We zijn geweldig in taal, allemaal! *****

Het is ronduit indrukwekkend wat we weten van onze moedertaal, wat we ermee kunnen, en hoe we dingen tot in de kleinste haarvaatjes aanvoelen. Ruim dertig jaar was het de missie van Liesbeth Koenen om de wereld dat te laten zien. Want met taal is het zo: je weet niet wat je weet, en dat je dat niet weet, weet je óók niet. Tot iemand het je vertelt.

De 67 taalverhalen uit WAT JE ZEGT, GAAT VANZELF bevatten voorbeelden die Koenen zelf prachtig, intrig...

Deze kleine grammatica bevat een beknopte en overzichtelijke samenvatting van de grammatica van het Nieuwgrieks. Aan deze grammatica liggen recente publicaties ten grondslag. De auteur heeft zich beperkt tot het hoogst noodzakelijke, zodat de cursist zich niet onnodig hoeft te buigen over details.

Meertaligheid is een hot item, een van de speerpunten in het advies voor herziening van het onderwijscurriculum. Iedereen heeft er een mening over maar in werkelijkheid bestaat er nog veel onwetendheid. De primaire doelstelling van Het meertalige kind is om professionals die dagelijks met meertaligheid en meertalige kinderen werken zoals beleidsmakers, leerkrachten, pedagogisch medewerkers, logopedisten, medewerkers ouder- en kindcentra en alle anderen die met meertaligen te maken hebben, ken...

Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature both of the interview as a communicative event, and of the nature of the data that it produces. Furthermore, interviewers rarely examine the compatibility of interviews as a means of acquiring information to one another.

These oversights often blin...

Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues that this sequence of responses can be worked out a...

This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization.

Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew...

Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translation of children's books has increased at a rapid pace. Research across a number of disciplines has contributed to a developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. The purpose of this Reader is to reflect the diversity and originality of approaches to the subject by gathering together, for the first time, a range of journal articles and chapters on translation for childr...

This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines. Organised along thematic lines, the book begins with an outline of the basic principles, moving on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). It covers topics such as text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination, history and process, ideology and identity.

Blommaert focuses on how la...