Urdu, Hindi, Hinglish, English...multilingualism complicates and enriches Bollywood filmmaking, as does the linguistic interplay between generations in a time of rapid societal change. 'What language is mine and just how 'mine' is it?' is but one of the questions posed in Show Me Your Words. In this book, Connie Haham tours the rich sociolinguistic landscape in evidence both in the making of Hindi movies and in the movies themselves. Sounds, words and lines come to us via the human voice in this audio-visual medium and provide a power and poetry essential to the well-crafted scene. Featuring insightful conversations with noted film personalities such as Javed Akhtar, Shabhana Azmi, Jaideep Sahni, Piyush Mishra, Nagesh Kukunoor, Elahe Hiptoola, Kader Khan, Javed Siddiqi, Shridhar Raghavan and many more, this book analyses attitudes towards language and language change through the prism of Hindi cinema. Product det...
Some Facts about Our Public School System : An Address, Delivered at the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the New York State Association of School Commissioners and City Superintendents, Utica, Feb. 19, 20, 21, 1878 (Classic Reprint) (9780260375285)
Excerpt from Some Facts About Our Public School System: An Address, Delivered at the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the New York State Association of School Commissioners and City Superintendents, Utica, Feb. 19, 20, 21, 1878 By repeated resolutions, this association stands commi ted to the Township System of schools. Your honored president has been its most persistent as he was perhaps its earliest advocate. The State Superintendent, the official head of our school system, but especially your direct representative, has made his advocacy of this change the most memorable feature of his administration. Now that this matter is to he brought to an issue, it becomes you, as it certainly does me, representing a school-jourual committed to this movement, to be ah e to justify the faith which is in na. I therefore ask your consideration of such facts as I have been able to gather from the history and present condition of our school-system, which bear upon the question before us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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