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Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Belarus written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madeleine Hurd
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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Borderland Identities written by Madeleine Hurd and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Europe
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Belarus and Its Future written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Europe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book Belarusian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaston Dorren
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190944
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Lingo written by Gaston Dorren and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
Author : Majken Jul Sørensen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137573465
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Humour in Political Activism written by Majken Jul Sørensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how humour in political activism contributes to facilitating outreach, mobilisation and the sustaining of cultures of resistance. Drawing on examples of attention-grabbing stunts from around the world, Humour in Political Activism demonstrates how they succeed in turning relations of power upside down. The ambiguity and unpredictability of humour, Sørensen argues, makes it difficult to respond to this form of political activism when it is performed in public. Humorous political stunts can therefore challenge state power, help influence changes in law and make significant contributions to the conversations about how societies should be organised. The book also investigates the potential risks and limitations of using humour in nonviolent action and what makes humour unique compared with other forms of non-humorous political activism.
Author : Derek Offord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139445092
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Using Russian written by Derek Offord and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Russian is a guide to Russian usage for those who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike conventional grammars, it gives special attention to those areas of vocabulary and grammar which cause most difficulty to English speakers, and focuses on questions of style and register which are all too often ignored. Clear, readable and easy to consult, it will prove invaluable to students seeking to improve their fluency and confidence in Russian. This second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to incorporate fresh material and up-to-date information. Many of the original chapters have been rewritten and one brand new chapter has been added, providing a clear picture of Russian usage in the 21st century.
Author : Kate Burridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107618835
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book For the Love of Language written by Kate Burridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a comprehensive introduction to how language works and the role of linguistics in investigating its fundamental design.
Author : Alhierd Bacharevic
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231976
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad written by Alhierd Bacharevic and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alindarka’s Children is the masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from Belarus It’s not Avi’s fault, it’s those sourish, mind-bending little berries that are to blame, those tiny wee spheres. Bilberries, bletherberries that befuddle the mind, babbleberries that give you a kick. The beautiful green forest scales, the timber songs, play out like a kaleidoscope before his eyes. It’s hard tae breathe, yer haunds skedaddle awa… In a camp at the edge of a forest children are trained to forget their language through drugs, therapy, and coercion. Alicia and her brother Avi are rescued by their father, but they give him the slip and set out on their own. In the forest they encounter a cast of villains: the hovel-dwelling Granmaw, the language-traitor McFinnie, the border guard and murderer Bannock the Bogill, and a wolf. A manifesto for the survival of the Belarusian language and soul, Alindarka's Children is also a feat of translation. Winner of the English Pen Award, the novel has been brilliantly rendered into English (from the Russian) and Scots (from the Belarusian): both Belarusian and Scots are on the UNESCO Atlas of Endangered Languages.
Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633864186
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Words in Space and Time written by Tomasz Kamusella and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.
Author : Natalka Babina
Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
ISBN 13 : 1782670785
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Down Among the Fishes written by Natalka Babina and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down Among the Fishes revolves around the story of a woman named Alka, native of a small Belarusian village near the Polish border. Alka’s unfulfilled desire to have a child turns her into an alcoholic and a drug addict. Then, a family tragedy turns her world upside down, forcing her out of the self-destructive cycle. Together with her twin sister, she sets out to examine the chain of events that led to her grandmother’s unexpected death. Their inquiry quickly changes into a murder investigation. As the twins uncover new facts of the crime, more questions need to be answered. But will they? A rural intrigue continues to hold the villagers firm in its grasp until the very resolution.
Author : Kurt Braunmüller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296014
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History written by Kurt Braunmüller and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They show a richness of topics and data that not only reveal numerous historical and sociological facts but also afford considerable insight into possible effects multilingualism and language contact might have on language change. The collection begins its journey through Europe in the British Isles. Then it turns to northern Europe and looks at how multilingualism worked in three towns that are all marked by border and contact situations. The journey continues with linguistic-historical and political-historical visits to Sweden and to Lithuania before the reader is taken to central Europe, where we will deal with the influence of Latin on written German.As far as southern Europe is concerned, the study continues on the Iberian peninsula, where the relationship between Portuguese and Spanish is focused, to be followed by Sardinia and Malta, two islands whose unique geohistorical positions give rise to some consideration of multilingualism in the Mediterranean.
Author : Mark Andryczyk
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802061657
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Writing from Ukraine written by Mark Andryczyk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writers Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small moments. From essays about Chernobyl to poetry about Robbie Williams, from fiction discussing Jimmy Hendrix live in Lviv to underground Ukrainian poetry of the Soviet era, WRITING FROM UKRAINE offers a unique window into a rich culture, a chance to experience a particularly Ukrainian sensibility and to celebrate Ukraine's nationhood, as told by its writers.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Economy of Belarus written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard Van Herk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118960734
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book What Is Sociolinguistics? written by Gerard Van Herk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and regulate language? How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of the popular What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk explores these and other intriguing questions about language, how we use it, and its relationships to society. Van Herk guides the reader on a tour through the major issues that define the field, including region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, at the same time exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education. This second edition has been revised and updated to include new and more exercises, discussion questions, and suggested readings, as well as expanded chapters exploring gender duality and Latino English. Key readings are introduced in Van Herk’s clear and engaging voice, which accompanies the text throughout, providing an accessible point of entry for those new to, or less familiar with, sociolinguistics. Chapter summaries and textboxes are similarly employed to signpost and illuminate learning. A companion website features PowerPoint slides for each chapter with suggestions for framing class discussions and exercises, further examples of concepts discussed, additional reading suggestions, and ready-to-go slides for class presentation. Packed with the latest research and practical teaching aids, What is Sociolinguistics? Second edition retains the highly-praised character of its predecessor and provides an essential up-to-date text for both students and instructors alike.
Author : Aleksandar Mikić
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351612263
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Lexicon of Pulse Crops written by Aleksandar Mikić and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexicon of Pulse Crops integrates botanical and linguistic data to analyze and interpret the grain legume significance from the earliest archaeological and written records until the present day. Aimed at both agronomic and linguistic research communities, this book presents a database containing 9,500 common names in more than 900 languages and dialects of all ethnolinguistic families, denoting more than 1,100 botanical taxa of 14 selected pulse crop genera and species. The book begins with overviews of the world’s economically most important grain legume crops and their uncultivated relatives, as well as the world’s language families with their inner structure, including both extinct and living members. The main section of the text presents 14 specialized book chapters covering Arachis, Cajanus, Cicer, Ervum, Faba, Glycine, Lablab, Lathyrus, Lens, Lupinus, Phaseolus, Pisum, Vicia, and Vigna. They provide the reader with extensive lists of the botanically accepted species and subtaxa and surveys lexicological abundance in all world’s ethnolinguistic families, comprising extinct and living as well as natural and constructed languages, while the vernacular names for the most significant taxa are presented in comprehensive tables. Each of these chapters also presents the existing etymologies and novel approaches to deciphering the origins of common names, accompanied by one original color plate depicting possible root evolutions in the form of corresponding pulse crop plants.
Author : Michael Tunick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199922306
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Science of Cheese written by Michael Tunick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the science of cheese making, from chemistry to biology, in a lively way that is readable for both the food scientist and the artisanal hobbyist.
