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A Dictionary Of The Northern Dialect Of Lisu China And Southeast Asia
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of Lisu (China and Southeast Asia) by : David Bradley
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of Lisu (China and Southeast Asia) written by David Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of Lisu (China and Southeast Asia) by : David Bradley
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of Lisu (China and Southeast Asia) written by David Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia by : Andy Kirkpatrick
Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia written by Andy Kirkpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect. The most recent iteration of language education policies of each of the countries is described and the impact and potential consequence of any change is critically considered. Each country chapter provides a historical overview of the languages in use and language education policies, examines the ideologies underpinning the language choices, and includes an account of the debates and controversies surrounding language and language education policies, before concluding with some predictions for the future.
Book Synopsis Language and Religious Identity by : Allyson Jule
Download or read book Language and Religious Identity written by Allyson Jule and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a search for a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between gender, language and religious identity, this book gathers a global range of studies from the field of linguistics. It connects language use to both a religious and gender identity and shows how language works to unite, oppress, liberate or fracture the various participants.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China by : Stevan Harrell
Download or read book Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China written by Stevan Harrell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a varied and wide-ranging collection of essays by Yi and foreign scholars on the history, traditional society, and modern social changes among the 7 million Yi people of Southwest China.
Book Synopsis Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia by :
Download or read book Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia provides new analyses of regional Tibeto-Burman languages and sub-branches to demonstrate ways in which diachronic, social and geographic aspects of language variation and language endangerment are necessary for more adequate descriptions of language systems.
Book Synopsis The Sino-Tibetan Languages by : Randy J. LaPolla
Download or read book The Sino-Tibetan Languages written by Randy J. LaPolla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Book Synopsis Multilingualism in China by : Minglang Zhou
Download or read book Multilingualism in China written by Minglang Zhou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process. It documents how different script reforms meet dramatically different fates according to local preferences, history, cross-border ties, and the vitality of previously-used scripts. It convincingly shows that no single variable is decisive in the success of a script, and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure, without careful coordination of extra-code factors. It also documents the little-known Sino-Soviet cooperation in the area of writing reforms. In a style accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Zhou's book is of interest to language planners, sinologists, applied linguists, writing theorists, and ethnologists.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology by : Nicola Grandi
Download or read book Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology written by Nicola Grandi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology
Book Synopsis Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong by : Hongkai Sun
Download or read book Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong written by Hongkai Sun and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Anong by : hong kai Sun
Download or read book A Grammar of Anong written by hong kai Sun and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun's. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.
Book Synopsis Hani-English - English-Hani Dictionary by : Paul W. Lewis
Download or read book Hani-English - English-Hani Dictionary written by Paul W. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Originated from the International Institute for Asian Studies, the first Hani-English/English-Hani dictionary which has ever been published. This five-year project, almost 900-page dictionary is not only important for researchers in the field of Hani studies but also for the Hani people themselves. This title concludes with an index of appendices for the set of twelve appendices.
Book Synopsis The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System by : James A. Matisoff
Download or read book The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System written by James A. Matisoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.
Book Synopsis The Sino-Tibetan Languages by : Graham Thurgood
Download or read book The Sino-Tibetan Languages written by Graham Thurgood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Download or read book Globalising Migration History written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalizing Migration History is a major step forward in comparative global migration history. Looking at the period 1500-2000 it presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium. The contributions in this volume, written by specialists on Russia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia and South East Asia, show that such a method offers a fruitful starting point for rigorous comparisons. Furthermore the volume is an explicit invitation to other (economic, cultural, social and political) historians to include migration more explicitly and systematically in their analyses, and thus reach a deeper understanding of the impact of cross-cultural migrations on social change. Contributors are: Sunil Amrith, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Jelle van Lottum, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Mireille Mazard, Adam McKeown, Atsushi Ota, Vijaya Ramaswamy,Osamu Saito, Jianfa Shen, Ryuto Shimada, Willard Sunderland, and Yuki Umeno.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif by : Jean Michaud
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif written by Jean Michaud and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwelling in the highland areas of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and southwest China are hundreds of ethnic groups known as 'tribes' in popular literature. Some groups number barely more than one hundred, others millions. Together their population adds up to 80 million, more than any of the countries (bar China) they inhabit, yet in each they are designated and treated as 'minorities.'
Download or read book Tibetan Magic written by Cameron Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both pre-modern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. It offers a new understanding of the identity and role of magical specialists in both historical and contemporary contexts. Combining the theoretical approaches of anthropology, ethnography, religious and textual studies, the book aims to shed light on experiences, practices and practitioners that have been frequently marginalized by the normative mainstream monastic Buddhist traditions and Western Buddhist scholarship, which focuses primarily on meditation and philosophy. The book explores the intersection between magic/folk practices and Tantra, a complex, socio-religious phenomenon associated not only with the religious and political elites who sponsored it, but also with 'marginal' ethnic groups and social milieus, as well as with lay communities at large, who resorted to ritual agents to fulfil their worldly needs.