Researching Multilingually
This book examines what 'researching multilingually' means in practice and theory. It is multinational and transnational in scope, including the voices of both experienced and emerging scholars who reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings. Together the chapters address issues including theorizing multilingualism and collaborative research with multilingual scholars and research participants; navigating insider or outsider positioning with research participants; making and accepting language choices among researchers and participants during research; translating and interpreting multilingual data; and confronting policy challenges of multilingual research design and reporting in English-dominant contexts. The book ties these processes to existing theories of multilingualism in research and proposes new ways of understanding best practices while also wrestling with challenges and at times 'failures' in the research process.
Learning English through Skills
Learning English through Skills.A workbook for intermediate ESOL learners. Featuring Grammar, Vocabulary and Employability skills.Each chapter will introduce vocabulary and a grammar gap fill exercise to complete as well as showcasing an employability skills. Answers are found in the back of the book.
Language City
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and--because many have never been recorded--when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. In Language City, Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages against overwhelming odds. Perlin also dives deep into their languages, taking us on a fascinating tour of unusual grammars, rare sounds, and powerful cultural histories from all around the world. Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building. N'ko is a radical new West African writing system now going global in Harlem and the Bronx. After centuries of colonization and displacement, Lenape, the city's original Indigenous language and the source of the name Manhattan ("the place where we get bows"), has just one fluent native speaker, bolstered by a small band of revivalists. Also profiled in the book are speakers of the Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl, the Central Asian minority language Wakhi, and the former lingua franca of the Lower East Side, Yiddish. A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America's doors for decades and on the 400th anniversary of New York's colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of "killer languages" like English and Spanish. Both remarkable social history and testament to the importance of linguistic diversity, Language City is a joyful and illuminating exploration of a city and the world that made it.
Fostering English Language Learners' Speaking Skills
Most of the time, when thinking about learning a foreign language, we immediately think of someone who can provide us with the appropriate tools for learning it successfully: a teacher. If being a teacher means to provide, therefore being a learner probably means to receive. This one-way relationship seems logical and effective at first sight; nevertheless, when this giving-receiving relationship makes the learner a passive actor instead of an active performer of the language, the learning experience is incomplete. This work proposes Project Based Learning (PBL) strategies and Communicative Activities as an effective way to foster English language learners' speaking skills. Framed by the Action Research approach, this study explores the impact that PBL and communicative activities have in student's speaking skills.
Uzbek translation of Korean fairy-tales
The monograph "Uzbek Translation of Korean Fairy Tales" explores the methods and challenges of translating Korean fairy tales into Uzbek. It focuses on capturing cultural elements, especially flora and fauna, that are central to Korean folklore, and discusses how these elements are adapted to resonate with Uzbek readers. This work also highlights the cultural exchanges between Korea and Uzbekistan and offers insights into linguistic and cultural translation issues in rendering Korean literature accessible in Uzbek.
In the Palm of Your Hand
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to write. If you long to create poetry that is magical and moving, this is the book you've been looking for.Here are chapters on the language and music of poetry, the art of revision, traditional and experimental techniques, and how to get your poetry started, perfected, and published. Not the least of the book's pleasures are model poems by many of the best contemporary poets, illuminating craft discussions, and the author's detailed suggestions for writing dozens of poems about your deepest and most passionate concerns.
Promoting Research in Anglophone Studies in Africa
When research findings are successfully valorized, they greatly contribute to the development of communities. Promoting Research in Anglophone Studies in Africa exposes contextual milestones of Anglophone studies in Africa. It highlights the wide range of works produced in literature, linguistics, and didactics within the field of Anglophone Studies. The book discusses the complexities of teaching, learning, and use of English in settings where it is not always the native language. One of its key strengths lies in the fact that the contributors come from a variety of academic backgrounds including literature, culture, didactics, linguistics, translation, etc. This multidisciplinary expertise has contributed, to a large extent, to understanding and solving issues related to diverse challenges involved in valorizing Anglophone Studies within the African context. The book is a collection of selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference organized by the Anglophone Studies Research Team in Togo in June 2024.
