Linguistique, Éditions DésIris

Gallic, under the french Pierre Gastal Do we speak Gallic without knowing it? The question might just surprise you, but it cant be avoided: there is not a single French sentence that doesnt contain a Gallic word in it! Numerous terms used daily come from Celtic roots. The names (...) Nombre de pages : 224
Format : 14/22 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-07-7
15.00 €

Neurons, words and pixels This is the latest work (May 1999) of the author, well known to readers for his works on legibility, speed reading, linguistics, etc. In a few decades, techniques for conserving and transmitting languages have radically changed: typesetting (...) Nombre de pages : 240 pages
Format : 22 x 22 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-04-3
18.30 €

Nos racines celtiques Pierre Gastal Nombre de pages : 320
Format : 17 x 24 cm
ISBN : 978-2-36403-061-9
24.50 €

Speech defects This book seeks to define the history of forms of speech that have been judged as abnormal in our culture since the Renaissance. What are these abnormal ways of speaking? We willingly recognize language pathologies from stuttering to aphasic (...) Nombre de pages : 360
Format : 14 x 22 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-27-9
28.00 €

The language of science Maurice Crosland From where do scientific terms come? The Language of Science analyzes the development of scientific vocabulary from its origins, linked to daily farming and the need to have a system of measure for commercial trade, up to 17th Century (...) Nombre de pages : 96
Format : 12 x 21 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-32-3
9.50 €

Visualizing, Naming and Representing colours Roger Lamouline Colours and colour theories raise many an interesting question. Is the colour triangle that was used fifty years ago to help ensure the red, green and yellow shades of the lights placed along railways complied with specifications, is that same (...) Nombre de pages : 200
Format : 16 x 23 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-16-6
15.00 €