Minimal Languages in Action

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Körperschaft: SpringerLink (Online service)
Weitere Verfasser: Goddard, Cliff (HerausgeberIn)
Zusammenfassung:XX, 352 p. 45 illus., 5 illus. in color.
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2021.
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Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. In Praise of Minimal Languages
  • Part I. Finding the Best Words
  • 2. Balancing the Local with the Universal: Minimal English and Agricultural Training in the Pacific
  • 3. The Hunt for the Simplest Possible Vocabulary: Minimal Finnish Meets Easy Finnish
  • 4. Minimal English and Revitalization Education: Assisting Linguists to Explain Grammar in Simple, Everyday Words
  • Part II. Language Learning and Intercultural Education
  • 5. Using Minimal English (Minimal Spanish, etc.) for Non-Circular Learners' Dictionaries
  • 6. Standard Translatable English: A Minimal English for Teaching and Learning Invisible Culture in Language Classrooms
  • 7. From Cultural to Pedagogical Scripts: Speaking Out in English, French and Russian
  • 8. Using Minimal Language to Help Foreign Learners Understand Korean Honorifics
  • Part III. Health
  • Chapter 9. Adapting the Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) into Minimal English and Seven Other Minimal Languages
  • 10. Ways of Thinking and Talking About Cancer.-11. Minimal English for Health: Reader Accessibility in Public Health Communication About COVID-19 in Australia (With Contrastive Reference to Denmark)
  • 12. Seven Essential Messages for the Time of the Coronavirus.