Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this 2006 study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign languages with spoken languages, in order to seek the universal properties they share.
I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language
In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea C. Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of philosophy, beginning with the Book of Genesis and the power of naming and concluding with Noam Chomsky's metaphor that language is a snowflake. Moro's seventeen linguistic snapshots and his commentary on them constitute an album that displays the humanness of language: our need to name, to contain, and to translate the world in order to express and understand ourselves. This book is sure to delight anyone who enjoys the ineffable paradox that is human language.
Write Right: Paragraph to Essay is a three-level writing series for intermediate to high intermediate students. Each unit takes a process writing approach in order to encourage students to independently brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, and edit their own writing. As students move through the series, they will master paragraph writing and various writing skills in order to write short essays by the end.
In Book 2, students will learn the various ways they can write the topic, body, and closing sentences, as well as writing about similarities, differences, reasons, effects, etc.
Write Right: Paragraph to Essay is a three-level writing series for intermediate to high intermediate students. Each unit takes a process writing approach in order to encourage students to independently brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, and edit their own writing. As students move through the series, they will master paragraph writing and various writing skills in order to write short essays by the end.
In Book 2, students will learn the various ways they can write the topic, body, and closing sentences, as well as writing about similarities, differences, reasons, effects, etc.
Write Right: Paragraph to Essay is a three-level writing series for intermediate to high intermediate students. Each unit takes a process writing approach in order to encourage students to independently brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, and edit their own writing. As students move through the series, they will master paragraph writing and various writing skills in order to write short essays by the end.
In Book 1, students will practice various types of writing, including descriptive, expository, opinion, narrative, creative, and letter writing.
