Delving into the richness of human language diversity, this book examines its significance and the urgent need to address language endangerment. It highlights the cultural and emotional connections tied to languages, presenting compelling arguments for preservation efforts. Through insightful analysis, the text offers strategies to revitalize endangered languages, emphasizing the importance of linguistic heritage in shaping human identity and fostering global understanding.
W spokojny, śnieżny poranek dziewczynka i jej koń dostają się pod koła czterdziestotonowej ciężarówki. Zarówno Grace, jak i Pielgrzym uchodzą z życiem, jednak wypadek ma destrukcyjny wpływ na ich losy, a także na losy osób z nimi związanych. Matka Grace, Annie, nie zgadza się na uśpienie straszliwie poranionego konia, czując, że wówczas w Grace również coś umrze. Przejeżdża pół Ameryki w poszukiwaniu zaklinacza człowieka, który potrafi oddziaływać na psychikę koni... Tom Booker, kowboj z Montany, ma szczególny dar jest kimś w rodzaju końskiego psychoterapeuty. Wywiera kojący wpływ na zwierzęta, a później okazuje się, że potrafi również wywierać wpływ na ludzi. Osoby, które się z nim zetknęły, ulegają wewnętrznej przemianie i nic w ich życiu nie jest już takie, jak było...
This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim--
Contemporary / British EnglishOne winter's morning in New York State, there is an accident on an icy mountain road. Thirteen-year-old Grace and her much- loved horse, Pilgrim, are very badly hurt. Grace's mother beleives her daughter will only recover if her horse can be saved. Can Pilgrim be nursed back to health? Can the Horse Whisperer work his magic?
The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.This book explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us.It is written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries.
The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.
Bundeling van twee romans waarin de communicatie tussen mensen en paarden en wolven een grote rol speelt.
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?
