Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Sunway University Press Voices in Texts and Contexts
Book SynopsisVoices in Texts and Contexts presents different perspectives of 'voice', a concept emerging from language choices, social and cultural phenomena, and psychology. In weaving a tapestry of linguistic experiences, from analyses of language phenomena including localised English to explanations of human behaviour, this book offers insights into how we use language, construct discourse, and express ourselves in light of selected texts and specific contexts.Voice is a fundamental instrument to interpret human behaviour and the mind. In this book, readers will learn about uses of language, or perceptions of uses, and a wide range of messages enshrined therein.This book grew out of the 6th and 7th International Conferences on Discourse and Society organised by the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. It contains chapters that give special focus to Malaysia at the macro level - such as the naming of disabled people, mastery of the Malay language by migrants, loanwords of Sanskrit origin in Malaysian - as well contributions by invited scholars whose academic interests intersect with the theme of the volume. It is suitable for scholars, educators, researchers, and the interested general public.Table of Contents About the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction - Toshiko Yamaguchi Voices of Migrant Workers in a Community of Practice: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants' Use of the Malay Language in Malaysia - Tanzeel Chowdhury & Lee Luan Ng Voices of Concern Amongst Teachers on the Academic Performance of Foster Children - Cherish How & Jariah Mohd Jan Understanding and Applying the Critical Academic Voice: Bridging Theory and Practice - Stephen J. Hall Multi-Ethnic Voices of Loanwords in the Malaysian Dailies - Manjit Kaur Balwant Singh Voices in the Naming of Disabled Persons in Print Media - Pei Soo Ang & Siang Lee Yeo Voices of Fear: Nightmare Landscapes in Western Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Painting - El?bieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska Translating English Political Discourse into Arabic: Roles of Translator, Context, and Voice - Kais Amir Kadhim Investigating the Shift in Voice and Rhetoric of United States Administrations Regarding the Middle East 2001–2016 - Mourhaf Kazzaz Critically Negotiating British and American Englishes: Voices from Indonesia - Ribut Wahyudi Index
£38.66
University of the Philippines Press Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of European studies on Philippine languages, this book gives a synoptic view of studies by Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish linguists from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, placing them in their historical context. It opens up a new field of research in Philippine studies on previously unknown materials in European libraries and archives.
£66.00
Scribo Publications How Yoruba and Igbo Became Different Languages
£35.72
NUS Press One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the
Book SynopsisThe expression "one or two words" is used by the Toraja highlanders of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement, which denotes the meaningfulness of transient acts of speech, One or Two Words offers an analysis of the shifting power relations between centers and peripheries in one of the world's most linguistically diverse countries. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, this book explores how people forge forms of collective belonging to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words, WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts of pigs and buffaloes, and the performance of elaborate political speeches and ritual chants. Aurora Donzelli describes the complex forms of cosmopolitan indigeneity that have emerged in the Toraja highlands during several decades of encounters with a variety of local and international interlocutors. By engaging wider debates on the dynamics of cultural and linguistic change vis-à-vis globalizing influences, the book sheds light onto a hitherto neglected dimension of post-Suharto Indonesia: the recalibration of power relations between national and local languages prompted by recent institutional transformations and the re-articulation of the relations between the central state and its peripheries through acts of speech.Trade Review"Alongside its rich historical and ethnographic accounts of relevance to Indonesianists–for example, of Toraja landholding disputes and post-Suharto regional autonomy reforms–One or Two Words is a valuable contribution to the linguistic anthropological study of sociality constituted through a politics of representation.” * Discourse and Society *Table of Contents List of Maps List of Photographs List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Politics of Language 1. Subjects of Discourse 2. Narratives of Distinction 3. Grammars of Exchange Part II: The Language of Politics 4. Hierarchies of Language 5. Modes of Power 6. Global Frictions and Local Crossovers Bibliography Index
£38.21
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The
Book SynopsisProceedings of Evolang IX, the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language.The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field.Table of ContentsEvolutionary Parallels between Language and Tool Use (Michael A Arbib); Cortico - Cortical and Cortico - Cerebellar Computations in Language Change (Giorgos P Argyropoulos); The Case for Neanderthal Language - How Strong is It? (Sverker Johansson); Meanings of Touching Object Parts in Pointing (Harumi Kobayashi and Tetsuya Yasuda); Robustness as a Design Feature of Speech Communication (Bodo Winter and Morten H Christiansen); The Exponent of Zipf's Law in Language Ontogeny (Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho and Brita Elvevag); and other papers.
£171.00
The Chinese University Press Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThanks to dedicated efforts of early missionaries, pedagogues, and linguists, we can trace back the evolution of modern Cantonese-one of the most spoken dialects in China, Southeast Asia, and globally-while differences in sounds, words, and grammar distinguish the old from contemporary speech today.Not much was recorded in official documents or gazetteers about the early history of Hong Kong where Cantonese is its most popular dialect. The knowledge of Cantonese is likewise quite limited except for occasional mentions of its culture and customs in writings here and there. For a long time, Cantonese was deemed a local dialect enjoying little prestige among the intellectuals. Its language and its origin remained much of a mystery until the mid-twentieth century when scholars started to accord it with increasing attention.In Cantonese: Since the 19th Century, Cheung offers profound insights to some thirty firsthand century-old materials, with findings that will be useful for ongoing efforts to trace the development of a language that has gone through many rounds of incredible and, at times dramatic, changes during the last two hundred years.
£39.60
Beech Stave Press Inc A Dictionary of Cuneiform Luvian
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£47.50
