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Steiner Franz Verlag Ars Metrica
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Schwabe Verlag GmbH KÃnstlike WerltsprÃke und SchÃnes RimbÃkelin
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Langues et institutions en Italie méridionale
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Universitatsverlag Winter Russisches Etymologisches Worterbuch Band 1
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Universitatsverlag Winter Lexicon of Baltic Mythology
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Universitatsverlag Winter Studien Zum Genderneutralen Maskulinum
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Universitatsverlag Winter Die Grammatik Der Handschriften
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Universitätsverlag Winter Wie Informationsdichte Extraposition beeinflusst
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V&R unipress GmbH Der Tod in Danzig: Danziger Leichenpredigten
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V & R Unipress GmbH Lehrbuch des Osmanischen
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Iudicium Verlag Das Glück verkehrt herum
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Springer Thinking in Chinese and English
Book SynopsisThe Process of Writing in English and Chinese Reflections on Writing Thinking in Two Languages.- Writing about Feelings Metaphorically in English and Chinese.- The Semantics of Abstraction in Chinese and English: Evidence for Cognitive Universals.- Counterfactual Thinking in Chinese and English: On the False Dichotomy of Relativity and Universality.- Chinese as a Verb-Oriented Language: Evidence from the Emergence of Verb-Oriented Children.- Path vs Law Metaphors in Thinking About Thought.- Are there Untranslatable Syntactic Constructions Implications for Thinking in Chinese vs Thinking in English.- You See the Peak, I See the Mountain: Chinese Resultative Verb Complements and Corresponding Expressions in English.- Syntactic Complexity and Dependency in Translational Thinking.- Re-examining the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis with Regards to Chinese.- Chinese Perfective Special Function in a Language without Tense.
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Oxford University Press Archaeology and Language in the Andes
Book SynopsisThe Andes are of unquestioned significance to the human story: a cradle of agriculture and of ''pristine'' civilisation with a pedigree of millennia. The Incas were but the culmination of a succession of civilisations that rose and fell to leave one of the richest archaeological records on Earth. By no coincidence, the Andes are home also to our greatest surviving link to the speech of the New World before European conquest: the Quechua language family. For linguists, the native tongues of the Andes make for another rich seam of data on origins, expansions and reversals throughout prehistory. Historians and anthropologists, meanwhile, negotiate many pitfalls to interpret the conflicting mytho-histories of the Andes, recorded for us only through the distorting prism of the conquistadors'' world-view.Each of these disciplines opens up its own partial window on the past: very different perspectives, to be sure, but all the more complementary for it. Frustratingly though, specialists in eaTrade ReviewThis book offers a splendid conspectus of issues on many aspects of the Andean past and provides a blueprint for the questions which further researchers should explore. Further examination of such questions will henceforth be unthinkable without students of the topic examining this rich and diverse collection of handsomely-edited papers. * Anthony Grant, Edge Hill University *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Archaeology and Language in the Andes: A Much-Needed Conversation ; Archaeology and Language in the Andes: Some General Models of Change ; Broadening Our Horizons: Towards an Interdisciplinary Prehistory of the Andes ; Modelling the Quechua-Aymara Relationship: Sociolinguistic Scenarios and Possible Archaeological Evidence ; On the Origins of Social Complexity in the Central Andes and Possible Linguistic Correlations ; Central Andean Language Expansion and the Chavin Sphere of Interaction ; The 1st Millennium ad in North Central Peru: Critical Perspectives on a Linguistic Prehistory ; Cajamarca Quechua and the Expansion of the Huari State 155 ; Middle Horizon Imperialism and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Andean Languages ; Indicators of Possible Driving Forces for the Spread of Quechua and Aymara Reflected in the Archaeology of Cuzco ; Unravelling the Enigma of the 'Particular Language' of the Incas ; Accounting for the Spread of Quechua and Aymara Between Cuzco and Lake Titicaca ; The Herder-Cultivator Relationship as a Paradigm for Archaeological Origins, Linguistic Dispersals and the Evolution of Record Keeping in the Andes ; How did Quechua Reach Ecuador? ; Quechua's Southern Boundary: The Case of Santiago del Estero, Argentina ; Conclusion - A Cross-Disciplinary Prehistory for the Andes? ; Surveying the State of the Art
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OUP Oxford Changing Names
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The University of Chicago Press Breve historia de la lengua española
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The University of Chicago Press Elements of Hebrew by an Inductive Method Midway
Book SynopsisFirst published privately in 1885 and reissued in 1959, this grammar text employs the inductive method of Hebrew instruction developed by William Rainey Harper and practiced by him at the University of Chicago. This inductive method in the teaching of grammar is educationally sound, and in employing it in this text some eighty years ago, the author was certainly far ahead of his time.William Chomsky, Jewish BooklandA treatment of much that is essential in Hebrew grammar. . . .useful tools to the divinity student and instructor in biblical Hebrew.David Weinstein, Jewish Education
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The University of Chicago Press Grammars of Approach
Book SynopsisA very close look at language and landscape design in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, looking at how the word "approach" changed from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive up to an estate.
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The University of Chicago Press The History and Power of Writing
Book SynopsisThis study is the story of writing from its beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. The author shows how the written word originated, how it spread and how it figured in the evolution of civilization.
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The University of Chicago Press Linguistic Diversity in Space Time Emersion
Book SynopsisThis volume proposes means of describing, comparing, and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, providing the foundations for a theory of diversity based upon popular science.
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The University of Chicago Press States of Terror History Theory Literature
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The University of Chicago Press States of Terror History Theory Literature
Book SynopsisHow have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology--from Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the fear-terror cluster, Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuries--from anxiety, awe, and concern to dread, fear, and horror. He shows that the choices we make among such words to describe shades of feeling have seriously shaped the attribution of motives, causes, and effects of the word terror today, particularly when violence is deployed by or against the state. At a time when terror-talk is widely and damagingly exploited by politicians and the media, this book unpacks the slippery rhetoric of terror and will prove a vital resource across humanistic and social sciences disciplines.
