Voiced And Voiceless In Asia

Author : Halina Zawiszová
Publisher : Palacký University Olomouc
ISBN 13 : 8024462702
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voiced and Voiceless in Asia written by Halina Zawiszová and published by Palacký University Olomouc. This book was released on with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme - Voiced and Voiceless in Asia - from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literature, although the texts included in the second part also deal with social themes. In addition to historical topics, such as Japanese colonialism or Chinese agricultural reforms in the 1950s, the volume also addresses current issues, including restrictive Chinese policies in Xinjiang, Japanese activist movements against gender-based violence and discrimination, or the problems of migrant laborers in India and performing arts in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, it provides insight into satirical woodblock prints from the Boshin War period or works of literature produced in Japanese leprosariums in the first half of the 20th century, as well as into selected topics in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Sinophone Tibetan literature. Collectively, the chapters comprised in this volume narrate the multifaceted relationship between 'voice' and 'power,' thus highlighting the fact that the question of 'voice' is closely intertwined with a variety of social, political, and cultural issues.

Author : Halina Zawiszová
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788024462691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voiced and Voiceless in Asia written by Halina Zawiszová and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Wilson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819725003
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asian Family in Literature and Film written by Bernard Wilson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110558149
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110423308
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia written by Hans Henrich Hock and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.

Author : N.J. Enfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501682
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia written by N.J. Enfield and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the 'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110208423
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa, South and Southeast Asia written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, including L1 varieties (such as White South African or St Helena English), L2 varieties (such as Cameroon, Pakistani, or Malaysian English) as well as pidgins and creoles (such as Nigerian or Ghanaian Pidgin). The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features.

Author : James Albert Michener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voice of Asia written by James Albert Michener and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136898034
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia written by Bernard Comrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.

Author : Azirah Hashim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351590286
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN written by Azirah Hashim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats. Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This analysis includes the role and impact of American English in mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical development, English used in specific domains, language policies and concludes with the future of English and future challenges. This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the transformation of entire language habitats, including the major national and regional languages that participate in this process. It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language contact, policy and planning.