LINGUIST List 4.820

Mon 11 Oct 1993

Books: bilingualism, discourse, Finno-Ugric, terminology

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    Message 1: bilingualism, discourse, Finno-Ugric, terminology

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    BILINGUALISM

    Penny Lee , BILINGUAL EDUCATION IN REMOTE ABORIGINAL SCHOOLS. A small handbook for teachers subtitled "Developing First and Second Language Proficiency." Available (price Aus$8 + post) from: Liz Davie (Jawa Publications), Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, Kimberley Region,{xDP.O. Box 1451, Broome WA 6725, Australia. Grows out of research in 1991 in two remote Aboriginal schools. Outcomes may be of interest to those involved in bilingual or ESL education among indigenous people living in disadvantaged circumstances. For more information, contact <edplcc.flinders.edu.au>

    Trudell, Barbara BEYOND THE BILINGUAL CLASSROOM: Literacy acquisition among Peruvian Amazon communities. 1993 x,162 pp. Paper ISBN 0-88312-615-X $18.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics and U Texas at Arlington >Internet: academic.bookssil.org Sociolinguistics Literacy Historical, ethnic, and educational factors found to affect literacy acquisi- tion in mother tongue and Spanish by ten ethnolinguistic groups, with pro- file and history of each. Methodologies include interviews, document studies, on-site surveys; application of three models of ethnicity and language use.

    Schreuder, Robert & Bert Weltens (eds.) THE BILINGUAL LEXICON John Benjamins 1993 viii, 307 pp. Bilingualism Cloth US:1 55619 536 2/EUR:90 272 4108 2 US$69.00/Hfl. ,-- Paper US:1 55619 538 9/EUR:90 272 4110 4 US$29.95/Hfl. ,-- A central issue in this volume is at which level of the bilingual speaker's lexicon languages share representations and how language- specific representations may be linked. The contributors favor a dynamic, developmental perspective on bilingualism, which takes account of the change of the mental lexicon over time and pays considerable attention to the acquisition phase.

    DISCOURSE

    Renkema, Jan DISCOURSE STUDIES. AN INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOK John Benjamins 1993 x, 224 pp. Discourse, Textbook Cloth US:1 55619 492 7/EUR:90 272 2136 7 US$49.00/Hfl. Paper US:1 55619 493 5/EUR:90 272 2137 5 US$22.95/Hfl. Familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific 'tool kit' for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of the professional literature.

    FINNO-UGRIC

    Rona-Tas, A. AN INTRODUCTION TO TURKOLOGY John Benjamins 1993 170 pp. Finno-Ugric Paper US$72.00/Hfl. ,-- A general introduction to the history of the Turks and the Turkic languages is followed by sections on the history of the Turkic peoples, the Mongols,the Manchu-Tunguzians, world religions and the Ancient Turks. The second part of the book deals with the study of Old Turkic and its sources in various scripts and offers a graphemic and orthographic analysis of Old Turkic.

    TERMINOLOGY

    Sonneveld, Helmi B. & Kurt L. Loenig (eds.) TERMINOLOGY: APPLICATIONS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION John Benjamins 1993 viii, 244 Terminology Cloth US:1 55619 487 0/EUR:90 272 2131 6 US$55.00/Hfl 100,-- Deals with linguistic problems and technical aspects of terminology; in addition are articles relating to terminology in specific subject fields-lexicography, physical sciences, chemistry, social sciences and medicine. Raises fundamental questions about the use of concepts and the ordering of knowledge