Linguocultural and Gender Analysis of the Concept of "Love"
The basic concepts of culture are important in the collective language consciousness. The concept of love is an empirical feeling that occurs in relation to human consciousness. Emotion, on the other hand, is the subjective attitude of an individual to a certain object or phenomenon that has quality and intensity. Love is an intimate and strong feeling towards a person, or a group of people, an idea, or a practical activity.In this monograph, the concept of love and the feeling expressed by this concept was demonstrated through the prism of human linguistic consciousness and the landscape of the emotional world, and the concept of love, through examples of what its subconceptions are made up of, and the concept of love and its subconceptions were determined on the basis of surveys conducted between Uzbek and Russian-speaking people.
Word Order Variation in Italian and Spanish Why-Interrogatives
Questions that are introduced by the wh-element 'why' are special. For instance, in Italian and Spanish, they allow the subject to occur in preverbal position in contrast to other wh-interrogatives. The overall goal of this book is to investigate the syntactic (and discourse) particularities of why-interrogatives in Italian and Spanish. More specifically, based on a parallel corpus study and several experimental studies, the factors that affect subject positioning in why-interrogatives are determined. In Italian, focus plays a determining role, while subject type and the heaviness of the subject affect its position in Spanish. After discussing previous accounts that address the differences between the two languages, an alternative approach is presented that builds on differences in the checking of the extended projection principle. Additionally, the special syntactic position of why is further supported by investigating a so far unnoticed intervening element in the context of why-interrogatives, namely vocatives. Finally, subject positioning in Italian why-interrogatives is examined in heritage bilingualism in order to contribute to the debate on the general vulnerability of the syntax-discourse interface.
Translation and Community
Community, or Public Service, Translation contributes to a more equitable and sustainable community by empowering minority groups such as migrants and refugees and is a growing area for both teaching and research within Translation studies.
Develop Your Character
Bring your characters to life with this comprehensive workbook! Whether you're a seasoned author or just starting out, this guide will help you create well-rounded, dynamic characters that will leap off the page. With a focus on character development, motivations, and unique traits, you'll learn how to build characters that drive your story forward and capture your reader's hearts. Get ready to say goodbye to flat, one-dimensional characters and hello to unforgettable figures that will stay with your audience long after the last page.
Anna de Noailles
In an era of "globalization" of literature and culture, women writers of the late 19th century are no longer of such interest. The aim of this book is to examine the social and poetic implications of a work that has long remained in the shadows.Given that very few people still read the work of Anna de Noailles, this book brings up to date a poetry that may seem old-fashioned today.Anna de Noailles had been so glorified during her lifetime, her contemporaries had shown her excessive admiration; she had also been much caricatured, unfairly, but the memory of a being who was akin to the greatest of her time deserves to be illuminated and relived.Throughout the pages, there is a constant search for and interpretation of the poetic particularities that so well define the cosmopolitan spirit of the poetess of the "Innumerable Heart".
Enabling Learning
Enabling Learning: Language Teaching for Australian Universities illuminates efforts by tertiary language educators to facilitate the learning of languages at the university level. The educators' endeavours recounted in this volume address a range of specific aspects of the language learning experience or language teaching within tertiary education institutions. The chapters offer an overview of learning approaches and experiences, from the beginner to the advanced level, of different learning environments, from the traditional to online and hybrid, and of different languages, from Indigenous to European to East Asian. This work foregrounds the relevance of improved accessibility to language learning in the university context, presents innovative educational solutions informed by the examination of specific contexts, and asserts the importance of developing intercultural competence.
Travellers in the Mediterranean: Linguistic and Cultural Encounters
Spanning a variety of journeys from the nineteenth century to modern times, this collection of essays o ers important insights into cultural encounters, practices and perceptions, as American, Arab, British and French travellers experienced and still experience them in the Mediterranean, and in countries such as Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Through an investigation of travelogues, diaries, letters, novels, poems, tourist guides, and blogs, the authors of this collection navigate the intricate relationship between Self and Other. In so doing, they contribute to a wider understanding of travel - and of writing about travel - in mediating cultural exchange, while shedding light on the major challenges posed by issues of stereotyping and socio-cultural bias.
The Semiotics of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse the meaning-making mechanisms and dynamics that occurred during, and revolved around, the pandemic. Demonstrating the utility of semiotic theory, concepts and analytical methods to make sense of discursive phenomena like those triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores in detail: - the blame-attribution discourses that emerged at the beginning of the pandemic; - how the coronavirus was brought to life in plastic and visual manifestations as a monster that poses a threat to humans; - how the collective actor 'the healthcare workers' was constructed in discourse and axiologised in positive terms; - the semiotics of the body during the pandemic, with a focus on the face, facemasks, social distancing and the uses of the body in online environments; - the idea of a 'new' normality following the pandemic. The book examines different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including examples from Europe, Latin America and the United States and a wide range of images, texts, practices and objects, in order to highlight the importance of its discursive and semiotic nature.