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The University of Chicago Press Five Words Critical Semantics in the Age of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Greene’s] unique approach allows for a range of insights—historical, cultural, and linguistic—that offer new ways of viewing the rise of modernity. . . . Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Beautiful and evocative. . . . Written with the deep learning and associative sensibility of a true humanist and drawing on an astonishing range of works in order to capture the semantic explosion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Roland Greene’s book is itself both inventive and worldly.” -- Julia Reinhard Lupton * Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 *“[A] stunningly good book, erudite but lively, informed by a great depth and breadth of reading, and tackling difficult yet very important (some would say urgent) questions. It should be read by everyone with an interest in Renaissance literature, and in language itself.” -- Hannah Crawforth * Renaissance Quarterly *“[T]he chapters’ angular assertions work conceptually to deliver rather dazzling and unexpected insights. . . . His ability to illuminate texts as beleaguered as the initial sonnet of Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella or the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice no less than a poem by Buchanan or a mixed-race account of the Spanish colonization of Peru confirms Greene’s astonishing critical adroitness throughout.” -- Christopher Martin * Sixteenth Century Journal *"Five Words’s erudition and scope are indisputable as it draws on a vast store of sources ranging from Cicero to Philip Sidney, Antonio Viera to the Inca Garcilaso, not to mention Shakespeare and Cervantes." * Comparative Drama *"Greene explores each of his words through sensitive, detailed readings. . . . Five Words reminds us of the importance of individual critical intelligence and offers a strong example of such intelligence at work." * Modern Philology *“A unique, compelling, and often dazzling approach to literature and culture of the early modern period. . . . Each chapter of Five Words is engaging and useful in its own right, and certainly research in any one of these five areas would be enriched by Greene’s extensive work on that subject. The book’s greatest achievement, however, is in demonstrating how these five words together animate the worlds of Renaissance thought and culture.” * Comparative Literature Studies *“There is nothing like Five Words in current criticism. Grounded upon deep erudition, it represents a genuine breakthrough in critical methodology, conceptual history, and the social and cultural task of locating literature among the other discourses. Roland Greene’s efforts to relate and interrelate the implications of the ‘five words’ shape an overarching argument about critical semantics that will have great impact upon the entire field of literary study.” -- William Kennedy, Cornell University “One of our leading theorists in the field of European Renaissance literature offers an absorbing and important discussion of five dynamical concepts, rooted in particular words, which underwent profound change in the age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. These writers do not merely designate the age: they are the most influential writers in the West, and the deepest users of the words that have shaped the mind of the West. To understand other cultures, we need to understand the limits and the range of our own culture. This book is a timely contribution to that effort.” * Gordon Teskey, Harvard University * “Roland Greene’s new book is a brilliant exercise in cultural and linguistic criticism. Drawing on broad study in half a dozen languages and serious engagement with recent developments in critical thought, Greene guides his readers through nuanced readings of a set of key terms that shape the emergence of modernity. He shows how such seemingly innocent words as ‘world’ and ‘invention’ hide entire galaxies of meaning that shape the culture of the early modern period. Along the way, he develops a set of critical paradigms that will influence our understanding of the intersection of language and culture far beyond the confines of this excellent study.” * Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley *
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The University of Chicago Press On the Origin of Language
Book SynopsisThis volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book "Of Grammatology," and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents.
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Columbia University Press Error and the Academic Self
Book SynopsisExamining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory.Trade ReviewWriting in a lively, engaging, and sometimes humorous manner, Lerer (Stanford Univ.) fills this book with intricate reasoning about the profession of scholarship and thus provides a unique approach to the study of textual criticism over the ages... a dizzying but enjoyable romp over a road not taken before. Choice A lively historical survey of how people discovered and developed new forms of expression bundled into the English language. -- James A. Cox The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Pursuit of Error: Philology, Rhetoric, and the History of Scholarship 1. Errata: Mistakes and Masters in the Early Modern Book 2. Sublime Philology: An Elegy for Anglo-Saxon Studies 3. My Casaubon: The Novel of Scholarship and Victorian Philology 4. Ardent Etymologies: American Rhetorical Philology, from Adams to de Man 5. Making Mimesis: Exile, Errancy, and Erich Auerbach Epilogue: Forbidden Planet and the Terrors of Philology
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Columbia University Press The Domestication of Language
Book SynopsisA provocative investigation into the making of human languages and the exceptional nature of human adaptation.Trade ReviewThe Domestication of Language brings an important new perspective to an extraordinarily difficult and important topic: the evolution of language. Language is the result of intelligence: an invented social and communicative technology, invented not by a Promethean genius, but multi-generationally by us all as we respond to and experiment in our specific situations. Over many generations, we have converted our original, wild, native endowment of communicative capacity to something new, special, and transforming. -- Kim Sterelny, Australian National University A superbly original book and an exciting piece of philosophy. Cloud builds a serious account of the evolution of language that recognizes the long and complex process that links the prior state (nothing like language at all) to the end state (language of the kinds now in existence) and that responds to the points of greatest difficulty in that process. -- Philip Kitcher, Columbia University Cloud has done much more than given us a 'just-so story' about the evolution of language. He has identified the real obstacles it had to surmount and creatively drawn on the best hard science to show how it overcame them. -- Alex Rosenberg, Duke University This stimulating and engaging book lucidly defends a remarkable proposal. Just as a breeder of honeybees makes choices that influence the evolution of domesticated bees, all of us-by choosing which words and practices to employ and which ones to scowl, chuckle, or roll our eyes at-actively influence the evolution of our language and culture. -- Adam Elga, Princeton University A tour de force. Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of language, evolutionary biology, and ethology, Daniel Cloud has fashioned a new account of the origins of our capacity for linguistic communication. Cloud's book is both a wonderfully readable introduction to the topic and a bold and original work of scholarship. Any attempt to reconstruct the origins of language will be speculative, but this is the best sort of speculation: rigorous, scientifically informed, strikingly imaginative, and utterly plausible. -- Gideon Rosen, Princeton University [The Domestication of Language] presents an intriguing new theory of cultural evolution. -- Nikhil Sonnad Quartz This serious piece of academic writing is a must-read for those working on the frontiers of the philosophy of language. Library Journal If you're into the evolution of language, you'll love The Domestication of Language. Farnam Street A bold hypothesis and a book worth reading... Recommended. Choice The book is tightly argued. It builds wonderfully on the work of others and offers realistic aspirations for futher research agendas in various disciplines. MetapsychologyTable of Contents1. Where Do Words Come From? 2. The Conventions of a Human Language 3. The Evolution of Signals 4. Varieties of Biological Information 5. The Strange Case of the Chimpanzee 6. The Problem of Maladaptive Culture 7. The Cumulative Consequences of a Didactic Adaptation 8. Meaning, Interpretation, and Language Acquisition 9. What's Accomplished in Conversation? 10. Recapitulation and Moral References Index
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Columbia University Press Neopoetics
Book SynopsisIn Neopoetics, Collins turns his attention to the cognitive evolution of the writing-ready brain. Further integrating neuroscience into the popular field of cognitive poetics, he adds empirical depth to our study of literary texts and verbal imagination and offers a whole new way to look at reading, writing, and creative expression.Trade ReviewProfessor Collins has shown, with his unique combination of interests, just how complex and unpredictably intricate the cognitive web of human culture has become. Of course, this is not the last word on the subject of how culture shapes and modifies our collective cognitive process; we have just begun the task of mapping out the territory to be explored. But exploration is inherently exciting in itself, and this book has significantly widened the scope of the project. -- Merlin Donald, author of "Origins of the Modern Mind" Neopoetics brings ideas from ancient Greece and modern literary and psychological theory together in describing the "writing-ready" brain. It is a work of impressive scholarship, though the literary extracts and occasionally anecdotal style make the book a pleasure to read. I think it will make a distinctive mark in fields of human understanding, including history, psychology, anthropology, literary criticism, musicology. -- Michael Corballis, author of From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language Christopher Collins weaves the strands of cognitive poetics - neuroscience, cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics and semiotics - into a masterful work of scholarship on literacy, language, memory and the mind that itself reads as beautifully as a novel. This book calls out to be picked up and read carefully by anyone interested in how writing transformed the traditionally oral cultures of ancient Greece and Rome into literate and literary ones, and indeed helped define our own cultural evolution as human beings -- William Short, University of Texas, San Antonio The word poetics is rooted in the Greek poiein, to 'build' or 'create.' In his 2013 book, Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins assessed how evolution gave rise to the "language-ready" brain and its ability to create tools that extends our thoughts. Neopoetics carries his story forward to illuminate how writing has transformed the way that language supports 'mindsharing,' performance and narrative. His exposition fruitfully augments the tools of literary analysis with well-judged perspectives from cognitive neuroscience in ways that extend to dance, music and emotion. -- Michael Arbib, University of Southern California Collins breathes new life into the constructionist premise that language shapes how humans think. Using the literary traditions of ancient Greece and Rome to examine the constraints that oral and written media, respectively, impose on narrative representation, Neopoetics suggests new ways of thinking about the cognitive mechanisms that shape cultural transmission. -- Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, University of Oregon Recommended. -- A. Kind CHOICETable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Innovating Ourselves 2. Narrative Memory 3. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory 4. Visual Instruments of Memory 5. Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics 6. Writing for the Voice 7. Writing and the Reading Mind Epilogue: Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self Appendix: Three Horatian Texts Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press I Speak Therefore I Am
Book SynopsisWe understand our thoughts and ourselves through language, but what is the nature of language?Trade ReviewCombining wide learning, sharp insight, and deft style, these enlightening and intriguing vignettes carry us through the ages to reach considerable understanding of the distinctive linguistic capacity that sets humans apart from the rest of the natural world. -- Noam Chomsky, author of What Kind of Creatures Are We? There is much to find appealing in this pocket-size, readable historical panorama of important thinkers who have pondered the nature of language from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Nobody has drawn out the historical links in the story of language science in this way, and most nonspecialists would learn much from Moro's quite original observations. -- Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I Speak, Therefore I Am explores the intriguing connections between linguistics on the one hand and the sciences and philosophy on the other. The book is abundant with entertaining anecdotes of intellectual history that shed light on these connections. Moro plays the role of wise guide, and leads the reader through a remarkable journey. -- Robert Frank, Yale University The author manages the considerable feat of making insightful remarks about a wide variety of figures in a very short space. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light 1. God 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Marcus Terentius Varro 5. Roger Bacon 6. Descartes 7. Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot 8. Sir William Jones 9. Hermann Osthoff and E. Karl Brugmann 10. Ferdinand de Saussure 11. Bertrand Russell 12. Martin Joos 13. Roman Jakobson 14. Joseph Greenberg 15. Eric H. Lenneberg 16. Niels Jerne 17. Noam Chomsky Finale Postscript Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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Columbia University Press I Speak Therefore I Am
