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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPart 5: Intonation Curves [1909] Part 6: Chindau Language [1911] Part 7: A Cantonese Phonetic Reader, with Kwing Tong Woo [1912] Part 8: A Sechuana Reader, with H. S. Perera [1916] Part 9: A Colloquial Sinhalese Reader [1919]

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPart 10: The Pronunciation of Russian, with M. V. Trofimov [1923]

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPart 11: Colloquial French, with E. M. Stephan [1927] Part 12: Lectures on French Part 13: Lectures on Italian Part 14: Lectures on Spanish

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPart 15: Transcripts of Articles (in Phonetic Transcription) in Le Maitr Phonetique Plus a Selection of Articles in Other Journals

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Book SynopsisSimon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, UK and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University, UK.

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Book SynopsisFrom the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints which, like any typo of any kind, should never have happened, cannot be excused, and must not in any way be glorified. Enjoy.You''ll travel back in time to meet great figures from history: Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship), Queen Victoria (who pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge), and Rambo (the famous French poet). You''ll find moral instruction (''Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the earth'') and pearls of wisdom (''love is just a passing fanny''). You''ll be outraged by politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles; entranced by lambs that gamble in the fields; concerned for a man who was admitted to hospital suffering from severe buns; and appalled to meet 11-year-old twins Helen and Ugh.Trade Review'Prefect. A grate book!' -- . * Mark Forsyth, author of THE ETYMOLOGICON *The typo: creator of angst and giggles. Best not read this in public, as you will laugh out loud. Or have the urge to nudge the stranger sitting next to you, just so you can tell them about that hilarious thing you just read. Like how Hitler had a ruthless gazpacho. Or how Rambo was a famous French poet. Or how... oh, just read the damn thing. -- . * Jen Campbell, author of WEIRD THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY IN BOOKSHOPS *This is one of the most abusing books around. Amusing. I meant amusing. With an M. Listen, someone had to do that joke, why not me? -- . * A J JACOBS, author of The Year of Living Biblically *Picked as one of the Guardian Books of the Year: 'You could put a gentle reminder in your card that "gift" has been used as a verb since the 16th century, and gift a book about language'. * Guardian *Hilarious! Don't read it through in one sitting, tempting as it might be to see what's over the page. You do reach a stage where it's difficult for onlookers to establish if you're convulsed with laughter or in need of medical assistance. * Bookbag *Delightful... as an 1864 edition of the Bible suggested, ''Rejoice and be exceedingly clad!'' * TLS *King of the stocking filler books this Christmas... Essentially it's the best most fun chunks of the internet that you're thrilled to see when you're hungover. * Alex Heminglsey, 60SecondReview *Hard to suppress the snorts of laughter when reading this jolly collection of spelling mistakes, sub-editing disasters and misprints. * The Lady *A Guardian Best Stocking-Filler Book 2012. * . *'Roundly entertaining... the pedant's stocking filler for 2012'. * Bookseller magazine humour picks *

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress this imbalance.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations from newly collected fieldwork material.

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress this imbalance.

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Book SynopsisAre the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and what is their relationship to legal normativity? This collection of 11 essays takes a diachronic approach to address these questions from the perspective of contemporary legal discourse.

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Book SynopsisA masterful metaphor, like a picture, may be worth a thousand words. By comparing two unlike objects or ideas, it illuminates the similarities between them, accomplishing in a word or phrase what could otherwise be expressed only in many words, if at all. Metaphors Dictionary is an expansive collection of 6,500 colorful classic and contemporary comparative phrases (with full annotations and a complete bibliography of sources). The Metaphors Dictionary revisits most of the great names in the annals of cultural literacy while dipping into current media too.Trade Review“The most comprehensive work of its kind. A valuable addition to reference works on words.” – Booklist “Rates a recommendation to lovers of language.” – William Safire, The New York Times “A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.” – Roy Blount metaphor, Page 47

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Book SynopsisHandwritten is a celebration of letter-writing in all its guises

