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NTC's multilingual dictionary of American sign language. by Proctor, Claude O.(CARDINAL)358901;
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NTC's multilingual dictionary of American sign language / by Proctor, Claude O.(CARDINAL)358901;
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Fiction.; Controlled vocabularies.; American Sign Language; Sign language.;
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Exophony : voyages outside the mother tongue / by Tawada, Yōko,1960-author.(CARDINAL)683548; Hofmann-Kuroda, Lisa,translator.(CARDINAL)872745;
"Yoko Tawada's first essay collection in English presents an electrifying new side of the National Book Award-winner as she dives deep into her lifelong fascination with cross-hybridizing languages"--Back cover.
Subjects: Essays.; Travel writing.; Language and languages.; Multilingual persons.; Linguistics.; Translating and interpreting.;
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Signing in fourteen languages : a multilingual dictionary of 2,500 American Sign Language words / by Proctor, Claude O.(CARDINAL)358901; McGregor, Tony L.(Tony Landon),1958-(CARDINAL)649197;
Subjects: Dictionaries.; American Sign Language; English language;
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Memory speaks : on losing and reclaiming language and self / by Sedivy, Julie,author.(CARDINAL)865668;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Death -- Dreams -- Duality -- Conflict -- Revival -- Home."As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis"--"As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brain's capacity to learn--and forget--languages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the world's less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom."
Subjects: Informational works.; Language attrition.; Second language acquisition.; Language revival.; Language and languages; Psycholinguistics.; Multilingualism.; Multilingual persons.;
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Languages are everywhere/ by Sims, Nandi,author; Malaski, Catherine,editor;
What is language and why is it important with how we communicate with each other? Learn about different languages, forms of language, and other ways people communicate with one another -- from publisherInterest Grade Level: K-2Rourke Guided Reading Level
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Language and languages; Written communication; Sign language; Multilingual persons; Linguistics; Contrastive linguistics;
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For single mothers working as train conductors / by Wolfson, Laura Esther,author.(CARDINAL)803462;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors -- The Husband Method -- Climbing Montmartre -- Proust at Rush Hour -- "Whose Mom Are You?" -- The Bagels in the Snowflake -- Haunting Synagogues -- The Book of Disaster -- Russian Afternoons -- On the Couch-- Infelicities of Style -- Losing the Nobel -- Other Incidents in the Precinct."Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered. In "Proust at Rush Hour," when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting simultaneous interpreter, she seeks consolation by reading Proust in the original while commuting by subway to a desk job that requires no more than a minimal knowledge of French. In "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors" she gives away her diaphragm and tubes of spermicidal jelly to a woman in the Soviet Union who, with two unwanted pregnancies behind her, needs them more than she does. "The Husband Method" has her translating a book on Russian obscenities and gulag slang during the dissolution of her marriage to the Russian-speaker who taught her much of what she knows about that language. In prose spangled with pathos and dusted with humor, Wolfson transports us to Paris, the Republic of Georgia, upstate New York, the Upper West Side, and the corridors of the United Nations, telling storiesthat skewer, transform, and inspire"--"Winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Wolfson, Laura Esther.; Wolfson, Laura Esther; Divorced women; Jewish women; Multilingual persons; Women authors;
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Trip of the tongue : cross-country travels in search of America's languages / by Little, Elizabeth,1981-(CARDINAL)407328;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.New York City: American -- Montana: Crow -- Arizona: Navajo -- Washington: Lushootseed, Quileute, Makah -- Louisiana: French and Louisiana Creole -- South Carolina: Gullah -- Nevada: Basque -- North Dakota: Norwegian -- Florida: Haitian Creole -- New Mexico: Spanish -- Los Angeles: English.Documents the author's travels throughout the country, where she witnesses firsthand the nation's many cultures and languages and what they say about who we are individually, socially and politically.
Subjects: Americanisms.; Language and culture; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics;
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Wanderers, kings, merchants : the story of India through its languages / by Mohan, Peggy Ramesar,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and index.
Subjects: Indo-Aryan languages, Modern; Indic philology.; Multilingualism;
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Fluent forever : how to learn any language fast and never forget it / by Wyner, Gabriel,author.(CARDINAL)406202;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-384) and index."Gabriel Wyner speaks seven languages fluently. He didn't learn them in school-who does? Rather, he mastered each one on his own, drawing on free online resources, quick daily practice sessions, and his knowledge of neuroscience and linguistics. In Fluent Forever, Gabe shares his foolproof method for learning any language. It starts by hacking the way your brain naturally encodes information. You'll begin by learning how to hear new sounds and training your tongue to produce them accurately. You'll connect spellings and sounds to images rather than rely on translation exercises so that you start thinking in a new language. With the help of spaced-repetition systems, you'll build a foundation for your language in one week and learn hundreds of words a month-with just a few minutes of practice each day. This revised edition also shares fresh strategies that Gabe has refined over years of study. You'll learn how to: Use your interests to curate vocabulary that you'll actually be excited to study; Pick up the subtleties of your target language by conversing with native speakers; Fast-track fluency with a new appendix devoted to conversation strategies with native speakers; Compile the best language-learning tool kit for your budget; Harness the science of motivation and habit building to turbocharge your progress; Find the perfect level of difficultly with reading and listening comprehension to stay engaged and avoid frustration"--
Subjects: Fluency (Language learning); Communicative competence.; Language and languages; Multilingualism.;
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