Writing for the Reader's Brain
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands rereading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? What about details you need to reveal but want readers to forget? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and psycholinguistics, this book provides a practical guide on how to write for your reader. Its chapters introduce the five 'Cs' of writing - clarity, continuity, coherence, concision, and cadence - and demonstrate how to use these features to bring your writing to life. This science-based guide also shows you how to improve your writing while also making the writing process speedier and more efficient. Brimming with examples, this humorous, surprisingly irreverent book provides writers with the tools they need to master everything from an email to a research project. If you believe good writers are simply born that way, Writing for the Reader's Brain will change your mind - and, quite possibly, your life.
Language Policy in Action
Language is part of social life, and efforts to control it can be viewed in light of broader struggles for social power around issues like migration, education, class and race. This book explores how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. It conceptualises language policy as a form of discourse management, involving attempts to reorder hierarchies of knowledge, reframe social relationships, control what identities and ideologies may be expressed, and limit who can access particular social spaces. Real-life case studies are included, allowing readers to understand the functioning of language policy in different contexts. A holistic framework is also introduced, showing how language policies are enacted though five key actions: creating, debating, interpreting, enforcing and resisting. Each action is explained with reference to current theories in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and methodological suggestions, discussion questions and examples of further reading are also provided.
Ethical Global Citizenship Education
Global Citizenship Education (GCE) plays a central role within UNESCO's education sector, focusing on cultivating the values and knowledge essential for students to evolve into well-informed and responsible global citizens. This Element conceptualises an ethical GCE framework grounded in critical, cosmopolitan, humanistic, value-creating, and transformative principles. Guided by those principles, ethical GCE goes beyond the banking model of education by emphasising a global ethic. Ethical GCE is inclusive, ethically reflective, and socially responsible. It extends beyond imparting knowledge and employable skills, important as they are, focusing on holistic and sustainable development. With further theoretical development and implementation strategies, the ethical GCE framework holds promise for future research and evaluation of the intricate teaching and learning processes within global citizenship, particularly from a values-based perspective.
Ethical Global Citizenship Education
Global Citizenship Education (GCE) plays a central role within UNESCO's education sector, focusing on cultivating the values and knowledge essential for students to evolve into well-informed and responsible global citizens. This Element conceptualises an ethical GCE framework grounded in critical, cosmopolitan, humanistic, value-creating, and transformative principles. Guided by those principles, ethical GCE goes beyond the banking model of education by emphasising a global ethic. Ethical GCE is inclusive, ethically reflective, and socially responsible. It extends beyond imparting knowledge and employable skills, important as they are, focusing on holistic and sustainable development. With further theoretical development and implementation strategies, the ethical GCE framework holds promise for future research and evaluation of the intricate teaching and learning processes within global citizenship, particularly from a values-based perspective.
Decoding Terrorism
This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introduces a multi-method approach that synchronizes well-established qualitative methodologies for forensic text analysis - genre, text linguistics, appraisal and uptake - to elucidate these data types. Furthermore, a retroactive threat assessment based on language data from the trial transcripts provides a holistic review of the assailant's background, red flags, triggering events and warning behaviors that could have signaled his movements along the pathway to violence. The results are considered in an organizational context to highlight current challenges faced by security agencies when mitigating the risk of lone-actors who radicalize in online environments.
Language Policy in Action
Language is part of social life, and efforts to control it can be viewed in light of broader struggles for social power around issues like migration, education, class and race. This book explores how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. It conceptualises language policy as a form of discourse management, involving attempts to reorder hierarchies of knowledge, reframe social relationships, control what identities and ideologies may be expressed, and limit who can access particular social spaces. Real-life case studies are included, allowing readers to understand the functioning of language policy in different contexts. A holistic framework is also introduced, showing how language policies are enacted though five key actions: creating, debating, interpreting, enforcing and resisting. Each action is explained with reference to current theories in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and methodological suggestions, discussion questions and examples of further reading are also provided.