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Book SynopsisThis volume consists of a selection of the papers given at a major conference, The Anatomy of Laughter/Traduire le Rire, held in September 2001. It focuses on the latter aspect of observations of the situations in which laughter is expressed, and stresses the acoustic features of laughter.Trade ReviewAn accessible and educative collection... provides much more than a visitation of standard methodologies, and it does much more than merely celebrate laughter as cognitive, linguistic, or aesthetic function. An indispensable collection for the serious humour scholar. -- Tarez Samra Graban Canadian Review of Comparative Literature December 2010, 428-31Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Anatomie et étymologie: Ordre et désordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert 2. The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations 3. Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? 4. Belly Laughs 5. Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Céline and Vallès 6. Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands 7. Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour 8. And What If They Don't Laugh? 9. Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable 10. Translating a Great Feast of Languages 11. Traduire le rire 12. Rire et désir dans les comédies américaines de Lubitsch: L’exemple de Ninotchka (1939) 13. What's So Funny? On Being Laughed At... 14. Laughing and Talking 15. Le Rire comme accident en peinture 16. La Couleur du rire: Peinture et traduction 17. Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter

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Book Synopsis"The Symbol Theory, volume 13 in "The Collected Works of Norbert Elias", situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival. Elias proceeds to recast the question of the ontological status of knowledge, moving beyond the old philosophical dualisms of idealism/materialism and subject/object. He readjusts the boundary between the 'social' and the 'natural' by interweaving evolutionary biology and the social sciences. "The Symbol Theory" provides nothing less than a new image of the human condition as an accidental outcome of the blind flux of an indifferent cosmos. Elias' Introduction now includes previously unpublished passages written in the days before he died.Table of ContentsNorbert Elias (1897-1990); Note on the text; Introduction; Towards a comprehensive understanding of human beings: reconfiguring sociology, evolutionary biology and philosophy; Languages as learned sound patterns and symbols as the 'fifth dimension'; 'Symbol emancipation' as an evolutionary breakthrough; The high survival value of communication by learned sound-symbols; To speak, to think, to know: the sociogenesis and psychogenesis of reality-congruent symbols; Human society as a level of nature: beyond idealism and materialism; From 'truth' to reality congruence: beyond traditional philosophical theories of knowledge; Concept-formation in the 'five-dimensional' human world: beyond abstraction explanations; The distant past and the long future: reality-congruent knowledge and human survival; Appendix: Previously unpublished passages in Elias's Introduction; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDer Band untersucht den Einfluss der Beherrschung von mehr als zwei Sprachen auf den kognitiven Sprachverarbeitungsprozess eines Sprechers. Ausgangspunkt sind zwei Gruppen mehrsprachiger Personen mit unterschiedlichem Sprachhintergrund, die einen Kiswahili-Text ins Deutsche übersetzen sollen. Es zeigt sich, dass auch andere bekannte Sprachen, die nicht in der Aufgabenstellung vorkamen, eine wichtige Rolle bei der Bewältigung der Aufgabe spielen. Der Sprachgebrauch, die Situiertheit und die Art und Weise des Erwerbs des Deutschen sind entscheidende Faktoren sie beeinflussen sowohl den Sprachverarbeitungsprozess als auch das Endprodukt.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a bold and expressively designed treasure trove of information about the history of swearing. With its bold and expressive design, The F***ing History of Swearing is an outstanding visual feast. Swearing is and always has been regarded as undereducated, obscene, rude and profane in society. Yet despite your mum’s best efforts, cussing is mainstream. It’s even more than that, it’s an integrated part of our culture. The number of times we swear is huge. Most often it occurs naturally and you would have to force yourself not to swear. We don’t think twice about shouting the word ‘FUCK’ if we hurt ourselves or miss the bus in the morning. It just happens automatically and that’s where it gets interesting.

