[PDF] Expressions Of Cambodia eBook

Author : Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 113417196X

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Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. As such, the team of international contributors address the politics of development and conservation, tradition and modernity within the global economy, and transmigratory movements of the twenty-first century. Expressions of Cambodia presents a new dimension to the Cambodian studies by engaging the country in current debates about globalization and the commodification of culture, post-colonial politics and identity constructions. Timely and much-needed, this volume brings Cambodia back into dialogue with its neighbours, and in so doing, valuably contributes to the growing field of Southeast Asian cultural studies.

Author : Samantha Tame
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2018-03-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781985747111

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Over 1,000 copies sold*This phrasebook contains all the essential words and phrases you will need in everyday situations while visiting Cambodia, including eating out, shopping, taking transport and finding accommodation.This book includes travel tips and cultural notes to help you make the most of your stay in Cambodia. The Khmer text is also given for each word and phrase.*over 1,000 copies sold of the 1st edition, combined print and Kindle sales

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027285020

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Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a language of which one can read a page and understand every word individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about. Like many of the languages of its genetic (Austroasiatic) family, its basic root vocabulary seems to consist largely of sesquisyllabic or iambic words, although there are an enormous number of unassimilated borrowings from Indic languages (which seem to play the same role in Cambodian that Latinate borrowings do in English). Morphologically, Cambodian has a fairly elaborate system of derivational affixes, and it is possible that the genesis of many of the most common of these affixes is related to (and undoes) the constant reduction of unstressed initial syllables in sesquisyllabic words. Again like many of the languages of Southeast Asia, Cambodian exhibits in its lexicon a penchant for symmetrical decorative compounding, a phenomenon which is so marginally attested in Western languages that the phenomenon has received little attention in the typological literature.

Author : Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134171951

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Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. As such, the team of international contributors address the politics of development and conservation, tradition and modernity within the global economy, and transmigratory movements of the twenty-first century. Expressions of Cambodia presents a new dimension to the Cambodian studies by engaging the country in current debates about globalization and the commodification of culture, post-colonial politics and identity constructions. Timely and much-needed, this volume brings Cambodia back into dialogue with its neighbours, and in so doing, valuably contributes to the growing field of Southeast Asian cultural studies.

Author : Keesee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136164049

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This is a unique learning aid for making rapid headway in the acquisition of comprehension and speaking ability in Khmer, the language of Cambodia. In recent years, Cambodia has moved from a society menaced by war to a society orientated to commerce. With this shift in attention from military to social and economic matters has come an increase in the numbers of foreign visitors and residents in the country for the purposes of tourism, aid work or investment-related activities. Many of these foreigners or 'chun bor-tay' speak English as a first or second language, but know little of written or spoken Khmer. This dictionary is designed to enable residents and visitors to better understand both the country and its people through speaking to Cambodians in their own language. With more than 6,000 key word entries, the "English-Spoken Khmer Dictionary" has the distinctive feature of presenting Khmer words in an all-new easily grasped Romanized writing system. Incorporating phrases is essential for tourists, business travellers, scholars and long term Cambodia residents who wish to become more familiar with a country poised to play an increasingly significant role in the area.

Author : Samantha Tame
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781505488395

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An English-Cambodian (Khmer) phrasebook intended to help anyone who is visiting Cambodia to start learning the local language. It includes phrases and vocabulary to do with greetings, family, jobs, numbers, food, shopping, accommodation, transport, and illness. There are also notes on pronunciation, grammar, formality and sentence structure, plus lists of common verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. Whether you are heading to Cambodia for work, volunteering, or simply travelling, this book will help you to start speaking the local language and understanding the culture. The author lives and works in Cambodia. Translations were provided and checked by native Khmer speakers. Special thanks to the contributors: Ratana Chheang, Lok Chhom, Sam Neang Seoun and Pheakdey Khlok. For every copy sold, $1 is donated to Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals.

Author : Henri Locard
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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This handbook of slogans, interspersed with historical commentary and contextual analysis, describes the Khmer Rouge regime and exposes the horrific foundation upon which it constructed its reign of terror. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in Phnom Penh. In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of their government, they made a tabula rasa of Cambodian society and culture, forcing the people to evacuate the cities and move to the countryside. They instituted a total collectivism based on the doctrine of "Pol Pot-ism," the Cambodian version of fundamentalist Maoism. Assembled in this collection are the sayings that make up a "newspeak" uttered by the Khmer Rouge cadres: slogans, maxims, advice, instructions, watchwords, orders, warnings, and threats. All were spoken in the name of the ominous Angkar--a faceless and lawless "Organization"--n order to indoctrinate, control, and terrorize the populace. These sayings have been collected from survivors throughout Cambodia between 1991 and 1995. They form the macabre, bare-bones skeleton of Khmer Rouge ideology.

Author : Maly Meng
Publisher : Preceptor Language Guides
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781619494770

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This guidebook lists thousands of words in English with translations into Cambodian, perfect for beginners just starting to learn the language and indispensable for more advanced speakers. Words are divided into 18 pertinent and handy categories, including measurements, weather, people, animals, traveling, shopping and much more. The guide begins with a list of Cambodian letters and their IPA pronunciations, before delving into the most common and useful words in the language, so that whether you are in a classroom or in a shop in Phnom Penh, you have the vocabulary you need to succeed - right at your fingertips.

Author : Soksan Ngoun
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780781813181

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Khmer is the language of Cambodia, often referred to colloquially as Cambodian. It is the second most spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese, with 16 million native speakers and an estimated additional million second language speakers. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, and students, this guide includes 4,000 dictionary entries; phonetics that are intuitive for English speakers; essential phrases on topics such as transportation, dining out, and business, and concise grammar and pronunciation sections.