Diane Brentari, PhD'90, studies sign language for insights into all language.
A knowledge of a foreign language--especially the language of the country you are teaching in--is a considerable asset, for it gives you an insight into how language works as well as allowing you to recognise the problems the nonnative speaker has in learning the English language.
I get a first-hand insight into the language complexities in conversations with Margareth.
While Birch made convincing use of the 19th-century vernacular in her novel, Stephen Kelman, also short-listed, provided insight into the language and culture of a contemporary Peckham housing estate in his first novel, Pigeon English.
Exploring everything from the famed whalebone Lewis Chessmen of Norse origin to the interactions between the Black Death and the Norwegian language, The Languages of Scandinavia offers profound insight into languages with a cultural impact deep-rooted and far-reaching, from the Icelandic sagas to Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's internationally popular Millennium trilogy.
Jarosinski is big in Germany, to borrow an honorific usually reserved for David Hasselhoff, in part because his brand of word play and insight into German language and culture are an artfully-constructed bridge to the English-speaking world that has long been missing.
Understanding the emergence of language during evolution is a challenge, as fossil evidence does not provide much insight into oral language.
Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how language contact triggers language change, and illustrates previously under-recognised links to ethnolects of other migrant groups in different parts of the world.
For the movie reviews corpus, we first provide insight into the language differences and secondly perform binary classification of positive and negative reviews.
The presentations in the workshop varied with a range of topics: Early Childhood Development (ECD) in Myanmar, Language, literacy and reading in Early Years, Script writing for Books, Radio and Television for Young Children, Insight into ethnic language learning and principles for effective communication for children were made by education experts from UNICEF.
When you meet next time, you will be able to understand more and have more insight into the language.
