Growing up with Three Languages
Title | Growing up with Three Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Xiao-lei Wang |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008-11-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847695671 |
This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.
Short Stories
Title | Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Luigi Pirandello |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
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Language in South Africa
Title | Language in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Rajend Mesthrie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2002-10-17 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521791052 |
A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
The Loom of Language
Title | The Loom of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Bodmer |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780393300345 |
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
The Eleven
Title | The Eleven PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Michon |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 2012-12-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1935744631 |
In The Eleven, Michon lets us into the world of Corentin, a painter shaped by—and who eventually shapes—history. Brought up among provincial aristocracy to become a favorite of Parisian society—his paintings are commissioned by Louis XV’s mistress—Corentin’s career rides the Tides of the French Revolution. His masterpiece, "The Eleven," is an enigmatic Last Supper, representing the eleven members of the Committee of Public Safety (including Robespierre and Saint Just) during the Reign of Terror. Corentin and company, his work of art, and the historical tableau of the French Revolution come to life in dazzling, even painterly, detail. A potent blend of fact and fiction, The Eleven is a beautifully written, astute meditation on the nature of history itself and the artist’s role in it.
First Italian Reader
Title | First Italian Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Appelbaum |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2012-08-29 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 048612035X |
Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome these selections of poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy by 14th- to 20th-century authors, including Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and 52 others.
Novel 11, Book 18
Title | Novel 11, Book 18 PDF eBook |
Author | Dag Solstad |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811228290 |
A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.