Making Language Matter

■全民英檢中級以上程度適用 ■留遊學、移居海外生活必備 ■想增進英語口說能力的讀者 ■幫你克服開口說英語的恐懼 \以下的生活對話，你會幾句呢?/ ☎撥打商務電話 May I have extension 123 ?可以幫我轉接分機123 嗎？ 📱超市購物 Can I use mobile payment?我可以用行動支付嗎？ 💊詢問藥品 Do you have any motion sickness medication? 你們有暈車藥嗎？ 💕表示支持 No matter what happens I’ve got your back.無論發生什麼事，我都會挺你。 🙅婉拒邀約 Maybe some other time.下次再說吧。 英語會話不求人，一起練習開口說吧！ 英語無疑是最實用的國際溝通工具，然而當需要臨時開口說英語時，不免讓人感到措手不及。為此，我們精心規劃了這本書，旨在幫助你在各種情境中都能從容地以英語應對。本書內容共分為三大主題：「生活大小事」、「購物與消費」以及「人際交流」。每個主題有八個單元，共96段情境對話，分別聚焦於常見情境，從致電客服、辦理銀行或郵局業務、購物，到回應邀約、致謝或道歉等，全面涵蓋日常與社交互動中的英語需求。你只需從最熟悉的生活場景出發，透過每個單元收錄的對話和實用句，逐步學習正確的英語表達。 目錄介紹 Section 1生活大小事 Unit 1 Getting in Touch with Friends 與朋友聯繫 Unit 2 Making and Receiving Important Phone Calls 撥打與接聽重要電話 Unit 3 Problems with Household Appliances 家電故障與維修 Unit 4 Talking to the Bank 辦理銀行業務 Unit 5 Going to a Post Office 到郵局辦事 Unit 6 At the Library 到圖書館借書 Unit 7 A Trip to the Optometrist 視力檢查與配鏡 Unit 8 Getting a Health Check 做健康檢查 Section 2購物與消費 Unit 1

Appropriate for use by students at varying levels of competence, Burmese: A Cultural Approach provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the Burmese writing system in Part One and a series of true-to-life conversations in Part Two. Students with some prior knowledge of the spoken language but little familiarity with the Burmese script can use Part One to solidify their grasp of the Burmese sound system as well as its orthography. Intrepid beginners could also start their study of the language by making use of Part One. Doing so would mean making a slower start at formulating phrases as compared to using a romanization system but learners would gain a firmer foundation for the later—and eventually, faster—development of their speaking and reading skills. The conversations in Part Two are extensively annotated in order to illustrate grammatical patterns, characteristic turns of phrase, and typical habits of social interaction. True to an anthropological approach to language le

The essays in this volume grew from a series of talks delivered in late 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing. Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the so-called “reform and opening” (gaige kaifang) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies. Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for “worlding” China: bringing China