The Other Tongue

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062001
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Tongue by : Braj B. Kachru

Download or read book The Other Tongue written by Braj B. Kachru and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The Other Tongue appeared in 1982, it was called "required reading for all those concerned with English teaching in non-native situations, from the classroom teacher to the policy planner", Jowhn Platt, English World-Wide) and "an extremely useful and stimulating collection" (William C. Ritchie, Language). It introduced refreshingly new perspectives for understanding the spread and functions of English around the world. This dramatically revised volume contains eight new chapters, replacing or updating more than half of the first edition. The Other Tongue is the first attempt to integrate and address provocative issues relevant to a deeper understanding of the forms and functions of English within different sociolinguistic, cross-cultural, and cross-linguistic contexts. The volume discusses linguistic, literary, pedagogical, and attitudinal issues related to world Englishes.

The Other Tongue

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Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Tongue by : Braj B. Kachru

Download or read book The Other Tongue written by Braj B. Kachru and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1983 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592404944
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by : John McWhorter

Download or read book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue written by John McWhorter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).

Mother Tongue and Other Tongues

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Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 180013052X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother Tongue and Other Tongues by : Shula Wilson

Download or read book Mother Tongue and Other Tongues written by Shula Wilson and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in times where the issue of identity and difference has taken on a more defensive hue. The tide is turning towards an inward-looking nostalgia of sameness based on fear rather than on understanding. The experience of hearing another language, the way it is spoken, and being faced with the image of the other is now more complex, imbued with projections of powerlessness, fear, terrorism, and survival. The issue of identity appears to have become even more complex. All cultures are concerned with how we speak and communicate as this represents identity, history, and home. Communication is also essential for survival, both emotionally and socially. The speaking person is an individual but also part of a culture or cultures with dense collective and individual shapes. The issue of identity, that feeling of belonging, is essential, full of possibility, and, at times, very uncomfortable, as it touches the tensions between who we are and who we are becoming. This sits next to more complex historical experiences and memories of languages and cultures being changed or lost or banished due to the colonial, imperial, and regional moves of powerful nations in search of conquest and economic gain. This collection addresses how language affects therapists and their patients, and how it can be understood culturally and therapeutically. Drawn from talks given at the Multi-lingual Psychotherapy Centre (MLPC), the contributors not only bring a therapeutic slant but also their other roles as academics, writers, and artists. These reflections, memories, and stories give a glimpse of the multilingual journey the MLPC has been exploring for over twenty years, and leave much food for thought. The book contains contributions from Cedric Bouet-Willaumez, Giselle China, Patricia Gorringe, Natsu Hattori, Monique Morris, Esti Rimmer, and Edna Sovin.

My Other Tongue

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Publisher : Futurepoem
ISBN 13 : 9780996002554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis My Other Tongue by : Rosa Alcalá

Download or read book My Other Tongue written by Rosa Alcalá and published by Futurepoem. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story to be written -- Missing -- At Hobby Lobby -- Dear María -- Voice activation -- Heritage speaker -- My body's production -- Offering -- Purity & danger: a performance -- This is not the end of my film career -- The 11th day of Occupy Wall Street -- Natural disaster: a dream -- Mother, monster: a lecture -- Questionnaire -- Projection -- Trace of lovers -- Paramour -- Getting around the subject -- Dear stranger -- Pedagogy: a dream -- Training -- Visitors log -- Archaeology of vestments -- Mise en garde -- Voice: an essay -- Ghost song.

Another Mother Tongue

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Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Another Mother Tongue by : Judy Grahn

Download or read book Another Mother Tongue written by Judy Grahn and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life styles of gay men and women and discusses the role of gay culture in mainstream society.

Controlling the Tongue

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Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 159979814X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Controlling the Tongue by : R.T Kendall

Download or read book Controlling the Tongue written by R.T Kendall and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words we speak have power. Often the consequences of our careless words are far reaching and eternal. At one time or another we all have experienced saying something in a moment that takes hours (or weeks or a lifetime) to make right. In his engaging teaching style, Dr. R. T. Kendall helps you learn how to take control of the words you speak. He brings you straight to the Bible to identify characters who spoke without thinking as examples of how not to do things, demonstrating conclusively through their lives that, even when you fail, God will use you as He used them.,

The Tongue of Adam

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224945
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tongue of Adam by : Abdelfattah Kilito

Download or read book The Tongue of Adam written by Abdelfattah Kilito and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.

The Prodigal Tongue

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524704881
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis The Prodigal Tongue by : Lynne Murphy

Download or read book The Prodigal Tongue written by Lynne Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and what different things we mean when we say estate, frown, or middle class. Is anyone winning this war of the words? Will Yanks and Brits ever really understand each other?

Adam's Tongue

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Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429930292
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Adam's Tongue by : Derek Bickerton

Download or read book Adam's Tongue written by Derek Bickerton and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton's lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.

Native Tongue

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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307767426
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Native Tongue by : Carl Hiaasen

Download or read book Native Tongue written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way....

Hold Your Tongue

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Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780201550443
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Hold Your Tongue by : James Crawford

Download or read book Hold Your Tongue written by James Crawford and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial book about the politics of language is a passionate plea for the power of American diversity.

Understanding Tongues

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Publisher : Amazing Facts
ISBN 13 : 9781580192149
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Tongues by : Doug Batchelor

Download or read book Understanding Tongues written by Doug Batchelor and published by Amazing Facts. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we expect from an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? Is it always associated with a manifestation of the gift of tongues? Find out the answers to these questions and many others in this dynamic little book.

Tongue-tie

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ISBN 13 : 9780984544509
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Tongue-tie by : Alison K. Hazelbaker

Download or read book Tongue-tie written by Alison K. Hazelbaker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Silence Is My Mother Tongue

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451298
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis Silence Is My Mother Tongue by : Sulaiman Addonia

Download or read book Silence Is My Mother Tongue written by Sulaiman Addonia and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.

Tongue-Tied

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Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590565959
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Tongue-Tied by : Nguyen, Hanh

Download or read book Tongue-Tied written by Nguyen, Hanh and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words matter: they mold and mirror our values and our reality. And so it is with the language we use to think and talk about species other than our own. In Tongue-Tied, Hanh Nguyen unpacks the many metaphors, meanings, and grammatical formulations that speak to and echo our physical exploitation of other-than-human animals, and shows how they constrain our abilities to relate to our animal kin fairly and honestly. Full of subtle insights and richly suggestive observations, and drawing from Nguyen’s own cross-cultural experiences, Tongue-Tied offers a glimpse of a language that is freed from euphemistic self-deception, one that accepts definition without limitation and difference without hierarchy.

Mother Tongue

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Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother Tongue by : Joel Davis

Download or read book Mother Tongue written by Joel Davis and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "presents the latest and most controversial research from the origins of language itself to the way the human brain makes and stores it, as well as how infants create it."--Jacket.