The Tunisian dialect, prey to a neo-colonial Francophonie
Today, rising illiteracy rates, school drop-outs, falling diploma levels and enslaving economic dependence on Paris contribute to linguistic incompetence and reduced use of the Arabic language of identity. This context facilitates the infiltration of neo-colonial Francophonie into a "corrupted" Tunisian dialect through borrowing, transfer and interference.
Libraries and the Academic Book
This Element explores the history of the relationship between libraries and the academic book. It provides an overview of the development of the publishing history of the scholarly - or academic - book, and related creation of the modern research library. It argues that libraries played an important role in the birth and growth of the academic book, and explores how publishers, readers and libraries helped to develop the format and scholarly and publishing environments that now underpin contemporary scholarly communications. It concludes with an appraisal of the current state of the field and how business, technology and policy are mapping a variety of potential routes to the future.
Decoding Terrorism
This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introduces a multi-method approach that synchronizes well-established qualitative methodologies for forensic text analysis - genre, text linguistics, appraisal and uptake - to elucidate these data types. Furthermore, a retroactive threat assessment based on language data from the trial transcripts provides a holistic review of the assailant's background, red flags, triggering events and warning behaviors that could have signaled his movements along the pathway to violence. The results are considered in an organizational context to highlight current challenges faced by security agencies when mitigating the risk of lone-actors who radicalize in online environments.
Writing for the Reader’s Brain
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands rereading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? What about details you need to reveal but want readers to forget? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and psycholinguistics, this book provides a practical guide on how to write for your reader. Its chapters introduce the five 'Cs' of writing - clarity, continuity, coherence, concision, and cadence - and demonstrate how to use these features to bring your writing to life. This science-based guide also shows you how to improve your writing while also making the writing process speedier and more efficient. Brimming with examples, this humorous, surprisingly irreverent book provides writers with the tools they need to master everything from an email to a research project. If you believe good writers are simply born that way, Writing for the Reader's Brain will change your mind - and, quite possibly, your life.
The Intercultural Dimension in Language Learning: Some Cases Studies
This volume brings together studies which represent current perspectives on second language learning and teaching in relation to language and culture in intercultural contexts. The authors reflect on and analyse a variety of topics such as the significance of recognizing and valuing heritage speakers in intercultural contexts, the role of multimodal mediation strategies in language teaching materials, and the impact of intercultural variation on language assessment. Their contributions provide a unique lens through which we can view the intricate relationship between language and culture in second language settings where learners of different cultural backgrounds are involved. Overall, the chapters contribute to the ongoing scholarly discourse in the field of applied linguistics and language education in intercultural contexts.
William Morris: Acanthus Artisan Art Pocket Notebook (Flame Tree Journals)
New title in the colourful Artisan Art Notebook collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment, crafted with decorated edges and featuring beautiful art on the cover. Artisan Art Pocket Notebooks, the new pocket-size Journals from Flame Tree in a range of hues to suit the moment and featuring magnificent art. They're hand crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns. A unique blend of the practical and beautiful, with two ribbons and lined pages, the Artisan Art Notebooks are perfect for notes, creative writing, poetry, doodles and lists. And, with robust flexi covers, they're easy to slip into your bag, a pleasure to use. Simply, they feel good! Pages are FSC-certified paper. Born in Walthamstow, Essex, William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of us probably know him best, however, from his superb furnishings and textile designs, intricately weaving together natural motifs in a highly stylized two-dimensional fashion influenced by medieval conventions.
The Concept of Nature in Literature
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2, University of M羹nster, language: English, abstract: Ecocriticism is still on its academic margins. Nevertheless, depending on the text one deals with, nature plays a vital role in understanding and analyzing literature.1 The present essay focuses on the views of nature in the short story "The De Wets come to Kloof Grange" by Doris Lessing.2 The Dictionary defines nature as "everything that exists in the world independently of people, such as plants and animals, earth and rocks, and the weather"3. Yet, in order to analyze nature in its literary context, it is important to point out that culture has a great impact on nature and its understanding.4 To analyze the view of nature, it is vital to recognize that the nature-culture distinction is not always absolute and clear cut.5 There is nature, and culture, and states partaking in both. Barry introduces the "outdoor environment [...] [as a] series of adjoining and overlapping areas which move gradually form nature to culture"6. To answer the question how nature is displayed within the story and hence to be able to draw a conclusion from these particular views of nature, different areas will be used to classify nature in its cultural context. Taking Barry's classification7 into account, the view of nature in the story "The De Wets come to Kloof Grange"8 will in the following be associated with three distinctive areas. Area one is referred to as the scenic sublime. It includes, for instance, forests, mountains and rivers. Moreover, there is area two, the countryside, which implies hills, fields, woods, etc. The greatest impact of culture can be found in area three, the domestic picturesque. It describes such things as parks and gardens.
