Search Results - "arctic"

Language contact in the Arctic northern pidgins and contact languages /

Subjects: “…Pidgin languages Arctic regions Congresses.…”
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The language of the Inuit syntax, semantics, and society in the Arctic / by Dorais, Louis-Jacques, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- Semantics, neology, and oral change -- Literacy and formal education -- Language contact and bilingualism -- The current status of the Inuit Language -- Conclusion : language and identity in the arctic -- Appendices. The possessive noun declension (Nunavik Inuktitut) ; The grammatical endings of verbs (Nunavik Inuktitut) ; Categories of lexical affixes with Nunavik Inuktitut examples ; Inuit first and home languages in Inuit nunaat (Canada) in 2006.…”
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Ice floe II international poetry of the far north /

“…Arctic regions Poetry.…”
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Northern experience and the myths of Canadian culture by Hulan, Renée

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Language typology and historical contingency : in honor of Johanna Nichols /

Table of Contents: “…: toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue -- Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic : how recent is it? / Michael Fortescue -- A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? …”
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The world in which we occur John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century / by Browne, Neil W.

Table of Contents: “…An arc of discovery: John Muir's my first summer in the Sierra -- The form of the new: pragmatist ecology and Sea of Cortez -- Rachel Carson's Marginal world: pragmatist ecology, aesthetics, and ethics -- The coldest scholar on Earth: silence and work in John Haines's The stars, the snow, the fire -- Northern imagination, wonder, politics, and pragmatist ecology in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams.…”
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Literature and the environment

Table of Contents: “…Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.…”
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Medieval literature and social politics : studies of cultures and their contexts / by Knight, Stephen, 1940-

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Shakespeare and world cinema by Burnett, Mark Thornton

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Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies edited by Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter.

Table of Contents: “…Schecter -- Novices and their speech roles in Chinese heritage language classes / Agnes Weiyun He -- Language socialization and dys-socialization in a south Indian college / Dwight Atkinson -- Language socialization and second language acquisition in a multilingual arctic Quebec community / Donna Patrick -- Growing a bányavirág rock crystal on barren soil: forming a Hungarian identity in eastern Slovakia through joint (inter)action / Juliet Langman -- Multiliteracies in Springvale: negotiating language, culture, and identity in suburban Melbourne / Heather Lotherington -- Terms of desire: are there lesbians in Egypt? …”
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Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. …”
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