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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Zizek Reader
Book SynopsisZizek's work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. This title includes a Preface by Zizek and an essay on cyberspace. It includes Culture, Woman and Philosophy.Trade Review"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades." Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford "The Zizek Reader is an excellent introduction to his thinking and contains the first systematic criticism of his work, in editorial introductions to each essay. In his own preface, Zizek makes his gambit explicit by his categorical rejection of the 'hegemonic trends' of today's academia." The IndependentTable of ContentsPreface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Part I: Culture 9 1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment: How popular culture can serve as an Introduction to Lacan 11 2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity 37 3. The Spectre of Ideology 53 4. Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach 87 5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?102 Part II: Woman 125 6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist' 127 7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing 148 8. There is No Sexual Relationship 174 9. Death and the Maiden 206 Part III: Philosophy 223 10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology 225 11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces 251 12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You 268 13. Kant with (or against) Sade 283 14. Of Cells and Selves 302 Slavoj iek: Bibliography of Worlds in English 321 Index 323
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems
Book Synopsis* The first comprehensive reference work on writing systems and the study of writing* Describes more than 400 writing systems past and present* Includes over 500 illustrations, many never previously published* An essential reference for scholars throughout the Humanities and Social Sciences. .Trade Review"Florian Coulmas provides a coherent and sophisticated interpretation of the forms and functions of written language. And he shows how important the development of writing systems has been in the development of linguistic description." Michael Stubbs, University of Trier "This book offers a thorough modern coverage of the writing systems of the world. I believe that it will quickly become a standard reference work in its field." Henry Rogers, University of Toronto "What makes this encyclopedia a great whole is the synthesis of all the little fascinating things about writing systems, scripts, and orthographies, which Coulmas differentiates in clear conceptual terms...The reviewer recommends it to the specialist and the layman enthusiastically and with no reservations whatsoever." P.G. Patel, University of Ottawa " A good work of this kind is an indispensible reference tool for the student or scholar of writing systems...C's encyclopedia does an excellent job of presenting hundreds of terms used in the analysis of writing systems...It does so... in prose of clarity that makes each entry a pleasure to read." Janet S. Smith, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsList of Figures vi List of Tables xvi Preface xxv Acknowledgements xxvii List of Abbreviations and Notational Conventions xxviii A-Z entries 1-577 Bibliography 578
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd TwentiethCentury British and Irish Poetry
Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century.Trade Review“The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals.” (Cercles, 2012) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma 11 Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen Thomas Hardy 11 Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism 17 Peter Howarth Edward Thomas 30 Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas 33 Andrew Motion Wilfred Owen 37 Extract from Poetry of Mourning 41 Jahan Ramazani 2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart 57 W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence W. B. Yeats 57 Extract from Our Secret Discipline 63 Helen Vendler T. S. Eliot 71 Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices 77 Calvin Bedient D. H. Lawrence 83 Extract from ‘Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers’ 87 Tom Paulin 3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires 94 W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender W. H. Auden 94 Extract from ‘The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden’ 98 Michael O’Neill Louis MacNeice 108 Extract from Louis MacNeice 112 Peter McDonald Stephen Spender 120 Extracts from The Ironic Harvest 123 Geoffrey Thurley 4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric 129 Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas Keith Douglas 130 Extract from ‘I in Another Place’ 133 Geoffrey Hill Dylan Thomas 141 Extract from The Romantic Survival 144 John Bayley 5 Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night 149 Philip Larkin and the Movement Philip Larkin 149 Extract from Out of Reach 154 Andrew Swarbrick The Movement 162 Extract