Book SynopsisWe understand our thoughts and ourselves through language, but what is the nature of language?Trade ReviewCombining wide learning, sharp insight, and deft style, these enlightening and intriguing vignettes carry us through the ages to reach considerable understanding of the distinctive linguistic capacity that sets humans apart from the rest of the natural world. -- Noam Chomsky, author of What Kind of Creatures Are We? There is much to find appealing in this pocket-size, readable historical panorama of important thinkers who have pondered the nature of language from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Nobody has drawn out the historical links in the story of language science in this way, and most nonspecialists would learn much from Moro's quite original observations. -- Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I Speak, Therefore I Am explores the intriguing connections between linguistics on the one hand and the sciences and philosophy on the other. The book is abundant with entertaining anecdotes of intellectual history that shed light on these connections. Moro plays the role of wise guide, and leads the reader through a remarkable journey. -- Robert Frank, Yale University The author manages the considerable feat of making insightful remarks about a wide variety of figures in a very short space. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light 1. God 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Marcus Terentius Varro 5. Roger Bacon 6. Descartes 7. Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot 8. Sir William Jones 9. Hermann Osthoff and E. Karl Brugmann 10. Ferdinand de Saussure 11. Bertrand Russell 12. Martin Joos 13. Roman Jakobson 14. Joseph Greenberg 15. Eric H. Lenneberg 16. Niels Jerne 17. Noam Chomsky Finale Postscript Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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Columbia University Press Chinese Script
Book SynopsisThomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging introduction to the complexity and beauty of written text and calligraphy in the Chinese world.Trade ReviewA competent, comprehensive look at the historical development of the Chinese writing system and its manifestations in literature, calligraphy, religion, and other aspects of culture. -- Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania A well-researched, detailed book that provides broad yet concise information on the Chinese writing system's historical background, as well as its linguistic and artistic aspects. -- Peter Yang, Case Western Reserve UniversityTable of ContentsPreface1. Inspiration and Drill2. The Script3. Ingenuity and Passion4. Book Printing and Its Consequences5. Import–Export6. CalligraphyAppendix 1. Notes on PronunciationAppendix 2. Timeline of Chinese DynastiesBibliographyIndex of Names
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Columbia University Press Chinese Grammatology
Book SynopsisFor nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture and lasting implications.Trade ReviewOne of the most innovative, exemplary, and deeply researched monographs in modern Chinese literary studies I have seen for quite some time. -- Andrew F. Jones, University of California, BerkeleyOffering a valuable history of the Chinese encounter with the Roman-Latin alphabetic writing system, Chinese Grammatology provides a compelling account of the rise and containment of phonocentrism as a global literary, linguistic, and political force with profound implications for the development of modern “national” literatures during the twentieth century. -- Nergis Ertürk, Pennsylvania State UniversityThis long overdue study of competing twentieth-century efforts to modernize Chinese writing goes far beyond the origins of pinyin to include a series of compelling stories about all-but-forgotten movements that will fascinate anyone interested in linguistics, Chinese literature, and the history of modernity. Deeply researched and carefully presented, Chinese Grammatology is a page-turner for culture nerds, which makes a persuasive case for the influence of the ideologies of script reform on the evolution of modern Chinese literature. A must-read for anyone interested in cultural China. -- Timothy Billings, Middlebury CollegeYurou Zhong ably chronicles the tumultuous twentieth century of the millennia-old Chinese writing system. We encounter strong personalities, overwhelming historical trends, and alert linguistic analysis. The concluding appeal to a ‘nonidentitarian coexistence’ of diverse writing systems within and around Chinese echoes ideals from the era of China’s greatest cosmopolitan influence. -- Haun Saussy, University of ChicagoSaussure's Cours de linguistique générale (1916) and Derrida's De la grammatologie (1967) are two milestones that have far-reaching implications for 20th-century scholarship in the humanities. Under the influence of these two works, phonetics and logocentrism gradually became one of the concerns for scholars of humanities. However, how do we deal with the perceived voicelessness in nonphonetic scripts? How do we rediscover and understand the rich and tense historical processes that sought to reform and even eliminate the Chinese script for the past century? These substantial questions form the backbone of Chinese Grammatology. It builds on theoretical exploration, historical research, and case studies covering classical philology, the influence of romanization, the latinization movement in modern China, and more. Solid research, broad vision, and sharp observations enliven the whole book. -- Wang Hui, Tsinghua UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on RomanizationIntroduction: Voiceless China and Its Phonocentric TurnPart I: Provenance1. The Beginning and the End of Alphabetic UniversalismPart II: Transmutations2. Phonocentric Antinomies3. Can Subaltern Workers Write?4. Reinventing ChildrenPart III: Containment5. Toward a Chinese GrammatologyEpilogue: The Last CustodianNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Texas Press Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in
Book SynopsisA reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian.Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations & Symbols 0. Introduction 0.1. The Polynesian Languages 0.2. Phonological & Morphological Features 1. An Overview of Surface Syntax 1.1. Structure of the Clause 1.2. Structure of the Verb Complex 1.3. Structure of the NP 1.4. Rules Affecting Pronouns Notes 2. The Morphology of Case & Voice 2.1. Case Marking 2.2. The -Cia Suffix: Passive, Transitive, or Perfective? Notes 3. Case Marking & Grammatical Relations 3.1. Two Positions on Case Marking & Syntax 3.2. Subject-Referring Rules: Equi 3.3. Subject-Referring Rules: Raising 3.4. Direct Object-Referring Rules 3.5. Other Major Rules 3.6. Conclusion Notes 4. Case Assignment in the Ergative Languages 4.1. Two Proposals for Case Assignment 4.2. Case Assignment in Middle Clauses 4.3. Some Rules That Are Sensitive to Case Marking 4.4. On the Role of Case Marking in Syntax Notes 5. Previous Approaches to the History of the Case System 5.1. Proto-Polynesian as an Accusative Language 5.2. Proto-Polynesian as an Ergative Language 5.3. Summary Notes 6. The Passive-to-Ergative Reanalysis 6.1. A New Proposal 6.2. On Reconstruction 6.3. Proto-Polynesian *-Cia 6.4. Proto-Polynesian *i 6.5. Proto-Polynesian *e 6.6. The Proto-Polynesian Case System 6.7. The Rise of Ergative Case Marking 6.8. Conclusion Notes 7. Reanalysis & Pukapukan Syntax 7.1. The Passive-to-Ergative Reanalysis 7.2. Pukapukan 7.3. Testing the Prediction 7.4. An Account of the Facts 7.5. Two Further Examples 7.6. Conclusion Notes Appendix A. Orthography Appendix B. Sources Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Both scholarly and intensely personal, these essays depict with grace and deep perceptiveness a trend that is a disturbing reality for all who care about the continuing legacy of Hebrew culture." * Choice *"The volume’s contributors look to alert their English-language readers, whoever they may be, to Hebrew’s beauty and the possibilities its offers." * Studies in American Jewish Literature *
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University of Washington Press Haa Leelkw Has Aani Saaxu Our Grandparents Names
