Foreign Languages category: 16981 books
A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus
The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach supplemented by a consideration of their historical and cultural context. The focus is on furthering our knowledge of the non-Greek...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and...
Japanese Language
Learn the Fascinating History and Evolution of the Language Along With Many Useful Japanese Grammar Points
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This is a book about the structure, history and evolution of the Japanese language.
The Japanese Language is a classic study of one of the world's most widely used but least understood languages. Emphasizing the richness and complexity of Japanese as well as its limitations, this fine book...
The Aesthetics of Grammar
Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The languages of mainland Southeast Asia evidence an impressive array of elaborate grammatical resources, such as echo words, phonaesthetic words, chameleon affixes, chiming derivatives, onomatopoeic forms, ideophones and expressives. Speakers of these languages fashion grammatical works of art in...
by Evelyn Schmitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (IEAS), course: Hauptseminar HS Content and Language Integrated Learning, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1Introduction The focus...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
This publication of Army Regulation AR 11-16, Army Programs – Army Foreign Language Program 23 August 2013, is a rapid action revision. This rapid action revision is effective 23 September 2013. The portions affected by this rapid action revision are listed in the summary of change.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages...
by Fiona McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
A new type of dictionary. An indispensable reference for language learners within the Indo-European language family, as well as for any who love words and want to deepen their understanding of English, or any of these other languages.
This dictionary records words from 32 languages, covering...
Bringing Our Languages Home
Language Revitalization for Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana...
Communicating with Asia
The Future of English as a Global Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a number of national, regional or lingua franca...
Foreign Accent
The Phenomenon of Non-native Speech
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
To what extent do our accents determine the way we are perceived by others? Is a foreign accent inevitably associated with social stigma? Accent is a matter of great public interest given the impact of migration on national and global affairs, but until now, applied linguistics research has treated...
West Africa Collection (14 Languages)
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in West Africa (Including Bambara, French, Hassaniya Arabic, Hausa, Jahanka, Jola, Mandinka, Moore, Pulaar, Soninke, Twi, Wolof and Zarma)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
West Africa CollectionWelcome to the West Africa Collection. This collection includes 14 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to West Africa. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is...
Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages
Discourse-pragmatic perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages focuses ondiscourse-pragmatic studies on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, and also includes studies on deontic modality. The book presents ground-breaking research on the functions and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidential...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This volume provides general linguists with new data and analysis on languages spoken in China regarding various aspects of space and quantification, using different approaches. Contributions by researchers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, the United States and Australia offer insights...