French For Non Frog Speakers

Author : Myriam Esther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692026886

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French for Non-Frog Speakers by Myriam Esther Pdf

Myriam Esther, French native, created her own successful tutoring agency in London. During her career she trained many teachers in her method. School managers who employed her services to train their teachers sought her unique expertise. Myriam Esther had been successfully tutoring the children of the elite for 15 years in London, UK. She taught French to adults and children of all ages, preparing them to earn top grades to Common Entrance (11 years old), G.C.S.E (16 years old), AS-level (17 years old), A-level (18 years old), G.C.E (18 years old), French I, French II, AP French, SAT (18 years old) and university exams. This book is also an excellent source to prepare for the MTEL in French or other educator licensure tests in this subject. She was the top tutor in London, UK, with a waiting list. People achieved great success in their exams thanks to her exceptional way of teaching. Myriam encompassed in this book all you need to achieve top marks on your French exams and to achieve fluency. French for non-frog speakers is a gold mine for any student or teacher. Oral, verbs, grammar, translations and corrections for all topics, formal and informal letters, essays on contemporary subjects, for and against essays on controversial issues and much more. Everything you need to be fluent in French and get top marks on your exams is in this 416 page book. There is no other book like this one on the market.

Author : Philippe Schlenker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262371773

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What It All Means by Philippe Schlenker Pdf

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth. We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how meaning works, from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music. He shows that these extraordinarily diverse types of meaning can be studied and compared within a unified approach—one in which the notion of truth plays a central role. “It’s just semantics” is often said dismissively. But Schlenker shows that semantics—the study of meaning—is an unsung success of modern linguistics, a way to investigate some of the deepest questions about human nature using tools from the empirical and formal sciences. Drawing on fifty years of research in formal semantics, Schlenker traces how meaning comes to life. After investigating meaning in primate communication, he explores how human meanings are built, using in some cases sign languages as a guide to the workings of our inner “logic machine.” Schlenker explores how these meanings can be enriched by iconicity in sign language and by gestures in spoken language, and then turns to more abstract forms of iconicity to understand the meaning of music. He concludes by examining paradoxes, which—being neither true nor false—test the very limits of meaning.

Author : Adam Bednarek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443814553

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Studies in Canadian English by Adam Bednarek Pdf

This publication focuses on vocabulary, which reflects unique Canadian traits; elements that share not only a Canadian origin but also reference to everyday contexts present on both the micro and macro stage. The conducted study aimed to show variation on the lexical level, which may result from a fluid sense of national identity. The Toronto region, due to its extensive multi-cultural and multi-ethnic background bears a sense of diversity both on the social and linguistic ground. The conducted study involved the distribution of questionnaires, which tested speakers’ knowledge of Canadian register, their ability of using them in the context of everyday discourse and the identification of items. Furthermore, the author had obtained two years worth of texts from the Toronto Sun, which enabled the observation of Canadianisms within the written medium of a media context. The resulting data formed a database labeled by the author as the LCTES (Lodz Corpus for Toronto English Study).

Author : Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265364

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Motion and Space across Languages by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano Pdf

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.

Author : National Library of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Cataloging
ISBN : UOM:39015064381760

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Bibliotech by National Library of Canada Pdf

Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521851923

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Introducing Semantics by Nick Riemer Pdf

An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.

Author : Ruth Berman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295002

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Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence by Ruth Berman Pdf

This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of “later language development”. Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research, it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse, conversational interactions and monologic text construction, and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish as well as English cover varied domains: morphology and lexicon, syntax and verb–argument structure, as well as peer interaction, spelling, processing of on-line writing, and reading poetry. The epilogue suggests explanations for the findings documented. Across the book, the authors show how cognitive and social maturation combines with increased literacy in the path taken by schoolchildren and adolescents towards the flexible deployment of a growing repertoire of lexical elements in varied morpho-syntactic constructions and different discourse contexts that constitutes the hallmark of maturely proficient language use.

Author : Alberto Hijazo-Gascón
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110721072

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Moving Across Languages by Alberto Hijazo-Gascón Pdf

The book analyzes the complex relationship between languages in the bilingual mind with a focus on motion event typology and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language (L2). The author starts out by examining L1 patterns which are transferred to less complex L2 systems. The data discussed was elicited by German learners of Spanish. A similar transfer is observed when L1 is typologically and genetically close, as in the case of French and Italian learners of Spanish. Furthermore, the author clarifies the relevance of intra-typological differences within the same linguistic family, including important differences in the lexicalization patterns of Italian with respect to French and Spanish. The findings contribute to our understanding of the field of motion event typology and thinking-for-speaking. The book demonstrates that conceptual transfer is present in different aspects of the motion lexicalization domain. Interestingly, there are some challenging aspects both for speakers whose first language is typologically different and for those whose language is typologically close. The book offers suggestions on how these challenges in the restructuring of meaning in L2 can be addressed in language teaching. Specifically, pedagogical translation and mediation present promising pathways to the strengthening of semantic competences in the L2.