from The Movement 166 Blake Morrison 6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth 178 Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes 179 Extract from ‘Ted Hughes: The Double Voice’ 182 Margaret Dickie Sylvia Plath 187 Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning 191 Christina Britzolakis Geoffrey Hill 200 Extract from ‘History to the Defeated’ 203 Alan Robinson 7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices 214 Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting 214 Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence 218 M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall Stevie Smith 230 Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry 232 Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle Tony Harrison 234 Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison 237 Luke Spencer 8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition 245 Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon Seamus Heaney 245 Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 250 Neil Corcoran Derek Mahon 259 Extract from Poetry in the Wars 263 Edna Longley Afterword 267 Recommended Reading 272 Index 290
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postmodernism
Book SynopsisFeaturing summaries of postmodernism''s greatest literary, cultural, and political champions written by a diverse group of scholars, Postmodernism: The Key Figures captures the dominance of a theoretical paradigm that has done nothing less than re-define the very terms of our knowledge and experience. Features summaries of postmodernism''s key figures, written by a diverse group of scholars. Highlights over fifty of postmodernism''s greatest literary, cultural and political champions. Includes an extensive bibliography of resources in postmodernism. Trade Review"The word 'postmodern' resists precise definition, and a definitive survey of postmodernism would be a contradiction in terms. But this book does the next best thing, giving lucid and comprehensive summaries of the work of a broad range of postmodern artists and thinkers."Steven Shaviro, University of Washington Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli. 1. Peter Ackroyd. Susana Onega. 2. Louis Althusser. Richard D. Wolff. 3. John Ashbery. Steven Monte. 4. Paul Auster. Madeleine Sorapure. 5. Mikhail Bakhtin. Galin Tihanov. 6. John Barth. Theo D'haen. 7. Roland Barthes. David Herman. 8. Georges Bataille. Jean-François Fourny. 9. Jean Baudrillard. Douglas Kellner. 10. Jorge Luis Borges. Evelyn Fishburn. 11. John Cage. Nancy Perloff. 12. Italo Calvino. Rocco Capozzi. 13. Angela Carter. Joanne Gass. 14. Ping Chong. Philip Auslander. 15. Ethan and Joel Cohen. Joseph Natoli. 16. Robert Coover. Robert L. McLaughlin. 17. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Ronald Bogue. 18. Don DeLillo. Christopher Douglas. 19. Jacques Derrida. Hugh J. Silverman. 20. Marguerite Duras. Martine Antle. 21. Umberto Eco. Peter Bondanella. 22. Frantz Fanon. Robert Bernasconi. 23. Michel Foucault. Karlis Racevskis. 24. John Fowles. Susana Onega. 25. Carlos Fuentes. Sheldon Penn. 26. William H. Gass. Thomas B. Hove. 27. John Hawkes. Roy Flannagan. 28. Antonio Gramsci. Marcia Landy. 29. Jenny Holzer. Paula Geyh. 30. Fredric Jameson. Sean Homer. 31. Charles Jencks. Hans Bertens. 32. Barbara Kruger. Paula Geyh. 33. Thomas Kuhn. Arkady Plotnitsky. 34. Jacques Lacan. James A. Steintrager. 35. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Philip Goldstein. 36. Robert Lepage. Jennifer Harvie. 37. Emmanuel Levinas. Peter Atterton. 38. Jean-Francois Lyotard. Hans Bertens. 39. David Lynch. Joseph Natoli. 40. Trinh T. Minh-ha. E. Ann Kaplan. 41. Toni Morrison. Thomas B. Hove. 42. Thomas Pynchon. Dominic Pettman. 43. Robert Rauschenberg. John G. Hatch. 44. Ishmael Reed. David G. Nicholls. 45. Richard Rorty. Frans Ruiter. 46. Salman Rushdie. Eyal Amiran. 47. Cindy Sherman. John G. Hatch. 48. Graham Swift. Wendy Wheeler. 49. Gianni Vattimo. Nicoletta Pireddu. 50. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Jim Collins. 51. Kurt Vonnegut. Todd F. Davis. 52. Hayden White. Ewa Domanska. 53. The Wooster Group. Greg Giesekam. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Idea of Culture
Book SynopsisFocuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern 'culturalism', arguing instead for a more complex relation between Culture and Nature, and trying to retrieve the importance of such concepts as human nature from a non-naturalistic perspective.Trade Review"In this brief volume, Eagleton has produced both a thoughtful analysis of cultural theories as well as a shrewd, liberal dissection of current social and political trends."Publishers Weekly "Eagleton's latest book promises to be an important addition to the field of cultural studies." Library Journal "A magnificent reassertion of timeless cultural values." The Observer "A voice of sanity amid the roar of turbo-capitalism."Independent> "As always, Eagleton shows a provocative wealth of learning. He is able to see the many sides of a problem, to put it in context and suggest new ways of viewing it, a healthy corrective to the soundbite society."Times Higher Education Supplement "Stimulating and very readable. The Idea of Culture is a book which challenges our attention."The Irish TimesTable of Contents1. Versions of Culture. 2. Culture in Crisis. 3. Culture Wars. 4. Culture and Nature. 5. Towards a Common Culture. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd RADICAL AESTHETIC
