Notes on Mother Tongues
Title | Notes on Mother Tongues PDF eBook |
Author | Mirene Arsanios |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781946433480 |
The Mother Tongue
Title | The Mother Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Bryson |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2015-06-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0062417444 |
“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.
Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India
Title | Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Mitchell |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253353017 |
The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India
The Joy Luck Club
Title | The Joy Luck Club PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Tan |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2006-09-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101502738 |
“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
Beyond the Mother Tongue
Title | Beyond the Mother Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Yasemin Yildiz |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0823241300 |
Monolingualism-the idea that having just one language is the norm is only a recent invention, dating to late-eighteenth-century Europe. Yet it has become a dominant, if overlooked, structuring principle of modernity. According to this monolingual paradigm, individuals are imagined to be able to think and feel properly only in one language, while multiple languages are seen as a threat to the cohesion of individuals and communities, institutions and disciplines. As a result of this view, writing in anything but one's "mother tongue" has come to be seen as an aberration.
Your Mother's Tongue
Title | Your Mother's Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Burgen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 1996-02-01 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780756774622 |
An extremely funny history of so-called bad language by a European author. He asserts that Europeans try to get along but keep treading on each other's toes. In this tour of anger, exasperation, prejudice, irony and loathing as expressed in some 20 European tongues, we learn that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another. A single currency in Europe? Yes. A common language? Not on your life. The Guardian review states that the book's "His gently comic tone recognizes how funny, how much of a release, much bad language can be." "Entertaining, widely informed."
Finding Our Tongues
Title | Finding Our Tongues PDF eBook |
Author | Dean Falk |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2010-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1458758842 |
Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk overturns this established idea, offering a daring new theory that springs from a simple observation: parents all over the world, in all cultures, talk to infants by using baby talk or ''Motherese.'' Falk shows how Motherese developed as a way of reassuring babies when mothers had to put them down in order to do work. The melodic vocalizations of early Motherese not only provided the basis of language but also contributed to the growth of music and art. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with classic anthropology, Falk offers a potent challenge to conventional wisdom about the emergence of human language.