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Why is it important to learn languages at an early age?
Learning a new language is significant in the best of times, unless you're like me and take it as a challenge to improve your own skills and develop your own personal being. Most people you talk to will say it is easy for children, but have you ever wondered why?
Babies and children imitate adults as a way to learn, what can they do? In kindergarten learning skills are based on "show and learn" "skills" copy "do as I do", etc., developing language skills is exactly the same regardless of age.
I teach English to elementary students from age 7 to 11 in a French school, I use very primitive learning methods, I literally put the children off as if they are babies, which is logical since it is a initiation into a new language. 7 years learning your mother tongue is huge in the life of someone, hear about 7 years and take a mental note of the amount of vocabulary learned in this space of time.
Using DVD for the age group younger stimulates students they do not find it "silly" because they are too busy listening to the difference in tone of voice in English. We use stickers, pens, paper color pencils, building blocks – anything that will stimulate young minds – learning should be fun not to become boring.
7 is a difficult age to start learning and in my opinion, it is not early enough, children in Holland to learn English from the age of 4 years, hence why most Dutch people speak English fluently. English is taught alongside maths, history and geography, in particular no attention is paid to this subject, it is simply part of the program!
At the age of 7 facial muscles become "stiff" pronoucing new sounds not found in some languages becomes difficult. In France, the sound "th" no, that's why you often hear television presenters say "ze", the concept of using language to produce th "sound" has never been developed as a result, the muscles and brain do not communicate to produce that sound. It takes at least 3 weeks practice to perfect the sound and then it is not natural so easy to fall in ze ". In everyday use it does not matter but when a child loses marks for the pronunciation in the exams is very important.
The sound "r" is pronounced as it is pronounced in English consistently as a "w" at its presentation to a French child, the color "red" becomes "Sea", hence the importance of developing language skills at a very early age.
If you ask a 3 year old child to say "red," they say "red" ask a child of 7 years and they automatically repeat "Sea". As a language teacher, I spent time, many in the study from the mouths of children and watching my own mouth in the mirror to understand the differences and difficulties.
Many people say easy when you're a child, is one of the main reasons why you do not have to worry about determining the right position with your mouth and even if you do know you have, you do not have to worry about whether you can or not.
The brain of a child is a sponge – We've often heard that. In fact the brain of a child is much more "empty" space, so things are more easily absorbed. A child finds easier to information in class, split into categories and remember things as and when necessary. Adults take on board information, their brains do not have the same facilities as "deposit" of new information and often classified in the wrong place – how frequency we need to rack our brains "to find the name or phone number or where we put the keys in the car !!!!!! If the remote is missing at home I often ask of our 5 years, she remembers when he inevitably was for the last time ask our teenagers and they have no idea!
To learn a new language as an adult can be difficult, I found myself learning French easy enough, but again I have been very receptive to the idea and allowed my brain time and space to the class information as needed. Combining language situations helped a lot and infact it comes to teaching a child – watching and learning. Adopt the same attitude as an adult aid.
The sooner you can teach yourself and your children a new best language, it need not be complicated, strange words, picture dictionaries, vacation in foreign countries (taking the phrase book) books, DVDs, computer games, there are today no end of "aid" on the market, including the Internet to help you.
Glad to hear!
About the Author
Artist, musician and language teacher living in France. 42 married with 4 children all bi-lingual. English/French, French/English translations in all subjects, everyday, medical or technical. Writes teaching materials for primary sections, including music for learning songs.
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Problems of Form (Writing Science) $29.98 Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of social operation. George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form (1969) provides one way to conceive of such an operation. The present book is the first to make sociological use of his mathematical calculus of form, which has been extensively applied to cybernetics, systems theory, cognitive science, and mathematics.Spencer-Brown’s theory states that any action or communication is always an operation that makes a distinction. Not only does this operation take place, but it can be observed as indicating what it is interested in, and as leaving unmarked what it is not. Distinctions thereby entail a logic of inclusion and exclusion that is subject to social debate and conflict. In social situations there is no action that does not at the same time execute, maintain, or cross a distinction.Thus the observer is part of the situation he or she observes. The essays in this volume use this idea to describe different social “forms” as consisting of action observed by further action. A “form” here is understood to be the two sides of a distinction and its dividing line, taken together. All social action, therefore, consists of three values: marked side, unmarked side, and an operation separating the two. If one watches the third value, one ends up observing the observer drawing the distinction—an observer who, of course, may be oneself.In this collection, more general essays study the consequences of such an understanding of form for our conceptions of literature, paradox, sign, play, and language. Other essays focus on the observations necessary to construct such forms as money, the university, the state, a career, or sickness. All the essays share an interest in problems ensuing from the fact that though one can observe the form of a distinction and become aware of its arbitrary, contingent, and discriminatory nature, one nevertheless, when trying to act or communicate, must choose a distinction. The essays show how social situations deftly veil the arbitrariness of the distinctions that constitute their forms. |
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The Genius of Language $21.48 During the first year of the first Waldorf school, Rudolf Steiner agreed to give a science course to the teachers, which was to be on the nature of light. At the last minute, he was asked to give an additional course on language, which he improvised. "The Genius of Language" is the result. Steiner demonstrates how history and psychology together form the different languages and how ideas, images, and vocabulary travel through time within various cultural streams. He describes how the power to form language has declined, but that we can still recover the seed of language, the penetration of sound by meaning. He also explains how consonants imitate outer phenomena, whereas vowels convey a more inner sense of events; he talks about the differentiation of language as it is influenced by geography; he speaks of the "folk soul" element and the possibility of "wordless thinking"; we hear about the capacity of language to transform us and of its importance to our spiritual lives. This is not just a course on language for those who love words but demonstrates ways to teach children. This little book will prove tremendously valuable to both educators and parents-in fact, to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of language and its significance for our lives. |
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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation $7.98 With over a million active organizations, America has the most advanced system of nonprofits in the world. From social clubs to cancer research laboratories, these groups show the generosity and willingness of Americans to work together for the common good. Forming a nonprofit corporation is not difficult, and whether you want to start a local school or a national cause group, you can use this book to get the organization started. This book includes all of the forms and instructions needed to form a nonprofit corporation, including bylaws, minutes, notice, and much more. This book explains in simple language: Advantages and disadvantages Applying for tax exemptions of a nonprofit corporation Protecting your nonprofit status Types of nonprofits Charitable solicitation rules Step-by-step procedures for forming your nonprofit Running your nonprofit It includes: State-by-state laws and addresses Useful Internet addresses Many resources for nonprofits Eighteen ready-to-use forms Using Self-Help Law Books |
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Directionality and Logical Form $176.48 Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government and the particular word-order parameter that holds in a given language: head-final languages systematically disallow certain derivations or readings that are available in head-initial languages. The reason is that heads that deviate in their selection properties from canonical head-finality project a directionality barrier. Various strategies are explored by which this barrier can be circumvented. Although the theory is developed mainly on the basis of the head position in German, it can be directly used to explain constraints on the scope of Wh-in-situ in Bengali and closely related languages. Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages. |
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Language of Vision $14.48 Noted painter, designer, theoretician analyzes the effect of visual language on the structure of human consciousness, in particular how the elements of line and form are perceived and how innovative types of perspective can lead to more dynamic representations in art. Over 300 photographs, drawings and illustrations. Introductory essays by S. Giedion and S.I. Hayakawa. |
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Reading for Form (A Robert Heilman Book) $27.98 Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America’s leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. This book reprints Modern Language Quarterly’s highly acclaimed special issue Reading for Form, along with new essays by Marjorie Perloff, D. Vance Smith, and Susan Stewart, and a revised introduction by Susan Wolfson. With historical case studies and insightful explorations, Reading for Form offers invaluable material for literary critics in all specializations. |
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Teaching the Spoken Language (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) $30.48 Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author’s important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language, and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue. The accompanying cassette contains extracts from original source recordings which are transcribed as examples in the book. |
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The Sixth Language $37.48 The first edition of the Sixth Language, published in 2000, was a recipient of the Susanne K. Langer Prize of the Media Ecology Association for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form. This second edition includes 37 new pages in a new Foreword and Afterword where Logan reports on a number of new developments in his research into the origin and evolution of language. The Sixth Language updates the work of Marshall McLuhan by applying his ideas to the communications revolution taking place due to digital information technology. Logan’s work interweaves ideas which touch on language, education, work, social class, information technology and management theory. He establishes the theoretical background for his study with a succinct and very readable summary of McLuhan’s ideas. Logan develops a new theory of language by showing that a language is not merely a system of communication but also an information processing tool. He goes on to show that speech, writing, mathematics, science, computing and the Internet form an evolutionary chain of verbal languages. As Logan weaves his tale of the development of language he also shows how new educational, social, political and economic institutions arise. Turning to education Logan shows how the evolution of language led to the evolution of education. He explains that the reason our schools are so out of touch is that they are Industrial Age institutions trying desperately to meet the needs of the Internet Age and the Knowledge Era. He suggests a radical new way of remedying the malaise of education by proposing that the core curriculum focus on the generic skills associated with the use of the six languages of speech, writing, math, science, computing and the Internet. He contends that the actual content of the curriculum, the topics that are studied are not important and should be chosen to cater to the students’ interests. Once students have mastered the six languages they are then in a position to learn whatever topics or material they require for their work or their personal interest. Logan proposes an equally radical rethinking of training and education in the work place. Logan closes his book with a chapter on the Internet in which he shows how this medium recaptures the spirit of oral culture. He demonstrates that the new level of connectivity requires more than the mere re-engineering of business processes such as marketing, advertising, sales, customer support, and market research. According to Logan, it requires an actual alignment of these processes because of the way in which they are integrated by the Internet. "Logan was a young colleague of Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto and brings a richness of linkage between McLuhan’s vision and its fruition in the internet age. While the book gives many practical overviews, it is more a book of comprehension than of instruction. The internet age is upon us, but many firms are not at the point of u… |
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Madhouse of Language $142.48 Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records, and texts by writers such as Swift, Sterne, Richardson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron. The history of writing about madness is seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes towards language are endorsed by rigorous treatment of the insane, or by a manipulative moral therapy. Recognized writers of the period reflect the fascination with a form of mental existence that nevertheless remains beyond expression through socially acceptable forms of language. A wide variety of written and oral material by mad men and women, drawn both from medical records and from published works, is discussed in the context of this linguistic suppression. The context, forms, and strategies of mad texts are analyzed in a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mental patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language. |
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Capital and Language $12.98 The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo (Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly by those in the field of "Cognitive Capitalism"), his writing has never appeared in English. This translation of his most recent work, Capital and Language (published in Italian in 2002), finally makes Marazzi’s work available to an English-speaking audience. Capital and Language takes as its starting point the fact that the extreme volatility of financial markets is generally attributed to the discrepancy between the "real economy" (that of material goods produced and sold) and the more speculative monetary-financial economy. But this distinction has long ceased to apply in the postfordist New Economy, in which both spheres are structurally affected by language and communication. In Capital and Language Marazzi argues that the changes in financial markets and the transformation of labor into immaterial labor (that is, its reliance on abstract knowledge, general intellect, and social cooperation) are just two sides of the same coin. Capital and Language focuses on the causes behind the international economic and financial depression of 2001, and on the primary instrument that the U.S. government has since been using to face them: war. Marazzi points to capitalism’s fourth stage (after mercantilism, industrialism, and the postfordist culmination of the New Economy): the "War Economy" that is already upon us. Marazzi offers a radical new understanding of the current international economic stage and crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in its newest form. Capital and Language also provides a warning call to a Left still nostalgic for a Fordist construct–a time before factory turned into office (and office into home), and before labor became linguistic. |
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Language-Operational $27.48 Each of us is hopelessly trapped inside of a particular language matrix, until we become consciously aware of how this inexorable process relentlessly operates. This book presents an unified conception of what language is universally, for all sentient beings, in all of its forms and aspects; and how language phenomena operate, through unconsciously projected four-dimensional (time-space) gestalts, in specific situations in the real world, to produce meaningful perceptual closures and useful results. This book operationally identifies the universal "fundamental particles" (NOT phonemes, nor letters of the alphabet, etc.) of any language; and how these fundamental phenomenal "particles" combine, by the activity of unconsciously projected, four-dimensional, perceptual gestalts, to form the more complex language "atoms" (NOT necessarily, "words", etc.), and "molecules" (NOT necessarily, sentences, etc.), which interconnect further with the other culturally "mandated" physical artifacts imbedded in the specific situation, and operate physically, to produce the culturally prescribed, "meanings", and useful objects of intention, of the individuals of whatever species, which are intercommunicating, and inter-operating in the situation. Examples of many kinds are presented, often in terms of concerns, activities, and operations relating to libraries. This book is multidisciplinary in scope. |
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Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech $32.48 1921. This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it. It has little to say of the ultimate psychological basis of speech and gives only enough of the actual descriptive or historical facts of particular languages to illustrate principles. Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests-the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art. Contents: Language Define; The Elements of Speech; The Sounds of Language; Form in Language; Grammatical Processes; Form in Language; Grammatical Concepts; Types of Linguistic Structure; Language as a Historical Product: Drift; Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law; How Languages Influence Each Other; Language, Race and Culture; and Language and Literature. |
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Pattern Language $22.48 This fully-illustrated, 56-page catalog was originally created to accompany a recent exhibit at Tufts University Art Gallery. Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator investigates clothing as a means to express and fulfill primary human needs–needs of the mind, body, and soul. The works explore the interaction of clothing, fabric, and the body as a form of communication and as a way of suggesting new relationships between individuals and the coverings that protect, occlude, and redefine our bodies. The exhibition and this volume address a range of important themes: our need for shelter, social connections, protection, and entertainment, our desire for self-expression, and our need to articulate our identity. Included are thirty-two reproductions of works by established and emerging artists from Germany, Italy, Spain, Honduras, Japan, England, Greece, Egypt, and the United States. The works in Pattern Language, which are either unique or editioned rather than mass-produced, include historical examples, contemporary objects, and new proposals, as well as interactive and wearable editions. Pattern Language represents guest curator Judith Hoos Fox’s ongoing interest in art as a signpost for and critique of culture. She explains: "It is exciting to make connections between fashion and art and between art and design across generations of artists; to bring together the work of ethnically and culturally diverse artists; and to show work that involves cutting-edge technologies as well as couture tailoring." |
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The Arapaho Language $70.48 The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document Arapaho’s interesting features, including a pitch-based accent system with no exact Algonquian parallels, radical innovations in the verb system, and complex contrasts between affirmative and non-affirmative statements. Cowell and Moss detail strategies used by speakers of this highly polysynthetic language to form complex words and illustrate how word formation interacts with information structure. They discuss word order and discourse-level features, treat the special features of formal discourse style and traditional narratives, and list gender-specific particles, which are widely used in conversation. Appendices include full sets of inflections for a variety of verbs. Arapaho is spoken primarily in Wyoming, with a few speakers in Oklahoma. The corpus used in The Arapaho Language spans more than a century of documentation, including multiple speakers from Wyoming and Oklahoma, with emphasis on recent recordings from Wyoming. The book cites approximately 2,000 language examples drawn largely from natural discourse –either recorded spoken language or texts written by native speakers. With The Arapaho Language, Cowell and Moss have produced a comprehensive document of a language that, in its departures from its nearest linguistic neighbors, sheds light on the evolution of grammar. |
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How to Form a Partnership in Florida (How to Form a Partnership in Florida With Forms) $4.48 A good partnership agreement is essential for your personal and business security. A business partnership is like a marriage–it should not be entered into lightly. How to Form a Partnership in Florida explains all the issues you need to address and takes you through the process of setting up an effective partnership. Complete with step-by-step instructions and the agreements and forms you need, this book makes forming your own partnership inexpensive and hassle-free.How to Form a Partnership in Florida answers your most important questions, such as:What are your legal rights and responsibilities?Are you liable for all your partner’s actions?What if you disagree with your partner?What happens if your partner dies?What if you or your partner want out of the business?Plus, it explains in simple language:Types of business organizationsPartnership advantages and disadvantagesFlorida partnership lawsPreparing a partnership agreement without a lawyerSelecting and working with a lawyerChanging partnersThe Uniform Partnership Act |
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The Doubleday Roget’s Thesaurus in Dictionary Form $3.48 A reference book that belongs on every desk–one of the handiest, best-organized, and most reliable thesauruses available, newly updated to reflect the American language of today. |
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The Language of God $15.48 "Understanding the Bible requires integrity and skill?but one need not be a trained expert. God chose to put His message in a form accessible to virtually every human being." from The Language of God If you can talk and think, you can understand the Bible. Many believe that you have to be a highly trained language expert in order to understand the Bible. Not so. Our Creator made us to be knowers, to use our minds and intuition to make sense of the world around us. And we can use these same gifts to correctly interpret the Bible. Biblical interpretation requires dedication and hard work, but anyone can do it once the right skills are acquired. The three authors of The Language of God?David Crabtree, J. A. Crabtree, and Ron Julian?have combined their wealth of education and experience in biblical hermeneutics to help you develop the skills necessary for sound Bible study. The Language of God addresses topics such as: -Solid biblical interpretation principles -The Bible’s language and culture -How to think critically and apply God’s worldview -The importance of language conventions, background information, and reading in context -Considering alternative interpretations -How to seek a consistent and coherent view of the Bible and life Between the covers of our Bibles, we have the truth of who God is and what He has promised. The Language of God will give you the foundation you need for learning to effectively interpret what the Bible says, and in turn, living your life in the light of the gospel. |
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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon $126.98 A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic–apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self. |
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Form And Style, Eleventh Edition (Form and Style, 11th ed) $3.98 This classic introductory text is well known for its solid guidance in the writing, documenting, and formatting of research papers, reports, theses, and dissertations. Form and Style’s comprehensive coverage of the research process ranges from choosing a topic and preparing a draft to documenting sources and preparing a bibliography. The text provides models and explanations for four document styles: Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), and Columbia Guide to Online Style (CGOS). The Twelfth Edition features the latest information on documentation styles, using computers and the Internet, and online sources and the research process. |
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A New Form Of Beauty $9.63 A New Form Of Beauty |
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Music and Language $65.98 This book proposes an interdisciplinary integration of empirically grounded musicological evidence into linguistic curricula. Phonological, syntactic, and neurological convergences between music and language are identified. However, differences in semantic content and the deliberateness ascribed to a musical or linguistic event inhibit the extent to which a music-language comparison can advance without qualification. Two experiments were conducted, the first presenting a unique music-linguistic phenomenon, suggesting that the major and minor modes in music are non-arbitrarily associated with certain linguistic stimuli (’kiki’ and ‘bouba’, respectively) in accord with their phonetic characteristics (e.g. vowel and consonant quality). This topic is considered in the light of evidence from synaesthesia and sound symbolism. The second experiment explores the level of accord between the linguistic and musical academic communities on subjects relevant to an interdisciplinary discussion. A questionnaire form was administered, with results indicating that an insufficient amount of agreement exists between the two fields to facilitate a productive exchange and evaluation of ideas. |
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The Language of Miracles $13.48 As a professional animal psychic, Amelia Kinkade helps clients locate lost pets, diagnose baffling behavior, and further explore the indelible bond that exists between people and their animal companions. But her real mission is to convince people that, with the proper dedication, training, and understanding, everyone can do what she does . Here, she explains the subtle cues that form the foundation of animal communication, and provides guided exercises that allow readers to explore these cues for themselves. With gentle encouragement, she shows how to look for communications typically drowned out in the noise and chaos of modern life, whether they take the form of clairaudience or clairvoyance. Filled with amazing stories, The Language of Miracles inspires readers to sit down with the animals in their lives and explore the unspoken world between them. |
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A Visual Language $24.48 This is a practical approach to the theory of visual language, taking the basics of line, shape, tone, color, texture, form, scale, space, and light and discussing how to use them. The first half of the book talks about how artists can use these elements to create their own visual languages and how these can be applied to develop their own work. The second half of the book is divided into sections, each written by a prominent craftsperson, expounding on how they have developed and used their own visual language.David Cohen taught at Edinburgh College of Art. His work is exhibited all over the world, and he is a frequent lecturer both in the United Kingdom and North America.Scott Anderson is a teacher at Cape Cod Community College. |
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The Sound of Language $10.98 In this luminous story of bravery, tradition, and the power of language, an Afghan woman and Danish widower form an unexpected alliance.Escaping the turmoil and heartbreak of war-torn Kabul, Raihana settles with distant relatives in the strange, cold, damp country of Denmark. Homesick and heartbroken, Raihana bravely attempts to start a new life, trying hard not to ponder the fate of her husband, who was taken prisoner by the Taliban and never heard from again.Soon after arriving, Raihana finds herself in a language school, struggling to learn Danish, which she thinks sounds like the buzzing of bees. To improve her speaking skills, Raihana apprentices herself to Gunnar, a recent widower who is steadily withdrawing from the world around him, even neglecting the bee colonies he worked so hard to cultivate with his late wife. Over the course of the bee season, Raihana and Gunnar forge an unlikely relationship, despite the disapproval of their friends and relatives. But when the violence Raihana thought she had left behind in Afghanistan rears its head, she and Gunnar are forced to confront the ghosts of the past as they navigate the uncertain future. Praise for Song of the Cuckoo Bird“Mesmerizing . . . a sprawling, gorgeous intergenerational saga.”–Jacquelyn Mitchard.“An intelligent, absorbing novel.”–The Boston Globe |
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Language of Nature $22.98 Understanding The Quantum World and Scientific History Science is truly one of the deepest, the most complex, and the most relevant forms of knowledge in human history. It deals with such aspects like life, energy, matter, and molecules. But even until now, the study of science has been based on empirical knowledge since the time of Galileo and this fact brings out the call for a deeper form of scientific research which leads to the quantum world. In his groundbreaking new picture book Language of Nature: Quantum World Revealed, author David Judd Nutting presents to the world his views and in-depth study on science, nature and the world itself. Language of Nature begins with the task of explaining to its readers what the world of quantum physics is all about. Since science is based on knowledge derived from the five senses, researchers are unable to verify or demonstrate the quantum world which is actually transempirical. Quantum physics explains nature¿s selective process while the transempirical world of nature becomes a creative process, which experimental knowledge could never translate or explain effectively. Aside from presenting the quantum world, the book contains very rich information and photos on famous researchers (including Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison), technological development, scientific history, inventions, video games, the solar system and so much more. There is no doubt that readers will have so much to learn from the author¿s findings. Richly-layered, surprising and very intelligent, Language of Nature is easily one of the most educational and most unique picture books about science today. Readers, including students, researchers and scientists, will enjoy immersing themselves with this picture book, especially when it comes to getting an acceptable interpretation of the quantum world and getting all the details in the history of science. Language of Nature: Quantum World Revealed goes beyond conventional science and is truly an essential read! |
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The Context of Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) $8.48 This is an important collection of papers by a distinguished personality in the field. Topics covered include second language acquisition, syllabus design, methodology and methods, listening, speaking, vocabulary and grammar. Issues in applied linguistics are summarised and presented with clarity and their practical implications explored, thus making the vital connection between theory and practice in language teaching. Language teachers and students of applied linguistics will find this collection contains a wide range of recent work in linguistics presented in a lucid and highly accessible form. |
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Language, Culture, and Society $11.48 Twenty-four articles representing a diversity of interests and approaches have been brought together in this collection intended to define and develop topics of central interest to language, culture, and society. Opening pieces include enduring, classic writings by Boas, Sapir, Whorf, Mead, and others, giving the volume an important historical orientation. These contributions form the groundwork for the wide sampling of more recent and contemporary works that follows. The selections chosen for Language, Culture, and Society, Second Edition, reflect several major themes within the field: language in relation to thought and cognition; language in relation to the cultural partitioning of the environment; language in relation to self-as-social; language in relation to social differentiation; and language in relation to its emergence as a sociocultural phenomenon. The editor’s helpful introductions point out significant ideas and trace the development of the twenty-four contributions that form a diverse, well-balanced, and up-to-date volume. |
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Language $83.48 This title includes the following features: Groundbreaking work from one of the world’s foremost philosophers of mind and language; Millikan is at the forefront of the movement to integrate philosophy with science; Highly original new position, denying that ‘rules of language’ exist; Radical implications for theories about how language is learned |
