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Book Synopsis Language in Hand by : William C. Stokoe
Download or read book Language in Hand written by William C. Stokoe and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating current findings in linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology, Stokoe fashions a closely reasoned argument that suggests how our human ancestors' powers of observation and natural hand movements could have evolved into signed morphemes.".
Book Synopsis Language Before Stonewall by : William L. Leap
Download or read book Language Before Stonewall written by William L. Leap and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the USA during the years preceding the police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969. The author demonstrates that this language was not a unified or standardized code, but rather an aggregate of linguistic practices influenced by gender, racial, and class differences, urban/rural locations, age, erotic desires and pursuits, and similar social descriptors. Contrary to preconceptions, moreover, it circulated widely in both public and in private domains. This intriguing book will appeal to students and academics interested in the intersections of language, sexuality and history and queer historical linguistics.
Book Synopsis Before Language There Was Song by : Nicole McGrath
Download or read book Before Language There Was Song written by Nicole McGrath and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about walking in a jungle, but were too afraid to do so? In Before Language There Was Song, poet Nicole McGrath takes you there, safely, on a journey of discovery, of the generosity, music, and colours of Nature, her jungles and forests, as if curated by Mother Nature herself. Guiding you along a trail, poem by poem, she builds and shares a new and positive outlook toward Nature, where animals, trees, and plants communicate and depend upon each other to live, as human friends and families do. Rendered in thirty-eight clear and concise poems, this collection evokes the beauty and intelligence of Nature, in all her forms. There is so much pleasure, surprise, and joy in these poems. Before Language There Was Song fosters a love of Nature and to feel loved by Nature, and the importance of protecting her if we are to have a healthy future. Before Language There Was Song will be of interest to poetry lovers of all ages. Anyone advocating for the health of plants, animals, humans, and the planet itself will particularly find themselves reflected in these pages. Anyone wanting to experience joy and discover the positivity of the natural world will find something here. In these difficult times, with the climate crises and the pandemic, a love of nature is the perfect antidote. These poems will provide hope, in the discovery or re-discovery, of the natural world.
Book Synopsis Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 by : Juanita Feros Ruys
Download or read book Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 written by Juanita Feros Ruys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period. Focusing specifically on the premodern cognates of ‘affect’ or ‘affection’ (such as affectus, affectio, affeccioun, etc.), an international team of scholars explores the cultural and intellectual contexts in which emotion was discussed before the term ‘emotion’ itself came into widespread use. By tracing the history of key terms and concepts associated with what we identify as ‘emotions’ today, the volume offers a first-time critical foundation for understanding pre- and early modern emotions discourse, charts continuities and changes across cultures, time periods, genres, and languages, and helps contextualize modern shifts in the understanding of emotions.
Book Synopsis The English Language Before England by : Bernard Mees
Download or read book The English Language Before England written by Bernard Mees and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing together linguistic, historical and archaeological perspectives on early inscriptions, making them more accessible to a wider audience. The volume offers a new account of the Germanic development of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with an examination of the earliest inscriptions from northern Europe and the oldest inscriptions preserving Germanic names, many of which have only been discovered since the 1980s. The book charts the origins of key terms such as Angle, Saxon and Jute and early writing systems used by Germanic peoples. Drawing on epigraphic evidence from northwestern Germany through to southwestern Denmark and sub-Roman Britain, Mees situates the analysis within historical and linguistic frameworks but also provides archaeological contextualisations, assessed chronologically, for the inscriptions. Taken together, the work re-examines existing models of the early development of English through the lens of contemporary approaches, opening paths for new directions in research on historical dialectology. This book is key reading for students and scholars interested in the history of English and historical linguistics.
Book Synopsis Second Language Learning Before Adulthood by : Vanessa De Wilde
Download or read book Second Language Learning Before Adulthood written by Vanessa De Wilde and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas such as language aptitude, language learning motivation and exposure to the language influence second language learning. Most of this research concerned adults. Far fewer studies have addressed the role of individual differences in second language learning of young learners. As second language learning programmes tend to start earlier than before and children are nowadays frequently exposed to a foreign language in social settings such as online games and social media, studying the role of individual differences in young learners can contribute both to SLA-theories and to evidence-based L2 education. This book discusses recent findings concerning the role of individual differences in language learning in young learners. The chapters in the book concern different topics linked to internal individual differences such as language aptitude, motivation, attitude and external individual differences such as exposure and type of instruction, the relative contribution of internal and external factors to language learning, and the interplay between the two types of individual differences.
