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Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language #10: Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
by Francesca Merlan  Publisher Comments This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures, historical events and particularly, of the crucial role of talk....
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Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play
by Delia Chiaro Publisher Comments Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles, asides, and the extent to which they can be universal and specific to one culture. This title available...
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Analysing English in a Global Context: A Reader (Teaching English Language Worldwide)
by Anne (edt) Burns Publisher Comments "Analysing English in a Global Context" offers a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and develops the skills needed to analyze these forms. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety...
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Dimensions of Literacy : a Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings (2ND 05 Edition)
by Stephen B. Kucer Publisher Comments This popular text examines literacy from a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective. It unpackages the various dimensions of literacy--linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and developmental--and at the same time accounts for the...
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Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Guido Mensching Publisher Comments Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish,...
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Writers Under Siege; Czech Literature Since 1945.
by Jir<'i> Holy Book News Annotation Holy (Czech literature, Charles University, Prague) presents a broad overview of post-war Czech literary developments within the cultural and political context of the times. Information is provided about the many English-language translations from...
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Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture
by James C. (edt) 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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Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax #16: The Feature Structure of Functional Categories: A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects
by Elabbas Benmamoun Publisher Comments Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical...
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Language, Discourse and Social Psychology (Palgrave Advances)
by Ann Weatherall Publisher Comments Language and communication are central features of social behaviour. So, it is somewhat surprising that the social psychological study of language, communication and discourse has a relatively short history. In this book a leading group of language...
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Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics
by Stephen Barbour Publisher Comments An examination of the interrelations between language and society in the German-speaking countries....
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Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices
by Florian Coulmas Publisher Comments A clear introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of the social factors influencing our linguistic choices....
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Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky (Srlt)
by Susanne Fusso Publisher Comments Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote about sexuality from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. By looking at the views of human sexual development that were available in...
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Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by David D. Laitin Publisher Comments Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in...
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Word Structure in Ngalakgan
by Brett Baker Publisher Comments Word Structure in Ngalakgan is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and morphology of an Australian language in 20 years. Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. The...
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Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures #32: Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee
by Nadia G Yaqub Synopsis Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic...
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ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (ABC Chinese Dictionary)
by Axel Schuessler Publisher Comments This is the first genuine etymological dictionary of Old Chinese written in any language. Designed for use by nonspecialists and specialists alike, the dictionary is highly accessible, being arranged in alphabetical order and possessed of numerous...
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Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial
by Gregory M. Matoesian Publisher Comments In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation...
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Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages
by Peter Auer Publisher Comments This book brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change....
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Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women's Writing
by Brinda Mehta Book News Annotation Mehta (French and Francophone studies, Mills College, Oakland, California) portrays Arab Muslim women writers as agents of feminist action and social change through their critique of the patriarchal authority of politicians dictators, colonialists...
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Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry
by Francis Cairns Publisher Comments Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early...
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