Silence as Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silence as Language write by Michal Ephratt. This book was released on 2022-08-25. Silence as Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.
East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education
East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education write by Jim King. This book was released on 2020-06-22. East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Silence is a key pedagogical issue in language education. Seen by some as a space for thinking and reflection during the learning process, for others silence represents a threat, inhibiting target language interaction which is so vital during second language acquisition. This book eschews stereotypes and generalisations about why so many learners from East Asia seem either reluctant or unable to speak in English by providing a state-of-the art account of current research into the complex and ambiguous issue of silence in language education. The innovative research included in this volume focuses on silence both as a barrier to successful learning and as a resource that may in some cases facilitate language acquisition. The book offers a fresh perspective on ways to facilitate classroom interaction while also embracing silence and it touches on key pedagogical concepts such as teacher cognition, the role of task features, classroom interactional approaches, pedagogical intervention and socialisation, willingness to communicate, as well as psychological and sociocultural factors. Each of the book’s chapters include self-reflection and discussion tasks, as well as annotated bibliographies for further reading.
Expressing Silence
Expressing Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expressing Silence write by Natsuko Tsujimura. This book was released on 2022-03-03. Expressing Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.
A Book of Silence
A Book of Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Book of Silence write by Sara Maitland. This book was released on 2010-09-01. A Book of Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
Language and Silence
Language and Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Silence write by George Steiner. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Language and Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. “A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves” (The New York Times Book Review). Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic forms—or partial silence. Steiner explores the idea of the abandonment of contemporary literary criticism, from the classics to the works of William Shakespeare, Lawrence Durell, Thomas Mann, Leon Trotsky, and more.
