Minimal languages in action. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cliff Goddard.
• Editors: Goddard, Cliff
• Contents: 1. In Praise of Minimal Languages. Part I. Finding the Best Words.2. Balancing the Local with the Universal: Minimal English and Agricultural Training in the Pacific.3. The Hunt for the Simplest Possible Vocabulary: Minimal Finnish Meets Easy Finnish.4. Minimal English and Revitalization Education: Assisting Linguists to Explain Grammar in Simple, Everyday Words. Part II. Language Learning and Intercultural Education.5. Using Minimal English (Minimal Spanish, etc.) for Non-Circular Learners' Dictionaries.6. Standard Translatable English: A Minimal English for Teaching and Learning Invisible Culture in Language Classrooms.7. From Cultural to Pedagogical Scripts: Speaking Out in English, French and Russian.8. Using Minimal Language to Help Foreign Learners Understand Korean Honorifics.Part III. Health.Chapter 9. Adapting the Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) into Minimal English and Seven Other Minimal Languages.10. Ways of Thinking and Talking About Cancer.11. Minimal English for Health: Reader Accessibility in Public Health Communication About COVID-19 in Australia (With Contrastive Reference to Denmark).12. Seven Essential Messages for the Time of the Coronavirus.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 302.2; Languages in contact; Interpersonal communication; Translating and interpreting
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030640774
• Related ISBNs: 9783030640767
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