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Book SynopsisLatin continued to be used across Europe long after the end of the Roman Empire. This collection considers key issues arising from the use of Latin in Britain from the 6th to the 16th centuries. Latin in this period was not the native language of its users but was nevertheless used extensively for a wide variety of functions from religion, literature, and philosophy to record-keeping and correspondence. It existed alongside a number of everyday native spoken languages, including English, French, and Welsh. The chapters in this collection consider Latin with regard to the various contexts in which it was used, looking beyond narrow comparisons with its Roman ancestor to see what medieval users did with Latin and the changing effects this had on the language. The fifteen chapters by expert contributors are divided into three parts. The chapters of the first part consider important examples of Latin usage in Britain during four successive periods, the pre-Conquest period, the 12th centuryTrade ReviewThe collection is diverse, and the wide range both of topics and of scholarly approaches provides ample testimony not only to the richness and complexity of the Latin tradition in Britain but also to the impressive achievement of the dictionary's editors and contributors, faced with such a daunting quantity and range of material. * Pádraic Moran, Speculum *this volume excellently demonstrates the breadth and value of the corpus of Medieval Latin from Britain. Individual contributions on the whole are exemplary and will be of great use to a wide readership, while the editorial standards of the volume are high. Although not exhaustive in its reach, this collection is a fine tribute both to the DMLBS and Medieval Latin studies more generally. * Robert Gallagher, The Medieval Review *Table of ContentsPART I; PART II; PART III

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Book SynopsisTurns cliches back into history by telling the life stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle cries, rallying points, laments, and inspirations. This title features famous slogans and catchphrases that give voice to our common history even as we argue about where it should lead us.Trade Review"As Van Meter argues, these are important 'memory devices for a larger story.'... The author has thoroughly researched all the catchphrases.... This book would make delightful in-flight reading or a nice gift for a trivia buff. Recommended." - Choice "As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past... should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!" - Mo Rocca, author of All the Presidents' Pets"

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Book SynopsisTimely in its focus on educational policies in multiethnic societies, Otso Kortekangas examines how educational policies affected the Sámi people residing in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The book provides essential information on the relationship between large-scale government policies and indigenous peoples.Trade Review“[This book] grapples with conditions across the board in three neighbouring countries, allowing for useful comparative perspectives on their response to difference in education. Well written and easy to digest, the book combines a big-picture account with an in-depth engagement with the positions taken by Sámi teachers, who often inhabited the roles of debaters and activists. [It] will be valuable for the historical understanding of the dynamics that have impacted the peoples indigenous to the Nordic north and beyond.” *University of Toronto Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisLost and Found Voices explores how four gay writers – Gombrowicz, Pereleshin, Taïa, and Mogutin – use language and exilic realities to voice their identities. Tracing their expressions of desire in language, culture, and community, Beaudoin offers a contextual queer reading that navigates the artists’ self-portrayals.Trade Review“Cogent and convincing, Lost and Found Voices juxtaposes the lives and writings of four queer émigré authors, working in different times, places, and languages, to allow transnational commonalities to emerge. Weaving his own personal experiences into the analysis, Beaudoin’s approach is bold and compelling.” Brian James Baer, Kent State University and author of Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire“An insightful study that is strengthened by the author’s personal reflections... . The volume proves particularly timely in today’s political moment, when a new wave of LGBTQ+ refugees are fleeing a Russia that has redoubled its anti-gay stance." Modern Language Review

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Book SynopsisA masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem.Trade Review"A personal, selective, and impassioned journey through the history of English."-Times Higher Education Supplement"An invigorating read for the mind and the mouth."-Bloomsbury Review"Lerer not only navigates the shifting currents and boiling rapids of English, but also explores its secret coves."-Advocate"[A] remarkable linguistic investigation."-Booklist"Written with real authority, enthusiasm, and love for our unruly and exquisite language."-Washington Post"The book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be."-Publishers Weekly"Erudite and accessible."-Globe & Mail"An unusual linguistic and literary feast."-Michigan Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsA Note on Texts and Letter Forms Preface to the Revised Edition Introduction: Finding English, Finding Us 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing: Old English and the Origins of Poetry 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan: The Language of Old English Literature 3. In This Year: The Politics of Language and the End of Old English 4. From Kingdom to Realm: Middle English in a French World 5. Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English 6. I Is as Ille as a Millere Are Ye: Middle English Dialects 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose 9. I Do, I Will: Shakespeare's English 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild: New Words and Worlds in Early Modern English 11. Visible Speech: The Orthoepists and the Origins of Standard English 12. A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English 14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English 15. Hello, Dude: Mark Twain and the Making of the American Idiom 16. Ready for the Funk: African American English and Its Impact 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest: The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Readers 18. Listening to Private Ryan: War and Language 19. He Speaks in Your Voice: Everybody's English 20. Faith in English: Vernacular Devotion and Biblical Translation Epilogue: The Talk and the Text Appendix: English Sounds and Their Representation Glossary References and Further Reading Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition Index