How to write a book in 30 days
Would you like to fulfil your dream of writing a book... and, what's more, learn to do it in just 30 days?Discover the exact method that allowed me to go from writing my first book in 4 years to doing it in less than 30 days.Thanks to this 7-STEP GUIDE you'll be able to finish your book in record time, without relying on willpower alone and without needing to... - ...be a great writer, - ...have a college degree, - ...have a lot of free time, - ...be an expert in your field, - ...What you'll learn from this book: - How to find your motivation. One that's strong enough that you don't have to rely on willpower alone (which guarantees failure). - How to get over writers' block. Discover the main obstacles that may arise along the way, and how to overcome them. - How to find the perfect idea for your book. Even if you thought you were already sure about it. - How to come up with the perfect title. The N簞1 secret to success. A title that wins Amazon over and boosts your sales. - How to write your book in 30 days. I'm going to show you the exact system that enabled me to write this book in under a month and without giving up my day job. - How to edit your book on a budget. Get professional editing at amateur prices. - ...This book is for you if: - You've always wanted to write a book, but it feels like an impossible feat. - You're looking for a new source of income. - You want to be considered an expert on a specific topic. - You want to hook up more without having to sign up for salsa classes;) - ...You can spend the rest of your life thinking about the book you want to write... or you can have your book in your hands in less than 30 days.
Kate Heiss: Sunflower Fields (Foiled Pocket Journal)
A new title in the Flame Tree Pocket Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production. Featuring lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a magnetic side flap. Perfect slipped into handbags, for personal use or as a dazzling gift. A FLAME TREE POCKET NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers, all FSC-certified. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. Kate Heiss is a contemporary British printmaker who creates limited edition screen prints and linocuts on paper. After graduating with an MA in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art in 1997, she worked as a textile designer across a wide range of fashion brands before setting up her own printmaking studio in 2011. Kate creates dynamic and vibrant prints inspired by her love of nature, the flowers and birds in her garden, rural landscapes and her love of bold, colourful floral patterns found in textiles. Her work is handmade in her studio in Hertfordshire and is regularly exhibited across the UK. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges
Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent the history and traditions of his own country, Argentina. His unconventional works appeal to students, who nonetheless can find his richly intertextual prose challenging. Addressing courses in Spanish and in English, this volume offers innovative approaches that help students navigate the texts, engage with them emotionally and creatively, and understand the time and place of their production while connecting them to the present.Part 1, "Materials," provides detailed biographical information about Borges as well as print and digital resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," offer strategies for discussing his writing process, his manuscripts, and the material history and translation of his texts. Contributors also examine Borges's influences, which include film, mythology, history, and ideas of Islam and Judaism; the author's interest in humor and games; and resonances with other literary works.This volume also contains discussion of the following authors and works: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote; Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street, A House of My Own, Loose Woman; Aelius Lampridus, Scriptores Historiae Augustae; Christopher Nolan, Interstellar; Pliny, Naturalis Historia; William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest; Josef von Sternberg, Underworld; S-Town; Orson Welles, Citizen Kane; Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad; The Wizard of Oz.
The Syntactic Process
This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty. In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to construct a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning. The radical nature of Steedman's proposal stems from his claim that much of the apparent complexity of syntax, prosody, and processing follows from the lexical specification of the grammar and from the involvement of a small number of universal rule-types for combining predicates and arguments. These syntactic operations are related to the combinators of Combinatory Logic, engendering a much freer definition of derivational constituency than is traditionally assumed. This property allows Combinatory Categorial Grammar to capture elegantly the structure and interpretation of coordination and intonation contour in English as well as some well-known interactions between word order, coordination, and relativization across a number of other languages. It also allows more direct compatibility with incremental semantic interpretation during parsing.The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields.
