based on the human necessity to map the world and have a better grasp of it. Additionally, it is constructed on the understanding of the history of the book’s physicality as an important emblem in civilization. An artist’s book is an isolated realm, both a map and a territory. It is closed in itself, and has its own rules and dynamics, yet carries varied affinities with the outside world.
Allen, Susanne Bostick. "Christian Diet Books| Thinning, Not Sinning." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118622.
Full textAll women, including Christian women, are susceptible to the diet industry’s selling of thin bodies as a commodity and media portrayals of thin women as desirable and successful. Overall, diet books are the most popular category of nonfiction, worth over $1.2 billion annually as of 2005. Evangelical Christian women believe they are obeying God’s will when they follow a Christian diet, but in reality they are subscribing to and perpetuating the prevailing American culture of thinness. The popularity of Christian diet books began in post-World War II America and continues today. They propose to solve the problem of women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies by offering diets based on Biblical teachings and Christian beliefs. This paper examines five Christian diet books published between 1957 and 2013: Pray Your Weight Away; First Place; The Weigh Down Diet; What Would Jesus Eat? The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great, and Living Longer; and The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life. As long as the culture of thinness is an integral part of American society, there will be a market for diet books, and among evangelical Christian women for Christian diet books. This phenomenon is pernicious because it damages women’s self-assurance and alters their beliefs about the way they appear to the world.
Rothstein, Susan Deborah. "The syntactic forms of predication." Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=pWRiAAAAMAAJ.
Full textRoberts, Dunstan Clement David. "Readers' annotations in sixteenth-century religious books." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610579.
Full textBahn, Joshua. "Mexico misrepresented the Cristiada in history and memory /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1467742.
Full textGraves, Stephen C. W. "Race perception and the history of racial institutions." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1467749.
Full textHawley, Elizabeth Haven. "American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840-1890." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7579.
Full textJohnson, Lorraine J. "Ladybird Books : a study in social and economic history." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/28169.
Full textObara, Hiroshi. "Modality and politeness in Late Modern English : evidence from eighteenth and nineteenth century grammar and usage books." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25033.
Full textDai, Lianbin. "Books, reading, and knowledge in Ming China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5800e2b8-024b-415f-ae6a-3793efd3b955.
Full textQuinn, Meredith Moss. "Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493319.
Full textHistory
Best, Graham. "Books and readers in certain eighteenth-century parish libraries." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1985. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/11738.
Full textSheah, Julie. "Reading Dreams| Representation of Dreams Through Artists' Books." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1591082.
Full textWithin pages and spreads, a reader can sometimes experience someone’s stream of consciousness. The book’s narrative, images, prose, and other components can break free from the parameters of a conventional book, unbound by the rules of formatting styles, grammar, and narrative. An artists’ book is free to be confusing, delightful, and horrifying. When creating an artists’ book to represent a dream, the difficulty of solidly recounting images and events that existed only in my mind creates a barrier between the reader and me. This barrier makes me feel inarticulate and ineffectual in that one of my main objectives as an artist is to coherently express an idea. While no medium possesses the capacity to fully transmit a dream, the artists’ book is one of the most comprehensive, artistic representations of a dream, and the parallels between experiencing a dream and experiencing a book allow for the terms “artist” and “dreamer” to shift interchangeably.
Feather, John P. "Studies in the history of books and the book trade." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1985. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/32889.
Full textTaylor, Michael S. "Seismic time history analysis and instrumentation of the Galena Creek Bridge." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453607.
Full textWynne, Terence Stewart. "The present perfect : a corpus-based investigation." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3472.
Full textTolley, Rebecca. "Natalie Chanin, Women's Review of Books." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://www.amzn.com/B00YWCQVQY.
Full textTaylor, Katie. "Communicating mathematics through vernacular books in Elizabethan England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607744.
Full textWisnor, Ryan Thomas. "Workers of the Word Unite!| The Powell's Books Union Organizing Campaign, 1998-2001." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10636951.
Full textThe labor movement’s groundswell in the 1990s accompanied a period of intense competition and conglomeration within the retail book sector. Unexpectedly, the intersection of these two trends produced two dozen union drives across the country between 1996 and 2004 at large retail bookstores, including Borders and Barnes & Noble. Historians have yet to fully examine these retail organizing contests or recount their contributions to the labor movement and its history, including booksellers’ pioneering use of the internet as an organizing tool. This thesis focuses on the aspirations, tactics, and contributions of booksellers in their struggles to unionize their workplaces, while also exploring the economic context surrounding bookselling and the labor movement at the end of the twentieth century. While the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) auspiciously announced a national campaign in 1997 to organize thousands of bookstore clerks, the only successfully unionized bookstore from this era that remains today is the Powell’s Books chain in Portland, Oregon with over 400 workers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 5.
