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Early in the twentieth century, Yiddish, previously stigmatized as a corrupt jargon, came to be recognized as a language in its own right which was already the vehicle for a rich literature. Many writers in other languages gradually became aware of the status of Yiddish, sometimes by encountering Yiddish-speaking communities in Eastern Europe, and responded to Yiddish language and culture in their own works, while Yiddish writers adopted, and sometimes anticipated, modern trends in other literatures known to them. The present collection of papers ranges from the nineteenth century to the present, from France to Lithuania, and from classic modernist writers such as Svevo and Kafka to Imre Kertesz (Nobel Prize for Literature, 2002). (Legenda 2005)
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Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation’s capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet.
Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists–including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson –as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson to the two green Washington Post reporters who launched the political story of the decade–Woodward and Bernstein. We read of the rise of radio news–fought tooth and nail by the print barons–and of such pioneers as Edward R. Murrow, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis. Ritchie also offers a vivid history of TV news, from the early days of Meet the Press, to Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, to the cable revolution led by C-SPAN and CNN. In addition, he compares political news on the Internet to the alternative press of the ’60s and ’70s; describes how black reporters slowly broke into the white press corps (helped mightily by FDR’s White House); discusses path-breaking woman reporters such as Sarah McClendon and Helen Thomas, and much more.
From Walter Winchell to Matt Drudge, the people who cover Washington politics are among the most colorful and influential in American news. Reporting from Washington offers an unforgettable portrait of these figures as well as of the dramatic changes in American journalism in the twentieth century.
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A comprehensive reference source, “Handbook of Second Language Acquisition” discusses the research, theory, and applications specific to second language acquisition. The book addresses: Issues of maturation and modularity; Language transfer between first and second languages; Neuropsychology of second language acquisition; Research and methodological issues in the study of second language acquisition; and language contact and its consequences.
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The Handbook of Bilingualism provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise in consideration of the phenomena of bilingualism ranging from the representation of the two languages in the bilingual individual’s brain to the various forms of bilingual education, including the status of bilingualism in each area of the world.

• Provides state-of-the-art coverage of a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling.
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• Includes contributions by internationally renowned researchers from different disciplines, genders, and ethnicities.

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What allows children to acquire language so effortlessly, with such speed, and with such amazing accuracy? Capitalizing on the most recent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology, this volume sheds new light on the what, why, and how of the child’s ability to acquire one or more languages. The “Handbook” is one of a kind in a number of respects. It includes state-of-the-art treatments of acquisition from a variety of theoretical viewpoints ranging from functionalist approaches and the implications of the creolization of languages for the study of acquisition to the relevance of Chomsky’s Minimalist Program. It contains overviews of the acquisition of all components of linguistic structure, treats the acquisition of the sign languages of the deaf, and discusses the specific problems of bilingual acquisition. This handbook addresses the following questions: ‘Is the capacity for language acquisition constant throughout the career of the language learner (that is, is it ‘continuous’) or does that capacity change in significant ways as the learner matures?’ ; ‘Is the language capacity a separate module of the mind or does it follow from general, ‘all-purpose’ cognitive capacities?’; ‘What is innate in language acquisition and what is acquired on the basis of experience?’; ‘What research/methodological issues arise in the study of child language acquisition?’; ‘How might input from the language (or languages) of the environment, including visual/gestural input in the case of the sign languages of the deaf, affect the process and result of acquisition?’; and, ‘How are the facts of non-normal acquisition to be explained?’
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