Vincent Van Gogh: Caf矇 Terrace (Foiled Quarto Journal)
A new title in the Flame Tree Foiled Quarto Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production: bleed-proof, acid-free FSC pages, a pocket, ribbon bookmarks and a magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift or for all notetakers, list-makers and journal users. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the Foiled Quarto Journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, list-makers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. A NEW SERIES. The Quarto format is named after the earliest form of European printed publication, dating back to the 1400s when Gutenberg invented the first moveable-type printing press, heralding a revolution in mass communication, spreading ideas of literature, science and philosophy of the Renaissance. We celebrate this with our range of fine art and contemporary illustrations. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk, table, in the hand and in your bag. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: the high-quality, 120-gsm lined pages are FSC, Acid Free and Bleed Proof - suitable for all pen types, such as gel and rollerball. A pocket at the back for scraps and receipts, two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list, and a magnetic side flap helps keep everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. In this painting the brightly lit caf矇 radiates with warmth and inviting light, becoming a beacon of yellow set against the rich, dark blue of a night sky, which in turn is illuminated by myriad bright stars. Van Gogh attached the colour yellow to feelings of religious inspiration, light and happiness.
Android, Assembled
Android, Assembled unpacks the phenomenon of social robots-not as monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features (like heads and sensors) and the elements we read into them (like gender and authority). Each chapter explores the philosophical, theoretical, empirical, or technical understanding of discrete robot components to offer a deeper look into how those parts contribute to what social robots are and how humans experience them. Part I (Explicit Anatomy) considers the manifest components of robots-those that make up the physical robot and its capabilities: Shapes, heads, faces, eyes, legs, feet, wings, color, clothing, gestures, postures, speech, text, screens, memory, information, sensors, actuators, organic elements, and distributed elements. Part II (Implicit Anatomy) explores the parts of social robots that humans infer or interpret: Image, interactivity, cuteness, gender, power, authority, membership, cognition, decision-making, aliveness, mindedness, obligations, and ultimately the kind of thing a robot is. Along with the state of the art and science, each author gives a provocation to highlight open questions and possible futures.
Syntactic Structures Revisited
with Marcela Depiante and Arthur StepanovThis book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology. The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions and often unstated formal particulars. From there the book moves to successive theoretical developments and revisions--both in general and in particular as they pertain to inflectional verbal morphology. After comparing Chomsky's economy-based account with his later minimalist approach, the book concludes with a hybrid theory of English verbal morphology that includes elements of both Syntactic Structures and A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory.Current Studies in Linguistics No. 33
How to publish a book without a bloodsucking publisher
Would you like to self-publish your book with maximum chances of success without having to rely on a publishing house?Discover the exact method that allowed me to go from publishing my first book in just over 6 months to doing it in less than a week and with better results thanks to self-publishing on Amazon.With the help of this 7-STEP GUIDE you can publish your book in record time and without needing to... - ...rely on what a publisher says or thinks, - ...pay to get your book published, - ...worry about finding your first readers, - ...What you'll learn from this book: - How to avoid falling into "the publishers' scam". If they ask you for money, they're NOT a publishing house. - How to publish your book without investing a single dollar. - How to design the perfect cover for your book (the one that sells the most!) without having to learn about design. - How to choose keywords so that your customers can find you. - How to set a price for your book. - ...This book is for you if: - You've written a book and don't know how to publish it. - You can't get any publishing house to show an interest in your book. - You've published your book and the results haven't been what you expected. - ...You can keep waiting for years for that publishing house you like so much to agree to publish your book (under tight conditions) ... or you can get your book published and bringing in money by next week.
How to sell a book on Amazon and live off it!
