Book Description
Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108832962
Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108967507
Why do Greek lorries have Metaphorés written on the side? Is it grammatically correct to say 'the best team won' after a football match? What is the difference between manly, male, masculine and macho? Bringing together Peter Trudgill's highly popular columns for the New European, this fascinating collection explores how English has been influenced, both linguistically and culturally, by its neighbouring languages in Europe. English is very much a European language and Trudgill delves in to the rich linguistic legacy that links all European languages. The bite-sized pieces are grouped together in thematically arranged sections, to allow the reader to dip in and out at will, and cover a wide range of topics, from the etymology of words, to illuminating pieces on grammar. Written in an engaging and lively style, and full of intriguing facts about language and languages in Europe, this book will appeal to both language specialists and to general readers with no prior experience.
Author : Cecilio Lapresta-Rey
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788923324
This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings (Andorra, Asturias, the Basque Country, Catalonia, England, Finland, France, Latvia, the Netherlands and Romania) and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and legislative and political processes and how languages are handled within the system, stressing the challenges and opportunities in each area of study. The chapters provide the reader with insights around three key aspects: the management of the guarantee of the rights of regional language minorities; the incorporation of the language background inherited by immigrants living in Europe (whether they are European citizens or not) and the need to promote the learning of international languages. Individually, the chapters offer deep insights into a specific education system and, together, the studies allow for a comparison and holistic understanding of multilingualism in European education.
Author : David Lasagabaster
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853599298
Despite the spread of multilingualism, the number of research studies in multilingual contexts is scarce. This book deals with this question by examining would-be teachers' language use and attitudes, as their influence on future generations can be enormous. The use of the same questionnaire and the same methodology allows the reader to compare the results obtained in different European bilingual contexts, where the presence of diverse foreign languages leads to a situation in which several languages are in contact.
Author : Michael Byram
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847697305
A comparative study of the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages produced by the Council of Europe in 2001, this book asks writers in European countries and countries in the Americas and Asia to explain the influence of the CEFR. For each country there is a policy-maker and an academic perspective.
Author : Marek Kohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0300245149
A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in today’s world In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it’s easy to assume that the need to use more than one language will diminish—but Marek Kohn argues that plural language use is more important than ever. In a divided world, it helps us to understand ourselves and others better, to live together better, and to make the most of our various cultures. Kohn, whom the Guardian has called “one of the best science writers we have,” brings together perspectives from psychology, evolutionary thought, politics, literature, and everyday experience. He explores how people acquire languages; how they lose them; how they can regain them; how different languages may affect people’s perceptions, their senses of self, and their relationships with each other; and how to resolve the fundamental contradiction of languages, that they exist as much to prevent communication as to make it happen.
Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853594847
This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. Without a community of communication, the EU must remain a trading association run in an autocratic way by bilingual patrician technocrats; with a community of communication, the European Union could develop democratic structures and legitimacy and give meaning to its policies of free movement. How to achieve that community of communication is the biggest challenge facing Europe today.
Author : Remi Sonaiya
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1997-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631205101
The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence. The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority. To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History. The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America.
Author : Rosita Rindler Schjerve
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847697348
Expanding on the results of the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book pursues a multi-focal approach which elaborates on European Multilingualism as an ongoing process of shaping policy and generating scientific knowledge.