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Chomsky's contribution to the study of language has, over the last
four decades, been enormous, and has exerted a powerful influence
throughout the other cognitive sciences. Language is, arguably, an
even more distinctively human characteristic than intelligence, and
the thousands of different human languages are, according to
Chomsy, cut to the same general pattern. This pattern is
determined, he claims, by innate structuring principles which only
human beings possess. Chomsky's search for the universal in
language has revitalized the question of the relationship between
language and mind, and has provided a powerful new tool, generative
grammar, for students of language.
Embodying the aims of the new curriculum for Wales, and forming
part of the Humanities Area of Learning and Experience, Curriculum
for Wales: Geography for 11-14 years will help you plan your
curriculum, offering 18 chapters packed full of geographical
resources, including maps, charts, diagrams and data. >>
Build students' curiosity about the world around them - how it
developed, what it is like now, and what it could be like in the
future by helping you develop an enquiry-based approach to
learning. >> Explore geography at a local, national and
global scale and foster students' sense of cynefin with a focus on
Wales and its place on the wider world. >> Develop core
geographical skills with fieldwork enquiries embedded into the
context of topics, encouraging students to investigate their local
area. >> Support teachers in planning and assessment with
suggested learning objectives. >> Help students to consider
topics in the context of their own lives and the local area in
which they live with regular 'My place' activities. >>
Encourage students to think about the impact of human actions in
their local area, on Wales and the world, to develop ethical
informed citizens. >> Choose from crucial content areas
including: weather and climate; ecosystems; landscapes and national
parks; rural and urban places; sport and culture; climate change;
disease; global consumers and more.
Motivate pupils to develop their geographical skills, knowledge and
understanding as they become engaged and accomplished geographers,
ready for the demands of GCSE. Specifically designed to provide a
solid foundation for the 2016 GCSE specifications, this Student
Book takes an enquiry-based approach to learning within each unit
and lesson. - Easily and cost-effectively implement a new KS3
scheme of work: this coherent single-book course covers the latest
National Curriculum content, providing 150 ready-made lessons that
can be used flexibly for a two or three-year KS3 - Build and
improve the geographical knowledge and skills that pupils need:
every double-page spread represents a lesson, with rich
geographical data and place contexts for pupils to interpret,
analyse andevaluate - Lay firm foundations for GCSE: key
vocabulary, command words and concepts are introduced gradually,
preparing pupils for the content and question types they will
encounter at GCSE, with a particular focus on analysis and
evaluation questions - Effectively assess, measure and demonstrate
progress: formative assessments throughout each lesson and
summative end-of-unit reviews include questions that show whether
pupils are 'working towards', 'meeting' or 'exceeding' expectations
- Encourage pupils to check and drive their own progress: learning
objectives and end-of-unit learning outcomes help pupils reflect on
their learning and make connections between key concepts and skills
throughout the course
One of the most consistent features of Christian life has been the
extensive use of the biblical texts in sermons; to evangelise, to
educate, to edify, to exhort, and even to terrify those who heard
them. Yet, surprisingly little scholarly attention has focused on
the dynamics at work as these texts were taken by preachers and
transformed into the largely aural experience encountered by their
audience. Pre-formed and performed thus, scripture was communicated
and made relevant through the use of the sermonic form to audiences
inhabiting a broad range of socio-historical settings, including
those whose social status or illiteracy might otherwise have
completely precluded any access to biblical texts. In this volume,
case-studies of biblical reception within and through preaching
have been taken from two millennia of homilies, with each being
examined to see how the text-preacher-audience dynamic has
influenced the interpretation, understanding and impact of the
Bible. Examples include Paul, Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine,
Hildegard of Bingen, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Aimee Semple McPherson and Chris Brain.
This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist
Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Written for a theatre of his
imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish
drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic
techniques and a heightened dramatic language reflecting broad
cultural identities. John Lyon analyses the plays within a European
rather than exclusively Spanish framework. He shows that,
philosophically and aesthetically, Valle has links with two
avant-garde movements: the turn-of-the-century Symbolism associated
with Maeterlinck and Yeats and the anti-tragic values which
surfaced in the 1920s and culminated in what became known as
Absurdism. The text is supported by an appendix gathering together
Valle's more important statements on dramatic theory and is
illustrated by photographs of recent productions in Madrid and
London. The book will find a readership among teachers and students
of European drama as well as those in Spanish departments.
John Lyons is recognized internationally as one of the most
influential scholars in modern linguistics. This volume contains
essays spanning many years of his thought and research, in addition
to previously unpublished pieces. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 make their
first appearance here, and set out the view of linguistics and
linguistic theory which underlies the content of this and a
(forthcoming) companion volume. The remaining six chapters have
been either extensively revised or annotated to provide the reader
with their historical context and to bring them into line with the
author's current thinking.
John Lyons is recognized internationally as one of the most
influential scholars in modern linguistics. This volume contains
essays spanning many years of his thought and research, in addition
to previously unpublished pieces. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 make their
first appearance here, and set out the view of linguistics and
linguistic theory which underlies the content of this and a
(forthcoming) companion volume. The remaining six chapters have
been either extensively revised or annotated to provide the reader
with their historical context and to bring them into line with the
author's current thinking.
