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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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New Directions in German-American Studies #4: Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of Karl/Charles Follen (1796-1840)
by Charles Follen Publisher Comments Karl/Charles Follen has not only been described as a dangerous revolutionary, but he has also been praised as the emblematic representative of German philosophical idealism and theological liberalism. This edition introduces, for the first time, a broad...
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Language and Peace
by Christina Schaffner Publisher Comments "Language and Peace" demonstrates how critical discourse analysis can elucidate the relationship between language and peace. It provides a view on the notion of peace put forth by peace researchers in the last two decades, namely that peace includes not...
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Western Arrarnta Picture Dictionary.
by David Roennfeldt Book News Annotation In compiling this dictionary of Western Arrarnta, a Central Australian language, Roeenfeldt enlisted the aid of numerous members of the Western Arrarnta community at a number of outstations in Australia. The first published dictionary of the language,...
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Crosswords
by Monica Heller Book News Annotation Heller reports the findings of a long-term ethnographic and historical study of minority languages and minority language education issues as evidenced in Franco-Ontario education. Coverage includes the role of language in the ideology and politics of...
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Middle English Dictionary: W.3 (Middle English Dictionary)
by Robert E. Lewis Publisher Comments The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies...
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Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
by Leanne Hinton Publisher Comments Thoroughly accessible essays on the structure, sounds, and history of California Indian languages, and the efforts to preserve them....
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The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1997; the Dutch Language At the Millennium; Proceedings.
by Ca) Berkeley Conferences On Dutch Linguistics (4th: 1997: Berkeley Book News Annotation The biennial conference produced 15 papers in 1997. Their topics include heads and tails of Dutch spoken words, empirical pragmatics, the topicalization in Modern Dutch, the order of constituents, diachronic subjectification, Dutch and Polish in...
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Living in Translation; Polish Writers in America.
by Halina Stephan Book News Annotation Sixteen contributions from American specialists in Polish Studies tell the story of contemporary Polish expatriates who recently lived or are currently living in the United States. The focus is on the benefits and difficulties encountered by artists...
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Phonological Projection: A Theory of Feature Content and Prosodic Structure: Studies in Generative Grammar 47
by Marc Van Oostendorp Synopsis This book deals with the relation between the feature content of segments and the prosodic structure headed by those segments. It also presents several important contributions to the framework of Optimality Theory. Apart from this, the volume will make...
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Grammar in Use Across Time and Space; Deconstructing the Japanese "Dative Subject" Construction.
by Misumi Sadler Book News Annotation Sadler (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) analyzes the use of the dative subjective construction with the marker ni in a broad range of Japanese discourses, including pre-modern literature, contemporary novels, and contemporary informal conversation....
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Applications of Cognitive Linguistics #5: Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-) Auxiliaries: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach
by Bert Cornillie Book News Annotation In functional linguistics, evidentiality refers to the "encoding of the speaker's (type of) grounds for making a speech act" and epistemic modality refers to the "evaluation of the chances that a certain hypothetical state of affairs under...
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Parameters of Slavic Aspect: A Cognitive Approach
by Stephen M Dickey Publisher Comments Dickey divides the Slavic languages into two aspectual groups, an eastern and a western group, as well as a transitional zone between the two. This book shows the semantic meaning of aspect in these groups, analyzed within the framework of cognitive...
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Modern French Identities, #18: French in and Out of France: Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms, and Dialogue
by Hugo Azerad Publisher Comments This book examines policy planning and implementation and language variation in the realm of intercultural communication in France, Europe, the Americas, Australia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to discern trends in the...
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The Indic Scripts; Palaeographic and Linguistic Perspectives.
by P.g. Patel Et Al Book News Annotation The Bramhmi script grew out of phonetic and metrical insights into the process and mechanisms of speech articulation, and is used today in Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman languages throughout southern Asia. Linguists and other...
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Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts
by Amy B. M. Tsui Publisher Comments Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial...
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Language From Below; the Irish Language, Ideology and Power in 20TH-century Ireland.
by Caoimhghin <'o> Croidhe<'a>in Publisher Comments This book critically investigates the relationship between the Irish language and politics through a survey of individuals and movements associated with the language. This approach takes into account competing socialist and nationalist perspectives on...
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Multiple Marginalities; an Anthology of Identified Dalit Writings.
by Ed. And Trans. By Badri Narayan And A.r. Misra Book News Annotation The Dalit community in northern India has been excluded from the economic and cultural mainstream of society by Brahminism as well as colonialism. Although Dalit culture and societal structure are fully formed and complex, the focus of most scholarly...
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The Kajkavian Dialect of Hidegs<'e>G and Fert<:O>Homok.
by Peter Houtzagers Book News Annotation Houtzagers, for whom no credentials are cited, offers a synchronic description of a Croatian immigrant dialect spoken in and around the Austrian-Hungarian border region, specifically in the two villages of the title. The dialect is unique in being the...
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