Book SynopsisPresents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names. Documenting and analyzing more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida, and other Native names on the land, this book highlights their descriptive force and cultural significance.Trade Review". . . a remarkable contribution to a growing scholarship on the importance of place in Native American communities . . . and should serve as a model for future research concerning the preservation of indigenous place names." -- Shawn Bailey * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *". . . a landmark book documenting more than 3,000 Native place names and their locations in Southeast Alaska. . . . the most comprehensive study of its kind." * SitNews *"A rich geographical and cultural reference, all the more fascinating for its ability to reintroduce us to the place we live." -- Amy Fletcher * Juneau Empire *Table of ContentsA Note to the Reader / Harold P. Martin Foreword: People of the Land / Rosita Worl Introduction, by Thomas F. Thornton 1. Yaakwdaat Kwaan, Galyax Kwaan, and Gunnaaxoo Kwaan 2. Xunaa Kaawu 3. Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan 4. Aak’w Kwaan and T’aaku Kwaan 5. Sheet’ka Kwaan 6. Xutsnoowu Kwaan 7. Keex’ Kwaan, Kooyu Kwaan, and S’awdaan Kwaan 8. Shtax’heen Kwaan 9. Hinyaa Kwaan 10. Taant’a Kwaan and Sanyaa Kwaan 11. K’aykaani References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the History of the English
Book SynopsisThis Companion, now available in a paperback format, brings together more than 60 distinguished contributors to offer a wide-ranging survey of the history of the English language. Many of the essays investigate regional and ethnic varieties and take up issues of and gender.Trade Review“In conclusion, this book succeeds in doing what it intended, to provide linguistic grounding for readers primarily interested in the literature and culture of English past and present. It deserves a place in libraries and classrooms, to be read cover to cover or dipped into for specific topics . . . Because it is readable and has good chapter bibliographies and a detailed index, it might also serve as a reference for students researching a topic within the history of English.” (Linguist, 20 January 2013) Table of ContentsList of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xxii Note on Phonetic Symbols and Orthography xxiv A Timeline for HEL xxix Part I Introduction 1 1 History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today 3 Michael Matto and Haruko Momma 2 History of the History of the English Language: How Has the Subject Been Studied? 11 Thomas Cable 3 Essential Linguistics 18 Mary Blockley Part II Linguistic Survey 25 4 Phonology: Segmental Histories 29 Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell 5 History of English Morphology 43 Robert McColl Millar 6 History of English Syntax 57 Olga Fischer 7 A History of the English Lexicon 69 Geoffrey Hughes 8 History of English Prosody 81 Geoffrey Russom Part III English Semantics and Lexicography 89 9 Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them? 93 Reinhard R. K. Hartmann 10 English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri 103 Werner Hüllen 11 Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary 113 Charlotte Brewer Part IV Pre-history of English 123 12 English as an Indo-European Language 127 Philip Baldi 13 English as a Germanic Language 142 R. D. Fulk Part V English in History: England and America 151 Section 1 Old English in History (ca. 450–1066) 153 14 Early Old English (up to 899) 156 Daniel Donoghue 15 Late Old English (899–1066) 165 Mechthild Gretsch 16 Topics in Old English Dialects 172 Lucia Kornexl Section 2 Middle English in History (1066–1485) 181 17 Early Middle English (1066–ca. 1350) 184 Thorlac Turville-Petre 18 Late Middle English (ca. 1350–1485) 191 Seth Lerer 19 Varieties of Middle English 198 Jeremy J. Smith Section 3 Early Modern English in History (1485–1660) 207 20 Early Modern English (1485–1660) 209 Terttu Nevalainen 21 Varieties of Early Modern English 216 Jonathan Hope Section 4 Modern British English in History (1660–present) 225 22 British English in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660–1830) 228 Carey McIntosh 23 British English Since 1830 235 Richard W. Bailey 24 The Rise of Received Pronunciation 243 Lynda Mugglestone Section 5 American English in History 251 25 American English to 1865 254 David Simpson 26 American English Since 1865 263 Walt Wolfram 27 American English Dialects 274 Gavin Jones Section 6 Topics in History 281 28 Early Modern English Print Culture 284 John N. King 29 Issues of Gender in Modern English 293 Deborah Cameron 30 Class, Ethnicity, and the Formation of “Standard English” 303 Tony Crowley 31 The Transplantation of American English in Philippine Soil 313 Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC 32 English, Latin, and the Teaching of Rhetoric 323 Michael Matto 33 English in Mass Communications: News Discourse and the Language of Journalism 334 Philippa K. Smith and Allan Bell Part VI English in History: English Outside England and the United States 345 Section 1 British Isles and Ireland 347 34 English in Wales 350 Marion Löffler 35 English in Scotland 358 J. Derrick McClure 36 English in Ireland 366 Terence Patrick Dolan Section 2 English in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 377 37 English in Canada 380 John Edwards 38 Australian and New Zealand English 389 Pam Peters Section 3 Colonial and Post-colonial English 401 39 South Asian English 404 Kamal K. Sridhar 40 English in the Caribbean 413 Donald Winford 41 English in Africa 423 Alamin M. Mazrui Part VII Literary Languages 431 42 The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition 435 Fred C. Robinson 43 “In swich englissh as he kan”: Chaucer’s Literary Language 445 John F. Plummer 44 Shakespeare’s Literary Language 455 Adam N. McKeown 45 Jane Austen’s Literary English 464 Mary Poovey 46 Joyce’s English 471 Laurent Milesi 47 Faulkner’s Language 479 Noel Polk 48 Twixt the Twain: East-West in Rushdie’s Zubaan-Tongue 487 Tabish Khair 49 Toni Morrison: The Struggle for the Word 495 Justine Tally Part VIII Issues in Present-Day English 505 50 Migration and Motivation in the Development of African American Vernacular English 509 Mary B. Zeigler 51 Latino Varieties of English 521 Robert Bayley 52 Teaching English to Native Speakers: The Subject Matter of Composition (1970–2005) 531 Mary Soliday 53 Earning as well as Learning a Language: English and the Post-colonial Teacher 541 Eugene Chen Eoyang 54 Creoles and Pidgins 553 Salikoko S. Mufwene 55 World Englishes in World Contexts 567 Braj B. Kachru Part IX Further Approaches to Language Study 581 56 Style and Stylistics 585 David L. Hoover 57 Corpus-Based Linguistic Approaches to the History of English 596 Anne Curzan 58 Sociolinguistics 608 Robin Tolmach Lakoff 59 Cognitive Linguistics 618 Dirk Geeraerts Glossary of Linguistic Terms 630 Haruko Momma Index 646
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University of California Press The Missing Spanish Creoles Recovering the Birth
Book SynopsisChallenging an enduring paradigm among linguists, this text explores the origins of plantation creole. It proposes that the limited access model of creole genesis is seriously flawed.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Where Are the Spanish Creoles? 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico 2.3. "There Are Spanish Creoles": Papiamentu and Palenquero 2.4. "There Were Spanish Creoles": Bozal Spanish and the "Extinct Pan-Hispanic Creole" 2.5. "There Will Turn Out to Be Spanish Creoles" 2.6. Accommodating the Theory to the Data: Societes d'Habitations versus Plantations 2.7. The Spanish as Kinder, Gentler Colonizers 2.8. "Nothing Is at Issue": The "Case-by-Case" Argument 2.9. Conclusion 3. The Atlantic English-Based Creoles: Sisters Under the Skin 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Methodology 3.3. The Features 3.4. A Closer Look 3.5. Implications 3.6. Sociohistorical Evidence 3.7. Summary 4. The Creationist at a Cocktail Party: Afrogenesis and the Atlantic English-Based Creoles 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Dating the Emergence of Sranan 4.3. A Theoretical Anomaly 4.4. Barbados? 4.5. West African Trade Settlements 4.6. The Cormantin Castle 4.7. Linguistic Evidence for the Cormantin Scenario 4.8. Preserving the Paradigm 4.9. Hancock's Domestic Hypothesis 4.10. Conclusion 5. Off the Plantation for Good: The French-Based Creoles 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Linguistic Data 5.3. Sociohistorical Evidence 5.5. Exploring Other Perspectives 5.6. The Portuguese Creoles 5.7. The Dutch Question 5.8. Conclusion 6. Synthesis 6.1. Geocentrism and Creole Studies 6.2. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Fundamental Outline 6.3. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Elaboration 6.4. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Problems Become Predictions 6.5. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Changing the Lens 6.6. The Case-by-Case Argument 6.7. The Reality of the Paradigm 7. Conclusion 7.1. The Middle Ground 7.2. The Domain of the Afrogenesis Hypothesis 7.3. Standards of Evaluation 7.4. Curtain References Index
