Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what o…
This edited volume highlights how institutions, programs, and less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors can collaborate and think across institutional boundaries, bringing together voices representing different approaches to LCTL sharing to highlight affordances and challenges across institutions in this collection of essays. Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education sho…
As a discipline, the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar began largely among Arabic-speaking Jews of the Middle Ages, particularly in the ʿAbbasid period (750–1258 CE). Indeed, it has long been acknowledged by scholars that the Hebrew grammatical tradition, in many ways, grew up out of and alongside the Arabic grammatical tradition. Many concepts present in Hebrew grammar have their origins in …
Belajar bahasa Arab memang tak mudah, meski sebenarnya anda bisa belajar secara otodidak dengan berbekal buku yang tepat. Buku Lengkap Percakapan Bahasa Arab ini sangat mudah dipelajari, karena memuat beragam tema yang digunakan dalam percakapan sehari-hari yang disusun secara terstruktur. Dengan berbekal buku ini anda bisa belajar percakapan bahasa Arab secara mandiri. Anda bisa berlatih bersa…
Setelah Dear Oppa dan Funtastic Korean, Borassaem hadir kembali dengan buku berjudul Hello, Korean!. Kamu bisa belajar tentang tata bahasa; penggunaan artikel; penggunaan kata hubung; dll melalui contoh dan latihan. Borassaem sendiri belajar bahasa Korea secara otodidak. Dan dia ingin mengajakmu belajar bahasa Korea dengan cara yang menyenangkan, sehingga buku ini pun dilengkapi dengan ilustra…
Kamus Besar Bahasa Mandarin untuk pelajar, mahasiswa, dan umum dilengkapi dengan seputar kebudayaan mandarin.
People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In this unique volume, international experts explore how this came to be, what English usage and integration looks like in different spheres of society and the economy in these countries, and the implications of this linguistic phenomenon for lang…
In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. A World without Capitalism? is a sociolinguistic ethnography that explores the heretofore limited research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics on the discursive and materiali…
Environmentalists today worry about a newly felt sense of impermanence around places in which we live, arguing that we live in archipelagic, discon-nected dwelling places in a time of increasing travel, migration across and among continents, and the construction of mass-market ‘non-spaces’ (Buell 2005: 63) such as fast-food joints and airports, indistinguishable one from another. Ecologists…
This book is for humanities students or scholars who are classically trained in handling manuscript materials and wish to take advantage of the incredible computing power at their fingertips but are at a loss where to begin. Some of the more technical parts of the book could be challenging, but a little persis-tence and practice, over time, should more than suffice.I also hope to …