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A Natural History of Latin
by Tore Janson  Publisher Comments How Latin conquered the world, and why it is still a force to be reckoned with....
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Women, Men, and Politeness (Real Language Series)
by Jennifer Holmes Synopsis Using a range of evidence Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this area....
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Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity
by Janet Maybin Publisher Comments Drawing on ethnographic research inside and outside the classroom, Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-old children use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and about themselves, as they negotiate the transition from...
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The French Language and Questions of Identity (Legenda Main)
by Wendy Ayres-bennett And Mari C. Jones Synopsis Our choice of linguistic code is one of the most fundamental ways of establishing our membership to some groups and our distance from others. This symbolic value of language may often leave it open to exploitation, especially by the state. The present...
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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
by Lorenzo Dow Turner Publisher Comments A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms...
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
by John R Rickford Publisher Comments In Praise of spoken soul the story of black english "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown...
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Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Joao Costa Publisher Comments This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of...
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Language in Society #20: Principles of Linguistic Change Volume II
by William Labov Publisher Comments This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change....
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Brushing History Against the Grain: Reading the Chinese New Historical Fiction, 1986?1999
by Qingxin Lin Book News Annotation Compared to the startling changes in Chinese society and politics, the new historical fiction (NHF) of the last 20 years or so may at first seem to be a return to traditional expressions. Yet, asserts Lin, Chinese NHF constitutes an oppositional...
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Principles of Linguistic Change Volume II (Language in Society)
by William Labov Publisher Comments This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change....
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Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies.
by Carolin Duttlinger Et Al Publisher Comments This volume assembles the select proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in March 2002. The conference took its cue from the 'performative turn', which has put issues of performance and performativity at the centre...
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Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Addendum: Squeezes in the Max Van Berchem Collection (Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Northern Syria) Squ
by Moshe Sharon Publisher Comments Western Palestine is extremely rich in Arabic inscriptions, whose dates range from as early as CE 150 until modern times. Most of the inscriptions date from the Islamic period, for under Islam the country gained particular religious and strategic...
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Chen Jiru (1558-1639): The Development and Subsequent Uses of Literary Personae (Sinica Leidensia)
by Jamie Greenbaum Book News Annotation Chen is best known today as the author of Clandestine Jottings from My Little Window, a book he did not write, claims Greenbaum. An Australian historian of China, he noticed first that the headings, then that the entire text of an obscure work called...
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Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra
by M E Kropp Dakubu Publisher Comments Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at...
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History of English (01 Edition)
by Barbara Fennell Publisher Comments "A History of English" provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language....
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Interlanguage Pragmatics
by Gabriele Kasper Publisher Comments As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. A collection of previously unpublished essays by sixteen distinguished...
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Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics #12: Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies
by Elizabeth Couper-kuhlen Publisher Comments These essays study the role of prosody in everyday English, German, and Italian conversation....
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Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Esther Peeren Publisher Comments Peeren’s book brings the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to bear on contemporary expressions of popular culture, including the novel and television series Sex and the City, the television series Queer as Folk, the films Nell and...
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Indo European & Its Closest Rel Volume 1 Gra
by Joseph H Greenberg Publisher Comments The basic thesis of this two-volume work is that the extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America, encompassing Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir...
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An English Rendition of a Classical Swahili Poem
by Tom Olali Publisher Comments This book focuses on the rendition of a classical Swahili poem otherwise known as Kasida called the Hamziyyah. Hamziyyah whose title in Arabic is Kasidatul-Hamziya fil-madaihi n-Nabawiya, 'Hamzated Eulogy in praise of the Prophet' is arguably the most...
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