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The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System "provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Thirty chapters written by specialists from around the world cover core linguistic and psychological aspects, and also include areas from such other disciplines as typography and computer mediated communication.

Divided into five sections, the volume encompasses a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas:

• The history of...

Start speaking, reading and writing Japanese today with the most exciting new introduction to the Japanese language Beginning Japanese follows the story of Kiara, an American exchange student who lives in Japan and loves to study Japanese. With the help of her Japanese friends and the time-traveling Tomo Tanuki (raccoon dog), Kiara learns to speak, read, and write Japanese while she visits famous people and places in Japanese history.

Illustrated with manga-style comics--a...

Beginning Japanese Workbook includes:

• Dialogues for contextual learning and practice.
• Translation exercises to reinforce Japanese characters (kanji and kana).
• Written Japanese (kana, and kanji) practice to create your own sentences.
• Plentiful...

Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based, multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation, it provides a concrete and objective view of the internal variation in written Chinese. This book is a timely work that addresses the growing interest in quantitative genre analysis and how knowledge thus gained can contribute to the teaching as well as understanding of the Chinese language.

Zheng-sheng Zhang is Professor of Chinese at San Diego State University. He has been a...

This is the first book to explore how graphocentrism - prioritising writing over speech and eyes over ears - affects Chinese education and culture. Contemporary educational practices in China often follow the dominant Western model of phonocentrism, but Ruyu Hung demonstrates that each perspective interacts and counteracts with each other, creating a dialogue between Eastern and Western thought. Chapters explore the consonances and dissonances between the two, problematizing the educational practices of Chinese tradition and proposing a dialectical thinking of post-graphocentrism, based on...

This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages.

An alphabet book about animals drinking coffee. Originally published on a cafe wall a single pager-per-day in January, 2015. This edition also reprints the complete set of Winter's Cruel Reign Flickers Beneath The Stern Gaze of Hot Drink, 40 paintings on the subject of animals drinking coffee.

Everyday tasks like finding a street address or buying a train ticket can be an ordeal in Japan if you don't read kanji-the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters. Unfortunately, the kanji characters taught in most textbooks are not always those that you'll encounter in everyday situations. To fill this gap, a group of teachers from the prestigious University of Tokyo have pooled their...

This "daily multivitamin" approach to learning Japanese makes it easy to track your progress and to review later An audio CD comes free with the book, providing native speaker recordings giving correct pronunciations for the dialogs and vocabulary in each lesson.

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school...

The major struggle facing all beginning Japanese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Japanese characters. The Second 100 Japanese Kanji adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome the initial difficulty of reading kanji and writing kanji and quickly master the basic Japanese characters that are fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning students, this beginner kanji guide teaches characters that have been carefully selected and sequenced for rapid...

The Japanese language has two basic writing systems, kanji characters--which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana--a mnemonics based alphabet. This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters. Along with its sister book: Japanese Hiragana and Katakana for Beginners it provides a complete introduction to written Japanese.

Japanese Kanji for Beginners contains everything you need to learn the kanji...

This complete Japanese language package has helped many thousands of people learn to speak colloquial Japanese. It is designed for busy people who wish to pick up a working knowledge of Japanese on their own in just a few days, rather than a few years. Japanese for Beginners makes this possible by providing a firm grounding in grammar and sentence structure using dialogues and vocabulary that reflect authentic...

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it presents an analysis of spoken corpora from Europe and Mexico using a combination of criteria. The aim of this approach is to establish patterns of multilingual speech prevailing in different communities and allow for crosslinguistic comparison.