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Formerly a URJ Press title. Yoga Shalom is a unique worship experience that brings together body, mind, and spirit for an extraordinary prayer service. Combining the two powerful spiritual disciplines of Jewish worship and yoga practice, Yoga Shalom leads to deeper understandings of both, or as author Lisa Levine writes of her initial forays into yoga as a cantorial student, I learned to be more present in my prayers and meditations so I could better pray with and on behalf of my congregation. Yoga Shalom can be adapted and the postures customized for your congregation, studio, or private practice, and can be done in the community of a class or in the privacy of your own home. As an alternative to the traditional prayer service, Yoga Shalom can engage and unite your professional staff, lay leadership, and community. Whether you have no yoga experience or have been practicing for years, and regardless of your age or abilities, Yoga Shalom will help you relax your body, calm your mind, and nurture your spirit. Features: Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions Dozens of photographs Advanced, gentle, and chair modifications for each posture sequence 17-track CD to accompany your practice, featuring the music of well-known Jewish artists Craig Taubman, Jeff Klepper, Lisa Levine, and many more Full-length DVD of the complete practice

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Halbwachs, Maurice

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So Ariel Sharon’s new party is called Kadima. For a while, it was touch and go: Some of his political advisers wanted Ah.rayut Le’umit or “National Responsibility.” But “Kadima” was deemed catchier and won the day.

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Identity and Pragmatic Language Use: A Study on Japanese ELF Users (Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] Book 11)

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This volume is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese sociolinguistic studies. The topics in this volume cover major issues in sociolinguistics that also characterize features of Japanese. Such topics as gender, honorifics, and politeness are particularly pertinent to Japanese. The volume also includes studies on other topics such as social stratification, discourse, contact, and language policy.

Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL], 8)

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This volume is the first full-fledged handbook of Japanese dialects in English. The study of Japanese dialects has a long tradition, and significant contributions have been made in many subfields of linguistics such as geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, philology, phonology, accentology, grammar, and lexicology. While Japanese dialectology is heavily influenced by the Western developments in the field, some original domestic achievements have also been made based on the meticulous fieldwork, the compilation of dialect dictionaries, and the painstaking mapping of dialect features in a large number of dialect atlases. However, most publications of Japanese dialect studies have been in Japanese, allowing only a handful of foreign specialists to take full advantage of the achievements in Japanese dialectology. This volume fills this gap making the Japanese dialect data and their analyses accessible to a wider audience and also informing dialectology specialists as well as sociolinguists in general of the methods of Japanese dialectology and its achievements to date. This volume deals with the mainland dialects (including the Hachijo dialect). Because of the recent trend of considering Ryukyuan languages as sister languages, rather than dialects, of Japanese, a separate handbook is dedicated to them in this series. Chapter titles Introduction Part I: Overview of Japanese Dialectology Chapter 1: History of dialectology in Japan (Nobuko Kibe, NINJAL; Tetsuo Nitta, Kanazawa University; and Kan Sasaki, Sapporo Gakuin University) Chapter 2: The classification and division of Japanese dialects (Seiya Abe, Gakushuin University Chapter 3: Dialect formation of Japanese; Evaluating Yanagita's theory of peripheral distribution of dialectal form (Takashi Kobayashi, Tohoku University) Chapter 4: Geolinguistics of Japanese (Takuichiro Onishi, NINJAL) Part II: Topics in Japanese Dialectology Chapter 5: Sound variations in the mainland Japanese dialects (Masao Aizawa, NINJAL) Chapter 6: VOT in Japanese dialects (Mieko Takada, Aichi Gakuin University) Chapter 7: Accent in Japanese dialects (Zendo Uwano, NINJAL) Chapter 8: Intonation in Japanese dialects (Yosuke Igarashi, Hiroshima University) Chapter 9: Vocabulary in Japanese dialects (Norio Yoshida, Chugoku Gakuen University) Chapter 10: Mimetics in Japanese dialects(Koko Takeda, NlNJAL) Chapter 11: Sino-Japanese words in Japanese dialects (Miyuki Sawamura, Wakayama University) Chapter 12: Case and related phenomena in Japanese dialects (Kan Sasaki, Sapporo Gakuin University) Chapter 13: Grammaticalization of aspect and tense in Japanese dialects (Mayumi Kudo, Osaka University) Chapter 14: Potential expressions in Japanese dialects (Katsumi Shibuya, Osaka University) Chapter 15: Verbs of giving in Japanese dialects (Mizuho Hidaka, Kansai University; and Yukiko Ueda, Akita University) Chapter 16: Honorifics and related expressions in Kansai dialects (Chie Takagi, Osaka University) Chapter 17: Adjectival predications in Japanese dialects (Hiromi Yakame, Konan University) Chapter 18: Nominalization particles in Japanese dialects (Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice University; and Tetsuo Nitta, Kanazawa University) Part III: Sketch Grammars of Japanese Dialects Chapter 19: Hokkaido dialect (Yoshiyuki Asahi, NINJAL) Chapter 20: Akita dialect (Mizuho Hidaka, Kansai University, and Yukiko Ueda, Akita University) Chapter 21: Iwate dialect (Nobuhiro Tanaka, Iwate Prefectural University at Miyako) Chapter 22: Ibaraki dialect (Kan Sasaki, Sapporo Gakuin University) Chapter 23: Tokyo dialect (Harumi Mitsui, NINJAL) Chapter 24: Toyama dialect (Izumi Konishi, Hiroshima University; and Masaru Inoue, Reitaku University) Chapter 25: Gifu dialect (Toshihiro Yamada, Gifu University) Chapter 26: Shiramine dialect (Ishikawa) (Tetsuo Nitta, Kanazawa University) Chapter 27: Kyoto dialect (Yukihiko Nakai, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) Chapter 28: Kagawa dialect (Yukihiko Nakai, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) Chapter 29: Kochi dialect (Makoto Kuno, Kochi University, Professor Emeritus) Chapter 30: Izumo dialect (Shimane) (Mitsuhiko Arimoto, Yamaguchi University) Chapter 31: Fukuoka dialect (Tomoyuki Kubo, Kyushu University) Chapter 32: Nagasaki dialect(Itaru Sakaguchi, Kumamoto University) Chapter 33: Kagoshima dialect (Nobuko Kibe, NINJAL) Chapter 34: Hachijo dialect (Akihiro Kaneda, Chiba University)

Handbook of Japanese Dialects (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL], 7)

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