That possibility inspired Ms. Dai, the translator, an associate professor and vice dean of the department of Chinese language and literature at Fudan University in Shanghai.
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The study found that the further advantage for Gaelic-speaking children may have been due to the formal teaching of the language and its extensive literature.
Professor Nigel Leask, regius professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, said Burns read widely in the contemporary literature on the subject while he was being trained.
He was a connoisseur of fine wine and he never allowed his grievances over the Boer war, and over the gradual eclipse of Afrikaans by the English language in South Africa, to blind him to the glories of English literature.
Their art is considered an emblem of national identity and the guardian of Azerbaijani language, literature and music.
The second is the decline of the French language, which has lost the importance it had at the height of great French literature.
The texts were never published and their rarity means that they are key sources for people studying Cornish language, literature and the lives of the authors.
All across America, all across the United States, we have benefitted from the culture, the language, the food, the insights, the literature, the energy, the ambitions of people who have migrated from our southern neighbor.
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Finally, take the scenic route along the back of Merton College, where Tolkien was a professor of English language and literature between 1945 and 1959 after leaving Pembroke.
Conversations about schoolwork take on new zest when, rather than a specific work of literature or history, you are wrestling with the English language itself, sometimes pinned down by an immigrant youth, and sometimes throwing and clobbering the youth instead.
The launch of Turkey's first official Kurdish-language television channel in January and the government's calls for the establishment of Kurdish literature departments at state universities have raised hopes of more reforms.
On a recent trip to India, I spent a few days in Chennai (formerly Madras, the city where Macaulay landed), where the ubiquity of English-language bookstores testifies to a kind of symbiotic relationship with Anglo-American enthusiasm for Indian literature.
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