Bilingual Games

Author : D. Sommer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403982708
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Games written by D. Sommer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernism-multiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. Sommer asserts that many people normally live-that is, think, feel, create, reason, persuade, laugh-in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship (aesthetics; language and philosophy; psychoanalysis, and politics) cannot see or hear more than one language at a time. The goal of these essays is to create a new field: bilingual arts & aesthetics which examine the aesthetic product produced by bilingual diasporic communities. The focus of this volume is the Americas, but examples and theoretical proposals come from Europe as well. In both areas, the issue offers another level of complexity to the migrant and cosmopolitan character of local societies in a global economy.

Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385791
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Aesthetics written by Doris Sommer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language; liberal democracies can either encourage difference or stifle it through exclusionary policies. Bilingual Aesthetics is Sommer’s passionate call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference and to realize that the precarious points of contact resulting from mismatches between languages, codes, and cultures are the lifeblood of democracy, as well as the stimulus for aesthetics and philosophy. Sommer encourages readers to entertain the creative possibilities inherent in multilingualism. With her characteristic wit and love of language, she focuses on humor—particularly bilingual jokes—as the place where tensions between and within cultures are played out. She draws on thinking about humor and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin. In declaring the merits of allowing for crossed signals, Sommer sends a clear message: Making room for more than one language is about value added, not about remediation. It is an expression of love for a contingent and changing world.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541906748
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Spanish Learning Games for Children | Children's Learn Spanish Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a better way to learn a new language than by playing games? This Spanish Book is all about injecting new Spanish words and phrases to your beloved kids through a series of games. The difficult word is not allowed here. Your kids are going to love this book as much as they will love Spanish by the end of the session. Get your copy now.

Author : Sonia Weiner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364013
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Migrant Fictions written by Sonia Weiner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Migrant Fictions focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings.

Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847699812
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Minds written by Aneta Pavlenko and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do bi- and multilinguals perceive themselves differently in their respective languages? Do they experience different emotions? How do they express emotions and do they have a favourite language for emotional expression? How are emotion words and concepts represented in the bi- and multilingual lexicons? This ground-breaking book opens up a new field of study, bilingualism and emotions, and provides intriguing answers to these and many related questions.

Author : Maria Lauret
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162892165X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wanderwords written by Maria Lauret and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual audience? Does their English betray the presence of another language, is that other language erased, or does it appear here and there, on special occasions for special reasons? Do words and meanings wander from one language and one self to another? Do the psychic and cultural worlds of different languages split apart or merge? What is the aesthetic effect of such wandering, splitting, or merging? Usually described as “code-switches” by linguists, fragments of other languages have wandered into American literature in English from the beginning. Wanderwords asks what, in the memoirs, poems, essays, and fiction of a variety of twentieth and twenty first century writers, the function and meaning of such language migration might be. It shows what there is to be gained if we learn to read migrant writing with an eye, and an ear, for linguistic difference and it concludes that, freighted with the other-cultural meanings wrapped up in their different looks and sounds, wanderwords can perform wonders of poetic signification as well as cultural critique. Bringing together literary and cultural theory with linguistics as well as the theory and history of migration, and with psychoanalysis for its understanding of the multilingual unconscious, Wanderwords engages closely with the work of well-known and unheard-of writers such as Mary Antin and Eva Hoffman, Richard Rodriguez and Junot Díaz, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Bok and Truus van Bruinessen, Susana Chávez-Silverman and Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Pietro DiDonato and Don DeLillo. In so doing, a poetics of multilingualism unfolds that stretches well beyond translation into the lingual contact zone of English-with-other-languages that is American literature, belatedly re-connecting with the world.

Author : Helga Freiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783900196103
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Games written by Helga Freiler and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Zurer Pearson
Publisher : Random House Reference
ISBN 13 : 1400009502
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising a Bilingual Child written by Barbara Zurer Pearson and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you would like your children to experience the benefits of becoming bilingual, but you aren’t sure how to teach them a second language, then Raising a Bilingual Child is the perfect step-by-step guide for you. Raising a Bilingual Child provides parents with information, encouragement, and practical advice for creating a positive bilingual environment. It offers both an overview of why parents should raise their children to speak more than one language and detailed steps parents can take to integrate two languages into their child’s daily routine. Raising a Bilingual Child also includes inspirational first-hand accounts from parents. It dispels the myth that bilingualism may hinder a child’s academic performance and explains that learning languages at a young age can actually enhance a child’s overall intellectual development.

Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403960115
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Games written by Doris Sommer and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2003-11-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sommer invites distinguished writers to examine the fundamental difference it makes to play games between languages.

Author : Ana Sánchez-Muñoz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000641937
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts written by Ana Sánchez-Muñoz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection bridges disciplinary scholarship from critical language studies, Latinx critical communication, and media studies scholarship for a comprehensive exploration of Spanish-English bilingualism in the US and in turn, elucidating, more broadly, our understanding of bilingualism in a post-digital society. Chapters offer a state-of-the-art on research at the intersection of language, communication, and media, with a focus on key debates in Spanish-English bilingualism research. The volume provides a truly interdisciplinary perspective, synthesizing a wide range of approaches to promote greater dialogue between these fields and examining different communicative bilingual spaces. These include ideological spaces, political spaces, publicity and advertising spaces, digital and social media spaces, entertainment and TV spaces, and school and family spaces. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in bilingualism, language and communication, language and media, and Latin American and Chicano/a studies.