Globish

Author : Massimo Laganà
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781527529434

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Forms of Reduced English by Massimo Laganà Pdf

This book illustrates the objectives and assumptions—as well as the construction techniques and the structure—of some of the most interesting forms of reduced English, including Basic English, Special English, Plain English, Simplified English, Easy English, Specialized English, Nuclear English, Globish, and Basic Global English. Although they have different cultural approaches and are aimed at communication purposes which are not always homogeneous and are sometimes divergent, all the studies underpinning these projects share a common goal: bearing in mind the globalization processes of the contemporary world, their primary aim is to use English as a starting point from which to build a language tool to be employed as a lingua franca for effective and adequate international communication in economic, scientific, and cultural fields. The book is primarily intended for students and scholars interested in the various attempts that have been made to simplify the English language in order to make it universally available for a simple, effective and global communication.

Author : Mark Abley
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307368249

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The Prodigal Tongue by Mark Abley Pdf

The Prodigal Tongue takes a look at the wild, wacky and sometimes baffling road our language–English and others–is taking in its evolution. Where in the world will it end up?! Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, has created an entertaining and informative exploration of the way that languages–English, Japanese, French, Arabic and other major tongues–are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers during the twenty-first century. Grammar and vocabulary are just the beginning; more importantly, this book is about people. In places like Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore and Oxford, Abley encounters hip-hop performers and dictionary makers, bloggers and translators, novelists and therapists. He talks to a married couple who were passionately corresponding online before they met in “meatspace.” And he listens to teenagers, puzzling out the words they coin in chatrooms and virtual worlds. Everywhere he goes, he asks what the future is likely to hold for the ways we communicate. Abley balances a traditional concern for honesty and accuracy in language with an untraditional delight in newly minted expressions. Lively, evocative, passionate and playful, this is a book for everyone who cherishes the words we use.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004420939

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Deterritorializing Language, Teaching, Learning, and Research by Anonim Pdf

Drawing on the conceptual repertoire of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, new lines of thoughts are generated in this book on how research and educative practices can be transformed to reimagine second language teaching, learning, and research.

Author : Jean-Paul Nerriere,David Hon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0578028794

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Globish the World Over by Jean-Paul Nerriere,David Hon Pdf

"I must congratulate you on GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER. It's a pioneering text of great importance, full of enthralling insights for native and non-native English users alike." -- Robert McCrum, author, The Story of English and Literary Editor, London Observer. Globish, as a concept, takes to task the world hegemony of arrogant English-speakers. Hence the landmark book Don't Speak English - Parlez Globish became a best-seller in French, and other languages, but it never appeared in English. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER is the first book written in Globish-English. Non-native English speakers from non-Anglophone countries use English better between themselves than with any native English speaker. Globish codifies their very efficient "similar limitations." The word Globish may strike English-speakers as an "odd" way to rename their English. However billions of speakers in Brazil, Russia, India and China will be the new "owners" of what the world is now calling Globish. The implications are far-reaching. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER discusses this phenomenon, and demonstrates that Globish - as a deliberate and sufficient subset of English for international communication - is limited more by a person's communication ability than by mere words.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introducing a framework for strategy by The Open University Pdf

This 10-hour free course demonstrated how the processes of analysing, choosing and implementing strategy are interrelated and iterative.

Author : Riccardo Roni
Publisher : Universitas Studiorum
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788833690001

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Mantua Humanistic Studies. Volume II by Riccardo Roni Pdf

The present book is the second volume of “Mantua Humanistic Studies” series, which is devoted to collect studies, proceedings, and papers in the field of Humanities. Table of Contents: An essay on compared Anglophone communication: speaking Glob(al Engl)ish, by Sabrina Mazzara. Modernismo artistico e letterario: il caso di “In Parenthesis” (1937) di David Jones, by Virginia Vecchiato. A Reconstructive Hypothesis of the Palace-Mosque Complex in the Round City of al-Manṣūr in Baghdād, by Michelina Di Cesare. Masjidu-hu wa masākinu-hu: “His Mosque and His Dwellings”. New Perspectives on the Study of “the House of the Prophet” in Madīna, by Aila Santi. “But like to Wolves on one another fly” (Iliad, XI, v. 74). Hobbes, l’Iliade e la guerra civile inglese, by Raffaella Santi. Stock or Shares? Creditors or Accounts Payable? Overheads or Overhaead? Stock or Inventory? L’importanza di una buona competenza linguistica nel curriculum aziendale e del manager moderno, by Elena Maria Montagna. The Nature and Dynamics of Socio-Economic Paradigms, by Sara Casagrande. La qualità della democrazia. Il concetto e il campo semantico, by Ciro D’Amore. La qualità della democrazia: le dimensioni empiriche, by Ciro D’Amore.