Would you like to earn over $1000 a month, every month, thanks to sales of your book on Amazon?Discover the system that will enable you to create your own retirement fund in under a year and with JUST ONE BOOK.You're probably thinking "this must be a trick". Well, yes, there is a trick to it. The good news is that I'll reveal the whole process for you, step by step, so that you too can apply it.What you are going to learn from this book: - How to escape the rat race with the help of your book. - Why a book is the perfect business. - How to turn your book into a bestseller in under 24 hours. - Why being a bestseller is worthless. - How to turn your bestseller into a longseller that keeps on selling indefinitely. - Why reviews are the key to a book's success or failure. - How to get Amazon reviews continuously and legally. - How to guarantee an income of $1000 a month with the sales from just one book. - How to translate your book for free. - How to sell a premium product without having to create one. - And more...This book is for writers and non-writers of NON-FICTION who want to generate enough passive income to enable them to live off their book(s).This book is for you if: - You dream of becoming a bestselling author. - You want to be able to live off your book(s). - You're tired of your boss and would love to tell him where to go. - You want to guarantee a good retirement fund. - You're looking for a new source of passive income. - You've published a book and the results haven't been what you hoped for. - You don't know how to sell your book. - You need to increase your income. - ...As you'll see, you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain;)
How to write a book in 30 days
Would you like to fulfil your dream of writing a book... and, what's more, learn to do it in just 30 days?Discover the exact method that allowed me to go from writing my first book in 4 years to doing it in less than 30 days.Thanks to this 7-STEP GUIDE you'll be able to finish your book in record time, without relying on willpower alone and without needing to... - ...be a great writer, - ...have a college degree, - ...have a lot of free time, - ...be an expert in your field, - ...What you'll learn from this book: - How to find your motivation. One that's strong enough that you don't have to rely on willpower alone (which guarantees failure). - How to get over writers' block. Discover the main obstacles that may arise along the way, and how to overcome them. - How to find the perfect idea for your book. Even if you thought you were already sure about it. - How to come up with the perfect title. The N簞1 secret to success. A title that wins Amazon over and boosts your sales. - How to write your book in 30 days. I'm going to show you the exact system that enabled me to write this book in under a month and without giving up my day job. - How to edit your book on a budget. Get professional editing at amateur prices. - ...This book is for you if: - You've always wanted to write a book, but it feels like an impossible feat. - You're looking for a new source of income. - You want to be considered an expert on a specific topic. - You want to hook up more without having to sign up for salsa classes;) - ...You can spend the rest of your life thinking about the book you want to write... or you can have your book in your hands in less than 30 days.
How to sell a book on Amazon and live off it!
Would you like to earn over $1000 a month, every month, thanks to sales of your book on Amazon?Discover the system that will enable you to create your own retirement fund in under a year and with JUST ONE BOOK.You're probably thinking "this must be a trick". Well, yes, there is a trick to it. The good news is that I'll reveal the whole process for you, step by step, so that you too can apply it.What you are going to learn from this book: - How to escape the rat race with the help of your book. - Why a book is the perfect business. - How to turn your book into a bestseller in under 24 hours. - Why being a bestseller is worthless. - How to turn your bestseller into a longseller that keeps on selling indefinitely. - Why reviews are the key to a book's success or failure. - How to get Amazon reviews continuously and legally. - How to guarantee an income of $1000 a month with the sales from just one book. - How to translate your book for free. - How to sell a premium product without having to create one. - And more...This book is for writers and non-writers of NON-FICTION who want to generate enough passive income to enable them to live off their book(s).This book is for you if: - You dream of becoming a bestselling author. - You want to be able to live off your book(s). - You're tired of your boss and would love to tell him where to go. - You want to guarantee a good retirement fund. - You're looking for a new source of passive income. - You've published a book and the results haven't been what you hoped for. - You don't know how to sell your book. - You need to increase your income. - ...As you'll see, you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain;)
Facing the Lion
The third volume in the Writers on Life and Craft Series. Ellen Bryant Voight, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.