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University of California Press Language between God and the Poets
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. In the Arabic eleventh-century, scholars were intensely preoccupied with the way that language generated truth and beauty. Their work in poetics, logic, theology, and lexicography defined the intellectual space between God and the poets. In Language Between God and the Poets, Alexander Key argues that ar-Raghib al-Isfahani, Ibn Furak, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani shared a conceptual vocabulary based on the wordsmana and haqiqah. They used this vocabulary to build theories of language, mind, and reality that answered perennial questions: how to structure language and reference, how to describe God, how to construct logical arguments, and how to explain poetic affect.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation Practice, Transliterations, and Footnotes Opening Statement 1. Contexts The Eleventh Century The Four Scholars Ar-Ragib Ibn Furak Ibn Sina Al-G?urg?ani The Madrasa 2. Precedents In Translation from Greek In Book Titles In the Arabic Dictionary In the Opening Sentence of the First Arabic Book In a Work of Lexical Theory Adherents of laf ?, Adherents of ma?na, and the Pursuit of ?aqiqah Literary Criticism Politics and Society Linguistics Theology Theologians (Mu?ammar) 3. Translation Language Use (Wittgenstein) Core Conceptual Vocabulary (Kuhn) Ma?na1, ma?na2, ma?na3, ma?na4 Two Distinct Lexemes Four General Headings Intrinsic Causal Determinants Entities and Entitative Attributes Divergent Concepts A Grid of Principles and Contexts Laf ?1–3 and ma?na1–3 Meaning The Distraction of the Sign (Saussure) Homonymy or Polysemy? Folk Theory or Technical Terminology? 4. The Lexicon Principles (al-u?ul) Intent Name, Named, and Naming (ism, musamma, tasmiyah) Accuracy and Beyond (?aqiqah and mag?az) 5. Theology Framing Theology Islamic Theology (?ilm al-kalam) Relativism? Words or Things Theologies Directed at the World Language in ?Abd al-G?abbar Atoms, Bodies, and Accidents with Ibn Furak The World Connected to God God’s ma?ani Acquisition (kasb) God’s Speech God’s Names Speech in the Soul (kalam nafsi) Human Accuracy Objective Truth Accurate Language about the World Accurate Accounts of Literature and Physics Knowledge Is Everything Everything Is Knowledge 6. Logic Ibn Sina between Greece and the West Greece in the Arabic Eleventh Century The Arabic Eleventh Century and the West Translation in Three Directions (Greek, Latin, and Persian) Mental Contents in Ibn Sina’s Conceptual Vocabulary Mathematical Origins Three Existences (triplex status naturae) Marks on the Soul (al-at_ar allati fi an-nafs) The Lexicon Intent Ibn Sina’s Mental Contents in Action Being Is Said in Many Ways and pros hen Attributes (?ifat) Logical Assent (ta?diq) First and Second Position (prima et secunda positio) Aristotelian Philosophy Done with Arabic Conceptual Vocabulary 7. Poetics What Is Good ma?na? Self-Consciously Theoretical Answers in Monographs Poetics from Axes to Zones (aq?ab and aq?ar) Syntax Time Lexical Accuracy (?aqiqah) Syntax (na?m) Logic and Grammar The Grammar of Metaphor and Comparison (isti?arah vs. tas?bih) Essence 8. Conclusion References Index
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University of California Press How Spanish Grew
Book SynopsisThis book traces the evolution of the Spanish language from pre-Roman days to the present and stresses the influence of social and political events on its development.After a short discussion of the Indo-European tongues, Spaulding reviews the effects on Spanish of the languages of the pre-Roiman invaders, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes, and the Arabs. The later development of Spanish is divided into four periods: Old Spanish (to 1500), Spanish Ascendancy (1500 - 1700), French Prestige (1700 - 1808), and Modern Spanish (1808 - ). Within this framework, the author discusses the evolution of sounds, forms, constructions, style, vocabulary, and orthography. The final chapter deals also with modern slang, popular Spanish, and the various Spanish dialects, including Leonese, Aragonese, and Andalusian.The book has interest and value for anyone interested in language, teachers (both high school and college), and students. Its organization makes it usable in any course dealing with the Spanish language historically, or even by student of Spanish literature of history who wan tot consider the state of the language at a given period.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1943.
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University of California Press The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
Book SynopsisThis title combines archaeology and linguistics to explore Africa's early history, especially where written records are scarce or absent. By pairing the physical evidence of past societies with insights from language evolution, the book reveals a fuller picture of Africa's cultural and historical development. Archaeology provides tangible data on material culture and timelines, while linguistics offers clues about past social structures, beliefs, and migrations through language relationships. Together, these fields offer complementary perspectives on Africa's past, allowing scholars to reconstruct societal links and movements across time and space. The book's contributors, experts in archaeology and linguistics, present case studies from four major regions: Nubia and northern Sudan, equatorial Africa, eastern Africa, and Ghana. Each section begins with a regional overview that synthesizes existing archaeological and linguistic findings, framing the case studies within broader histor
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University of California Press Language Nation Race
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a national language (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the nation, for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Search for the Perfect Language
