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Mother Tongues and Nations

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1934078263
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues and Nations written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “native speaker” by historicizing their linguistic development. It shows how the early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race. This ideology invented myths of congenital communities that configured the national language in a symbiotic matrix between body and physical environment and as the ethnic and corporeal ownership of national identity and local organic nature. These ethno-nationalist gestures informed the philology of the early modern era and generated arboreal and genealogical models of language, culminating most divisively in the race conscious discourse of the Indo-European hypothesis of the 19th century. The philosophical theories of organicism also contributed to these ideologies. The fundamentally nationalist conflation of race and language was and is the catalyst for subsequent permutations of ethnolinguistic discrimination, which continue today. Scholarship should scrutinize the tendency to overextend biological metaphors in the study of language, as these can encourage, however surreptitiously, genetic and racial impressions of language.

Mother Tongue

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

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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.

Mother Tongues

Author : Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810141361
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues written by Tsitsi Ella Jaji and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the beginnings and the present; they capture and claim the losses, the ironies, and a poet’s human evolution. Mother Tongues is a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.

Notes on Mother Tongues

Author : Mirene Arsanios
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946433480
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Mother Tongues written by Mirene Arsanios and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Tongues and Nations

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1934078255
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues and Nations written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Linguistics is a series of books that publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighboring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. Bonfiglio examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors "mother tongue" and "native speaker" by historicizing their linguistic development. The early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of language, identity, geography, and ethnicity that configured the national language as originating in the mother-infant relationship, as well as in local organic nature. These insular protectionist strategies generated the philologies of (early) modernity and their genetic and arboreal "families" of languages, and continue today to evoke folkloric notions that configure language ethnically. Scholarly recognition of the biological metaphors that racialize language will help to illuminate persisting gestures of ethnolinguistic discrimination.

Mother Tongues

Author : Barbara Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674011878
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues written by Barbara Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal. The existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate "one" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson asks: Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer.

Mother Tongue and Other Tongues

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

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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.

Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India

Author : Lisa Mitchell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253353017
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India written by Lisa Mitchell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India

My Mother's Tongues

Author : Uma Menon
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536222518
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book My Mother's Tongues written by Uma Menon and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sparkling debut authored by a sixteen-year-old daughter of immigrants, this ode to the power of multilingualism gives voice to the lasting benefits of speaking with more than one tongue. Sumi's mother can speak two languages, Malayalam and English. And she can switch between them at the speed of sound: one language when talking to Sumi's grandmother, another when she addresses the cashier. Sometimes with Sumi she speaks a combination of both. Could it be she possesses a superpower? With awe and curiosity, young Sumi recounts the story of her mother's migration from India and how she came to acquire two tongues, now woven together like fine cloth. Rahele Jomepour Bell's inviting illustrations make playful use of visual metaphors, while Uma Menon's lyrical text, told astutely from a child's perspective, touches lightly on such subjects as linguistic diversity and accent discrimination ("no matter how they speak, every person's voice is unique and important"). This welcome debut, penned when the author was still a teenager, is an unabashed celebration of the gift of multilingualism--a gift that can transport people across borders and around the world.

Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

Author : Giulio C. Lepschy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802037299
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language written by Giulio C. Lepschy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of six scholarly essays on the Italian language, Giulio Lepschy discusses issues ranging from Italian literary and spoken history to prosody and a play of the Italian Renaissance.

A Gathering of Mother Tongues

Author : Jacqueline Johnson
Publisher : White Pine Press
ISBN 13 : 9781877727795
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book A Gathering of Mother Tongues written by Jacqueline Johnson and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third winner of the annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Selected by renowned Native American poet Maurice Kenny.

Mothertongues

Author : Eliza Bell
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1761043552
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Mothertongues written by Eliza Bell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell decide to take a risk: to co-write a book about early motherhood. Off-colour, offbeat, off their heads, they begin - but then, what is motherhood if not messy, non-linear, multi-authored and potty mouthed?What results is songs, memoir, fiction, drama, poetry, letters, pregnant and lactating AI assistants texting each other. Together, Dovey and Bell create a collage of absurd mothering, failing mothering and moving mothering. They salvage the scraps of each other's lives to imagine themselves into a future where women don't always have to choose between Art and Motherhood.After all: these mothers are tired. They are busy. They are lucky. They talk. Perform. Categorise. Clown. They do sad dinner cabaret. They do heroic odyssey. They do motherhood the musical. They do it badly, they do it well, they do it and they do it, and they keep on doing it as women do: comically, communally, creatively. No bells and whistles, no false cheer. Motherhood as a fever-dream fantasia, a poker-faced, tragic extravaganza.Funny, thoughtful, vulnerable and disturbingly familiar, Mothertongues up-ends a genre and speaks motherhood anew.

Your Mother's Tongue

Author : Stephen Burgen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756774622
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Your Mother's Tongue written by Stephen Burgen and published by . This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely funny history of so-called bad language by a European author. He asserts that Europeans try to get along but keep treading on each other's toes. In this tour of anger, exasperation, prejudice, irony and loathing as expressed in some 20 European tongues, we learn that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another. A single currency in Europe? Yes. A common language? Not on your life. The Guardian review states that the book's "His gently comic tone recognizes how funny, how much of a release, much bad language can be." "Entertaining, widely informed."

Mother

Author : Claudia O'Keefe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671529986
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Mother written by Claudia O'Keefe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Higgins Clark, Amy Tan, Joyce Carol Oates and Maya Angelou are among the gifted writers who share their personal reflections on mother in this exceptiolnal collection of fiction, essays and poetry. From a woman's choice to become a mother to the inner workings of a mother's relationship with her children, the full cycle of motherhood is brought to life in these touching works.

The Joy Luck Club

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101502738
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Mother Tongues and Other Tongues

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004711600
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues and Other Tongues written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Simona Gallo and Martina Codeluppi, Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Creating and Translating Sinophone Poetry analyzes contemporary translingual Sinophone poetry and discusses its creative processes and translational implications, along with their intersections. How do self-translation and other translingual practices mold the Sinophone poetic field? How and why do contemporary Sinophone writers produce (new) lyrical identities in and through translation? How do we translate contemporary Sinophone poetry? By addressing such questions, and by bringing together scholars, writers, and translators of poetry, this volume offers unique insights into Sinophone Studies, while sparking a transdisciplinary dialogue with Poetry Studies, Translation Studies and Cultural Studies.

The Mother Tongue

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062417444
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Mother Tongue written by Bill Bryson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.