Book Synopsis The one language before the Flood by : John Curtis (of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.)
Download or read book The one language before the Flood written by John Curtis (of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Greek Language, Designed to Place Before the Student, with Perspicuity of Arrangement and Fulness of Exemplification, the Etymological Structure of the Language, ... by Hans Claude Hamilton by : Hans Claude Hamilton
Download or read book A Grammar of the Greek Language, Designed to Place Before the Student, with Perspicuity of Arrangement and Fulness of Exemplification, the Etymological Structure of the Language, ... by Hans Claude Hamilton written by Hans Claude Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by : Daniel L. Everett
Download or read book How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention written by Daniel L. Everett and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.” — Edward O. Wilson At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind’s most incredible creation. Deemed a “bombshell” linguist and “instant folk hero” by Tom Wolfe (Harper’s), Daniel L. Everett posits that the near- 7,000 languages that exist today are not only the product of one million years of evolution but also have allowed us to become Earth’s apex predator. Tracing 60,000 generations, Everett debunks long- held theories across a spectrum of disciplines to affi rm the idea that we are not born with an instinct for language. Woven with anecdotes of his nearly forty years of fi eldwork amongst Amazonian hunter- gatherers, this is a “completely enthralling” (Spectator) exploration of our humanity and a landmark study of what makes us human. “[An] ambitious text. . . . Everett’s amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes . . . , will help the neophyte along.”— New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The One Language Before the Flood, Comprising Some Evidence Tending to Prove that the Language in which the Events, Narrated by Moses in the First Few Chapters of the Book of Genesis are Recorded ... Originated in the Events Themselves and the Consequences Resulting Therefrom by : John CURTIS (Perpetual Curate of Smisby.)
Download or read book The One Language Before the Flood, Comprising Some Evidence Tending to Prove that the Language in which the Events, Narrated by Moses in the First Few Chapters of the Book of Genesis are Recorded ... Originated in the Events Themselves and the Consequences Resulting Therefrom written by John CURTIS (Perpetual Curate of Smisby.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated ... Done According to the Greek by G. Chapman. A New Edition, with Introduction and Notes by W. Cooke Taylor ... With Forty Engravings on Wood, from the Compositions of John Flaxman by : Homer
Download or read book The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated ... Done According to the Greek by G. Chapman. A New Edition, with Introduction and Notes by W. Cooke Taylor ... With Forty Engravings on Wood, from the Compositions of John Flaxman written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Loom of Language by : Frederick Bodmer
Download or read book The Loom of Language written by Frederick Bodmer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Language by : W. Tecumseh Fitch
Download or read book The Evolution of Language written by W. Tecumseh Fitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
Download or read book A First Language written by Roger Brown and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development. These core findings are related to recent work in psychology and linguistics--and especially to studies of the acquisition of languages other than English, including Finnish, German, Korean, and Samoan. Roger Brown has written the most exhaustive and searching analysis yet undertaken of the early stages of grammatical constructions and the meanings they convey. The five stages of linguistic development Brown establishes are measured not by chronological age-since children vary greatly in the speed at which their speech develops--but by mean length of utterance. This volume treats the first two stages. Stage I is the threshold of syntax, when children begin to combine words to make sentences. These sentences, Brown shows, are always limited to the same small set of semantic relations: nomination, recurrence, disappearance, attribution, possession, agency, and a few others. Stage II is concerned with the modulations of basic structural meanings--modulations for number, time, aspect, specificity--through the gradual acquisition of grammatical morphemes such as inflections, prepositions, articles, and case markers. Fourteen morphemes are studied in depth and it is shown that the order of their acquisition is almost identical across children and is predicted by their relative semantic and grammatical complexity. It is, ultimately, the intent of this work to focus on the nature and development of knowledge: knowledge concerning grammar and the meanings coded by grammar; knowledge inferred from performance, from sentences and the settings in which they are spoken, and from signs of comprehension or incomprehension of sentences.
Download or read book Early English Text Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before Words written by Judith T. Lysaker and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an alternative to reductive views of emergent literacy, Lysaker explains how wordless books help young children to develop a range of comprehension abilities that are important for understanding narrative texts. Readers will find concrete methods to help them gauge, document, and respond to children as they make meaning of wordless books.
Book Synopsis The Dawn of Dutch by : Michiel de Vaan
Download or read book The Dawn of Dutch written by Michiel de Vaan and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.
