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China phrasebook & dictionary / by Lonely Planet Global Limited,publisher.(CARDINAL)782901;
Tones -- Alphabet -- Introduction -- Pronunciation -- Language difficulties -- Time & dates -- Border crossing -- Tickets & luggage -- Transport -- Directions -- Accommodation -- Banking & communications -- Sightseeing -- Shopping -- Meeting people -- Photography -- Making conversation -- Feelings & opinions -- Farewells -- Eating out -- Special diets & allergies -- Emergencies -- Health -- Dictionary -- Culture section.Lonely Planet's "China phrasebook & dictionary" is your passport to culturally enriching travels with useful phrases and travel vocabulary from Cantonese, Mandarin, Tibetan, and many more regional dialects. Learn how to make conversation with locals, decode menus, and get familiar with culture and manners to feel at ease throughout your trip!
Subjects: Phrase books.; Multilingual dictionaries.; Dictionaries.; Polyglot glossaries, phrase books, etc.; Chinese language; Chinese language; Mandarin dialects; Cantonese dialects; Southern Min dialects; Hakka dialects; Xiang dialects; Wu dialects; Zhuang language; Mongolian language; Tibetan language; Uighur language; Sino-Tibetan languages; Chinese language; Chinese language; Chinese language; English language; Chinese language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mountain Talk (videodisc) [videorecording] : /
narrated by Gary Carden.Not ratedDigital video disc.
Subjects: Mountain people.; Southern dialect.; Western North Carolina.; .Southern Appalachia.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Mountain Talk [videorecording] : language & life in Southern Appalachia. by Carden, Gary.(CARDINAL)179064; Hutcheson, Neal.;
Camera/editor, Neal Hutcheson.Narrator, Gary Carden."The people of the southern Appalachian Mountains tell the story of their unique linguistic and cultural development, revealing the quick wit, good humor, and rugged persverance that sustained them through centuries. Songs, stories and candid interviews convey the shared sense of place that continues to define the mountain people even as their culture seems to be increasingly absorbed into the modern world"--Container.VHS
Subjects: Americanisms; English language; English language; English language; Figures of speech.; Language and culture; Mountain life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Good morning America [videorecording]. by American Broadcasting Company.(CARDINAL)141080;
ABC's television show, Good Morning America, was filmed in Asheville, NC at the Biltmore Estate. There were segments on religion, furniture making, air pollution, mountain music and southern dialect. The first segment was about the Baptist Church in Asheville with interviews of Rev. John Hewett, First Baptist Church of Asheville and Rev. Billy Cline, Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church. The next segment was on furniture making in the region; with inteviews of Fredd Starr, Thomasville Furniture, Darrel Harris, Furniture Land and others. Darcel Grimes and Bob Bruck were interviewed for the segment on air pollution on Mt. Mitchell. Hunt Mallett, a clogger was interviewed about mountain music and there was a clogging demonstration. The final segment was on southern dialect. Arden Samson was interviewed for that segment.VHS format.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Good morning America [videorecording]. by American Broadcasting Company.(CARDINAL)141080;
ABC's television show, Good Morning America, was filmed in Asheville, NC at the Biltmore Estate. There were segments on religion, furniture making, air pollution, mountain music and southern dialect. The first segment was about the Baptist Church in Asheville with interviews of Rev. John Hewett, First Baptist Church of Asheville and Rev. Billy Cline, Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church. The next segment was on furniture making in the region; with inteviews of Fredd Starr, Thomasville Furniture, Darrel Harris, Furniture Land and others. Darcel Grimes and Bob Bruck were interviewed for the segment on air pollution on Mt. Mitchell. Hunt Mallett, a clogger was interviewed about mountain music and there was a clogging demonstration. The final segment was on southern dialect. Arden Samson was interviewed for that segment.DVD format.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fair and tender ladies [sound recording] / by Smith, Lee,1944-(CARDINAL)153433; Forbes, Kate.;
Narrated by Kate Forbes.Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.
Subjects: Epistolary fiction; Audiobooks.; Mountain life; Women;
© p2004., Recorded Books,
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Voices of North Carolina [videorecording] : language, dialect, and identity in the Tarheel State / by Friday, William C.(William Clyde)nrt(CARDINAL)179446; Hutcheson, Neal.drtpro; Wolfram, Walt,1941-pro(CARDINAL)149498; North Carolina Language and Life Project.(CARDINAL)786340;
Credits: Camera/editor, Neal Hutcheson.Narrator, Bill Friday."Voices of North Carolina is a unique journey through the dialects and languages of this diverse Southern state, from hoi toider speech on the Outer Banks to the highland speech of the Smoky Mountains. Cherokees, Lumbees, rural and urban African Americans, Spanish-speaking immigrants, and the new generation of Southerners in metropolitan areas all reveal how their way with words communicates their identity"--Container.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Language and culture;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Mountain talk [videorecording] : language & life in Southern Appalachia / by Hutcheson, Neal,director,producer.; Carden, Gary,narrator.(CARDINAL)179064; North Carolina Language and Life Project.; North Carolina State University.Humanities Extension.;
Scenes from Southern Appalachia (bonus documentary).Credits: Camera/editor, Neal Hutcheson.Narrator, Gary Carden."The inimitable personalities of the southern Appalachian Mountains tell the story of their unique linguistic and cultural development, revealing the quick wit, good humor, and rugged persverance that sustained them through centuries. Songs, stories and candid interviews convey the shared sense of place that continues to define the mountain people even as their culture seems to be increasingly absorbed into the modern world"--Container.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Language and culture; Language and culture;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Do you speak American? [videorecording] by Buchanan, Christopher.; Cran, William.(CARDINAL)185744; MacNeil, Robert,1931-(CARDINAL)159113; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)(CARDINAL)280602; KLRU (Television station : Austin, Tex.); MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.(CARDINAL)206887; Paladin InVision, Ltd.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)150050;
Cameraman, Allan Palmer ; editor, Joe Frost ; composer, Paul Foss.Reporter: Robert MacNeil.Examines sociolinguistic questions and the dynamic state of American English, a language rich in regional variety, strong in global impact, and steeped in cultural controversy. Episode one discusses linguistic dialect zones, the tension between prescriptivism and descriptivism, the impact of dialect on grapholect, the northern cities vowel shift, the roots of African-American English, minority linguistic profiling, biases against nonstandard speech, and the general perception of the U.S. Midland dialect as "normal American." Looks at hip-hop street talk, IM slang, Pittsburghese, and Gullah and Geechee. Episode two reviews Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English. Examines regional differences in vernacular, the steady displacement of Southern coastal dialect by inland dialect, the accents of JFK and LBJ, and the Texas border town of El Cenizo, where Spanish is the official language. Episode three looks at Spanglish, Chicano, Ebonics, and "Surfer Dude." Discusses the implications of voice-activation technology, opinions on the role of Spanish in the U.S., why teens create their own language, gay self-empowerment by redefining discriminatory terms, the oo-fronting sound shift, and whether technology will reinforce or weaken racial and regional stereotypes.DVD-R.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; English language; English language; English language; English language; English language;
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