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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone likes to think they know a bit about language: There are some words that you simply can't translate into English. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. A dialect is inferior to a language. The problem is, none of these statements are true. In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics. By the end of...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Think about the game charades. Its rules are simple: no talking, of course, and little else. Each time we play with a new group, we have to figure each other out, with our different styles, backgrounds, and senses of the world, as we struggle to connect how we would act out something (say, Christopher Columbus crossing the Atlantic) with how other people might understand it. But as we play, a lingo can develop-with time, an upheld hand, bobbing along,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages. But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some of which have only recently come to light. And these forces continue
...Author
Publisher
Melville House Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The ticket to traveling the world without leaving the comforts of home. This book covers everything you ever wanted to know about foreign languages but were afraid it would take a lifetime to find out, such as, why Icelandic speakers must decide if the numbers one through four are plural; which language is the only one lacking verbs; and just what, exactly, the Swedish names of IKEA products mean.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Geary's adept explication of the metaphor's role in defining perceptions analyzes how metaphors are used in advertising, scientific discoveries, economics, and politics, as well as how metaphors play in conceptual comprehension and long-term memory.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right - in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is Anū in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese. And Arı in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--
11) Gibberish
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K & 1
Back-to-School Picture Books: 2022
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Back-to-School Picture Books: 2022
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
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Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sounds like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that...
Author
Series
Jose and el perro volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jos�e is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A user-friendly, concept-first approach to ESL helps you learn to read, write and speak English quickly and easily As part of our new Must Know series, Must Know High School ESL makes sure what you really need to know is clear up-front. Rather than starting with goals to be met like other study guides, chapters begin with the must know ideas, or concepts. The chapter then shows you how these important concepts will help you succeed in your studies....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more filled with wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores certain ways in which such changes - both of which defied previously settled norms of political speech - have been brought about. Jennifer Saul shows that two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role. Some dogwhistles (such as "88,"...
17) My heart beats
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A photographic board book that features the sounds of heartbeats from around the world."--
Author
Publisher
Blue Dot Kids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a new friend arrives who doesn't speak your language? A young girl searches for the words to help her friend feel welcome and happy in her new home, and along the way learns about differences and similarities in countries and words. The two forge a strong bond while they each learn the other's language, exploring the world around them."--Publisher marketing.
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