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Author : Eithne Carlin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Atlas of the Languages of Suriname written by Eithne Carlin and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over de talen in Suriname.
Author : Eithne Carlin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Atlas of the Languages of Suriname written by Eithne Carlin and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over de talen in Suriname.
Author : Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 946300405X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Human Rights in Language and STEM Education written by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the challenges of teaching and learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in local languages and local contexts in a range of countries around the world. Many countries around the world, including African countries, have been largely excluded from the transformation that is going on in STEM pedagogy in the USA, where the emphasis is on the importance of language choice and the development of English Language Learner (ELL). STEM subjects in many parts of the world have been taught in a global language, mainly English, rather than using a local language and local curriculum. This creates pedagogical challenges to the teaching of STEM. The contributions to this book review evidence and arguments for the teaching of STEM subjects in local languages and several chapters make this case that this should be considered a human right, both in national educational programs and in development aid. Working across disciplines and domains has the potential to lead to new understanding and the removal of barriers to progress with the ultimate goal of creating solutions to persistent problems in education. Cross-disciplinary work in science, language and literacy has shown much promise and demonstrated the importance of developing language along with disciplinary knowledge. This volume provides a deep dive into this topic, with articles by several scholars in the field of language in STEM.” – Jaqueline Barber, Director of the Learning Design Group at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California-Berkeley, USA “In an increasingly technological world, STEM Education has become a priority on national agendas and in educational institutions. Meaningful access to STEM education can enable or hinder young people from gaining entry into the world of work. It is against this backdrop that the edited collection, Human Rights and Language in STEM Education, needs to be welcomed. The various chapters tackle the big questions of access and many others. This edited collection is required reading for all those working in STEM and for policy makers who tend to see language and STEM as binaries, rather than as interdependent.” – Zubeida Desai, Professor and Dean of Education, University of the Western Cape, South Africa This volume by researchers from 10 countries provides a thought-and-action provoking multidimensional analysis of issues on the dignity of the use of STEM subjects in local education in the perspective of human rights. This book is especially recommended to researchers and education policy makers in such areas as STEM Educational Theory and Praxis, Human Rights, Future/sustainable Development, Science and Technology Literacy. May it inspire similar volumes in today’s politically ebullient world.” – Francisco Gomes de Matos, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, human linguistic rights scholar, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Author : Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199691401
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages written by Susanne Maria Michaelis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most authoritative guide ever published to the world's pidgin and creole languages. The 3-volume Survey describes their histories and linguistic characteristics. The Atlas of Pidgins and Creoles, published at the same time, shows how 130 linguistic features are distributed among the world's languages.
Author : Minna Korhonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249512
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Exploring Language and Society with Big Data written by Minna Korhonen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods with the aim to investigate the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern.
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218445
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Loanwords in the World's Languages written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.
Author : Eithne B. Carlin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900428012X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book In and Out of Suriname written by Eithne B. Carlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.
Author : Eithne Carlin
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9783631529003
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Trio written by Eithne Carlin and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil. Typologically interesting features of Trio include a basic word order Object-Verb-Subject and a system of evidentiality that expresses whether or not the speaker was eye-witness to an event. Trio has several grammatical morphemes that mirror the group's conceptualization of the world of the visible and the invisible in which they live; one is a facsimile marker that expresses that the denotee of a noun is manifestly but not intrinsically that denotee; the role of the individual in contributing to a harmonious collective, recognized by anthropologists as a salient aspect of Amazonian life, is expressed by two «responsibility» clitics. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists, anthropologists, and everyone interested in the finer points of Guianan-Amazonian languages.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080547842
Total Pages : 26924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819724
Total Pages : 1903 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author : Kofi Yakpo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501143
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Boundaries and Bridges written by Kofi Yakpo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.
Author : Karen Hough
Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 908890006X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book The Expression & Perception of Space in Wayana written by Karen Hough and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4.3.3.3 awotao: rib -- 4.3.3.4 awopo: 'crossways' -- 4.3.3.5 ahmotao: 'clear space' -- 4.3.4 'In middle of' lamnao -- 4.3.5 'In alignment with' pole -- 4.3.6 Contact locative: -pëk(ë) -- 4.3.7 Superior and inferior locatives and directionals -- 4.3.7.1 epoi: superior, no contact -- 4.3.7.2 uhpo: superior, contact -- 4.3.7.3 ahpo: 'on the back of' -- 4.3.7.4 opinë: inferior -- 4.3.7.5 opikai: inferior -- 4.3.8 Anterior and posterior locatives and directionals -- 4.3.8.1 em(ïn)patao: 'facing' -- 4.3.8.2 waliktao: 'behind' -- 4.3.9 Environmental locatives and directionals -- 4.3.9.1 aktuhpoi: 'upstream' -- 4.3.9.2 ametai: 'downstream' -- 4.3.9.3 etatopo: riverbank -- 4.3.9.4 talïhnao: 'outside' -- 4.3.10 At the base of: mitao -- 4.3.11 Around: wala -- 4.3.12 Perlatives -- 4.3.13 Source: -inë -- 4.3.14 Expressions of time -- 4.4 Third person pronouns and demonstratives -- 4.5 Locative adverbs -- 4.5.1 Motion adverbs -- 4.6 Final remarks -- 5 The Perception of Space and Landscape by the Wayana -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Frames of Reference -- 5.3 Finding one's way -- 5.4 Categorization -- 5.4.1 Postpositions and Spatiality -- 5.5 Landscape -- 5.6 Wayana in national space -- 5.7 Concluding remarks -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Appendices -- References -- Photo-object matching task
Author : J. Clancy Clements
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027202559
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Language Change in Contact Languages written by J. Clancy Clements and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of the studies deal with morphosyntactic issues while the other three address questions of prosody. The studies include data from the Atlantic creoles (Saramaccan, Sranan, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Papiamentu), as well as Singapore English. This volume, originally pulished as special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009), aims to make the work of several language contact experts available to a wider audience. The studies will be of use to any student or scholar interested in different approaches to contact-induced language processes, particularly as they relate to morphosyntax and prosody.
Author : Jane S. Gerber
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837649448
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Jews in the Caribbean written by Jane S. Gerber and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish diaspora of the Caribbean constantly redefined itself under changing circumstances. This volume looks at many aspects of this complex past and suggests different ways to understand it: as a Jewish diaspora dispersed under different European colonial empires; as a Jewish body joined together by a set of shared Jewish traditions and historical memories; and as one component in a web of relationships that characterized the Atlantic world.
Author : Bettina Migge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521195551
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context written by Bettina Migge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in order to resolve rarely discussed questions systematically (what are the outlines of the community, who is a rightful speaker, what speech should be documented) that frequently crop up in projects of language documentation in multilingual contexts. The authors argue that comprehensively documenting complex linguistic phenomena requires taking into account the views of all local social actors (native and non native speakers, institutions, linguists, non-speakers etc.), applying a range of complementary data collection and analysis methods and putting issues of ideology, variation, language contact and interaction centre stage. This book will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, fieldwork studies, language documentation and language variation and change.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004388060
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Maroon Cosmopolitics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation offers diverse perspectives on the presence of the Guianese Maroon at the twentieth-first century, and on the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.
Author : Pieter C. Muysken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110343975
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Surviving the Middle Passage written by Pieter C. Muysken and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo.
