The Language Of Life And Death
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The Language Of Life And Death
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Author : William Labov
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08
The Language Of Life And Death written by William Labov and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: accounts of the danger of death, violence, premonitions, and large-scale community conflicts. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done.
A Death In The Rainforest
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Author : Don Kulick
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-06-18
A Death In The Rainforest written by Don Kulick and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Social Science categories.
“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer * One of National Geographic’s Best Travel Books of Summer As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, as he returned again and again to document the vanishing language, he found himself inexorably drawn into the lives and world of the Gapuners, and implicated in their destiny. In A Death in the Rainforest, Kulick takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. And in doing so, he also gives us a brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and, ultimately, the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to give up his study of this language and this village.
On The Death And Life Of Languages
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Author : Claude Hagège
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
On The Death And Life Of Languages written by Claude Hagège and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claude Hagège seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death. By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas, Hagège shows how languages are themselves crucial repositories of culture; the traditions, proverbs, and knowledge of our ancestors reside in the language we use. His wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalized—for example in the remarkable case of Hebrew. In a striking metaphor, Hagège likens languages to bonfires of social behavior that leave behind sparks even after they die; from these sparks languages can be rekindled and made to live again.
The Language Of Life
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Author : Debra Niehoff
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2005-04-15
The Language Of Life written by Debra Niehoff and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-15 with Science categories.
Cooperation requires conversation. Human beings speak to one another. Sounds, scents, and postures allow animals to make their point. While individual cells can't talk, hiss, growl, or bare their teeth, they nevertheless communicate regularly. Their language is based not on words or gestures, but on chemistry â€"using molecules where we would use words, constructing sentences from chains of proteins. The cells that make up the bodies of muticellular organisms inform, wheedle, command, exhort, reassure, nurture, criticize, and instruct each other to direct every physiological function, report every newsworthy event, record every memory, heal every wound. And each of those chemical conversations represents an opportunity for scientists and physicians. The molecular biologists who worked for over a decade to sequence the human genome have sometimes referred to that sequence as the "book of life." To our cells, that "book" is no more than a dictionaryâ€"only living cells can converse, forming the network that allows our 60 trillion cells to function as a single organism. For nearly a century, researchers have been straining to hear the whispered conversations among cells, hoping to master the basics of their language. They know that if we can decipher and translate this cellular chatter, we have the potential for sending signals of our own that could repair wounds, reduce cholesterol, control insulin levels, or even block the reproduction of cancer cells. The possibilities are as endless as they are intriguing. The Language of Life is a fantastic story of discovery, blending the vision of science with the poetry of life itself.
The Language Of Dying
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Author : Sarah Pinborough
language : en
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Release Date : 2016-08-02
The Language Of Dying written by Sarah Pinborough and has been published by Jo Fletcher Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Fiction categories.
In this emotionally gripping, genre-defying novella from Sarah Pinborough, a woman sits at her father's bedside, watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life. Her brothers and sisters--she is the middle child of five--have all turned up over the past week to pay their last respects. Each is traumatized in his or her own way, and the bonds that unite them to each other are fragile--as fragile perhaps as the old man's health. With her siblings all gone, back to their self-obsessed lives, she is now alone with the faltering wreck of her father's cancer-ridden body. It is always at times like this when it--the dark and nameless, the impossible, presence that lingers along the fringes of the dark fields beyond the house--comes calling. As the clock ticks away in the darkness, she can only wait for it to find her, a reunion she both dreads and aches for...
Secrets Of Life Secrets Of Death
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Author : Evelyn Fox Keller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Secrets Of Life Secrets Of Death written by Evelyn Fox Keller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Art categories.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Language Of Poetry
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Author : Michael Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1980
The Language Of Poetry written by Michael Bishop and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with French poetry categories.
Language Death
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-29
Language Death written by David Crystal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the fundamental question, 'Why is language death so important?', reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact. This 2002 book contains not only intelligent argument, but moving descriptions of the decline and demise of particular languages, and practical advice for anyone interested in pursuing the subject further.
The Language Of Dying
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Language Of Dying written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Death categories.
The Language Of Natural Description In Eighteenth Century Poetry
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Author : John Arthos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-08
The Language Of Natural Description In Eighteenth Century Poetry written by John Arthos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to publication some effort had been made to review the subject and the problem. However, several questions still remained unanswered, and more exhaustive analysis needed to be undertaken. This volume was an effort to provide answers for some of these questions and to begin the analysis that was required.