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons' important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialized terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical and to contemporary semantics and pragmatics. With its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership. Sir John Lyons is one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. His many publications include his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968) and Semantics (1977).
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the
Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
In this book of Native American language research and oral
traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by
culture-bearer Lottie Lindley, one of the last Okanagan elders
whose formative years of language learning were unbroken by the
colonizing influence of English. Speaking in the Upper Nicola
dialect of Okanagan, a Southern Interior Salish language, Lindley
tells the stories that recount and reflect Salish culture, history,
and historical consciousness (including names of locales won in
battle with other interior peoples), coming-of-age rituals and
marriage rites, and tales that attest to the self-understanding of
the Salish people within their own history. For each Okanagan
Salish story, Lyon and Lindley offer a continuous transcription
followed by a collaborative English translation of the story and an
interlinear rendition with morphological analysis. The presentation
allows students of the dialect, linguists, and those interested in
Pacific Northwest and Interior Plateau indigenous oral traditions
unencumbered access to the culture, history, and language of the
Salish peoples. With few native speakers left in the community,
Okanagan Grouse Woman contributes to the preservation,
presentation, and-with hope-maintenance and cultivation of a vital
indigenous language and the cultural traditions of the Interior
Salish peoples.
This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the
study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and
readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject.
There is first a general account of the nature of language and of
the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John
Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of
linguistics: the sounds of language, grammar, semantics, language
change, psycholinguistics: the sounds of language, grammar,
semantics, language change, psycholinguistics, language and
culture. Throughout the book he emphasizes particularly those
aspects of the discipline that seem fundamental and most likely to
remain important. He stresses throughout the cultural at least as
much as the biological context of human language, and shows how the
linguist's concerns connect productively with those of the
traditional humanities and the social sciences. Each chapter has a
wide-ranging set of discussion questions and revision exercises,
and extensive suggestions for further reading. The exposition is
marked throughout by the author's characteristic clarity, balance
and authority.
An independent volume dealing specifically with linguistic problems in semantics. Major theoretical questions considered include Semantics and Grammar, Deixis, Mood and Illocutionary Force and Modality.
A general introduction synthesizing work from many disciplines on meaning and communication. Little technical knowledge needed, as all relevant terms and concepts carefully explained.
This is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical linguistics. It
presupposes no previous knowledge and terms are defined as they are
introduced; but it gives a rigorous and technical treatment of a
wide range of topics, and brings the reader to an advanced level of
understanding. Since its first publication in 1968 Introduction to
Theoretical Linguistics has been one of the classic introductions
to the discipline. In a field which is often seen as rapidly
moving, it will continue to be used by students seeking an overview
of the central areas of linguistics - phonetics and phonology,
grammar and semantics - and to be of great value to anyone
interested in the ways in which theory can help to explain the key
problems of human language.
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he
lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot
brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an
anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go
disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves
to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's
fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising
interrelations.
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed,
this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a
comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which
describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a
"monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and
butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the
UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of
interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area
with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of
more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project,
this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history
through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and
students. No other rural farming county in the American South has
yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights
experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly
capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors'
approach places the region's history in context and reveals
everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had
been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of
the NAACP in the 1940s and '50s. One of the first Mississippi
counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African
American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a
regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County
Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously
unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of
individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the
long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents
explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their
own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through
these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos
covering more than a century's worth of history, the volume
presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving
for the prize of equality and justice.
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the
Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
In this book of Native American language research and oral
traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by
culture-bearer Lottie Lindley, one of the last Okanagan elders
whose formative years of language learning were unbroken by the
colonizing influence of English. Speaking in the Upper Nicola
dialect of Okanagan, a Southern Interior Salish language, Lindley
tells the stories that recount and reflect Salish culture, history,
and historical consciousness (including names of locales won in
battle with other interior peoples), coming-of-age rituals and
marriage rites, and tales that attest to the self-understanding of
the Salish people within their own history. For each Okanagan
Salish story, Lyon and Lindley offer a continuous transcription
followed by a collaborative English translation of the story and an
interlinear rendition with morphological analysis. The presentation
allows students of the dialect, linguists, and those interested in
Pacific Northwest and Interior Plateau indigenous oral traditions
unencumbered access to the culture, history, and language of the
Salish peoples. With few native speakers left in the community,
Okanagan Grouse Woman contributes to the preservation,
presentation, and-with hope-maintenance and cultivation of a vital
indigenous language and the cultural traditions of the Interior
Salish peoples.
In this collection, John Lyons mines more deeply the rich vein of
childhood memories and experiences of Trinidad and Tobago, where he
grew up.
Fans of John Lyons' lively and appealing style will not be
disappointed in this brand new collection of poems for younger
readers aged 7-11. A breath of Caribbean fresh air, these poems are
humorous, beautifully crafted, and perfectly pitched to their
audience, though readers of any age will enjoy his painterly use of
language. Lyons conjures up vivid images, situations and emotions
which appeal both for their universality and their newness, as he
examines and comments upon the world around him with wit and
empathy.A staple of the schools poetry anthology, John Lyon's poems
never fail to stand out for their originality and exuberance.
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