Words and Languages Everywhere
Title | Words and Languages Everywhere PDF eBook |
Author | Solomon Marcus |
Publisher | Polimetrica s.a.s. |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 8876990747 |
Here, There, and Everywhere; Essays Upon Language
Title | Here, There, and Everywhere; Essays Upon Language PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Partridge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Title | The Virtual Linguistics Campus PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke |
Publisher | Waxmann Verlag |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Internet in education |
ISBN | 383096689X |
Languages are Everywhere
Title | Languages are Everywhere PDF eBook |
Author | Nandi Sims |
Publisher | Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2022-09-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1731653042 |
Teach your child about different languages and how people communicate with each other in the children’s book Languages are Everywhere. How does language impact our everyday life? Celebrate diversity and learn about the different forms of language and communication people use to communicate, as well as different languages used across the world! Storybook Features: This children’s book features before- and after-reading questions, a photo glossary, and an extension activity to help develop reading comprehension skills. 24 pages of vibrant Illustrations and photographs About Rourke Educational Media: We proudly publish respectful and relevant nonfiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | P. H. Matthews |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2003-04-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191577510 |
Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, 'arts' end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research - the 'science' aspects. A series of short thematic chapters look in turn at such areas as the prehistory of languages and their common origins, language and evolution, language in time and space (the nature of change inherent in language), grammars and dictionaries (how systematic is language?), and phonetics. Explication of the newest discoveries pertaining to language in the brain completes the coverage of all major aspects of linguistics from a refreshing and insightful angle. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching
Title | Second Language Learning and Language Teaching PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Cook |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2016-05-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134683227 |
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no previous background in second language acquisition or language teaching methods, this text starts by introducing readers to the basic issues of second language acquisition research. It then examines how people learn particular aspects of the second language, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the writing system, and at the strategies they adopt in their learning and the differences between individuals. Final chapters look at second language learning in a broader context – the goals of language teaching and how teaching methods relate to SLA research. This newly updated fifth edition builds on the comprehensive scope of earlier editions while also addressing more recent developments in the field, particularly multilingual approaches to language teaching.
Empires of the Word
Title | Empires of the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Ostler |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2005-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0066210860 |
The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world's great languages has been very little told. Empires of the Word, by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler, is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education, culture, and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East, right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English. Besides these epic ahievements, language failures are equally fascinating: Why did German get left behind? Why did Egyptian, which had survived foreign takeovers for three millennia, succumb to Mohammed's Arabic? Why is Dutch unknown in modern Indonesia, though the Netherlands had ruled the East Indies for as long as the British ruled India? As this book splendidly and authoritatively reveals, the language history of the world shows eloquently the real character of peoples; and, for all the recent tehnical mastery of English, nothing guarantees our language's long-term preeminence. The language future, like the language past, will be full of surprises.