[PDF] Place And Building Names Of Kolonia Town eBook

Author : Tom Panholzer
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781573061667

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A wealth of information on the place names of Pohnpei. Useful to readers interested in ancient Pohnpei lore as well as contemporary sites.

Author : William John Davey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442669500

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Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork. The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island’s rich vocabulary. Dictionary entries include supporting quotations culled from the editors’ extensive interviews with Cape Bretoners and considerable study of regional variation, as well as definitions, selected pronunciations, parts of speech, variant forms, related words, sources, and notes, giving the reader in-depth information on every aspect of Cape Breton culture. A substantial and long-awaited work of linguistic research that captures Cape Breton’s social, economic, and cultural life through the island’s language, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English can be read with interest by Backlanders, Bay byes, and those from away alike.

Author : Daniel Long
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2024-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1040097057

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Long and Imamura examine language contact phenomena in the Asia Pacific region in the context of early 20th-century colonial history, focusing on the effects the Japanese language continues to have over island societies in the Pacific. Beginning in the early 20th century when these islands were taken over by the Japanese Empire and continuing into the 21st century, the book examines 5,150 Japanese-origin loanwords used in 14 different languages. It delves into semantic, phonological, and grammatical changes in these loanwords that form a fundamental part of the lexicons of the Pacific Island languages, even now in the 21st century. The authors examine the usage of Japanese kana for writing some of the local languages and the pidginoid phenomena of Angaur Island. Readers will gain a unique understanding of the Japanese language’s usage in the region from colonial times through the post-war period and well into the current century. Researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of sociolinguistics, language policy, and Japanese studies will find this book particularly useful for the empirical evidence it provides regarding language contact situations and the various Japanese language influences in the Asia Pacific region. The authors also offer accompanying e-resources that help to further illustrate the examples found in the book.

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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Derechin (Belarus and Poland)
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A collection of brief essays by former residents of Derechin, a town in interwar eastern Poland, now Belarus. Pp. 193-256, "The Destruction", present personal accounts from the Holocaust period. The Jews in the Derechin ghetto, including Jews from the nearby towns of Halynka and Kolonia Sinaiska who had been resettled in Derechin, were murdered in July 1942. Pp. 257-307, "In the Forests", deal with the participation of Derechin Jews in partisan warfare, in particular the Jewish partisan unit headed by Dr. Atlas and Eliyahu Lipshovich. Pp. 309-318 contain a list of Jewish partisans from Derechin who perished.