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The Defiant Muse Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bililngual Anthology (Defiant Muse)
by Nguyen Thi Minh Ha  Publisher Comments This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere. As diverse as Vietnam itself, these collected works range from the earliest oral poetry and...
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Key Terms in Language and Culture (01 Edition)
by Alessandro (ed.) Duranti Publisher Comments "Key Terms in Language and Culture" is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and covering the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these...
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Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000
by Patrick Stevenson Publisher Comments This book explores the much contested concept of Germanness from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective, tracing continuities and discontinuities in the development of Germany as a speech community from the formal division in the aftermath of the...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
by Calvert Watkins Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE(R) DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced...
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Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication
by John J. Gumperz Publisher Comments "Directions in Sociolinguistics" is a now classic collection of pioneering essays by leading sociolinguists. It is published here for the first time in paperback and incorporates an extensive new bibliography....
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Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
by Everhard Ditters And Harald Motzki Book News Annotation Ditters and Motzki (both Nijmegen U., The Netherlands) present a collection of essays honoring the work of Kees Versteegh (Nijmegen U.), one of the most eminent scholars in the field of Arabic linguistics. All of the 28 international academics and...
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Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History (Studies in English Language)
by Kingsley Bolton Publisher Comments Kingsley Bolton uses early word lists, satirical cartoons and data from journals and memoirs to uncover the forgotten history of English in China, from the arrival of the first English-speaking traders in the early seventeenth century to the present...
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Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the "Native Mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 (Social History of Africa)
by Diana Jeater Publisher Comments By the 1920s, linguistic and ethnographic projects to formalize the language and legal systems of Shona peoples in Southern Rhodesia served to impede, rather than enhance, knowledge about local communities. In the 1890s and 1900s, translation and...
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Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities)
by Glyn Williams Publisher Comments Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about...
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Queerly Phrased (97 Edition)
by Anna Livia Publisher Comments This pioneering collection of previously unpublished articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender language combines queer theory and feminist theory with the latest thinking on language and gender. The book expands the field well beyond the study...
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Discourse and Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
by Deborah Schiffrin Publisher Comments Uses new models and approaches to account for the relationship between language, discourse and society....
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A House with Seven Windows: Short Stories (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
by Kadia Molodowsky Publisher Comments A House with Seven Windows by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits--tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited--or ordinary people: Jews in pre-...
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Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German
by Geoffrey Barker Publisher Comments Intonation is increasingly becoming a central topic in understanding the phonology of spoken language. Geoffrey Barker gives a detailed account of the intonational structure of Tyrolean German, a South Bavarian dialect of German spoken in western Austria...
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Portuguese (05 Edition)
by Azevedo Publisher Comments Provides a clear and accessible introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese, and its sociolinguistic and historical background....
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The Eternal Present of the Past: Illustration, Theatre, and Reading in the Wanli Period, 1573-1619 (China Studies)
by Li-ling Hsiao Synopsis Drawing together illustration, theater, and literature, this study examines a late Ming conception of the stage as a mystical space for temporal conflation that allowed the past to be reborn in the present and to uphold the continuity of the cultural...
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The Queen's Hinglish: How to Speak Pukka
by Baljinder Mahal Publisher Comments Hinglish is a popular dialect composed of English combined with elements of Southern Asian languages. It is quickly becoming an international phenomenon thanks to the internet and the vastly popular Bollywood film industry. Collected here are some...
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Your Own Words
by Barbara Wallraff Publisher Comments If you have a language question, where do you go for the answer? How do you keep proper syntax from sounding stiff, and, on the other hand, how do you keep conversational language from being embarrassingly incorrect? Barbara Wallraff, the author of "The...
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Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
by Keith Allan Publisher Comments Examines how we use language to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct....
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Basque Literature #3: Rossetti's Obsession
by Ramon Saizarbitoria Publisher Comments This humorous novel describes an insecure writer's efforts to retrieve a note he once sent to a woman that caused her to fall in love with him. He hopes that the note will have the same effect on his new romantic interest....
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Multilingual Living: Explorations of Language and Subjectivity
by Charlotte Burck Publisher Comments Multilingual Livingpresents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and...
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