The Survival Of People And Languages Schooners Goats And Cassava In St Barthelemy French West Indies

Author : Julianne Maher
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418824X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies written by Julianne Maher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher examines the enigmatic linguistic complexity of the island of St. Barthélemy in the French Caribbean, analyzes its four language varieties and traces the social history which caused its fragmentation.

Author : Kimberly J. Morse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440852391
Total Pages : 1037 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americas [2 volumes] written by Kimberly J. Morse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America. From delicacies to dances, this encyclopedia introduces readers to cultures and customs of all of the countries of the Americas, explaining what makes each country unique while also demonstrating what ties the cultures and peoples together. The Americas profiles the 40 nations and territories that make up North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including British, U.S., Dutch, and French territories. Each country profile takes an in-depth look at such contemporary topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, cuisine, gender roles, dress, festivals, music, visual arts, and architecture, among many others, while also providing contextual information on history, politics, and economics. Readers will be able to draw cross-cultural comparisons, such as between gender roles in Mexico and those in Brazil. Coverage on every country in the region provides readers with a useful compendium of cultural information, ideal for anyone interested in geography, social studies, global studies, and anthropology.

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192634410
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the French Language written by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today.

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783094540
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of French in Multilingual Contexts written by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together new research from different theoretical paradigms addressing the acquisition of French. It focuses on the acquisition of French in combination with English, German, Russian or Spanish and enriches our understanding of the particularities of French and the role of language combinations in the acquisition process. The chapters examine the development of different grammatical aspects (word order phenomena, adjective placement, dislocation and cleft constructions, wh-questions, DP phenomena, argument omissions and constructions with particular word groups) and use various methodologies (such as elicitation tasks, longitudinal studies and parsing experiments) to further add to our understanding of how French is acquired in different contexts. This book will be a resource for researchers and graduate students working in the discipline of language acquisition, especially those who are interested in language contact phenomena where two typologically different languages are involved.

Author : Russell Fielding
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989678
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wake of the Whale written by Russell Fielding and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.

Author : Elaine Stratford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317414438
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Geographies written by Elaine Stratford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental – a conversation among these authors and the editor – while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies’ past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.

Author : Casey D. Allen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319557874
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles written by Casey D. Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region. After offering a brief overview of the region’s geologic and tectonic history, as well as its basic climatology, subsequent chapters then discuss each island’s (or island set’s) geomorphology and geology, and how the settlement history, tourism, and hazards have affected their individual landscapes. Written by regional experts and replete with up-to-date information, stunning color imagery, and beautiful cartography (maps), it is the only comprehensive, scientific evaluation of the Lesser Antilles, and serves as the region’s definitive reference resource. Accessible to non-experts and amateur explorers, the book includes in-depth discussions and reference sections for each island/island set. Usable as both a textbook and guidebook, it offers readers a straightforward yet detailed assessment of an interesting and intriguing – but often-overlooked and under-appreciated – locale.

Author : Robin Sabino
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004225404
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket written by Robin Sabino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket, Robin Sabino draws on fieldwork with a last speaker and research from a range of disciplines laying bare the crucial roles of community and resistance in creole genesis.

Author : Agnes G. Sanderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French West Indies written by Agnes G. Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eithne B. Carlin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900428012X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In and Out of Suriname written by Eithne B. Carlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.