Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Author: Edward Bellamy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Utopias
ISBN: 9781492149248

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".

Multiple Perspectives on Language Play

Multiple Perspectives on Language Play
Author: Nancy Bell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501503960

Interest in language play and linguistic creativity has increased in recent years, and the topic has been taken up from a variety of perspectives. In this book, disparate approaches to the topic are brought together, demonstrating that a number of phenomena whose similarities might not have been immediately recognized, have an academic home under the umbrella of language play and linguistic creativity. The contributions to this collection illustrate the variety of questions that can be asked regarding the social, cognitive, emotional, political, and cultural mechanisms and significance of innovative linguistic practices and point to new directions of inquiry. Furthermore, the work exemplifies a variety of ways in which this research can be carried out, as well as the range of contexts in which it might be investigated, including second language classrooms, online settings, and workplaces. Taken together, the chapters serve to illustrate the range of work that we will be accepting in the Language Play and Creativity series; viewed individually, each makes a unique contribution to some aspect of our understanding of creative language use.

Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts
Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853596469

This volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable.

Backwards and Forwards

Backwards and Forwards
Author: David Ball
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1983
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780809311101

"Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts

Historical Romance Linguistics

Historical Romance Linguistics
Author: Randall Scott Gess
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027247889

This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five 'major' Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. An introduction by the eminent Romance Linguist Jürgen Klausenburger addresses the fit of these studies in the overall development of the field of historical Romance linguistics since the 19th century. The studies in this volume demonstrate an organic link between Malkiel's (1961) 'classic' definition of Romance linguistics and the field of Romance linguistics today, because just as scholars of the field in the 19th century successfully applied the dominant paradigm of (historical) linguistics of their time, Neogrammarian theory, so do the authors contained in the present volume avail themselves of current linguistic advances to achieve equally significant results.

Talking about Domestic Abuse

Talking about Domestic Abuse
Author: Professor Audrey Mullender
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2006-06-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1846425336

Talking about Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of nine years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their mothers about their distressing experiences. Based on the authors' work with families who have experienced domestic abuse, the activities are designed around four important themes: building self-esteem; naming feelings; facilitating communication between mothers and children; and talking about personal experiences, including domestic violence, and are accompanied by photographs which act as prompts for discussion. The authors explain the need of young people to communicate with their parents about painful memories. They also establish practical 'ground rules' on how mothers can enter into that communication successfully and how to make the most of the activities provided. Further information is also given on support services that are available to families coping with domestic abuse. This will be an essential tool for families including young people who have lived through domestic abuse, as well as social workers and other professionals working with them.

The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s

The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s
Author: Michaël Abecassis
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783039102600

This study is based on an analysis of videos and transcripts of five films Fric-frac, Circonstances atténuantes, Le Jour se lève, La Règle du jeu and Hôtel du Nord. These films are examples of planned and artificial language. The book looks at the evidential value of these data and assesses the extent to which stereotyped and scripted language can contribute to an understanding of spoken Parisian usage by looking at phonetics, syntax, discourse, lexis and pragmatics. By comparing traditional research carried out by scholars in the nineteenth century and earlier with Parisian data collected and analysed by twentieth-century researchers, the work attempts to identify the salient features that both script-writers and actors in these films considered to be characteristic of social-group differences at that time.