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Free Download American Sign Language for Seniors: Master ASL Basics, Fun Lessons, Songs, and Activities to Communicate with Confidence by Isaac J. Stones
English | November 30, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DPD7KHZ4 | 104 pages | EPUB | 9.97 Mb
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Free Download The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Nathan Brown
English/Français | January 7, 2025 | ISBN: 1804296600 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 1 MB
A dual-language edition of the work that scandalized paris and reinvented beauty

Free Download Emotion Detection in Natural Language Processing
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031720466 | 196 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
This book provides a practical guide on annotating emotions in natural language data and showcases how these annotations can improve Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models and applications. The author presents an introduction to emotion as well as the ethical considerations on emotion annotation. State-of-the-art approaches to emotion annotation in NLP and NLU including rule-based, machine learning, and deep learning applications are addressed. Theoretical foundations of emotion and the implication on emotion annotation are discussed along with the current challenges and limitations in emotion annotation. This book is appropriate for researchers and practitioners in the field of NLP and NLU and anyone interested in the intersection of natural language and emotion.

Free Download The Dynamics of Language Obsolescence in a Divided Speech Community: The Case of the German Wischau / Vyskov Enclave (Czech Republic) By Filippo Nereo
2016 | 145 Pages | ISBN: 3515101020 | PDF | 1 MB
Using the Wischau/Vy kov speech enclave (Czech Republic) as a case study, this book considers the impact of the highly controversial population transfers of ethnic Germans at the end of World War II. Particular attention is paid to processes of identification amongst community members, the post-war sociolinguistic context, and aspects of the language variety itself, which has remained structurally intact. Importantly, the study reveals the stories and experiences of forced migration and integration from the perspective of both stayers, who until 1989/90 lived under communism, and expellees, who started new lives in the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany. Methodologically, the study is based on data elicited chiefly from participant observations of, and unstructured interviews with the last remaining witnesses of the 1945/46 population transfers. As such, this is the first and probably last detailed study of this small, rural German enclave community. From a theoretical perspective, it draws heavily on Sasse s (1992) framework on language death.

Free Download Norms and Standards for Language Resources Protection in China by Center for the Protection and Research of Language Resources of China at Beijing Language and Culture University
English | PDF (True) | 2024 | 193 Pages | ISBN : 9819999669 | 8.5 MB

Free Download Peter Wuteh Vakunta, "Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Cameroonian Literature"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 9956792969 | PDF | pages: 240 | 2.0 mb
This study raises awareness to the emergence of a new genre in world literature-hybridized literature. It rejects the assumption according to which literatures written in less commonly taught languages should be subsumed into one universally accessible global idiom. Instead, Vakunta challenges literary scholars and readers of literature to regard untranslatability as the key to cross-cultural engagement. The book’s multiple approaches and innumerable sources generate complex interdisciplinary connections and provide an excellent introduction to a complex literary phenomenon alien to literati resident outside the officially bilingual multicultural and multilingual Republic of Cameroon.

Free Download Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War (Proceedings of the British Academy) edited by Andrew Hadfield, Paul Hammond
English | May 29, 2024 | ISBN: 0197267629 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 1.2 MB
The English Civil War was not simply a conflict between two opposing, unstable, complicated alliances of various factions, but a war of words. Supporters of the King and allies of Parliament and the New Model Army clashed over ideals, ideas, and concepts as they each sought to impose their understanding of history and visions of the future, realizing that victory could only be secured by establishing a political and cultural language that would guide and direct those who used it. Accordingly, the Civil War witnessed vociferous arguments over many key English words central to life and thought in the seventeenth century, and often up to the present day.

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by Anabel Maler
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197601979 | 253 Pages | PDF | 9.3 MB

Free Download Body Language Communication
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031700635 | 526 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
This book explores a number of important themes within body language discourse. The authors analyse the role of hands, touch, facial expression, misconceptions, and fallacious arguments in body language training. Other issues addressed include body language between humans and machines, lie detection, reactance and body language and thermography of the face. The authors work to determine various potentials of body language, and assess some areas of body language and role of body language in everyday life. They also discuss new perspectives and future directions in body language studies.

Free Download Hearing Aids for Speech-Language Pathologists: A Guide to Modern Rehabilitative Audiology
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1635502144 | 514 Pages | EPUB (True) | 45 MB
Hearing aid technology changes at a rapid pace. For speech-language pathologists who work with individuals using hearing instruments, keeping up with the new technology can be challenging, and sometimes even intimidating. Hearing Aids for Speech-Language Pathologists is designed to remove the mystery and the confusing high-tech terms of the many hearing aid algorithms and features, by simply laying out the need-to-know aspects in an organized, easy to read and understand manner. The core of this text focuses on how modern hearing aids work, and the tests associated with the fitting of these instruments. Attention is given to both the school age and adult hearing aid user. Recent developments such as situation detection, rechargeability and wireless connectivity are reviewed in detail, as well as the popular use of smartphone apps to allow the user to control the processing. Amplification is not just hearing aids, and therefore chapters also have been dedicated to implantable amplification strategies, FM and Bluetooth solutions. Hearing aid fitting cannot be studied in isolation, but rather, how it fits into the complete treatment of the patient with hearing loss, including the audiologic rehabilitative process. For this reason, the beginning chapters of the book are devoted to a review of the basics of the modern audiologic evaluation and the associated auditory pathologies. Readers will also find portions of the book that address hearing screening in the schools, rehabilitative techniques and auditory training. Practicing speech-language pathologist and graduate students will find that this text provides the latest in concise and practical information in the areas of hearing aids and rehabilitative audiology. Hearing Aids for Speech-Language Pathologists is authored by two of the industry’s leading authorities on adult amplification, who have carefully crafted a text that provides speech-language pathologists with the essential information to work comfortably with hearing instruments and their accessories for individuals of all ages.