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Nativism Reborn?
by Raymond Tatalovich  Publisher Comments Raymond Tatalovich has conducted the first detailed, systematic, and empirical study of the official English movement in the United States, seeking answers to two crucial questions: What motivations underlie the agitation for official English? Does the...
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Middle English Dictionary: X/Y/Z (Middle English Dictionary)
by Robert E. Lewis Publisher Comments The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies...
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An Etymological Vocabulary and Study of La Estoria De Los Godos, 1243
by Linda Elizabeth Lassiter Book News Annotation Lassiter (Spanish and French, Southern U. and A&M College of Baton Rouge, Louisiana) offers a detailed study of one anonymous of several popular Romance versions of Historia G...
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology/Eurotyp [Ealt] #20-8: Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
by Giuliano Bernini Synopsis The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous...
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Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics)
by Peter Sells Publisher Comments Very little research has been performed on the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish. Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish is one of the first books to explore the Swedish sentence structure, presenting an account of the order of the...
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Language, Power, and Social Process #2: Language Ideological Debates
by Jan Blommaert Synopsis Taking off from the apt epigram that "... language, after all, is a purely historical phenomenon", these sociolinguistic analyses present debates over how language ideologies are formed, articulated, and entextualized. The editor's opening and final...
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Words and Minds: How We Use Language to Think Together
by Neil Mercer Publisher Comments There is widespread interest in the everyday use of language. People want to know how to communicate, and do it well. "Words and Minds" takes a lively look at the evolution of language, and how we use language to get things done. Examining everyday...
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Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture
by James C. Wilson Publisher Comments Presenting thirteen essays, editors James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson unite the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices.<P>The contributors span a...
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Mayor's Juvenal: Thirteen Satires Volumes One and Two
by John Henderson Publisher Comments This final edition of Mayor's Juvenal, issued here in two hardback volumes (available separately or as a slipcased set), should be an essential part of all professional Latinists' reference libraries. Mayor's commentary is comprehensive on details of...
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Analysis to Synthesis: The Development of Complex Verb Morphology in the Dravidian Language
by Sanford Steever Publisher Comments Analysis to Synthesis introduces the process of Compound Verb Contraction to analyze the genesis of synthetic verb forms in the Dravidian languages. Contraction provides an explanation for their development from analytic forms by creating a paradigm of...
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Languages in Britain and Ireland
by Glanville Price Publisher Comments This book builds on the success of Glanville Price's "The Languages of Britain," published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, reliable and comprehensive survey of the great number of languages that have at one time or another taken...
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Language, Power, and Social Process #14: Read the Cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization
by Shi-xu Synopsis A ground-breaking work, Read the Cultural Other argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contained in a 'general', 'universal', or 'integrated' model of linguistic communication or discourse, but must be understood from a culturally pluralist...
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Middle English Dictionary: W.4 (Middle English Dictionary)
by Robert E. Lewis Publisher Comments The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies...
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Language, Power, and Social Process #3: Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica
by Alexandra M. Jaffe Synopsis In Ideologies in Action, Alexandra Jaffe explores the complex interrelationship between linguistic ideologies and practices on the French island of Corsica. This detailed exploration of the ideological and political underpinnings of three decades of...
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An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages
by Philip Baldi Publisher Comments Intended for use in general courses on Indo-European languages and linguistics, this comprehensive assessment of Indo-European groups fills the long-standing need for synthesizing the vast amount of information available in specialized handbooks of the...
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Embracing the Lie: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the People's Republic of China
by Charles J Alber Publisher Comments This volume is the first serious attempt to reconstruct Ding Ling's biography during the last few decades of her life. Most Westerners know her as a progressive woman writer who became famous during the May 4 Movement, championed its values in Yan'an and...
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The Road Less Traveled; Reflections on the Literatures of the Horn of Africa.
by Ali Jimale Ahmed And Taddesse Adera Book News Annotation South Africa has long turned its gaze primarily on itself, and caused destruction to a great number of its people. However, as editors Ahmed (comparative literature, City U. of New York) and Adersa (late English, Mary Washington College) point out...
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Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction
by Toshiko Yamaguchi Synopsis An introduction to Japanese linguistics, which is designed to introduce students to the areas of Japanese linguistics. This book contains chapters, which contains an explanation of the key concepts of the subject, followed by activities, which are...
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The French Language Today
by Adrian Battye Publisher Comments In their updated edition of this definitive text, Adrian Battye and Marie-Anne Hintze offer an extensive selection of new and reworked material on the socio-linguistic aspects of the French language. The revised work heightens its focus on the...
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Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions Series)
by Peter Stockwell Publisher Comments Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics. Sociolinguistics: * Provides a comprehensive introduction to Sociolinguistics * Draws on a range of real...
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