Book SynopsisThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia.Trade Review"This is as much a history of the study of language and its origins as it is a tour de force pursuit using scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, thus providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European history." The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From Adam to Confusio Linguarum. . Genesis 2, 10, 11. Before and After Europe. Side-effects. A Semiotic Model for Natural Language. 2. The Kabbalistic Pansemioticism. . The Reading of the Torah. Cosmic Permutability and the Kabbala of Names. The Mother Tongue. 3. The Perfect Language of Dante. Latin and the Vernacular. Language and Lingusitic Behavior. The First Gift to Adam. Dante and Universal Grammar. The Illustrious Vernacular. Dante and Abulafia. 4. The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull. . The Elements of the Ars Combinatoria. . The Alphabet and the Four Figures. The Arbor Scientarium. The Concordia Universalis of Nicholas of Cusa. 5. The Monogenetic Hypothesis and the Mother Tongues. . The Return to Hebrew. Postel's Universalistic Utopia. The Etymological Furor. Conventionalism, Epicureanism and Polygenesis. The Pre-Hebraic Language. The Nationalistic Hypotheses. Philosophers against Monogeneticism. A Dream that refused to Die. New Prospects for the Monogenetic Hypothesis. 6. Kabbalism and Lullism in Modern Culture. Magic Names and Kabbalistic Hebrew. Kabbalism and Lullism in the Steganographies. Lullian Kabbalism. Bruno: Ars Combinatoria and Infinite Worlds. Infinite Songs and Locutions. 7. The Perfect Language of Images. Horapollo's Hieroglyphica. The Egyptian Alphabet. Kircher's Egyptology. Kircher's Chinese. The Kircherian Ideology. Later Critics. The Egyptian vs. the Chinese Way. Images for Aliens. 8. Magic Language. Hypotheses. Dee's Magic Language. Perfection and Secrecy. 9. Polygraphies. Kircher's Polygraphy. Beck and Becher. First Attempts at a Content Organizations. 10. A Priori Philosophical Languages. . Bacon. Comenius. Descarted and Mersenne. The English Debate on Character and Traits. Primitives and Organization Content. 11. George Dalgarno. 12. John Wilkins. . The Tables and the Grammar. The Real Characters. The Dictionary: Synonyms, Periphrases, Metaphors. An Open Classification?. The Limits of Classification. The Hypertext of Wilkins. 13. Francis Lodwick. . 14. From Liebniz to the Encyclopédie. Characteristica and Calculus. The Problem of the Primitives. The Encyclopedia and the Aphabet of Thought. Blind Thought. The I Ching and the Binary Calculus. Side-effects. The 'Library' of Liebnitz and the Encyclopédie. 15. Philosophic Language from the Enlightenment to Today. . Eighteenth-century Projects. The Last Flowering of Philosophic Languages. Space Languages. Artificial Intelligence. Some Ghosts of the Perfect Language. 16. The Internatonal Auxiliary Languages. The Mixed Systems. The Babel of A Posteriori Languages. Esperanto. An Optimized Grammar. Theoretical Objections and Counter-objections. The 'Political' Possibilitites of an IAL. Limits and Effability of an IAL. Conclusion. Translation. The Gift to Adam. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ramesside Inscriptions Addenda
Book SynopsisA useful companion to the seventh volume of K. A. Kitchen's seminal Ramesside Inscriptions Ramesside Inscriptions: Translated and Annotated Notes and Comments, Volume VII complements the seventh volume of Kitchen's seminal hieroglyphic texts (KRI VII) and its companion volume of translations (KRITA VII) that cover the period between Ramesses I and Ramesses XI. This newly published reference work contains the supplementary inscriptions which were not included in the original publication (vols. I-VI), as well as improved readings in KRI VII that reflect a better understanding of the ancient sources. Following a practical and efficient format, each text is presented in its historical context and includes a list of principal references, succinct introductory notes, and comments on specific points of historical, biographical, and philological interest. Provides detailed notes and comments on the wide range of inscriptions in Kitchen's Ramesside Inscriptions, Volume VII and Translations, Volume VIIFeatures new readings based on current scholarship, such as the detailed accounts of mining expeditions during the first years of the reign of Ramesses VIIContains inscriptions relating to members of the Ramesside royal family, as well as civil, military, and ecclesiastical administrators. Includes discussions of graffiti, funerary monuments, and personal documents from the royal workmen's village of Deir el-MedinaA unique source of knowledge for understanding Ancient Egypt, Ramesside Inscriptions: Translated and Annotated Notes and Comments, Volume VII, is a must-have for academic scholars and advanced students of Egyptology.Table of ContentsAbbreviations xxxi Preface xli Ramesses I Sethos I Ramesses II Merenptah Setnakht Ramesses IV Ramesses V Ramesses VI Ramesses VII Ramesses VIII Ramesses IX Ramesses X Ramesses XI
£225.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Search for the Perfect Language
Book SynopsisThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence. Trade Review"This is as much a history of the study of language and its origins as it is a tour de force pursuit using scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, thus providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European history." The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From Adam to Confusio Linguarum. . Genesis 2, 10, 11. Before and After Europe. Side-effects. A Semiotic Model for Natural Language. 2. The Kabbalistic Pansemioticism. . The Reading of the Torah. Cosmic Permutability and the Kabbala of Names. The Mother Tongue. 3. The Perfect Language of Dante. Latin and the Vernacular. Language and Lingusitic Behavior. The First Gift to Adam. Dante and Universal Grammar. The Illustrious Vernacular. Dante and Abulafia. 4. The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull. . The Elements of the Ars Combinatoria. . The Alphabet and the Four Figures. The Arbor Scientarium. The Concordia Universalis of Nicholas of Cusa. 5. The Monogenetic Hypothesis and the Mother Tongues. . The Return to Hebrew. Postel's Universalistic Utopia. The Etymological Furor. Conventionalism, Epicureanism and Polygenesis. The Pre-Hebraic Language. The Nationalistic Hypotheses. Philosophers against Monogeneticism. A Dream that refused to Die. New Prospects for the Monogenetic Hypothesis. 6. Kabbalism and Lullism in Modern Culture. Magic Names and Kabbalistic Hebrew. Kabbalism and Lullism in the Steganographies. Lullian Kabbalism. Bruno: Ars Combinatoria and Infinite Worlds. Infinite Songs and Locutions. 7. The Perfect Language of Images. Horapollo's Hieroglyphica. The Egyptian Alphabet. Kircher's Egyptology. Kircher's Chinese. The Kircherian Ideology. Later Critics. The Egyptian vs. the Chinese Way. Images for Aliens. 8. Magic Language. Hypotheses. Dee's Magic Language. Perfection and Secrecy. 9. Polygraphies. Kircher's Polygraphy. Beck and Becher. First Attempts at a Content Organizations. 10. A Priori Philosophical Languages. . Bacon. Comenius. Descarted and Mersenne. The English Debate on Character and Traits. Primitives and Organization Content. 11. George Dalgarno. 12. John Wilkins. . The Tables and the Grammar. The Real Characters. The Dictionary: Synonyms, Periphrases, Metaphors. An Open Classification?. The Limits of Classification. The Hypertext of Wilkins. 13. Francis Lodwick. . 14. From Liebniz to the Encyclopédie. Characteristica and Calculus. The Problem of the Primitives. The Encyclopedia and the Aphabet of Thought. Blind Thought. The I Ching and the Binary Calculus. Side-effects. The 'Library' of Liebnitz and the Encyclopédie. 15. Philosophic Language from the Enlightenment to Today. . Eighteenth-century Projects. The Last Flowering of Philosophic Languages. Space Languages. Artificial Intelligence. Some Ghosts of the Perfect Language. 16. The Internatonal Auxiliary Languages. The Mixed Systems. The Babel of A Posteriori Languages. Esperanto. An Optimized Grammar. Theoretical Objections and Counter-objections. The 'Political' Possibilitites of an IAL. Limits and Effability of an IAL. Conclusion. Translation. The Gift to Adam. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£29.40
Harvard University Press Sincerity and Authenticity
