Trip Of The Tongue

Author : Elizabeth Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608198294
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trip of the Tongue written by Elizabeth Little and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we speak English as a nation, it's no secret that America is far from uniform. Spanish, in particular, has long been touted as the language that will figure into our national future; much has been written about the need to recognize it in our laws and schools. Yet billing America as a bilingual country is a gross misrepresentation. They speak Basque in Nevada, Hindi in San Jose, and Gullah in South Carolina. We speak European, Asian, and Native American languages, as well as hybrids like Creole and Spanglish. And Elizabeth Little's home--Queens, New York--is among the most ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse places on the planet. Small surprise, then, that Little felt a yearning to find the cultural and linguistic soul of the country. And she has done it in the most American way imaginable: on a road trip. This book is the result: a festive roadmap of the bounties of our country. We'll learn about the struggle of the French-speaking population of Maine to get along with the community around them; the traditional ways of the German-speaking Amish in Pennsylvania; and the rich history of the little-known African population of Nantucket. Elizabeth Little is a witty and endearing tourguide for this memorable and original trip.

Author : Elizabeth Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596916567
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trip of the Tongue written by Elizabeth Little and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the author's travels throughout the country, where she witnesses firsthand the nation's many cultures and languages and what they say about who we are individually, socially and politically.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307744027
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lolita written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind." —The New Yorker Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Author : B. Elwin Sherman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430317957
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George W. Bush -- On the Trips of His Tongue written by B. Elwin Sherman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone should have a legacy. Ask yourself today what you'd most want to be remembered for tomorrow if you died tonight. You should have an answer at the ready. Yes, it's true, according to our 43rd President, that "you never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone," but that shouldn't stop you from considering who you were while you still are. Welcome to Bush Country, and the landscape of its linquistic legacy.

Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224945
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tongue of Adam written by Abdelfattah Kilito and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.

Author : Joseph Mulholland
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781493613748
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tongue Trip written by Joseph Mulholland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Mulholland, poet and spoken word artist, debuts his collection of poems.

Author : Christine Gilbert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592407927
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongue written by Christine Gilbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman’s quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride. Imagine negotiating for a replacement carburetor in rural Mexico with words you’re secretly pulling from a pocket dictionary. Imagine your two-year-old asking for more niunai at dinner—a Mandarin word for milk that even you don’t know yet. Imagine finding out that you’re unexpectedly pregnant while living in war-torn Beirut. With vivid and evocative language, Christine Gilbert takes us along with her into foreign lands, showing us what it’s like to make a life in an unfamiliar world—and in an unfamiliar tongue. Gilbert was a young mother when she boldly uprooted her family to move around the world, studying Mandarin in China, Arabic in Lebanon, and Spanish in Mexico, with her toddler son and all-American husband along for the ride.Their story takes us from Beijing to Beirut, from Cyprus to Chiang Mai—and also explores recent breakthroughs in bilingual brain mapping and the controversial debates happening in linguistics right now. Gilbert’s adventures abroad prove just how much language influences culture (and vice versa), and lead her to results she never expected. Mother Tongue is a fascinating and uplifting story about taking big risks for bigger rewards and trying to find meaning and happiness through tireless pursuit—no matter what hurdles may arise. It’s a treat for language enthusiasts and armchair travelers alike.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1616 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2702 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 2702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Artell
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780806909516
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Tongue Twisters written by Mike Artell and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of hundreds of difficult tongue twisters, arranged alphabetically.