Author : Simon Oakes
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781510402225

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Geography for the IB Diploma Study and Revision Guide HL Core Extension by Simon Oakes Pdf

Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with these year round course companions; provides comprehensive content on all topics, and practice questions to support and strengthen learning. - Develop understanding and knowledge with clear and concise coverage of the syllabus - Target learning with individual books for Standard and Higher level - Consolidate revision and check understanding with a range of exam practice questions - Practise exam technique with tips from examiners throughout on how to tackle questions - Focus revision with key terms and definitions listed for each topic/sub topic Answers are free online at www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras

Author : Jonathon Keats
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199750931

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Virtual Words by Jonathon Keats Pdf

The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat) enter our language? In Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Jonathon Keats, author of Wired Magazine's monthly Jargon Watch column, investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced tech-driven use-it-or-lose-it society. In 28 illuminating short essays, Keats examines how such words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why some, like blog, succeed while others, like flog, fail. Divided into broad categories--such as commentary, promotion, and slang, in addition to scientific and technological neologisms--chapters each consider one exemplary word, its definition, origin, context, and significance. Examples range from microbiome (the collective genome of all microbes hosted by the human body) and unparticle (a form of matter lacking definite mass) to gene foundry (a laboratory where artificial life forms are assembled) and singularity (a hypothetical future moment when technology transforms the whole universe into a sentient supercomputer). Together these words provide not only a survey of technological invention and its consequences, but also a fascinating glimpse of novel language as it comes into being. No one knows this emerging lexical terrain better than Jonathon Keats. In writing that is as inventive and engaging as the language it describes, Virtual Words offers endless delights for word-lovers, technophiles, and anyone intrigued by the essential human obsession with naming.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781408816844

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The Last Word by Ben Macintyre Pdf

'A sprinkling of delightful nuggets about the uses and abuses of the English Language' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year '[There are] myriad delights in Ben Macintyre's musings on language' The Times, Books of the Year _____________________ Do you know your geek-speak from your geek-chic? Ever wanted to put Humpty Dumpty together again? Can you distinguish Spanglish from Chinglish? We adapt words from other languages, from slang, from developments in science, literature and art. Learn the advantages of having your own signature word; why the lifts in the House of Commons have posh accents; and discover the discreet art of the loophemism. Witty and utterly delightful, The Last Word will tease, tickle and tantalise those who enjoy all things lexical.

Author : Jon Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000368208

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Understanding Cultural Geography by Jon Anderson Pdf

This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the ‘culture wars’ that define our time. It is on the battleground of culture that our opportunities, rights, and futures are determined and Understanding Cultural Geography showcases how this discipline can be used to understand these battles and how we can engage in them. Through doing so, the book not only introduces the reader to the rich and complex history of cultural geography, but also the key terms on which the discipline is built. From these insights, the text approaches place as an ‘ongoing composition of traces’, highlighting the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the world around us, and what our role can be in transforming it for the better. The third edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate recent literature and reflect the changing cultural context of its time. Retaining its exciting and innovative structure, the third edition will expand its focus into new areas, including updated chapters on ethnicity and race, and new chapters on gender and the body. This new edition captures not only recent changes in the cultural world, but also the discipline itself, offering the most up-to-date text to understand and engage with the cultural battlegrounds which constitute our lives. Understanding Cultural Geography is the ideal text for students being introduced to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses. The third edition is an important update to a highly successful text that incorporates a vast foundation of knowledge; it is an invaluable book for lecturers and students.

Author : Jonathan Meades
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781783529513

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Pedro and Ricky Come Again by Jonathan Meades Pdf

This landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life. Thirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: ‘When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.’ Pedro and Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier, and just as impervious to taste and manners. It bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence, whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or hymning the virtues of slang. From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word ‘iconic’, to John Lennon’s shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, concrete, politics and much, much more.

Author : Simon Oakes
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781398371095

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Geography for the IB Diploma HL Core Extension: Prepare for Success by Simon Oakes Pdf

Support your students to achieve their best grade with the ultimate course companion; providing clear and concise explanations of all syllabus requirements, with exam practice questions to check understanding and consolidate revision. - Fully prepare for the final assessment with examiner advice on how to approach and explore each topic, including additional top tips and common mistakes. - Practice and revise effectively from a range of strategies and a variety of high achieving example answers. - Focus revision by using key terms with definitions listed for each topic and subtopic of the course. - Answers available to download for free: www.hoddereducation.co.uk/ib-extras

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195368000

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Experience, Evidence, and Sense by Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

Anna Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words--evidence, experience, and sense--are linchpins for whole networks of meanings, and that penetrating the meanings of such key words can open our eyes to an entire cultural universe.

Author : J. P. Davidson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780141968933

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Planet Word by J. P. Davidson Pdf

Unravel the mysteries of language with J.P. Davidson's remarkable Planet Word. 'The way you speak is who you are and the tones of your voice and the tricks of your emailing and tweeting and letter-writing, can be recognised unmistakably in the minds of those who know and love you.' Stephen Fry From feral children to fairy-tale princesses, secrets codes, invented languages - even a language that was eaten! - Planet Word uncovers everything you didn't know you needed to know about how language evolves. Learn the tricks to political propaganda, why we can talk but animals can't, discover 3,000-year-old clay tablets that discussed beer and impotence and test yourself at textese - do you know your RMEs from your LOLs? Meet the 105-year-old man who invented modern-day Chinese and all but eradicated illiteracy, and find out why language caused the go-light in Japan to be blue. From the dusty scrolls of the past to the unknown digital future, and with (heart) the first graphic to enter the OED, are we already well on our way to a language without words? In a round-the-world trip of a lifetime, discover all this and more as J. P. Davidson travels across our gloriously, endlessly intriguing multilingual Planet Word. John Paul Davidson is a film and television director and producer. After studying at Bristol University and completing his doctoral field work in The University of Malysia, he joined the BBC's Travel and Exploration Unit as their resident anthropologist. Stephen Fry's film, stage, radio and television credits are numerous and wide-ranging. He has written, produced, directed, acted in or presented productions as varied as Wilde, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Fry's English Delight and QI. After writing many successful books, his recent memoir The Fry Chronicles was a number one bestseller.

Author : Suman Devi
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789356322158

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Evolution of English in India with Reference to Phonetical Changes by Suman Devi Pdf