Linguistics & Language Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Not a Madeleine Dunked in Tea From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Explores grief through food, music, and memory. Showcases how these facets of experience intersected with his grief.	Jaspreet Singh	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From On Second Thoughts From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the …	Bernard Spolsky	10	2007	$1.00 Add
From NEW! oud/old From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood.	Sadiqa de Meijer	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From Outstanding Interpreters From: Interpreters as Diplomats View University of Ottawa Press	It might be enlightening to take a peek at the careers of a few of the more outstanding interpreters of the 20th century.	Ruth Roland	18	1999	$2.34 Add
From NEW! Partitus From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Discusses Partition, Singh’s relationship to and removal from those events as something that occurred before his time that his mother scarcely talked about.	Jaspreet Singh	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Patterns of a Childhood in Kashmir From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Chronicles Singh’s childhood in India—family trips, dinners, and challenges, including the complexities and division created through language.	Jaspreet Singh	18	2021	$1.80 Add
Pay No Heed to the Rockets Palestine in the Present Tense Goose Lane Editions	Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of …	Marcello Di Cintio	264	2018	View
From NEW! piano/piano From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	The chapter explores Dutch etemology.	Sadiqa de Meijer	7	2020	$0.70 Add
From Preface From: Interpreters as Diplomats View University of Ottawa Press	Preface	Ruth Roland	2	1999	$0.26 Add
From Profiles of Interpreters From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation View University of Ottawa Press	(Interpreters’) different origins, careers and endeavorsbefore and after the trial are reflected in their extremely varied biographical sketches presented in this chapter, which attempt to …	Francesca Gaiba	23	1998	$2.99 Add
From Qualitative Research Methods in Language Test Development and Validation From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	This chapter introduces readers to several qualitative research methods as they relate to language testing and assessment, namely: Discourse and Conversation Analysis, Observation Checklists and …	Anne Lazaraton; Lynda Taylor	17	2007	$1.70 Add
From NEW! quarantaine/quarantine From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	This chapter concerns the sounds of Flemish, also called Belgian-Dutch.	Sadiqa de Meijer	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From NEW! raadsel/riddle From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	This chapter concerns Punjabi, the author’s father’s mother tongue.	Sadiqa de Meijer	6	2020	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Rehras From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	A poem about Punjabi being spoken at the Edmonton airport.	Jaspreet Singh	2	2021	$0.20 Add
From Relevance in Dictionary Making: Sense Indicators in the Bilingual Entry From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View University of Ottawa Press	Lexicographic relevance became a hot topic with the development of the text corpus: this is now, for many lexicographers, the principal source of information about their headwords.	Beryl T. Sue Atkins; Pierrette Bouillon	19	2006	$2.66 Add
From Reliablity and Impact of the Interpretation From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation View University of Ottawa Press	One of the key issues about the interpreting system was its reliability. Could the tribunal wholeheartedly trust the version of the interpreters? In order to ensure a fair trial to the …	Francesca Gaiba	25	1998	$3.25 Add