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Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age
by Kirk St. Amant  Synopsis International online access has grown rapidly in recent years with the number of global Internet users skyrocketing. The most astounding growth, however, is taking place in developing nations. Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the...
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Japanese Korean Linguistics Volume 14
by Timothy J Vance Publisher Comments Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar languages, and the linguistic phenomena of the former often hve counterparts in the latter. These collections from the annual Japanese/Korean linguistics conference include essays on the phonology...
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Who Does This Language Belong To? Personal Narratives of Language Claim and Identity (PB)
by Avital Feuer Publisher Comments In this Hebrew language learning setting, students' backgrounds and histories are diverse: some were born and raised in Canada, the United States, or South Africa and studied Hebrew at Jewish day schools; others were born in the former USSR, immigrated...
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Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World (Language Library)
by Viv Edwards Publisher Comments "Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World: Pedigree of Nations" explores the consequences of English as a global language and multilingualism as a social phenomenon. Written accessibly, it explores the extent of diversity in 'inner circle' English...
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A Handbook of Czech Prose Writings, 1940-2005.
by Bohuslava Bradbrook Book News Annotation This volume profiles 35 prominent Czech writers from the past 65 years. Covering both exiled and suppressed writers that the author thought would appeal to the English-speaking world and its way of thinking, the profiles provide biographical...
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Topics in English Linguistics #51: Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)
by Alexander T. Bergs Publisher Comments The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). In three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable...
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Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
by Oswald J Szemerenyi Publisher Comments This translation of the German edition, first published in 1970, introduces the standard text on the comparative-historical method to an English-speaking audience. After surveying the general principles of diachronic-comparative linguistics, the book...
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Language Planning and Social Change
by Robert Leon Cooper Publisher Comments This book describes the ways in which politicians, church officials, generals, and other leaders try to influence our use of language. Using many examples, Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake, but rather for...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #19: Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
by Cecil H Brown Publisher Comments Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice...
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China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature
by Yingjin Zhang Publisher Comments Essays on Chinese comparative literature studies, their development and current status in East-West framework....
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Linguistic culture and language policy
by Harold F. Schiffman Publisher Comments b /b b i Linguistic Culture and Language Policy /i /b examines how language policy in three very different nations evolved and how it is not merely the specific embodiment of rule, but rather primarily a social construct that rests on other conceptual...
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The Politics of Language: Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective
by Carol L. Schmid Publisher Comments Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host...
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The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
by Deborah Cameron Publisher Comments Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from...
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Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage
by Daniel Kane Publisher Comments The Chinese Language is a brief introduction to the main characteristics of Chinese, written to be accessible to beginning students as well as anyone with a general interest in Chinese language and culture. Not a language-learning title as such, The...
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Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs #183: The Germanic Strong Verbs: Foundations and Development of a New System
by Robert Mailhammer Publisher Comments Through the use of an innovative methodological framework combining typology, comparative linguistics, historical morphology, and quantitative etymology, this book presents a diachronic analysis of the morphology of the Germanic strong verbs as well as a...
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The Real McCoy: The True Stories Behind Our Everyday Phrases
by Georgia Hole Publisher Comments The book contains specially commissioned cartoons to illustrate the idioms, and, coupled with the fresh, contemporary design, they make this book a delight to browse. "The Real McCoy" is the perfect gift for everyone interested in the quirky side of the...
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot (Russian Literature)
by Viktor. Trans. By Shushan Avagyan Shklovskii Publisher Comments One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls "loiterature"--writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the world. In...
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Language, Society and Consciousness: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 1
by Jonathan J Webster Publisher Comments The chapters of this volume explore the intimate relations of society, language and mind: the development of each of these depends on the contribution of the other two. In this sense they are co-genetic: mind has recently been described by the famous...
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The Motifs and Characters in the Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy and in the Laud Troy Book.
by Walter Wilflingseder Publisher Comments Both the alliterative Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy (c. 1400) and the Laud Troy Book (c. 1400), a metrical romance, deal with the lives and feats of chivalric heroes and place special emphasis on the psychological effects of love. This book...
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The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930S.
by Micha<:e>l Abecassis Publisher Comments This study is based on an analysis of videos and transcripts of five films Fric-frac, Circonstances attenuantes, Le Jour se leve, La Regle du jeu and Hotel du Nord. These films are examples of planned and artificial language. The book looks at the...
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