The Lost Language

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823452507

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The Lost Language by Claudia Mills Pdf

The quest to save the words of a dying language - and to find the words to save what may be a dying friendship - lies at the heart of this exquisite verse novel. Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages, like your mom, you and I SAVED one instead?" As the girls embark on their quest to learn as much as possible of the near-extinct language of Guernésiais (spoken on the Isle of Guernsey, off the coast of France), their friendship faces unexpected strains. With Lizard increasingly obsessed with the language project, Betsy begins to seek greater independence from her controlling and charismatic friend, as well as from her controlling and charismatic mother. Then tragedy threatens Betsy's life beyond what any words can express, and Lizard does something unthinkable. Maybe lost friendships, like lost languages, can never be completely saved. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : David Leavitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620407035

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The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt Pdf

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own problems: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to the family is Philip's father's own struggle with his suppressed homosexuality, realized only in Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's revelation to his parents leads his father to a point of crisis and provokes changes that forever alter the landscape of the family's lives.

Author : Stephen Harrod Buhner
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781890132880

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The Lost Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner Pdf

This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts: A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the environment posed by pharmaceuticals and other synthetic substances that people use in connection with health care and personal body care. A new look at Gaia Theory, including an explanation that plants are the original chemistries of Gaia and those phytochemistries are the fundamental communications network for the Earth's ecosystems. Extensive documentation of how plants communicate their healing qualities to humans and other animals. Western culture has obliterated most people's capacity to perceive these messages, but this book also contains valuable information on how we can restore our faculties of perception. The book will affect readers on rational and emotional planes. It is grounded in both a New Age spiritual sensibility and hard science. While some of the author's claims may strike traditional thinkers as outlandish, Buhner presents his arguments with such authority and documentation that the scientific underpinnings, however unconventional, are completely credible. The overall impact is a powerful, eye-opening expos' of the threat that our allopathic Western medical system, in combination with our unquestioning faith in science and technology, poses to the primary life-support systems of the planet. At a time when we are preoccupied with the terrorist attacks and the possibility of biological warfare, perhaps it is time to listen to the planet. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the environment, the state of health care, and our cultural sanity.

Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134506354

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Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men by Paul Baker Pdf

Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a shared gay identity and worldview among its speakers. This book examines the ways in which Polari was used in order to construct 'gay identities', linking its evolution to the changing status of gay men and lesbians in the UK over the past fifty years.

Author : Harold Bayley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : UOM:39015028552803

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The Lost Language of Symbolism by Harold Bayley Pdf

Author : Harold Bayley
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Printers' marks
ISBN : 9781585093090

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The Lost Language of Symbolism by Harold Bayley Pdf

Symbols tell a story but we must first know how to read them. Otherwise, one just sees a picture without the intended message. There is a wealth of information to be found - Bayley was a true master in etymology/word origins. This book stands well on its own and Volume One does not have to be read first in order to understand it.

Author : Lesley M. M. Blume
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781452103501

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Let's Bring Back by Lesley M. M. Blume Pdf

An illustrated A-to-Z tribute to old-fashioned items worth rediscovering: “Wistful . . . charming . . . like a stroll down memory lane.” —Elle Whatever happened to cuckoo clocks? Or bed curtains? Why do we have so many “friends” while doing away with the much more useful word “acquaintance”? All of these things, plus hot toddies, riddles, proverbs, corsets, calling cards, and many more, are due for a revival. Throughout this whimsical, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of nostalgia, Lesley M.M. Blume breathes new life into the elegant, mysterious, and delightful trappings of bygone eras, honoring the timeless tradition of artful living along the way. Inspired by her much loved Huffington Post column of the same name and featuring entries from famous icons of style and culture, Let’s Bring Back leads readers to rediscover the things that entertained, awed, beautified, satiated, and fascinated in eras past. “Witty . . . recommended reading.” —Country Living “If you’re feeling lousy and you read this book, it awakens you to things that have made you happy in your life. It reminds you of a time when certain things ideas, gestures got you through . . . and revels in an idea of life that’s lived in 3-D, not 2-D.” —Sally Singer, editor, T: The New York Times Magazine

