Foreign Languages category: 16981 books
Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily
Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely...
Preparing Modern Languages Students for 'Difference'
Going beyond Graduate Skills
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book informs and encourages aspiring lecturers and teaching staff in Modern Languages who prepare students for using their language skills in and out of the classroom. Drawing on pedagogical, psychological and language-specific concepts of learning, the book illustrates how such concepts can...
Tense and Aspect in English and in German
From a learner's perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: Proseminar I: Contrastive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: As English and German are both Germanic languages they are closely...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.
Telling Stories in Two Languages
Multiple Approaches to Understanding EnglishJapanese Bilingual Children's Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in research on language acquisition in recent decades. Researchers in various fields, such as developmental psychology and psycholinguistics, have investigated bilingual populations from different perspectives in order to understand better...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from genetics, linguistics, and other domains,...
South Caucasus (Transcaucasia) Collection - Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia Languages
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (Including Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
South Caucasus CollectionWelcome to the South Caucasus Language Collection. This collection includes 3 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 Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Learn essential words, phrases...
Two Languages Books - Hansel & Gretel (Translated)
English / Turkish - İngilizce / Türkçe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
- Introduction - This book is designed to help learners of a new language accelerate their learning experience by fully immersing them into their chosen language. No longer does the reader have to stop reading, open a dictionary, look up a particular word and then understand which meaning of the word...
by Vivian W Lee, Joseph Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Learn the wisdom of English speaking and writing from a timeless classic "How to Speak and Write Correctly" by Joseph Devlin (1910). After more than 100 years, the original text is now professionally edited and formatted, with new foreword, introduction, epilogue and FREE infographic by Vivian W....
by Janine Börstler
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: History of English Morphology , language: English, abstract: The Progressive Form is a feature that distinguishes the English...
Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language
Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception...
African Youth Languages
New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Many regional languages across the world are threatened by modernization and urbanization whilst the universal and rapid rise of migration has created new and unprecedented forms of multilingualism. Aspects of education, national policies and attitudes towards minority languages are documented.
Translation and Literature in East Asia
Between Visibility and Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Translation and Literature in East Asia: Between Visibility and Invisibility explores the issues involved in translation between Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as well as from these languages into European languages, with an eye to comparing the cultures of translation within East Asia and tracking...