Watch Your Language

Author : Terrance Hayes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780593511855

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Watch Your Language by Terrance Hayes Pdf

“Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres.” —The Washington Post From the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry—to be published simultaneously with his latest poetry collection, So to Speak Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brilliant contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development. Proceeding from Toni Morrison's aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in Playing in the Dark ("I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography"), Watch Your Language charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. "If you don't see suffering's potential as art, will it remain suffering?" he asks in one of the lively mock poetry exam questions of this musing, mercurial collection. Hayes's astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet's routes, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.

Author : Rob Kendall
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781786787910

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Watch Your Language by Rob Kendall Pdf

The most accessible and practical book on the market about improving your personal and professional conversations, by internationally respected conversation expert Rob Kendall. Watch Your Language makes good communication easy, offering a huge range of case studies, easy-to-absorb concepts such as the Bad Place and the Tangle, and a unique "talking heads" page design that dissects examples of problematic conversations. It explains exactly why our daily conversations go wrong, how to respond when they do and provides tips on how to stop them from deteriorating in the first place. Communications expert Rob Kendall draws on over 30 years of experience to reveal: How to avoid conversations escalating into destructive arguments How to prepare for and conduct challenging conversations How to avoid defensiveness and emotional lockdown How to read the warning signals that a conversation is going off-track Short digestible chapters look at a wide variety of conversational scenarios, showing how to have rewarding and effective interactions with everyone in your life – from your partner, parents and children to your colleagues, boss and neighbours.

Author : Johnny Joe Gallagher
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781462039753

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Watch Your Language by Johnny Joe Gallagher Pdf

This fun book is about words: their origins, histories, surprises, colorful use and misuse. It may alter your mental landscape for several months or less.

Author : David J. Peterson
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780143126461

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The Art of Language Invention by David J. Peterson Pdf

From language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative gui de to language constructio, offering an overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien's creations and Klingon to today's thriving global community of conlangers. He provides the essential tools necessary for inventing and evolving new languages, using examples from a variety of languages including his own creations.

Author : Frederick Bodmer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 039330034X

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The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer Pdf

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.

Author : Robert M. Gorrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106010332721

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Watch Your Language! by Robert M. Gorrell Pdf

A playful celebration of the joys and power of language.

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780393245875

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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky Pdf

A 2015 James Beard Award Finalist: "Eye-opening, insightful, and huge fun to read." —Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like "rich" and "crispy," zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a microuniverse of marketing language on the back of a bag of potato chips. The fascinating journey through The Language of Food uncovers a global atlas of culinary influences. With Jurafsky's insight, words like ketchup, macaron, and even salad become living fossils that contain the patterns of early global exploration that predate our modern fusion-filled world. From ancient recipes preserved in Sumerian song lyrics to colonial shipping routes that first connected East and West, Jurafsky paints a vibrant portrait of how our foods developed. A surprising history of culinary exchange—a sharing of ideas and culture as much as ingredients and flavors—lies just beneath the surface of our daily snacks, soups, and suppers. Engaging and informed, Jurafsky's unique study illuminates an extraordinary network of language, history, and food. The menu is yours to enjoy.

Author : Debra Leventhal
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0140563156

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What Is Your Language? by Debra Leventhal Pdf

Emphasizes that many different languages are spoken in different parts of the world, giving examples from French and German to Arabic and Spanish.

Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512477566

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My Language, Your Language by Lisa Bullard Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! There's a new girl in Romelie's class named Camila. Camila speaks Spanish, and she's teaching it to Romelie. That gets Romelie thinking. What other languages do people speak? Her own family uses English and American Sign Language. Her mom's friend knows Somali and Arabic. Can Romelie discover more languages in her city? How are they like her own? How are they different? A diverse cast gives multiple points of comparison.

Author : Sterling Johnson
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781429997508

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Watch Your F*cking Language by Sterling Johnson Pdf

Let the squeamish beware! Watch Your F*cking Language takes a no-holds-barred approach to taboo words and expressions. It shows you how to use them to your advantage -- and have fun doing so. Building on the lessons learned in English as a Second F*cking Language, this book emphasizes traditional English swears as well as powerful (and hidden) expressions from other cultures and languages. Through numerous examples, it puts the real language of real people into context: FLOYD: I just heard a Dan Quayle speech. It was really f*cking confusing. RUBY: I just got back from a Mongolian cluster f*ck. It was really confusing f*cking. The name of the game is communication, and Watch Your F*cking Language shows readers how to hammer home their messages with confidence and gusto. Among its features: *Numerous examples of proper (and so-called improper) usage *An Idioms section that emphasizes the niceties of swearing *A "Need to Know, "Nice to Know," and "Forget It" system for identifying swear words *A Final F*cking Exam

Author : Jim Tobin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466844735

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The Very Inappropriate Word by Jim Tobin Pdf

Michael loves interesting words (hard words like ELASTIC, little words like VAST, and big words like SMITHEREENS) and is always on the lookout for words to collect. Then one day, he picks up a new word. A bad word. An inappropriate word. At least, that's what his friend says. But Michael kind of likes the word. He thinks he might try it out. At school. Bad idea.

Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781324005926

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The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner Pdf

Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight—whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language from his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names buried in the archives of Harvard’s Widener Library, that his own grandfather had been a committed Nazi who despised this "language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with an adventurous foray into the mysteries of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original narrative. In a language born of migration and survival, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential in our volatile present.

Author : Theodore Menline Bernstein
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X000005043

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Watch Your Language by Theodore Menline Bernstein Pdf

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199361601

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The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter Pdf

Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John McWhorter argues that while this idea is mesmerizing, it is plainly wrong. It is language that reflects culture and worldview, not the other way around. The fact that a language has only one word for eat, drink, and smoke doesn't mean its speakers don't process the difference between food and beverage, and those who use the same word for blue and green perceive those two colors just as vividly as others do. McWhorter shows not only how the idea of language as a lens fails but also why we want so badly to believe it: we're eager to celebrate diversity by acknowledging the intelligence of peoples who may not think like we do. Though well-intentioned, our belief in this idea poses an obstacle to a better understanding of human nature and even trivializes the people we seek to celebrate. The reality -- that all humans think alike -- provides another, better way for us to acknowledge the intelligence of all peoples.

Author : Mary O'Maolmhuire
Publisher : Gill Education
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : English language
ISBN : 0717137163

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Watch Your Language! by Mary O'Maolmhuire Pdf

Tackles the difficulties many second level students have with grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary.