Download or read book Egbert Weishenme Ku written by Terry Waltz and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrible twos are even worse when your folks keep trying to feed you health food. Will Gramma Esther manage to talk Mom and Dad into a little junk food for Egbert?
Download or read book Zhongwen Bu Mafan Quick Start written by Terry Waltz and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Quick Start edition provides the first two lessons of the full Zhongwen Bu Mafan! first-year Mandarin curriculum (available on Kindle). It includes two input units and the accompanying 400+ word reading, in both Traditional and Simplified character versions.This edition is intended for teachers who want to start the year or try out the Cold Character reading method of Mandarin literacy without making the investment in the full curriculum. It is not suited to individuals learning Mandarin on their own; it is intended for teacher use.
Download or read book TPRS with Chinese Characteristics written by Terry T Waltz and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide by international TPRS presenter and author Terry Waltz on teaching any language, but especially those with "unusual" features like tones or non-phonetic writing systems, using TPRS, a method based on Comprehensible Input.
Download or read book Susan You Mafan written by Terry Waltz and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pandarella written by Terry Waltz and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandarella tells the almost-familiar tale of the poorly dressed, hardworking girl who wants to attend the big party of the year -- all in highly comprehensible Chinese suitable for beginning readers who are learning the language. Illustrations, spacing, color-coded tones and other textual devices support reading, and Pinyin and characters are completely separated, yet easily accessible when needed.
Download or read book I Am Beibei written by Haiyun Lu and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beibei is a newcomer to Wonzel Town. He is cute, but timid. He really wants to fit in and make friends. So, who will he become friends with? Will it be the active and energetic Bravo? Will it be the mischievous and impulsive Piano? Perhaps it will be the kind, friendly and intelligent Xingxing? What about the beautiful but sensitive Xiaotian? Or the mysterious and distant black cat called "13"? This book employs 75 high frequency Chinese phrases. The author uses a special technique - "visual circulation" to increase a learner's reading comprehension via meaningful repetition. It's structure is perfectly suited for beginning language students.
Download or read book Giuseppe Xiang Chi Pisa written by Terry Waltz and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe wants to indulge his appreciation of the finer things in life...like a good pizza...but where can he find the toppings of his dreams? Written for emergent readers of Mandarin Chinese as a second language, "Giuseppe" tells a 400+ word story in just 19 unique Chinese characters.
Download or read book Competitive Comrades written by Susan L. Shirk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Download or read book Defining Pragmatics written by Mira Ariel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?
Download or read book Voyager from Xanadu written by Morris Rossabi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulfilled because of Islamic control of the Holy Land. In Voyager from Xanadu, Morris Rossabi traces Sauma’s trans-Eurasian travels against the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. His indispensable book provides a unique first-hand Asian perspective on Europe and illuminates a crucial period in the early history of global, diplomatic, and commercial networking.
Download or read book The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems written by Paul Bouissac and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference, from dominance to submission, and from solidarity to hostility. Languages greatly vary in the number of pronouns and other address terms they offer to their users with a distinct range of social values. Children learn their relative position in their family and in their society through the “correct” use of pronouns. When languages come into contact because of population migrations or through the process of translation, pronouns are the most sensitive zone of tension both psychologically and politically. This volume endeavours to probe the comparative pragmatics of pronominal systems as social processes in a representative set from different language families and cultural areas.
Download or read book Pragmatics and its Interfaces written by Cornelia Ilie and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing and cross-pollination between disciplines is natural, as well as necessary, but at times it seems important to take a pause and reflect on and problematize the role of pragmatics at these interfaces. In an age when disciplinary boundaries are being blurred, we need to investigate the relationship and interplay between pragmatics and related or complementary fields of enquiry with the goal of broadening and deepening our understanding of the contributions and boundaries of pragmatics as such. Here in twelve original contributions, internationally recognized authorities explore the current state and future trends in Pragmatics vis-à-vis adjacent disciplines.
Download or read book Kindergartens and Cultures written by Roberta Wollons and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the German kindergarten - banned by the Prussian government as revolutionary - spread rapidly to nations around the globe, becoming at once a local and modernising institution. This book is a collection of case studies that describe the remarkable diffusion, adoption, and transformation of the kindergarten in eleven modern and developing nations. The contributors to the volume examine the process by which the idea of the kindergarten arrived and was adopted in these countries - a process that invariably demonstrated the immense power of local cultures, whether Christian, Buddhist, or Islamic, to respond to and reformulate borrowed ideas. Borrowing cultures do not engage in passive mimicry, the studies show, but recast ideas for their own purposes. Beginning with Germany, the chapters of this book follow the kindergarten idea as it passed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the United States, then England, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Israel. The contributors examine such complex political, social, and cultural issues as the relationship of gender to national educational policies, the impact of mi
Download or read book Epistemic Stance in Dialogue written by Andrzej Zuczkowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and which they express through lexical and morphosyntactic means. According to the results of our studies of different types of corpora, these positions can be reduced to three basic ones: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing (KUB). In the first part of the book, we present the KUB model and its psychological and linguistic backgrounds. In the second part, we provide an exemplary application of the model, by presenting the qualitative and quantitative analysis of dialogues belonging to different genres and contexts. The volume is addressed to scholars concerned with the topical issues from a theoretical and analytical perspective.
Download or read book Legal Pragmatics written by Dennis Kurzon and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of legal pragmatics. The four chapters in the first section are devoted to historical pragmatics and take a diachronic look at old courtroom records. Written legal language is also the focus of the four chapters in the next section, dealing with the pragmatics of modern legal writing. The chapters in the third section, devoted to modern legal language, touch upon both the discourse in the courtroom and in police investigation. Finally, the two chapters in the last section on legal discourse and multilingualism address a topic very relevant to the modern era of globalisation -- the position of legal discourse in multilingual contexts.
Download or read book China s Universities and the Open Door written by Ruth Hayhoe and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Knowledge and Modernity: The Emergence of a Contradiction -- 2 Higher Education Reforms in the Eighties -- 3 A New Ethos for the Chinese University -- 4 China's Universities in the World Community: Conformity or Transformation? -- 5 Contrasting Policies of Knowledge Transfer to China -- 6 The Practice of Knowledge Transfer through Educational Cooperation -- 7 China's Universities and the World Bank -- Postscript -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms
Download or read book Language and Ideology written by Jef Verschueren and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