Book SynopsisTrilling is concerned with the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life—and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity.Trade ReviewA beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly sustained… It is wide, fastidious, and deeply thoughtful in its range of reference…Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous, it is a tribute if ever there was one to the ‘honest consciousness.’ * Times Literary Supplement *Sincerity and Authenticity is not only about literature but is a literary performance itself. From page to page, Trilling expresses and articulates complex movements of thought and feeling through his modulated style, the dialectical structure and rhythm of his sentences and paragraphs. In this book, as in others, he writes to advance an argument and to resist and revise it—and, in the process, to trouble and complicate our responses as readers. -- William E. Cain * Society *Table of Contents1. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise 2. The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness 3. The Sentiment of Being and the Sentiments of Art 4. The Heroic, and Beautiful, and Authentic 5. Society and Authenticity 6. The Authentic Unconscious Reference Notes Index of Names
£23.36
Princeton University Press The Rise of Coptic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This short volume showcases an exemplary combination of papyrological accuracy, attention to detail, and an eye for the broader context. . . the book will become standard on the subject and indispensable for anyone interested in the history of late antique Egypt or multilingualism in the Roman world."---Ágnes T. Mihálykó, Plekos"The Rise of Coptic represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the position of Coptic during Late Antiquity."---Jennifer Cromwell, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
£40.50
Princeton University Press Émigrés
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Who needs ennui when we have old-fashioned boredom? . . . Scholar’s émigrés often manage to be posh and phoney at the same time, while still carrying a kind of precision it would be hard to find without them. . . . [In Émigrés] words have historical lives and tell us stories we may not know how to hear."---Michael Wood, London Review of Books"A well-researched, convincing account of how our language has welcomed foreign words—but not always their native speakers." * Kirkus Reviews *"Scholar . . . reflects thoughtfully and sometimes surprisingly on the use of French words in English. . . . Given the current interest in immigration, Scholar’s book on immigrant words is erudite, witty, and surprisingly timely." * Publishers Weekly *"Like the émigré lexical items themselves, Emigrés crackles with hidden energy and is worth serious study." * Choice *"The émigrés that Scholar highlights—à la mode, galanterie, naïveté, ennui, and caprice—don’t assimilate and, in this act of resistance, reveal new ways of being."---Meghan K. McGinley, AmeriQuests"This thoughtful summation of how much English owes to French, and other languages, has a certain je-ne-sais-quoi and cultural relevance."---David Caddy, Tears in the Fence"[A] lively and always entertaining book. . . . Although Professor Scholar clearly has a wealth of learning at his fingertips, enjoyment of Émigrés need not be limited to academic readers. The book will be readily understood by academic and non-specialist readers alike. . . . The habit of using émigré words is infectious: for his sang-froid, savoir faire, and bonhomie in guiding us on this voyage through the complexities of our national love-hate relationship with French—and the French—we are all indebted to Richard Scholar."---Annette Tomarken, H-France Review"The ‘émigrés’ of this engaging book . . . occupy an uneasy centre ground between donor and borrower language, being neither French nor fully integrated into English. This ambiguity, Richard Scholar argues, reflects a long-standing ambivalence in English cultural attitudes to things French, ranging from fascination to disdain. . . . The book takes us on an eclectic journey from Restoration comedy to Winnie-the-Pooh’s companion Eeyore, John Le Carré and the Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine."---David Hornsby, Modern Language Review"Émigrés . . . takes an approach informed by both French and English literature, and sets its findings in a cultural context which is wider still. This is pleasing, as the historical study of language perishes in a vacuum. . . . [A] humane and humanistic book."---Anthony Grant, French Studies"The dream of a primordial linguistic simplicity has a flip side: the fear of linguistic creolization followed by a loss of national identity. Richard Scholar’s book exorcises this atavistic fear."---Maria Neklyudova, Shagi / Steps."Fascinating and informative. His research is excellent, he writes clearly, and the book is full of charming and memorable detail . . . .[Scholar] has written a captivating book in an accessible style. It would be good if reading him became de rigueur among students of language and literature, but perhaps ça serait trop beau."---Alan Dent, Northern Review of Books
£15.19
John Wiley & Sons Dictionary of the EnglishCreole of Trinidad T
Book SynopsisComprises over 12,200 entries, including over 4500 for flora and fauna alone, with various cross-references. This dictionary includes definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymologies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations of usage.Trade Review" This dictionary is an admirably comprehensive study of the vocabulary of Trinidad and Tobago, recognizing the country's Creole as a linguistic variety in its own right, and celebrating its remarkable linguistic heritage. It authoritatively displays the multifarious language of everyday domestic and social life and documents the rich terminology of the country's plants and animals. A major feature is its coverage of the wide range of sources from which the country's words are derived. It is well worthy of a place among the established dictionaries of World English." -Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary "The appearance of the Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago is a landmark event in the public life of this Caribbean nation. It invites mature exploration of a fascinating culture and it will bring delight to all those who have tasted Caribbean experience. I expect it to become as well a major linguistic reference for future dictionaries of other Caribbean societies." -Lawrence D. Carrington, emeritus professor of Creole Linguistics, The University of the West IndiesTable of ContentsMaps; * Trinidad * Tobago Acknowledgements I Introduction 1 Purpose of This Dictionary; 2 Notes on Historical Language Background II How to Use This Dictionary 1 The Structure of an Entry; 2 Frequently Asked Questions; 3 Notes on Pronunciation; 4 Notes on Flora and Fauna Entries References Cited III Additions and Corrections Entries A-Z Indexes: A. Flora by Scientific Names; B. Fauna by Scientific Names
£108.80
University of British Columbia Press Making Wawa
Book SynopsisA two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of Indian and White societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa's sources lie first in the language of the Chinookans who lived along the lower Columbia River ...Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Orthography Introduction 1 The Nootka Jargon 2 Pidgin Chinook 3 Approximations at Astoria 4 The Hothouse of Fort Vancouver 5 Waves of Wawa Conclusion Appendix – Manuscript 195: A partially Annotated Early Glossary of Chinook Jargon Chronology Notes References Index
£31.50
Baker Publishing Group Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek
Book SynopsisIntroduces Greek students to the field of linguistics and shows how its findings can increase their understanding of the New Testament.
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