Book Description
Contains over 4,900 definitions. Includes a guide to pronunciation, stresses, and tone changes as well as useful phrases and proverbs.
Author : Ernest E. Heimbach
Publisher : SEAP Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : 9780877270751
Contains over 4,900 definitions. Includes a guide to pronunciation, stresses, and tone changes as well as useful phrases and proverbs.
Author : Ernest E. Heimbach
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Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Hmong language
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Author : Ernest E. Heimbach
Publisher :
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Hmong language
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Author : Ernest E. HEIMBACH
Publisher :
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Hmong language
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Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
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ISBN : 9783110124217
Author : Franz Josef Hausmann
Publisher :
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1989-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824812072
Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pictographic, ideographic, logographic, or morphemic, and defends his conclusion that because of these misrepresentations, the nature of all writing continues to be misunderstood. Using the writing systems of Sumerian, Egyptian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Mayan, and English, among others, to illustrate his points, Dr. DeFrancis stresses their basic identity as representatives of visible speech, while noting their secondary differences as manifested in their diverse script forms. He proposes a new classification of writing systems based on this theme of diversity and oneness, and makes an impassioned case for the essential phonetic component of all writing. This book reflects the author's sound scholarship and novel insights, which place it in the forefront with such classics on writing as those by Gelb, Diringer, Cohen, Février, and Jensen. The readable style aims at a general audience interested in understanding the nature of the symbols that first strike the eye, while the academic research involved makes it an indispensable work for scholars in the many fields related to language and linguistics.
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Copyright
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Author : Vincent K. Her
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0873518551
Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, citizens of the Western world, the stories of the Hmong who now live in America have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past several decades. Like any immigrant group, members of the first generation may yearn for the past as they watch their children and grandchildren find their way in the dominant culture of their new home. For Hmong people born and educated in the United States, a definition of self often includes traditional practices and tight-knit family groups but also a distinctly Americanized point of view. How do Hmong Americans negotiate the expectations of these two very different cultures? This book contains a series of essays featuring a range of writing styles, leading scholars, educators, artists, and community activists who explore themes of history, culture, gender, class, family, and sexual orientation, weaving their own stories into depictions of a Hmong American community where people continue to develop complex identities that are collectively shared but deeply personal as they help to redefine the multicultural America of today.