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Language Through Literature $49.98 Language Through Literature provides a definitive introduction to the English language through the medium of English literature. Through the use of illustrations from poetry, prose and drama, this book offers a lively guide to important concepts and techniques in English language study. Among the many topics covered in the book are the form and meaning of words, the structure of narrative discourses and the organization of dialogue and conversation. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of the modern English language using a combination of exposition and practical activities. Each chapter also provides points for further discussion and includes project work for use individually, or as part of a group. Readers will find the author’s selection and presentation of topics helpful, as Paul Simpson progressively widens the scope of topics from single words to the structure of whole conversations. Language Through Literature is designed for the non-specialist who is new to the study of the English language and will be particularly relevant to anyone interested in the in the relationship between the English language and English literature. |
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The Language of Life $5.98 "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power–the power of the word–to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Listening to Linda McCarriston’s award-winning poems about a child trapped in a violent home, or to Jimmy Santiago Baca explaining how words changed his life in prison, or to David Mura describing his Japanese American grandfather’s experience in relocation camps, or to Sekou Sundiata stitching the magic of his childhood church in Harlem to the African tradition of storytelling, or to Gary Snyder invoking the natural wonder of mountains and rivers, or to Adrienne Rich calling for honesty in human relations, all testify to the necessity and clarity of the poet’s voice, and all give hope that from such a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious threads we might yet weave a new American fabric."’Listen,’ said the storytellers of old, ‘listen and you shall hear,’" explains Bill Moyers. The Language Of Life is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Form and Function in Language Research $126 Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature of linguistic categorizations and their manifestation in natural languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects.This volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data from individual languages and from typological samples are investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions, modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations, word order, clause linkage, and information structure.The structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on either the former or the latter perspective. |
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A Brief History of the Spanish Language $30.98 Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world and a language of ever-increasing importance in the United States. In what will likely become the introduction to the history of the Spanish language, David Pharies clearly and concisely charts the evolution of Spanish from its Indo-European roots to its present form. An internationally recognized expert on the history and development of this language, Pharies brings to his subject a precise sense of what students of Spanish linguistics need to know.After introductory chapters on what it means to study the history of a language, the concept of linguistic change, and the nature of language families, Pharies traces the development of Spanish from its Latin roots, all with the minimum amount of technical language possible. In the core sections of the book, readers are treated to an engaging and remarkably succinct presentation of the genealogy and development of the language, including accounts of the structures and peculiarities of Latin, the historical and cultural events that deeply influenced the shaping of the language, the nature of Medieval Spanish, the language myths that have become attached to Spanish, and the development of the language beyond the Iberian Peninsula, especially in the Americas. Focusing on the most important facets of the language’s evolution, this compact work makes the history of Spanish accessible to anyone with a knowledge of Spanish and a readiness to grasp basic linguistic concepts.Available in both English and Spanish editions, A Brief History of the Spanish Language provides a truly outstanding introduction to the exciting story of one of the world’s great languages. |
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Exploring Medical Language $3.48 Lafleur presents a systematic introductory approach to the language of medicine. She begins with Greek and Latin words, explaining the rules for combining them to form medical terms, and then covers their use in a body system format. New discussions include recently developed surgical and diagnostic procedures and medical terms common to the diagnosis and treatment of AIDS. |
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The Language of Flowers $9.98 Since ancient times, flowers, herbs and other plants have been used in symbolic ways to convey a multitude of emotions and feelings, creating a unique form of communication. This irresistible little book by Catherine Lee decodes the rich and evocative language of flowers and helps you to choose the ideal personalized gift. Give polyanthus for confidence or lily of the valley for happiness. A lilac suggests the first stirrings of love, while orchids signify beauty. Flowers are arranged in chapters according to their meanings, beginning with Qualities and Virtues and moving on to Happiness, Friendship, Love and Passion, Marriage, Family, Beauty, Youth and Age, Ambition and Success, Sadness and Loss – making it simple to identify the right bloom for any occasion. Exquisite photographs and moving poetry by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman and many more complete the floral feast. *This book allows you to follow age-old tradition and let the flowers do the talking. *A beautiful, original gift for St. Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day. |
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Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities $128.98 This book describes how the language used in social interaction evolves from the time the speakers first meet and becomes the in-group code of a given discourse community (in this case the academic community).Most studies reported in the literature of the language of groups and intimates until now have been global, imprecise or unsystematic, and have described the language as a product at a given time; no systematic study appears to have been carried out to follow through the interactions of individuals as they form a group, to discover precisely how and why language changes over time as assumed knowledge grows. Here, Joan Cutting focuses on the precise changes that occur with increasing knowledge over time, and uses a longitudinal approach to describe the language as a process. |
