The Book of Languages

The Book of Languages PDF Author: Mick Webb
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771471558
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.

The Book of Languages

The Book of Languages PDF Author: Mick Webb
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771471558
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.

The Languages of World Literature

The Languages of World Literature PDF Author: Achim Hölter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110641925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 685

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Major Versus Minor?

Major Versus Minor? PDF Author: Theo d' Haen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789027201287
Category : Communication in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In this book, the possible banes and benefits of globalization are illuminated from many different viewpoints by scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.

Languages of the World

Languages of the World PDF Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002788
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.

An Introduction to the Languages of the World

An Introduction to the Languages of the World PDF Author: Anatole Lyovin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195149882
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing. There is an instructor's manual available for registered instructors on the book's companion website.

Atlas of the World's Languages

Atlas of the World's Languages PDF Author: R.E. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317851099
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Book Description
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.

Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish

Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish PDF Author: George L. Campbell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415202961
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.

The Sounds of the World's Languages

The Sounds of the World's Languages PDF Author: Peter Ladefoged
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631198154
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors.

The World's Major Languages

The World's Major Languages PDF Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317290496
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1125

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Book Description
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.

Multiliteracies in World Language Education

Multiliteracies in World Language Education PDF Author: Yuri Kumagai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317566092
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Putting a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners’ primary and target languages. Offering a rich understanding of languages, genres, and modalities as socioculturally situated semiotic systems, it advocates an effective pedagogy for developing learners’ abilities to operate between languages. Chapters showcase curricula that draw on a multiliteracies framework and present various classroom projects that develop aspects of multiliteracies for language learners. A discussion of the theoretical background and historical development of the pedagogy of multiliteracies and its relevance to the field of world language education positions this book within the broader literature on foreign language education. As developments in globalization, accountability, and austerity challenge contemporary academia and the current structure of world language programs, this book shows how the implementation of a multiliteracies-based approach brings coherence to language programs, and how the framework can help to accomplish the goals of higher education in general and of language education in particular.