Author : William N. Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851097463

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Native American Issues by William N. Thompson Pdf

This handbook provides an unbiased, in-depth assessment of the struggles, successes, and status of Native Americans in what is now the United States from the time of the first European settlers to the present. Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition explores the history, problems, and contemporary issues faced by peoples of Native American heritage. From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the "Twenty Points" platform advanced by the American Indian Movement in the 1970s to the massive budget cuts of the 1980s, readers will discover how the well-being of Native Americans has been affected by federal and state policies. Refocusing the first edition's underlying theme of sovereignty to highlight issues related to community, this extensively updated volume addresses the greatest single change in the condition of Native Americans in the last decade—the proliferation of gambling enterprises. Issues such as land claims, use of natural resources, sacred sites, governments, and stereotyping are examined from the perspective of strengthening community.

Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317436324

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Speaking Canadian English by Mark M. Orkin Pdf

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Author : Jacques Moeschler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394634

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Non-Lexical Pragmatics by Jacques Moeschler Pdf

This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached from the neo- and post-Gricean perspectives. These perspectives, which stem from philosophical theories of meaning, can be viewed as paradigms, that is, sets of concepts, procedures and results which structure scientific investigations. The main purpose of the book is to defend a new post-Gricean approach to the substantial lexicon and to the functional lexicon (tenses, connectives), and more specifically to explore lexical and non-lexical pragmatics. A precise approach to lexical and non-lexical pragmatic contents will be developed, with special emphasis on non-lexical temporal and causal information. A model for inferring temporal relations in discourse (the directional inferences model based on French data) is developed. This approach to temporal representations and inferences will be completed by a discussion on how causal inferences are triggered in discourse interpretation. The role of conceptual causal relations, as well as causal procedural information encoded in discourse connectives (mainly parce que ‘because’, donc ‘therefore’, et ‘and’), is empirically and theoretically supported. Pragmatic theory can be described as a very powerful interface system which gives access to lexical and functional information, and which contains rich pragmatic enrichment processes, for non-lexical information (quantifier, tenses, connectives) as well as for lexical information (event predicates). The book’s originality stems from its demonstration that pragmatic enrichment is structurally constrained, and occurs at the level of explicature.

Author : Diane Lemieux,Juliana Tzvetkova,Culture Smart!
Publisher : Kuperard
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781787023253

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Canada - Culture Smart! by Diane Lemieux,Juliana Tzvetkova,Culture Smart! Pdf

Don't just see the sights&―get to know the people. Unsuspecting outsiders often assume that Canadians are just like their American neighbors, if perhaps a little more modest. However, there is much more to it than that. Canadian society is a complex mosaic of distinct cultural identities that vary from province to province, and with high levels of immigration, it is one of the most multicultural societies in the world. The country's unique development through devolution, rather than revolution, affects the way Canadians view the world and their place in it, and numerous events of the last decade have challenged their self-image and tested its substance. Culture Smart! Canada takes you to the heart of this diverse nation. It unpacks the key chapters in their history, describes the values that Canadians hold dear, and the attitudes that you are likely to encounter. It introduces you to the people and describes their way of life, at home, work, and play. Have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 7703 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317415466

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Routledge Library Editions: The English Language by Various Pdf

This set reissues 29 books on the English language, originally published between 1932 and 2003. Together, the volumes cover key topics within the larger subject of the English Language, including grammar, dialect and the history of English. Written and edited by an international set of scholars, particular volumes employ comparisons with other languages such as French and German, whilst other volumes are devoted to specific English dialects such as Cockney and Canadian English, or English in general. This collection provides insight and perspective on various elements of the English language over a period of 70 years and demonstrates its enduring importance as a field of research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Elocution
ISBN : NYPL:33433082504527

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The Progressive Speaker by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bianca Cepollaro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793610539

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Slurs and Thick Terms by Bianca Cepollaro Pdf

What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers’ moral perspectives, but also contribute to promoting their evaluative stance. She focuses on slurs—the prototypical example of hate speech, including racial and homophobic epithets—and so-called thick terms, that is, those expressions, much discussed in metaethics, that mix description and evaluation such as "lewd," "chaste," "generous," or "selfish." This book argues that in employing such terms, speakers not only say something purely factual about people and things, but also presuppose certain values, as if they were common ground among the conversation participants. Cepollaro illustrates how this linguistic mechanism effectively explains the pervasive social and moral effects of evaluative language. Using a multidisciplinary approach, she tackles issues in philosophy of language, linguistics, ethics, and metaethics. Moreover, the theoretical investigation takes into consideration and discusses empirical data from psychology and experimental philosophy.