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The Language Revolution

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745637973
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Language Revolution written by David Crystal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world’s linguistic ecology: first, the emergence of English as the world’s first truly global language; second, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying; and, third, the radical effect on language of the arrival of Internet technology. Examining the interrelationships between these topics, Crystal encounters a vision of a linguistic future which is radically different from what has existed in the past, and which will make us revise many cherished concepts relating to the way we think about and work with languages. Everyone is affected by this linguistic revolution. The Language Revolution will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication in the twenty-first century.

Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214735
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

Revolution in Poetic Language

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231561407
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Poetic Language written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

The Bilingual Revolution

Author : Fabrice Jaumont
Publisher : TBR Books
ISBN 13 : 1947626000
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Bilingual Revolution written by Fabrice Jaumont and published by TBR Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bilingual Revolution is a collection of inspirational vignettes and practical advice that tells the story of the parents and educators who founded dual language programs in New York City public schools. The book doubles as a "how to" manual for setting up your own bilingual school and, in so doing, launching your own revolution.

Language and Revolution

Author : Igal Halfin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135774641
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Language and Revolution written by Igal Halfin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.

A Revolution in Language

Author : Sophia A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804749312
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book A Revolution in Language written by Sophia A. Rosenfeld and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.

The Language Revolution

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745673147
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Language Revolution written by David Crystal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world’s linguistic ecology: first, the emergence of English as the world’s first truly global language; second, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying; and, third, the radical effect on language of the arrival of Internet technology. Examining the interrelationships between these topics, Crystal encounters a vision of a linguistic future which is radically different from what has existed in the past, and which will make us revise many cherished concepts relating to the way we think about and work with languages. Everyone is affected by this linguistic revolution. The Language Revolution will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication in the twenty-first century.

Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience

Author : Carl Bridenbaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience written by Carl Bridenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Work and Revolution in France

Author : William H. Sewell, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521299510
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Work and Revolution in France written by William H. Sewell, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.

Language in Time of Revolution

Author : Benjamin Harshav
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520912969
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Language in Time of Revolution written by Benjamin Harshav and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with two remarkable events--the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers. It tries to rethink a wide field of cultural phenomena and present the main ideas to the intelligent reader, or, better, present a "family picture" of related and contiguous ideas. Many names and details are mentioned, which may not all be familiar to the uninitiated; their function is to provide some concrete texture for this dramatic story, but the focus is on the story itself.

Interpreting the Russian Revolution

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300081060
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Russian Revolution written by Orlando Figes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the diverse ways that language and other symbols--including flags and emblems, public rituals, songs, and codes of dress--were used to identify competing sides and to create new meanings in Russia's political struggles of 1917. 32 illustrations.

French Grammar Buster

Author : Tony Buzan
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007303069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book French Grammar Buster written by Tony Buzan and published by Collins. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with creative activities and grammar-busting tactics, Grammar Buster equips foreign language learners with all the tools they need to learn the language, while still keeping them in their comfort zone. Not simply about grammar, Collins Grammar Buster is about transforming attitudes towards language learning. Conventional methods go out the window as learners are encouraged to "think outside the box," making it possible to master even the most challenging aspects of French grammar with a series of simple exercises. Rhymes and crosswords, mind maps and puzzles: these will not only dramatically improve written and spoken French but will increase learners' confidence when approaching grammar in the future. From complete beginner to intermediate learners, Grammar Buster is the ideal companion for any language course. Divided into 30 colorful units, it tackles one grammar point at a time, reinforcing the basic principles with Tony Buzan's famous memory techniques and handy verb wheel to ensure that they are firmly fixed in your mind.

Michel Thomas: the Learning Revolution

Author : Jonathan Solity
Publisher : Teach Yourself
ISBN 13 : 9781529344301
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Michel Thomas: the Learning Revolution written by Jonathan Solity and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of the Michel Thomas ground-breaking, all-audio language learning materials has been a publishing phenomenon. Sales of over one million units in just eight years and the universal acclaim his method has excited would indicate that there is a large body of people who want to know more about how and why his method works where so many others have failed. The book will give a brief history of Michel's fascinating life and summarise how he became interested in teaching foreign languages, before going on to look at the experience of learning a foreign language in general and Michel's method of teaching in particular. It examines the barriers to language learning in both the UK and the US, Michel's focus on the role and quality of the teacher rather than the learner, and Michel's core belief that with the right teaching anyone can learn another language quickly and easily. The reader will be introduced to new trends in psychology and their relationship to the way Michel teaches foreign languages as well as examining conventional wisdoms. There follows a detailed analysis of Michel's programmes for foreign language teaching and the implications for schools, colleges and universities if they wish to adopt his methodology and at the same time meet the requirements of the public examinations both in the UK and the US.

Kingdom of Characters

Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214727
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of Characters written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin

Author : Jane Hodson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351923412
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin written by Jane Hodson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed. Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in this war of words, focusing on four key texts: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. While these texts form the core of Hodson's project, she ranges far beyond them to survey other works by the same authors; more than 50 contemporaneous books on language; and pamphlets, novels, and letters by other writers. The scope of her study permits her to challenge earlier accounts of the relationship between language and politics that lack historical nuance. Rather than seeing the Revolution debate as a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices, Hodson argues that there is no direct correlation between a particular style or linguistic concept and the political affiliation of the writer. Instead, she shows how each writer attempts to mobilize contemporary linguistic ideas to lend their texts greater authority. Her book will appeal to literature scholars and to historians of language and linguistics working in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

The Language of Contention

Author : Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036240
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Contention written by Sidney Tarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of the language of social movements, revolutions, and terrorism from the seventeenth century to the present and looks at the impact of events such as 9/11 and innovations such as the Internet and social media on social mobilization.

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356047
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Cognitive Revolution written by David Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic idea of the particular way of understanding mental phenomena that has inspired the "cognitive revolution" is that, as a result of certain relatively recent intellectual and technological innovations, informed theorists now possess a more powerfully insightful comparison or model for mind than was available to any thinkers in the past. The model in question is that of software, or the list of rules for input, output, and internal transformations by which we determine and control the workings of a computing machine's hardware. Although this comparison and its many implications have dominated work in the philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology of mind since the end of the Second World War, it now shows increasing signs of losing its once virtually unquestioned preeminence. Thus we now face the question of whether it is possible to repair and save this model by means of relatively inessential "tinkering", or whether we must reconceive it fundamentally and replace it with something different. In this book, twenty-eight leading scholars from diverse fields of "cognitive science"-linguistics, psychology, neurophysiology, and philosophy- present their latest, carefully considered judgements about what they think will be the future course of this intellectual movement, that in many respects has been a watershed in our contemporary struggles to comprehend that which is crucially significant about human beings. Jerome Bruner, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Boden, Ulric Neisser, Rom Harre, Merlin Donald, among others, have all written chapters in a non-technical style that can be enjoyed and understood by an inter-disciplinary audience of psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists alike.