The Multilingual Apple
Title | The Multilingual Apple PDF eBook |
Author | Ofelia García |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110885816 |
This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).
The Multilingual Apple
Title | The Multilingual Apple PDF eBook |
Author | Ofelia García |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110172812 |
This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Title | Journal of African Languages and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | African languages |
ISBN |
Weekend Language
Title | Weekend Language PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Craig |
Publisher | Dash Consulting Incorporated |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Business presentations |
ISBN | 9780988595613 |
On the weekends our speech is conversational, simple, clear and interesting. We speak in examples, anecdotes, and analogies. This book offers techniques to elevate your weekday presentations from blah to brilliant, with weekend language in mind.
Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism
Title | Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism PDF eBook |
Author | Ofelia Garc?a |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2012-09-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 184769800X |
This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century.
Apple Machine Language
Title | Apple Machine Language PDF eBook |
Author | Don Inman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Apple computer |
ISBN |
Apple Language System Installation And Operatingmanual
Title | Apple Language System Installation And Operatingmanual PDF eBook |
Author | Apple |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | |
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