Word City, a New Language Tool
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Publisher | : Pilot Light Books |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780960837618 |
Author | : Ross Perlin |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2024-02-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0802162479 |
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. In Language City, Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages against overwhelming odds. Perlin also dives deep into their languages, taking us on a fascinating tour of unusual grammars, rare sounds, and powerful cultural histories from all around the world. Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building. N’ko is a radical new West African writing system now going global in Harlem and the Bronx. After centuries of colonization and displacement, Lenape, the city’s original Indigenous language and the source of the name Manhattan (“the place where we get bows”), has just one fluent native speaker, bolstered by a small band of revivalists. Also profiled in the book are speakers of the Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl, the Central Asian minority language Wakhi, and the former lingua franca of the Lower East Side, Yiddish. A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America’s doors for decades and on the 400th anniversary of New York’s colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of “killer languages” like English and Spanish. Both remarkable social history and testament to the importance of linguistic diversity, Language City is a joyful and illuminating exploration of a city and the world that made it.
Author | : Dorothy Grant Hennings |
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Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
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Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, k, p, e, t.
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Commercial products |
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Author | : Nancy C. Carnevale |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0252090772 |
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.
Author | : American Library Association |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
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Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Education |
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The editorial aim ... is to present ... condensations of ... articles taken from the leading professional and lay publications.
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Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Tim Edensor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1136629750 |
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’. Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters from leading scholars, raising important theoretical issues about cities throughout the world. Past and current conceptual developments are reviewed and organized into four parts: ‘De-centring the City’ offers critical perspectives on re-imagining urban theoretical debates through consideration of the diversity and heterogeneity of city life; ‘Order/Disorder’ focuses on the political, physical and everyday ways in which cities are regulated and used in ways that confound this ordering; ‘Mobilities’ explores the movements of people, ideas and policy in cities and between them and ‘Imaginaries’ investigates how urbanity is differently perceived and experienced. There are three kinds of chapters published in this volume: theories generated about urbanity ‘beyond the West’; critiques, reworking or refining of ‘Western’ urban theory based upon conceptual reflection about cities from around the world and hybrid approaches that develop both of these perspectives. Urban Theory Beyond the West offers a critical and accessible review of theoretical developments, providing an original and groundbreaking contribution to urban theory. It is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in urban studies, development studies and geography.