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : English language
ISBN : IND:30000118366594

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The Lost Beauties of the English Language by Charles Mackay Pdf

Author : Katja Hannss
Publisher : CNWS Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9057891581

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Uchumataqu by Katja Hannss Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive grammatical description of Uchumataqu, the language of the Uru of Lake Titicaca in north-western Bolivia. Uchumataqu forms part of the isolated language family Uru-Chipaya but has been influenced to differing degrees by Aymara, Quechua, and Spanish. The Uchumataqu language became extinct around 1950. Although several researchers had documented the language during the first half of the twentieth century, much of the material remained unstudied. This book is the first to take into consideration every previous study of the Uchumataqu language. The grammatical description is based on former publications and archive material and seeks to describe Uchumataqu as comprehensively as possible. It includes a description of the phonological system of Uchumataqu as well as a presentation of its morphological processes. The nominal and verbal systems are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the complex person-marking system of Uchumataqu, of which person-marking clitics are a vital part that distinguishes Uchumataqu from the neighbouring Aymara and Quechua language. Another important issue are nominalisation and subordination strategies as well as adjectives which form a word class of its own. The relationship of Uchumataqu with the surrounding Aymara and Quechua language, and particularly the way in which influence on Uchumataqu was exerted, are described in detail. The appendices contain a transcription of the afore unpublished manuscripts of Max Uhle and Walter Lehmann on Uchumataqu as well as a comparative and diachronic dictionary. This book is aimed at linguists from all disciplines but is of equal interest to anthropologists, Americanists, historical linguists, typologists, and linguists with a special interest in Andean studies. It is not only an important contribution to the study of Andean languages and their interrelationship, but also an account for the descendants of the last Uchumataqu speakers of their lost language.

Author : Emma Serl
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Primary Language Lessons by Emma Serl Pdf

The object of this little volume is to lead children of the second and third grades into the habit of speaking and writing the English language correctly. To accomplish this, the author has prepared a drill book which emphasizes the reproduction of many of the short stories current in our literature, and also introduces practice exercises to familiarize the pupils with correct forms. Beginning with simple, graduated exercises, they are continued fill a general principle is inductively reached. It is assumed that the child will learn to speak and write correctly, by imitation, if the proper forms are presented to him. Accordingly much attention is given in this book to expressions frequently misused, as for example, troublesome verb forms. The lessons are designed, as well, to awaken and sustain children’s interest in natural objects, and to put them in sympathetic relations with living things. The author has written from the standpoint of the child, and in language that the child can readily comprehend.

Author : Alonzo L. Gaskill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 160908912X

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The Lost Language of Symbolism by Alonzo L. Gaskill Pdf

Author : Chris Roberts
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843178255

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Lost English by Chris Roberts Pdf

In the last thirty years or so a large number of once commonplace words, phrases and expressions have disappeared without trace from common usage. And with them, too, have gone a number of goods, services and everyday objects that were once an important part of our everyday lives. Where did they go and why? Lost English takes a look at how our language has changed and how the pace of modern life, the influence of American culture, changes in the country's sociological formation and rapid advances in technology have made once common words obsolete. Includes: 'Charlie's dead' - a euphemism used to tell a girl that her petticoat is showing . 'dekko' - take a quick look or glance . 'brilliantine' - men's hair dressing product . 'Nippy' - the name given to waitresses in Lyons Corner Houses. Lost English illuminates all these terms and many more. It's a fantastic gift for all those interested in history and the English language and a fascinating look at times past.

Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107149939

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The Wonders of Language by Ian Roberts Pdf

A lively and thought-provoking introduction to the main discoveries and theories about the nature and wonder of language.

Author : Hakan Seyalioglu,Kathryn Hymes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999870017

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Dialect by Hakan Seyalioglu,Kathryn Hymes Pdf

Author : K. David Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195372069

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When Languages Die by K. David Harrison Pdf

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. This text focuses on the question: what is lost when a language dies?