Author: Amy L. Paugh
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857457616
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.
Author: Ivan Fonagy
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027232830
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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There is little hope of reconstructing by means of comparative or typological studies a lingua adamica essentially different from present-day languages. The distant preverbal past is however still present in live speech. Phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions, far from being products of a deficient output, are governed by a universal iconic apparatus, a sort of 'anti-grammar' or 'proto-grammar' which enables the speaker and the poet to express preconscious and subconscious mental contents that could not be conveyed by means of the grammar of any language. Secondary messages, generated by the proto-grammar are integrated into the primary grammatical message. The two messages whose structural and semantic divergence represents a chronological distance of hundreds of thousands of years, constitute a dialectic unity which characterize natural languages. The evolutive approach offers a different, perhaps better understanding of questions related to dynamic synchrony, vocal and verbal style, poetic language, language change.Chapters on: Diversity of the lexicon; Dual encoding: vocal style; Syntactic gesturing; Syntactic regressions; Prosodic expression of emotions; Poetry and vocal art; Situation and meaning; A hidden presence: verbal magic; Playing with language: joke and metaphor; Metaphor: a research instrument; Dynamics of poetic language; Semantic structure of possessive constructions; Semantic structure of punctuation marks; Why gestures?; Between acts and words; Language within language: dynamics, change and evolution.
Author: Sebastian Knospe
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110463474
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Wordplay involving several linguistic codes is an important modality of ludic language. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, discussing examples from different epochs, genres, and communicative situations. The contributions illustrate the multi-dimensionality, linguistic make-up, and the special interactive potential of wordplay across linguistic and cultural boundaries, including the challenging practice of translation.
Author: Hakan Seyalioglu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999870013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Pat Rumbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595729194
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The world has so much for children to explore and discover. There's no better way to see it all-and grow with healthy bodies and curious minds-than by getting outside and playing! Playing outside is fun to do with family or friends, and is a great opportunity to embrace new and exciting experiences. With this book, youngsters can discover many different ways to enjoy the outside-at a playground, in a park, in safe neighborhood streets, or in one's own backyard- including running, biking, swinging, hula-hooping, doing handstands, and exploring. There's no shortage of play activities to choose from!Featuring bright photos of children in motion from mixed backgrounds and abilities, this read-aloud book will inspire young ones everywhere to get outside and play in their surroundings. Author and play expert Pat Rumbaugh offers helpful resources to promote successful play, including suggested activities, play locations, and rules. Let's Play Outside! is a marvelous way to excite and encourage children and adults alike to get outside and play!
Author: Poonam Trivedi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135272247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 695
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In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia. Emerging out of the view that it is in "play" or performance, and particularly in intercultural / multicultural performance, that the cutting edge of Shakespeare studies is to be found, the essays in this volume pay close attention to the modes of transference of the language of the text into the alternative languages of Asian theatres; to the history and politics of the performance of Shakespeare in key locations in Asia; to the new Asian experimentation with indigenous forms via Shakespeare and the consequent revitalizing and revising of the traditional boundaries of genre and gender; and to Shakespeare as a cultural capital world wide. Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia – Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines - the chapters in this volume encompass a broader and more representative swath of Asian performances and locations in one book than has been attempted till now.
Author: Otto Jespersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: Don Lee Fred Nilsen
Publisher: Newbury House
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Designed for literature classes that only need the essentials, The Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing 5/e is the affordable, portable alternative to a full lengthyor even a compactyintroduction to literature texts.
Author: James E. Alatis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018556
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. With topics as wide-ranging as coherence in operating room communication, involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions, and jury understanding of witness deception, this resulting volume of selected papers provides both experts and novices with myriad insights into the excitement of cross-disciplinary language analysis. Readers will find—in the words of one contributor—that in such cross-pollination of ideas, "there's tremendous hope, there's tremendous power and the power to transform."
Author: François Gouin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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