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Language Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia $63.48 This volume considers the ways in which modernity challenges and informs the language policies of various Southeast Asians nations. Using case studies from Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, the authors examine language policies that are explicitly articulated either in the form of State constitutions or in the public proclamations of political leaders. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which English often seems as the language of globalization, impacts the status of indigenous Southeast Asian language. Language Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia will be of interest to researchers in both language policy and contemporary political theory. |
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An Introduction to Language and Linguistics $33.48 This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics (theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change), and in addition provides full coverage of contextual linguistics, including separate chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language. There are also up-to-date separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, child language acquisition, and second-language learning. The breadth of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses on language and linguistics offered by departments of English, sociology, anthropology, and communications, as well as by linguistics departments. |
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English Fundamentals, Form A, 13th Edition $4.48 This book offers comprehensive grammar instruction with ample opportunities for practice. The first lessons introduce students to the basic system of the language and provide carefully chosen examples of verb connections, basic sentence patterns, and the internal workings of the sentence. Once the foundation is laid, subsequent lessons explore the more complex structures and relationships of the language. The final instructional section surveys college writing; students study the writing process, with special emphasis on techniques of invention, and then learn to apply the process to a wide range of writing assignments typical of college courses. The section closes with coverage of essay tests and test-taking. For anyone interested in improving their knowledge of English grammar. |
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Learning American Sign Language $58.98 Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II–Beginning & Intermediate, Second Edition, is a major revision of the First Edition, designed to help learners successfully interact with deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. Written by two leading authorities in the field, the text is used as the basic text for a one-semester or full-year course in ASL. Lessons are structured around language needed for common-life situations, and examples are presented in the form of dialogues coupled with grammar and vocabulary instruction. Information is also included about the culture of Deaf people in the United States. The book is supported by a new videotape and an instructor’s manual. |
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On Language $17.48 Two of Chomsky’s most famous and accessible works available in an affordable and attractive edition.Described by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky’s most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic’s most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought.In Part I, Language and Responsibility (1979), Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking through a series of interviews with Mitsou Ronat, the noted French linguist. In Part II, Reflections on Language (1975), Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language. |
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How to Form a Limited Liability Company $3.98 Protect yourself from personal liability, without the expense and delay of hiring a lawyer, by forming your own limited liability company. How to Form a Limited Liability Company contains everything you need to legally start an LLC in the United States. This book will help make protecting your business a simple process that doesn’t drain your vital time and capital. Complete with step-by-step instructions and the forms you need, this book makes forming your own limited liability company inexpensive and hassle-free. This book explains in simple language: Advantages and disadvantages Securities laws of an LLC Amending an LLC Whether an LLC is right for you Running your LLC Step-by-step procedures How to get more information Tax registrations It includes: Extensive law summaries, plus incorporation forms and minutes and resolutions you can use Explanations in simple English Complete LLC statutes Website addresses for more information Ready-to-use forms |
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The Force of Language $95 The Force of Language illustrates how the philosophy of Language, if differently conceived, can directly incorporate questions of political thought and of emotionality, and offers the practical case of defensive strategies against the abusive speech. This follows a broad consideration of the inner voice or inner speech as a test case for a new approach to language, in particular as a way of radically rethinking the usual contrast between inner and outer through furnishing an account of how we internalize speech. The book’s core offers a substantial critique of orthodox approaches to the philosophy of language form Chomsky and others; drawing on European political thought from Marx to Deleuze, it will move beyond this inheritance to explain and demonstrate its fresh conception of language at work. |
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History of the Yiddish Language $311.98 Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich’s copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set. |
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The Penguin Roget’s College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form $5.48 Since its first publication in 1958, The New American Roget’s College Thesaurus has reached more than fifteen million copies in print. Now, as The Penguin Roget’s College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form, it has been totally revised, reset, and modernized in both form and content—for the first time ever. Its more than 1,500 new entries will keep users thoroughly up to date with today’s expanding language, current colloquialisms, and slang expressions. It contains many more listings under a variety of entries, a listing of antonyms throughout, and the addition of categorized quotations. This larger format edition—with an improved cross-referencing system and an increased quantity of double-column material—is easier to use than ever before and remains the essential resource for students and writers of every stripe. |
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Hidden Meanings And Picture-Form Language In The Writings Of $29.02 Buy and sell [Hidden Meanings And Picture-Form Language In The Writings Of] at great prices. |
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Focus On Form In Classroom Second Language Acquisition $16.71 Buy and sell [Focus On Form In Classroom Second Language Acquisition] at great prices. |
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Form-Meaning Connections In Second Language Acquisition $49.17 Buy and sell [Form-Meaning Connections In Second Language Acquisition] at great prices. |
