The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia's North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia.
Help kids ages 3 to 5 build self-awareness and emotional regulation through fun activitiesLittle ones can have a lot of big feelings and learning how to identify and regulate them is a key part of development.
Celebrating the diverse languages of Australia's First Peoples, this book presents stories told by elders in eighteen languages from around the continent, and explores their patterns of meaning.
Un ensayo tan apasionante como sorprendente sobre lenguas inventadas: esperanto, volapuk, klingon, lojban, bliss… por el que desfilan poetas talentosos, reyes perseverantes, gente perdida, invisible y perseguida, robots y criminales, héroes y salvadores del mundo y personajes tan dispares como Kafka, el rey Gigamesh, Landolfi o Werner Herzog.
Translation as a Cognitive Activity provides an overarching account of translation as a cognitive activity, from the pioneering use of think-aloud protocols as a sole technique used to investigate the translation process in the mid-1980s to the latest developments in the field.
Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality.
First Published in 1959 The history and origin of language deals with one of the most important and most fascinating subject matter of all human historical problems-that of the origin and development of language.
This innovative, accessible book is an introduction to using digital storytelling in language teaching, with a focus on English as an Additional Language (EAL) instruction.
This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts.
Over the last twenty years, the rise of Qur'anic studies has been one of the most remarkable developments within the wider framework of Islamic scholarship.
This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations.
With help from a global cast of scholars, Kumiko Murata explores the remodelling of the discipline of applied linguistics, which traditionally regarded Anglophone native-speaker English as the standard for English as a lingua franca (ELF).
This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European "e;refugee crisis"e;, by leading theorist, Teun A.
This is a book in the classical Quaestiones genre, like the Tusculanae Quaestiones ("e;Tusculan questions"e;) of Cicero (around 45 BCE) and the Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate ("e;disputed questions on truth"e;) of St.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly affected by globalization and internationalization, with implications for language use, teaching and learning in their academic communities.
Este homenaje a Ann Borsinger investiga aplicaciones de la lingüística sistémica funcional al análisis de discursos en contextos educativos y de divulgación de la ciencia y es un aporte a la comprensión de la enseñanza, la lectura y la escritura.
The 8th edition of this bestselling text provides a framework and instructional strategies for identifying, selecting, and teaching high-quality children's literature for ages 0-8.
This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change.
Entre modernisme nordique, références allemandes et tradition russe, le goût de l’étranger a poussé les Finlandais à se rendre à Paris à partir des années 1880.
Issu d’un travail scientifique dans le domaine de la sociolinguistique urbaine, ce livre a pour principal objet l’étude contextualisée des graffitis de la révolution tunisienne entre 2011 et 2014.
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use.
Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.