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Membro: echaika

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Etiquetasnovel (332), history (70), biography (42), linguistics (35), history of English (31), sociolinguistics (31), action (27), grammar (27), discourse (25), religion (24) — ver todas as etiquetas

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Sobre mimI am Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Providence College and am an internationaly known scholar and writer in schizophrenia research, sociology of language, and modern English grammar. Since everything humans do is mediated by language, I am interested in too wide a variety of things to list. Although I am a scholar, I also appreciate --and love-- popular culture. Novels and movies are my favorite pasttimes, along with cooking. And, of course, writing. Now that I'm retired, I can finally write books about the marvels of language and communication so that everyone can find out what we really do when we are just talking. There is nothing "just" about it. We talk in ways dictated by our culture. We talk when our culture says we can and we talk about what our culture says we may. But we also talk to project our personas. We also talk according to our gender. Do you think women talk more than men, for instance, or use fewer taboo words, or talk more properly than men? How do children learn to speak? How and why did language evolve? Why don't all humans speak the same language? Why are there different dialects and accents in English and other languages? I have a lot to write about, and I've also written several books. You don't have to be a scholar to read them, either. I write in a jargon-free narrative style and my book "Language the Social Mirror" now in its 4th edition, has been widely read by ordinary readers. I know because I hear from them. By the way, Amazon has erroneously labeled it as being about teaching methods. It is decidedly NOT about teaching, although much of it would serve as good background for teachers to understand why their students talk as they do.

I belong to goodreads.com and recipezaar.com. I have catalogued over 1300 books on LibraryThing and am still not through. Periodically, I donate cartons of my books to the state prison as the inmates there have nothing to do and many become readers for the first time in their lives. I can't even estimate how many thousands of books I've bought in my life, not to mention taking them out of libraries.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaIn my library, I have a plethora of novels, a large history collection, especially about the Civil War and World Wars I and II, biographies of Civil War personages and some other people as well. I also have a collection of books on film (which are not yet in librarything), and a very large library of movies on DVD and Bluray. Of course, I have books in linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguiatics, but these. too, are awaiting cataloguing. I love almost every kind of book except science fiction and mysteries, but I do like both those categories in film.

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Nome realElaine Chaika

LocalizaçãoSouthern New England

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Conhecimento ComumSéries (122), Prémios (269), Personagens (2215), Lugares (510)

Membro desdeFeb 12, 2009