Kate Heiss: Sunflower Fields (Foiled Quarto Journal)
A new title in the Flame Tree Foiled Quarto Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production: bleed-proof, acid-free FSC pages, a pocket, ribbon bookmarks and a magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift or for all notetakers, list-makers and journal users. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the Foiled Quarto Journals combine high-quality production and FSC pages with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, list-makers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. A NEW SERIES. The Quarto format is named after the earliest form of European printed publication, dating back to the 1400s when Gutenberg invented the first moveable-type printing press, heralding a revolution in mass communication, spreading ideas of literature, science and philosophy of the Renaissance. We celebrate this with our range of fine art and contemporary illustrations. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3D masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk, table, in the hand and in your bag. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: the high-quality, 120-gsm lined pages are FSC, Acid Free and Bleed Proof - suitable for all pen types, such as gel and rollerball. A pocket at the back for scraps and receipts, two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list, and a magnetic side flap helps keep everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. Kate Heiss is a contemporary British printmaker who creates limited edition screen prints and linocuts on paper. Kate creates dynamic and vibrant prints inspired by her love of nature, the flowers and birds in her garden, rural landscapes and her love of bold, colourful floral patterns found in textiles. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Ashmolean Museum Set of 3 MIDI Notebooks
Shrink-wrapped set of 3 midi notebooks, each with a different image from the Ashmolean Museum. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. This Ashmolean Museum Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features a collection of three midi, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: Embroidered Hanging with Peacock, Cloisonn矇 Casket with Flowers and Butterflies, and Cranes, Cycads & Wisteria. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford's museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. The beautiful embroidered peacock hanging featured in this notebook set was presented to the Ashmolean Museum in 1958 by Sir Herbert Ingram, who travelled to Japan on his honeymoon in 1908. In Japanese culture the crane represents good fortune and longevity and is known as 'the bird of happiness' - a fitting subject for a newly-married couple. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Self-Publishing Secrets
Would you like to live off the income from your book and tell your boss where to go?Have you written a book but can't get any publishing house to bite?Have you always dreamed of writing a book but think it's impossible?Having achieved great success at an international level with my first book and received the terrible news that my father's retirement pension was going to be less than 600 a month, I became obsessed with the idea of finding a system that would guarantee anyone who decided to write a book enough passive income to be able to escape the system that my father was forced to endure.Discover the system that will enable you to create your own retirement fund in under a year and with JUST ONE BOOK.You're probably thinking "there has to be a catch". Well, yes, there is. The good news is that I'm going to detail the entire process to you, step by step, so that you too can apply it.In this 100% practical guide, you'll discover: - How to write your book in less than 30 days.- How to self-publish your book with publishing house quality - without needing a publishing house.- How to secure a retirement fund with just one book and in under a year.- And much, much more.This book is for you if: - You would like to write a book, but you don't know what to write about or where to start.- You dream of becoming a bestselling author.- You're wondering whether to find a publishing house or self-publish.- You want to guarantee a decent retirement pension.- You're looking for a new source of passive income.- You'd like to hook up more without having to sign up for salsa classes;)- ...You can spend the rest of your life talking about that book you want, or... you can start by reading Self-Publishing Secrets NOW and turn your life around within a year from now.
How to Set Parameters
Over the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters defined in Universal Grammar. Here David Lightfoot addresses the crucial question of what it takes to set a parameter - of what kind of experience is needed to trigger the emergence of a natural kind of grammar. Lightfoot asserts that parameter setting is not sensitive to embedded material, and that it is triggered only by robust elements that are structurally simple. He observes that morphological properties play a significant role in setting parameters which have widespread syntactic effects. Using evidence from data on diachronic changes and from current work in syntactic theory, Lightfoot makes precise claims about the triggering experience that can explain a number of historical puzzles. He argues that the changes could have taken place in the way they did only if language acquisition proceeds on the basis of simple, unembedded experiences.
Lexicon of the Ideology of Our Colonized Colonized F(ers, Airs)
Kokou Sahouegnon's book is an introduction to lexical semantics and lexicology. Its main objective is the contribution of semantics to the promotion of the lexico-ethnolinguistic and cultural diversity that characterizes Benin.Various notions [b矇ninisme, colinguisme, ethnolinguistics, etc.] lead to a confrontation with those of linguistic meaning. The result is a reflection on the analysis of linguistic interference. Solidly coherent in his approach, Kokou Sahouegnon, while describing the history and society of Benin with perspicacity and broad strokes, acknowledges in the conclusion of his work that the French spoken by our Beninese fathers and fathers conquered its independence through cultural and social crossbreeding. Thanks to a remarkable linguistic approach, the author arrives at these convincing conclusions: the French spoken by our Beninese f(癡res, airs) has been enriched by everything that makes it possible to express the real way of life of the populations, between ethnicity and nation, between tradition and Europeanness, with its Beninisms, enabling them to retain their originality but also to have a sense of belonging to a homeland.
Applying Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale in Nicholas Spark
According to narratologists, Vladimir Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale" is generally recognized as one of the most inspiring contributions to "the understanding of plot structure" (Sundari, 2014, p.1). Therefore, Propp's theory was initially found to analyze Russian folktales. However, some researchers apply it to fairytales, such as Sundari (2014), who used it in "Sleeping Beauty," and Nursantia (2003), who used it in Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness." Salmah (2004) applied Propp's theory to Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" in his thesis. Thus, the lack of using Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale" in studying novels in general and modern fiction in specific inspires the researcher to fill this gap in the study by using Vladimir Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale" on the contemporary novels.
Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.
How to publish a book without a bloodsucking publisher
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