Local 5’s successful union campaign at Powell’s Books occurring between 1998 and 2000 is at the center of this study and stands out as a point of light against a dark backdrop of failed union attempts in the retail sector during the latter decades of the twentieth century. This inquiry utilizes Local 5’s internal document archive and the collection of oral histories gathered by labor historians Edward Beechert and Harvey Schwartz in 2001 and 2002. My analysis of these previously unexamined records demonstrates how Powell’s efforts to thwart the ILWU campaign proved a decisive failure and contributed to the polarization of a super majority of the workforce behind Local 5. Equally, my analysis illustrates how the self-organization, initiative, and unrelenting creativity of booksellers transformed a narrow union election victory to overwhelming support for the union’s bargaining committee. Paramount to Local 5’s contract success was the union’s partnership with Portland’s social justice community, which induced a social movement around Powell’s Books at a time of increased political activity and unity among the nation’s labor, environment, and anti-globalization activists. The bonds of solidarity and mutual aid between Local 5 and its community allies were forged during the World Trade Organization (WTO) demonstrations in Seattle in 1999 and Portland’s revival of May Day in 2000. Following eleven work stoppages and fifty-three bargaining sessions, the union acquired a first contract that far exceeded any gains made by the UFCW at its unionized bookstores. The Powell’s agreement included improvements to existing health and retirement benefits plus an 18 percent wage increase for employees over three years.
This analysis brings to light the formation of a distinct working-class culture and consciousness among Powell’s booksellers, communicated through workers’ essays, artwork, strikes, and solidarity actions with the social justice community. It provides a detailed account of Local 5’s creative street theater tactics and work stoppages that captured the imagination of activists and the attention of the broader community. The conflict forced the news media and community leaders to publicly choose sides in a labor dispute reminiscent of struggles not seen in Portland since the 1950s. Observers of all political walks worried that the Portland cultural and commercial intuition would collapse under the weight of the two-year labor contest. My research illustrates the tension among the city’s liberal and progressive populace created by the upstart union’s presence at prominent liberal civic leader Michael Powell’s iconic store and how the union organized prominent liberal leaders on the side of their cause. It concludes by recognizing that Local 5’s complete history remains a work in progress, but that its formation represents an indispensable Portland contribution to the revitalized national labor movement of the late 1990s.
Saunders, Austen Grant. "Marked books in early modern English society (c.1550-1700)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648630.
Full textKilpatrick, Mackenzie. "A tree ring based fire history of the Clover Mountains, Lincoln County, Nevada." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1467753.
Full textPalmer, Marcus S. "History, humor, and introspection experiencing "Argentinidad" /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442853.
Full textMullins, Sophie. "Latin books published in Paris, 1501-1540." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6333.
Full textWaters, Alice Elizabeth. "Literary Constellations: Collaboration and the Production of Early Modern Books." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3932.
Full textLiterary Constellations resituates collaboration within the networks of books and people in the publishing industry in early modern London. Though print technologies and publishing practices are most often understood as providing the conditions for the development of single authorship, this project proposes that print also produced new forms of collective literary endeavors. Looking into the book industry, especially the activities of publishers within the Stationers' Company, I present collaboration as creative activity dispersed among interconnected people and books in the literary arena. This approach expands the recent scholarly attention to collaborative literary activity while remaining grounded in the social and economic context in which books were produced. Not only were books written, translated, edited, marketed, printed, and sold collectively in various ways, but the publishing industry as it developed in London created new avenues for imagining books as existing within meaningful collectivities and as well. Each chapter of this project examines a publishing event and traces its connections in the arena of books to illuminate the dynamics of collaborative publishing. Readings of the literary works are crafted by finding, illuminating, and taking seriously the traces among, between, and in texts. The first chapter examines the 1551 English translation of Utopia as a representative example of a collaborative literary process that includes writing as one in a larger constellation of literary efforts that produce the book. I further explore how the publisher Abraham Veale developed a specialty in health-related texts in translation, of which Utopia becomes a part. Chapter 2 introduces the English translation of the Aeneid published by Abraham Veale, which included a supplementary "thirteenth book," and which was produced in a collaborative group of translators and annotators. This continuation of the epic raises questions about the potential for groups of agents in print to continue the work of poetry indefinitely. Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene directly responds to the English Aeneidos and its collaborative continuing of the work of Virgil, and in the process articulates an individualist model of literary writing and reading. The third chapter turns to the interdependence of play writing and publishing with other books in the marketplace. I argue that Pericles was published as part of an identifiable group of books, and so operates in an interdependent cluster of collaboratively built stories. Finally, Chapter 4 argues that news was a collaboratively produced print genre with close associations with printed plays. The project of selling individual dramatic authorship in the First Folio and Ben Jonson's late plays required the disentanglement of play texts from their associations with news. Part of this move toward disentanglement includes Jonson's satiric depiction of the stationer Nathaniel Butter and his news syndicate in The Staple of News
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Mortenson, Susan G. "Plant community invasibility in riparian landscapes role of disturbance, geomorphology, and life history traits /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3387813.