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Book SynopsisChristina Yi investigates linguistic nationalism in the formation of literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories.Trade ReviewColonizing Language adds an important and most readable, yet sophisticated discussion to the growing body of colonial and postcolonial studies, and particularly to that in the field of Korean literature of this period. * Pacific Affairs *Christina Yi’s fascinating book narrates the prehistory of the popular Japanese-language literary works written by ethnically Korean writers today. Yi’s careful readings show how the linguistic dilemmas faced by Japan’s colonial subjects became an inheritance that could not be simply returned despite the collapse of empire. A must-read for anyone interested in questions of postcolonialism and language. -- Janet Poole, University of TorontoChristina Yi’s Colonizing Language provides a wide-ranging overview of the emergence and development of Japanese-language writings by Korean writers from the colonial through postcolonial periods. Based on meticulous archival research of Korean, Japanese, and English-language sources, and effectively weaving together historical analysis with close literary readings, it promises to be an authoritative text in the field. -- Sejii Lippit, University of California, Los AngelesBy probing into Japanese-language cultural productions by ethnic Koreans and diasporic Japanese across the 1945 divide, Colonizing Language reveals and deconstructs the multiple borders that have become naturalized and interiorized in the formation of national language and national literary canons in both Japan and Korea. The book is essential to our rethinking of ‘Japanese’ and ‘Korean’ languages and literatures, and its theoretical sophistication deserves an even wider appeal and application outside of East Asian studies. -- Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California, San DiegoYi’s nuanced analysis of primary texts proves her prowess as a literary scholar. She expertly unearths traces of the colonial past lurking in literary texts to question the dominant idea of ‘national language’ in Japan and South Korea, which is indispensable to the equally dominant idea of the homogeneous ethnic nation in the two countries. -- Serk-Bae Suh, University of California, IrvineInsightful and elegant. Her book can be recommended to all students of social studies, sociolinguistics, the history of thought, and of course literary studies. * Japan Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Names, Terminology, and TranslationsIntroduction1. National Language Ideology in the Age of Empire2. “Let Me In!”: Imperialization in Metropolitan Japan3. Envisioning a Literature of the Imperial Nation4. Coming to Terms with the Terms of the Past5. Colonial Legacies and the Divided “I” in Occupation-Period Japan6. Collaboration, Wartime Responsibility, and Colonial MemoryEpilogueAppendix: Korean Authors and Literary CriticsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts. On one hand, forces like changing technology and evolving reader expectations lead to the development of specific editorial products, while on the other hand, they threaten traditional forms of knowledge and methods of textual scholarship. Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, Digital Critical Editions ranges from philology in ancient Alexandria to the vision of user-supported online critical editing, from peer-directed texts distributed to a few to community-edited products shaped by the many. The authors discuss the production and accessibility of documents, the emergence of tools used in scholarly work, new editing regimes, and how the readers'' expectations evolve as they navigate digital texts. The goal: exTrade Review"This is the first collection I have seen to address such a range of questions surrounding editing in the digital age, with a well-focused approach on key issues and offering a strong theoretical and historical background."--Peter Robinson, editor of Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM"Recommended."--Choice "An exciting and poignant contribution to the field of textual editing. . . .Digital Critical Editions represents the most comprehensive volume yet on this topic and one that every scholar and interested citizen should be proud to display on their bookshelf."--Digital Scholarship in the Humanities"Digital Critical Editions offers a wonderful introduction to an important aspect not only publishing but also of understanding the media involved in a process that so many take for granted-- reading."--Communication Research Trends"This collection melds theory with contemporary practice. Moreover, its use of theory is wide-ranging and current, providing a much-needed counterpoint to more technically focused scholarship."--Susan Schreibman, editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies and A Companion to Digital Humanities

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