According to the sociolinguist Joshua Fishman, the author of "Handbook of Language and Ethnicity" and "Do Not Leave Your Language Alone," French-related accents are often perceived in the West as "high-status" and "acceptable" — less likely to trigger associations with James Bond villains like General Orlov and Auric Goldfinger.
According to the sociolinguist Joshua Fishman, the author of "Handbook of Language and Ethnicity" and "Do Not Leave Your Language Alone," French-related accents are often perceived in the West as "high-status" and "acceptable"—less likely to trigger associations with James Bond villains like General Orlov and Auric Goldfinger.
"Tourist Language Handbook" has 17 pages with phrases in English and Japanese; "Hello, Japan" contains 100 pages of pictograms, travel tips and points of etiquette.
In his Elegantiae linguae Latinae, an advanced handbook of Latin language and style, he gave the humanist program some of its most trenchant and combative formulations, bringing the study of Latin to an unprecedented level.
It's why, in their language handbook, they coached their employees to remember and address guests by their first names and to always give a friendly farewell.
Each student is provided with a notebook, a language handbook, and a pen, but given that a pen can easily be turned into a makeshift weapon, the convicts only receive their materials when they enter the class and have them taken away at the end of each lesson.
A modern museum with some of Palenque's greatest sculptures and inscriptions sits two miles from the gate; it also sells an excellent English-language handbook called "Palenque: An Essential Guide".
Live broadcasting demands considerable self-policing of speech: conscious that any mistake or infelicity may be seized by a gaffe-watch column or, increasingly these days, that a word might breach one of the ever-fattening regulatory handbooks on inappropriate language.
Steere, a popular figure who in 1885 wrote A Handbook of the Swahili Language: As Spoken at Zanzibar, eventually died of a heart attack in a nearby building.
But the school's first rule, emblazoned on the opening page of the handbook, read: "English is the language of the school; students caught speaking any other language will be punished".
