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A Cognitive Approach To the Semantics of the German Passive
by Carlee Arnett  Book News Annotation In this study, Arnett (German, U. of California, Davis) applies Langacker's Cognitive Grammar (CG) to a well-known and studied area of the grammar of a specific language--the passive in German--adding to the relatively small body of works in which CG...
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A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts
by Christopher Pountain Publisher Comments "A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts" examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Including chapters on Latin American Spanish, US Spanish, Judeo-Spanish and Creoles, the book looks at the spread of...
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Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 1: Minority Languages in the European Union
by Camille O'reilly Publisher Comments Bringing together research from a number of different disciplines, this volume explores the effects of European Union policy and discourses of linguistic heterogeneity and cultural diversity from a sociological/ethnographic perspective, providing an...
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Homes of the Heart: A Book about Ramallah
by Farouq Wadi Publisher Comments Returning to his hometown of Ramallah after long exile, the author is shocked to find the changes wrought, above all, by the Israeli occupation. An account--"informative, lyrical, and humorous by turn--"of his own early life in the town is interwoven...
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Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy #78: The German Perfect: Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials
by Renate Musan Publisher Comments This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense system...
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Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
by Eve Danziger Publisher Comments Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is...
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Wisdom in Pindar: Gnomai, Cosmology and the Role of the Poet (Mnemosyne, Supplements)
by Hanna Boeke Synopsis This book investigates the cosmological context of Pindars odes, and how it influences his presentation of praise. An overview of cosmological ideas based on gnomai is complemented by detailed literary analyses showing that these ideas are modified...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #05: Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
by Chase Hensel Publisher Comments In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or...
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Cilungu Phonology
by Lee Bickmore Publisher Comments Cilungu is an underrepresented language spoken in northern Zambia and Tanzania whose future is far from certain, given ongoing urbanization and the ascendancy of other regional languages. The product of over fifteen years of fieldwork, Cilungu Phonology...
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Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by James Clackson Publisher Comments The Indo-European language family comprises several hundred languages and dialects, including all of those spoken in Europe, and most of those spoken in South, Southwest and Central Asia. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the largest...
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Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics #25: The Social Construction of Literacy
by Jenny Cook-gumperz Publisher Comments A study of how children acquire literacy, viewing literacy acquisition as a socially constructed process....
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Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments
by Ivan Turgenev Publisher Comments Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for. --New York...
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Do Not Leave Your Language Alone: The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy
by Joshua A. Fishman Publisher Comments This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives...
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Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture (Volume 2)
by Leo Wiener Publisher Comments Wiener argues that Germanic languages have arisen by a sudden influx of Low Latin, and Arabic. He demonstrates that they arose from the Graeco-Latin glossaries through Gothic interpretations, which themselves owe their origin to the Graeco-Arabic...
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Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
by Nancy Ainsworth-vaughn Publisher Comments Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed by...
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Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge (China Studies)
by Daria Berg Book News Annotation Scholar Glen Dudbridge's approach to Chinese studies has dealt with two main issue: the use of literature as historical source material and a focus on vernacular culture. This volume is a festschrift for Dudbridge in which editor Berg (Chinese studies,...
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Language and Politics in the Us PR
by Ricento Publisher Comments This volume critically analyzes and explains the goals, processes, and effects of language policies in the United States and Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives. The focus of this book is to explore parallel and divergent developments in...
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The Coming Spring
by Stefan. Trans. By Bill Johnston Zeromski Publisher Comments Zeromski's last novel tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, a predominantly Armenia city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. He becomes embroiled in the chaos caused by the revolution, and barely escapes...
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Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction
by Ishtla Singh Publisher Comments Pidgins and Creoles have always attracted a great deal of interest - academic and otherwise - but in recent decades they have become increasingly important as a field of linguistic inquiry. Placing pidgins and creoles in the wider setting of linguistic...
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The Prism of Grammar: How Child Language Illuminates Humanism (Bradford Books)
by Tom Roeper Publisher Comments Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar--and reveal the innate structures of the mind....
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