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Incidental Focus On Form In English Language Teaching $63.28 Buy and sell [Incidental Focus On Form In English Language Teaching] at great prices. |
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Form-Focused Instruction And Second Language Learning $27.33 Buy and sell [Form-Focused Instruction And Second Language Learning] at great prices. |
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Irony in Language and Thought $41.48 Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed resource in the area of figurative language, this volume centers on a theme from cognitive science – that irony is a fundamental way of thinking about the human experience. The editors lend perspective in the form of opening and closing chapters, which enable readers to see how such works have furthered the field, as well as to inspire present and future scholars.Featured articles focus on the following topics:theories of irony, addressing primarily comprehension of its verbal form;context in irony comprehension;social functions of irony;the development of irony understanding; andsituational irony.Scholars and students in psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, anthropology, artificial intelligence, art, and communications will consider this book an excellent resource. It serves as an ideal supplement in courses that present major ideas in language and thought. |
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English Fundamentals, Form A (14th Edition) $18.98 For more than eight decades English Fundamentals hasoffered lucid and strong explanations to reach to students. Beginning with the fundamental elements of the sentence, the authorsintroduce the basic system of the language and in progressive lessons explore more complex structures and relationships. Solid explanations and a progressive structure move students from the basic level of the sentence to the more complex. KEY TOPICS: Solid, clear explanations; an abundance of exercises; numerous diagnostic and progress tests. Developmental Writing: Grammar. |
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The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism $89.48 This book explores two basic questions regarding constitutional theory. First, in view of a commitment to democratic self-rule and widespread disagreement on questions of value, how is the creation of a legitimate constitutional regime possible? Second, what must be true about a constitution if the regime that it supports is to retain its claim to legitimacy? Howard Schweber shows that the answers to these questions appear in a theory of constitutional language that combines democratic theory with constitutional philosophy. The creation of a legitimate constitutional regime depends on a shared commitment to a particular and specialized form of language. Out of this simple observation, Schweber develops arguments about the characteristics of constitutional language, the necessary differences between constitutional language and the language of ordinary law or morality, as well as the authority of officials such as judges to engage in constitutional review of laws. |
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Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing $65.48 The architectures and mechanisms underlying language processing form one important part of the general structure of cognition. This book, written by leading experts in the field, brings together linguistic, psychological, and computational perspectives on some of the fundamental issues. Several general introductory chapters offer overviews on important psycholinguistic research frameworks and highlight both shared assumptions and controversial issues. Subsequent chapters explore syntactic and lexical mechanisms, the interaction of syntax and semantics in language understanding, and the implications for cognitive architecture. |
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A History of the Hebrew Language $42.48 A History of the Hebrew Language is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day. Professor Sáenz-Badillos sets Hebrew in the context of the Northwest Semitic languages and examines the origins of Hebrew and its earliest manifestations in ancient Biblical poetry, inscriptions, and prose written before the Babylonian exile. He looks at the different medieval traditions of pointing classical Biblical Hebrew texts and the characteristic features of the post-exilic language, including the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He gives particular attention to Rabbinic and medieval Hebrew, especially as evidenced in writings from Spain. His survey concludes with the revival of the language in this century in the form of Israeli Hebrew. |
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The New Form 990 $65.18 Buy and sell [The New Form 990] at great prices. |
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form 220 (Zeitschrift Form) $15.98 Wer sich über aktuelle gestalterische Trends informieren will, liest die internationale Design-Zeitschrift form. Warum zum Beispiel trägt 2008 Turin als erste Stadt den Titel â??Welthauptstadt des Design"? Was macht das Design auf Kunstmessen und Auktionen so begehrt? Und wie reagieren Gestalter auf die Gefahren des Klimawandels? Antworten darauf geben die Titelgeschichten der form. Im Mittelpunkt jeder Ausgabe steht der Entwurfsprozess: Umfangreiche Features geben Einblick in die Entstehung von außergewöhnlichen Produkten und grafischen Projekten. In form kommen renommierte Designer und Fachautoren zu Wort, druckgrafische Veredelungen und Beiträge von visuellen Gestaltern machen die form zu einem besonderen Erlebnis. Als Fachzeitschrift bietet sie wertvolle Informationen zu neuen Materialien und Produktionstechniken und Tipps für den beruflichen Alltag. form erscheint zweimonatlich in Deutsch und Englisch. |
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A Grammar of the English Language (Oxford Language Classics) $5.98 A Grammar of the English Language provides a fascinating snapshot of the language and grammar of the early nineteenth century. It was a controversial book, first published in 1818 in New York and in 1819 in London. The author, William Cobbett (1763-1835), was a champion of the poor who had taught himself to read and write. His radicalism brought him into conflict with the authorities on many occasions. He reserved a special kind of venom for politicians, men of letters like Dr. Johnson, the lexicographer, and for Fellows of English Colleges, "who live by the sweat of other people’s brows." Here, he criticizes these men for their poor command of English, which was (he says) no better than that of chambermaids, hucksters, and plough-boys. Written in the form of letters and lessons to his fourteen-year-old son, the Grammar is the most colorful and entertaining treatment of the subject ever published. It gives advice on syntax and etymology, including "false grammar taken from Dr. Johnson’s writing," "errors and nonsense in a king’s speech," and "six lessons, intended to prevent Statesman from using false grammar." This edition includes a new introduction by Lord Hattersley, which gives the book a modern perspective. |
