Author: Karel van Lerberghe
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042907195
Size: 54.22 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
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Languages And Cultures In Contact

by Karel van Lerberghe, Languages And Cultures In Contact Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Languages And Cultures In Contact books, This volume contains 33 papers presented at the 42th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held at the University of Leuven in July 1995. The main purpose of the conference on Languages and Cultures in Contact was to focus on contacts and exchanges between the various cultures in the Syro-Mesopotamian realm by re-evaluating the geographical limits of 'Mesopotamian' civilization to include the Upper- and Middle-Euphrates regions of Syria. These proceedings cover areas of research in the fields of philology, archaeology and history alike. They bring together essays on a great number of topics, including comparative linguistics, the spread of literacy and administrative practices, cultural exchanges, diffusion and acculturation. Finally the book contains reports on current excavations and surveys in the Ancient Near East.

Author: Dieter Buttjes
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853590702
Size: 72.95 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Mediating Languages And Cultures

by Dieter Buttjes, Mediating Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Mediating Languages And Cultures books, The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience

Author: Karen Risager
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1853598585
Size: 54.83 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Language And Culture

by Karen Risager, Language And Culture Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Language And Culture books, The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.

Author: François Grosjean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198754949
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A Journey In Languages And Cultures

by François Grosjean, A Journey In Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download A Journey In Languages And Cultures books, This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism. Francois Grosjean takes us through his life, from his monolingual childhood in a small village outside Paris to the long periods of time he spent in Switzerland, England, France, and the United States, becoming bilingual and bicultural in the process. During his life, his dominant language has changed many times between English and French, and he has also acquired, and subsequently lost, other languages, including American Sign Language. Throughout the book, he combines his personal accounts and anecdotes with insights from and reflections on his extensive scholarly research in bilingualism and biculturalism, which has, in turn, been heavily influenced by his own experiences. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will appeal to general readers interested in bilingualism and language contact, educators and parents of bilingual children, researchers working on bilingualism, and to bilinguals themselves.

Author: Anuradha Dingwaney
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974681
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Between Languages And Cultures

by Anuradha Dingwaney, Between Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Between Languages And Cultures books, Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.

Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599719
Size: 20.28 MB
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Emotions Across Languages And Cultures

by Anna Wierzbicka, Emotions Across Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Emotions Across Languages And Cultures books, This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.

Author: Guntars Dreijers
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
ISBN: 3732904296
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Pages : 338
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Bridging Languages And Cultures

by Guntars Dreijers, Bridging Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Bridging Languages And Cultures books, Translation Studies already face new tasks in order to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment, in order to seek new approaches and tools for description, analysis and teaching activities. This volume of selected papers of the conference Bridging Languages and Cultures brings together current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; it provides both specific focus on certain aspects and developments and a more general overview of research landscape. Distinguished authors discuss translation of LSP texts, lexicological and lexicographic modules of bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic and interactional aspects of translation, and intercultural phenomena in the context of translation.

Author: Mohammad Ali Jazayery
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110864355
Size: 59.97 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 807
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Languages And Cultures

by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Languages And Cultures books, This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé.

Author: María A. Gómez-González
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027254192
Size: 77.40 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Languages And Cultures In Contrast And Comparison

by María A. Gómez-González, Languages And Cultures In Contrast And Comparison Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Languages And Cultures In Contrast And Comparison books, This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of 'home' and 'abroad', the development of children's emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

Author: Luna Filipovi?
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027223912
Size: 18.76 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Space And Time In Languages And Cultures

by Luna Filipovi?, Space And Time In Languages And Cultures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Space And Time In Languages And Cultures books, This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.