Full textRiley, Barbara E. "Aspects of the genetic relationship of the Korean and Japanese languages." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3070.
Full textThesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-243).
Electronic reproduction.
Also available by subscription via World Wide Web
vii, 246 leaves, bound 29 cm
Friedman, Sara A. "The Legacy of Lynd Ward in Contemporary Artists' Books." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10113266.
Full textLynd Ward, an American Expressionist artist, and “father of the graphic novel,” helped shape the conventions of contemporary artists’ books. His legacy has influenced the direction beyond the graphic novel in areas such as the use of Expressionism and printmaking in the artists’ book, breaking graphic conventions, and using the artists’ book to convey a socio-political commentary. This paper will explain his influence and legacy by comparing his work to four contemporary artists’ books. Ward’s work, however, has only recently been recognized as a significant influence on graphic novels and has yet to be fully acknowledged as an influence on American artists’ books.
Macrae, Duncan Eoin. "The Books of Numa: Writing, Intellectuals and the Making of Roman Religion." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10899.
Full textThe Classics
Kernan, Sarah Peters. "“For al them that delight in Cookery”: The Production and Use of Cookery Books in England, 1300–1600." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462569208.
Full textPeterson, Barbara Jean Bivins. "How grammar instruction can benefit students in the second language classroom." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2640.
Full textKelly, Luke. "The Value of Books: : The York Minster Library as a social arena for commodity exchange." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341086.
Full textUnsworth, Len. "How and why : recontextualizing science explanations in school science books." Phd thesis, Department of Linguistics, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9054.
Full textSundqvist, Karin. "Theoretical Approaches to ESL and Their Influence on Grammar Teaching as Reflected in Swedish Curricula and Upper Secondary School Course Books." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-14688.
Full textEntwistle, Dorothy M. "Children's reward books in nonconformist Sunday schools, 1870 - 1914 : occurrence, nature and purpose." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253497.
Full textBiressi, Anita Ruth. "True crime : a study of contemporary books and magazines in context." Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322426.
Full textEmerson, George F. "Replicating an English virginal with an historical perspective of virginals and virginal books in England." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/495118.
Full textMörn, Anna. "The Modal Auxiliaries Can and Could - A contrastive investigation of the modal auxiliaries can and could in descriptions in materials aimed for English tuition and the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2515.
Full textThe two modal auxiliaries can and could are investigated in this essay. Focus is on the correspondence between descriptions in grammar books and real-life data.
First four English learner grammar books aimed for Swedish high-schools were analyzed. The uses and translations of can and could found in the grammar books were then compared to real-life examples from an English-Swedish parallel corpus.
It was found that three of the grammar books categorize the uses of can and could according to ability, possibility and permission in quite general terms and these uses correlated to the majority of the corpus examples. The forth book did not mention the possibility use and stated very specific uses of the modal auxiliaries. This grammar book did not correspond to the corpus data to the same extent as the other three grammars.
It could be concluded that the assumptions made about use correlated to a greater extent with the corpus than the assumptions made about translations.
Grothe, Ewald. "Zwischen Geschichte und Recht : deutsche Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung 1900-1970 /." München : Oldenbourg, 2005. http://books.google.com/books?id=IpiXAAAAMAAJ.
Full textPalsdottir, Anna Heida. "History, landscape and national identity : a comparative study of contemporary English and Icelandic literature for children." Thesis, Coventry University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247964.
Full textHuang, Ching-Sheng 1952. "Jokes on the Four Books: Cultural criticism in early modern China." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288885.
Full textGalt, Rosalind. "Redrawing the map of Europe space, history and spectacle in new European cinema /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=kV9ZAAAAMAAJ.
Full textMiller, Samuel. "History in the Making: The Impact of Ideology in Lynne Cheney's Children's Books." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/62.
Full text