Righting The Mother Tongue

Author : David Wolman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780061369254

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“A funny and fact-filled look at our astoundingly inconsistent written language, from Shakespeare to spell-check.” —St. Petersburg Times David Wolman explores seven hundred years of trial, error, and reform that have made the history of English spelling a jumbled and fascinating mess. In Righting the Mother Tongue, the author of A Left-Hand Turn Around the World brings us the tangled story of English Spelling, from Olde English to email. Utterly captivating, deliciously edifying, and extremely witty, Righting the Mother Tongue is a treat for the language lover—a book that belongs in every personal library, right next to Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, and the works of Bill Bryson and Simon Winchester.

Author : Sarah Louise Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469629911

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The Mother Tongue ; Book One by Sarah Louise Arnold Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:83143651

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The Mother Tongue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Louise Arnold,George Lymann Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : English language
ISBN : UIUC:30112081455237

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The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold,George Lymann Kittredge Pdf

Author : Sarah Louise Arnold,George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0649652568

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The Mother Tongue. Book I. Lessons in Speaking; Reading and Writing English. [1901] by Sarah Louise Arnold,George Lyman Kittredge Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : English language
ISBN : LCCN:02020254

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The Mother Tongue: Lessons in speaking, reading and writing English, by S.L. Arnold and G.L. Kittredge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049201747

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The Mother Tongue: Lessons in speaking, reading and writing English, by S. L. Arnold and G. L. Kittredge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : English language
ISBN : IND:30000120337708

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The Mother Tongue: Lessons in speaking, reading and writing English, by Sarah L. Arnold and G. L. Kittredge; ed. for the use of English schools, by J. W. Adamson by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Greaves,Monique De Mattia-Viviès
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009034623

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Language Learning and the Mother Tongue by Sara Greaves,Monique De Mattia-Viviès Pdf

Innovative and interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the role of the mother tongue in second language learning. It brings together contributions from a diverse team of authors, to showcase a range of Francophone perspectives from the fields of linguistics, psychology, cross-cultural psychiatry, psychoanalysis, translation studies, literature, creative writing, the neurosciences, and more. The book introduces a major new concept: the (M)other tongue, and shows its relevance to language learning and pediatrics in a multicultural society. The first chapter explores this concept from different angles, and the subsequent chapters present a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, including counselling case studies, literary examples and creative plurilingual pedagogies, to highlight how this theory can inform practical approaches to language learning. Engaging and accessible, readers will find new ideas and methods to adopt to their own thinking and practices, whether their background is in language and linguistics, psychiatry, psychology, or neuroscience.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062417442

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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Pdf

“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.

Author : John Hays Gardiner,George Lyman Kittredge,Sarah Louise Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : English language
ISBN : IND:30000118287477

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The Mother Tongue by John Hays Gardiner,George Lyman Kittredge,Sarah Louise Arnold Pdf

Author : Robert M. Gorrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015032948419

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Watch Your Language! by Robert M. Gorrell Pdf

A playful celebration of the joys and power of language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:16668867

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The Mother Tongue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen May
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460283431

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Mother Tongue by Helen May Pdf

In Mother Tongue, Helen May brings us the courageous and compelling story of Madelaine, a Scottish girl born in South Africa on the brink of World War II and the apartheid era. Raised by the Zulu people who work in her family’s household and on the farm, Madelaine speaks Zulu and learns from them valuable messages about kindness and survival. When she attends the village school, she is punished for her friendship with the Zulu, thus beginning a lifelong, soul-searching journey towards practicing kindness and forgiveness in a world torn by prejudice. Her travels take her across the world, to Rio de Janeiro, to a long and adventurous drive north to Vancouver and the eventual disillusion of an ill-fated marriage. Even in Canada, she witnesses the deep scars of racism and colonization, and eventually turns her gaze back to her homeland, where she must answer a spiritual debt for those who taught her her mother tongue. In a novel about the hardships of identity and one’s duty to humanity, Mother Tongue is an emotional tour de force. Using her astounding ability to tell stories embedded with both personal and globe-spanning insights, Helen May guides the reader through a series of soul-searching epiphanies. The result is an image of a world healed, piece-by-piece, by the transformative power of compassion.

Author : Tania Romanov
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781609521288

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Mother Tongue by Tania Romanov Pdf

What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov’s story. Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the lives of three generations of women—Katarina, Zora, and Tania—over the last 100 years. It follows countries that dissolved, formed, and reformed. Lands that were conquered and subjugated by Fascists and Nazis and nationalists. Lives lived in exile, in refugee camps, in new worlds. What language did you speak with your mother? What language did you speak with your father? What language did you speak with your brother? For Tania Romanov there are three different answers to those questions. Did you speak your mother tongue with anyone except your mother? That is the most bizarre question of all. But for Tania Romanov, the answer is no. She spoke a unique language with her mother, one in which she is still fluent. And by the way, it was not her mother’s native language. The language is Serbian. Tania’s mother was Croatian. Her father was Russian. Tania was born in Serbia, but left when she was six months old. She and her brother grew up in San Francisco speaking English. She didn’t speak any language until she was two. Tania doesn’t know why she spoke Serbian, rather than Croatian, with her mother Zora. It never occurred to her to ask until she started writing her memoir. And by then, her mother was gone. The country of birth listed on Tania’s American passport changed four times in four successive renewals. Until the first time, she believed your country of birth was a fixed point. Today she knows better. Go with her as she journeys through time and history looking for answers, and finding some.