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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791558703321

Autore

Sweet James H (James Hoke)

Titolo

Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / James H. Sweet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-908400-1-1

1-4696-0639-9

0-8078-7804-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

909/.049607092

B

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Brazil, Northeast

Healers - Brazil, Northeast

Healers - Portugal

Slave trade - Africa, West - History - 18th century

Inquisition - Portugal - History - 18th century

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

Witchcraft

Voodooism

Atlantic Ocean Region History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 DAHOMEY; 2 PASSAGES; 3 RECIFE; 4 RIO DE JANEIRO; 5 FREEDOM; 6 THE POLITICS OF HEALING; 7 DISLOCATIONS; 8 INQUISITION; 9 ALGARVE; 10 OBSCURITY; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely



a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also address

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483923603321

Titolo

The Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language Pronunciation : Segments and Prosody / / edited by Chunsheng Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

9789811538094

9811538093

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics, , 2197-8719

Disciplina

025.316

Soggetti

Language acquisition

Linguistics

Asia - Languages

Language Acquisition and Development

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar

Asian Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction of Second Language Chinese pronunciation -- 2. Segment acquisition -- 3. L2 tone/segment acquisition -- 4. Tone processing in L1 and L2 -- 5. Categorical perception of Mandarin tones by native and second language (L2) speakers -- 6. Effects of segments, intonation and rhythm on the perception of L2 accentedness and comprehensibility -- 7. Effects of F0 and context on L2 Chinese intelligibility -- 8. The role of vocabulary knowledge in second language speaking fluency -- 9. Pronunciation issues among Chinese heritage language learners -- 10. L2 Chinese pronunciation teaching: Segments -- 11. L2 Chinese pronunciation teaching: Suprasegmentals or prosody -- 12. Assessment of L2 Chinese pronunciation -- 13. Higher variability phonetic training: Tones, segments with higher error gravity/functional load, to be decided (tentative) -- 14. Computer



assisted language teaching of CSL pronunciation, to be decided (tentative) -- 15. Orthography and CSL pronunciation, to be decided (tentative).

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition and processing, categorical perception of tones, CSL fluency, CSL intelligibility/comprehensibility and accentedness, and pronunciation pedagogy. Moreover, the book addresses both theoretical and pedagogical issues. It offers an essential go-to book for anyone who is interested in CSL speech, e.g. CSL speech researchers, Chinese instructors, CSL learners, and anyone interested in second language speech.