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The Slavonic Languages
by Bernard Comrie  Publisher Comments In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analyzed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages--Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages--especially Roman,...
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Speaking of Chinese: A Cultural History of the Chinese Language
by Raymond Chang Publisher Comments Not a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth....
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Allegory of Survival: The Theater of Kang-Baek Lee
by Kang-baek Yi Publisher Comments In the civil and government upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s in Korea, Kang-baek Lee began his distinguished playwriting career. He is perhaps best known as the premier writer of social commentary in the form of allegories in an effort to circumvent...
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Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language
by William L. (edt) Leap Publisher Comments Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. Speaking in Queer Tongues investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system...
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Ancilla Calliopeae: Ein Repertorium Der Neulateinischen Epik Frankreichs (1500-1700) (Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte)
by Ludwig Braun Synopsis Survey of neo-latin epic in France during the 16th and 17th centuries, more extensive than anything presented to date. Repertorium of more than 80 poems with detailed information on their contents and their authors. Development of the literary genre....
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #4: American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
by Lyle Campbell Publisher Comments Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is...
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Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts
by Judith Baxter Publisher Comments Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, a stellar group of language and gender specialists consider both the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, the business world and...
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Linguistics #3: Sociolinguistics: The Essentials Readings
by Christina Bratt Paulston Publisher Comments "Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings "is a collection of classic articles that have helped define the field of sociolinguistics and provide the foundation for future research, paired with more recent articles which indicate the direction the field...
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A Cultural Approach to Discourse
by Shi Xu Publisher Comments Shi-xu critiques universalism in discourse studies in terms of the cultural consequences of its current white, western standpoint and advocates a culturally pluralist approach, a theory and research methodology from an innovative position between Eastern...
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
by John R. Rickford Publisher Comments Rich and powerful— and funky and bold— dissects black writing and speech, its grammar and history, its controversy, and the media coverage of it. . . . A book that’ s truly da bomb.— Geneva Smitherman The language, only the language. ....
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A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France
by Sophia A. Rosenfeld Publisher Comments “Sopia Rosenfeld’s intriguing study deals with a chapter in the intellectual history of the Old Regime and the Revolution of 1789, the puzzle of language. . . . A very fine piece of historical scholarship. . . . This really is a must-read for...
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Memory and the Modern in Celtic Literatures.
by Joseph Falaky Nagy Book News Annotation Poets, writers and scholars in Celtic languages have been found to have adjusted their texts, compositional methods and sense of the past to reflect the associated changes in the later middle ages and early modern period. In this collection of five...
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Social Linguistics and Literacies: How to Evaluate Data and Write Reports (Taylor & Francis Series in Pharmaceutical Sciences)
by James Paul Gee Book News Annotation Gee (linguistics, U. of Southern California when the 1990 first edition came out) argues that an appreciation of language in its social context requires a focus not on language alone but also on the set of behavior and expectations, linguistic and...
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Folktale As a Source of Graeco-roman Fiction; the Origin of Popular Narrative.
by Graham Anderson Book News Annotation Popular prose fiction in Antiquity has long been traced to folklore elements, and Anderson (classics, U. of Kent) seeks to expand that link to the more self-consciously literary works by named authors, where the connection is not widely recognized...
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The German Language in a Changing Europe
by Michael Clyne Publisher Comments This revised and expanded analysis of the German language takes account of recent sociopolitical changes....
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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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Roc the MIC Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture
by H. Samy Alim Publisher Comments Explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). This work focuses on discursive practices, such as narrative sequencing and ciphers. It shows how Hip Hop language could be used in an educational context and presents an approach to...
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New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III
by Irmengard Rauch Publisher Comments The contributions in New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III are representative of the stimulating and productive medley of offerings presented at the April 2000 meetings of the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Formal syntax informs the essays...
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Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
by David Wilton Publisher Comments Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That...
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Index of Verb Forms in Thucydides Index of Verb Forms in Thucydides
by Peter Stork Synopsis In providing easy access to the verb system in Thucydides, this index is an invaluable tool for researching the semantics of the verb system in Ancient Greek, on matters of lexicography or morphology, and of aspect/tense, mood and voice....
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