The Language Revolution
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The Language Revolution
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-07-10
The Language Revolution written by David Crystal and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world’s linguistic ecology: first, the emergence of English as the world’s first truly global language; second, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying; and, third, the radical effect on language of the arrival of Internet technology. Examining the interrelationships between these topics, Crystal encounters a vision of a linguistic future which is radically different from what has existed in the past, and which will make us revise many cherished concepts relating to the way we think about and work with languages. Everyone is affected by this linguistic revolution. The Language Revolution will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication in the twenty-first century.
Kingdom Of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist
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Author : Jing Tsu
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Kingdom Of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist written by Jing Tsu and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with History categories.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Language And Revolution
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Author : Igal Halfin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Language And Revolution written by Igal Halfin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with History categories.
This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.
A Revolution In Language
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Author : Sophia A. Rosenfeld
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-01
A Revolution In Language written by Sophia A. Rosenfeld and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.
Revolution In Poetic Language
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Author : Julia Kristeva
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Revolution In Poetic Language written by Julia Kristeva and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.
The Bilingual Revolution
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Author : Fabrice Jaumont
language : en
Publisher: TBR Books
Release Date : 2017
The Bilingual Revolution written by Fabrice Jaumont and has been published by TBR Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Education categories.
The Bilingual Revolution is a collection of inspirational vignettes and practical advice that tells the story of the parents and educators who founded dual language programs in New York City public schools. The book doubles as a "how to" manual for setting up your own bilingual school and, in so doing, launching your own revolution.
Extraterritorial
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Author : George Steiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Extraterritorial written by George Steiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Literature, Modern categories.
Language In Time Of Revolution
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Author : Benjamin Harshav
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Language In Time Of Revolution written by Benjamin Harshav and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Religion categories.
This book deals with two remarkable events--the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers. It tries to rethink a wide field of cultural phenomena and present the main ideas to the intelligent reader, or, better, present a "family picture" of related and contiguous ideas. Many names and details are mentioned, which may not all be familiar to the uninitiated; their function is to provide some concrete texture for this dramatic story, but the focus is on the story itself.
Extra Territorial
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Author : George Steiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Extra Territorial written by George Steiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Language And Revolution In Burke Wollstonecraft Paine And Godwin
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Author : Jane Hodson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Language And Revolution In Burke Wollstonecraft Paine And Godwin written by Jane Hodson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed. Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in this war of words, focusing on four key texts: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. While these texts form the core of Hodson's project, she ranges far beyond them to survey other works by the same authors; more than 50 contemporaneous books on language; and pamphlets, novels, and letters by other writers. The scope of her study permits her to challenge earlier accounts of the relationship between language and politics that lack historical nuance. Rather than seeing the Revolution debate as a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices, Hodson argues that there is no direct correlation between a particular style or linguistic concept and the political affiliation of the writer. Instead, she shows how each writer attempts to mobilize contemporary linguistic ideas to lend their texts greater authority. Her book will appeal to literature scholars and to historians of language and linguistics working in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.