Book SynopsisProvides a severe critique of the contemporary anti-aesthetic movement. Points to the democratic and radical potential of the aesthetic. Forges an alternative aesthetic discourse. Draws upon a wide range of theorists and philosophers, and uses a variety of literary and artistic examples to reinforce the argument.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Case for Rethinking the Category of the Aesthetic. Part I: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the 'Problem' of the Aesthetic:. 1. Cultural Materialism and Culturalism. 2. The Aesthetic and the Polis: Marxist Deconstruction. 3. Writing from the Broken Middle - Post Structuralist Deconstruction. Part II: The Poetics of Emotion:. 4. Textual Harassment: the ideology of close reading, or how close is close?. 5. Thinking Affect. Part III: Cultural Capital, Value and a Democratic Aesthetics:. 6. Beyond the Pricing Principle. 7. And Beauty? A Dialogue. Part IV: Feminism and Aesthetic Practice:. 8. Debating Feminisms. 9. Women's Space: Echo, Caesura, Echo. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Gothic
Book Synopsis* Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. * Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. * Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Trade Review"The overall result is wonderfully informative and suggestive for the beginning student, while offering some striking additional insights spread across the book for advanced students of Gothic who have yet to consider such contexts for it as postcolonialism, 'goth' subcultures and 'Hallucination and the Narcotic'." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This Book. Chronology. Introduction. Backgrounds and Contexts. Civilisation and the Goths. Gothic in the Eighteenth Century. Gothic and Romantic. Science, Industry and the Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Art and Architecture. Gothic and Decadence. Imperial Gothic. Gothic Postmodernism. Postcolonial Gothic. Goths and Gothic Subcultures. Gothic Film. Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Writers of Gothic. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82). Jane Austen (1775-1817). J. G. Ballard (1930-). Iain Banks (1954-). John Banville (1945-). Clive Barker (1952-). William Beckford (1760-1844). E. F. Benson (1867-1940). Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915). Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Ramsey Campbell (1946-). Angela Carter (1940-1992). Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Marie Corelli (1855-1924). Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825). Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). August Derleth (1909-1971). Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Lord Dunsany (1878-1957). Bret Easton Ellis (1964-). William Faulkner (1897-1962). Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). William Gibson (1948-). William Godwin (1756-1836). H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). James Herbert (1943-). William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). James Hogg (1770-1835). Washington Irving (1783-1859). G. P. R. James (1799-1860). Henry James (1843-1916). M. R. James (1862-1936). Stephen King (1947-). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Francis Lathom (1777-1832). J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Sophia Lee (1750-1824). Vernon Lee (1856-1935). M. G. Lewis (1775-1818). David Lindsay (1878-1945). H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). George MacDonald (1824-1905). Arthur Machen (1863-1947). James Macpherson (1736-1796). Richard Matheson (1926-). Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824). Herman Melville (1819-1891). Joyce Carol Oates (1938-). Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897). Mervyn Peake (1911-1968). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). John Polidori (1795-1821). Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823). Reeve, Clara (1729-1807). G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879). Anne Rice (1941-). Walter Scott (1771-1832). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Charlotte Smith (1740-1806). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Horace Walpole (1717-1797). H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Key Works. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). William Beckford, Vathek (1786). Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794). M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831). C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860). Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864). Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898). Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959). Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976). Stephen King, The Shining (1977). Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991). Themes and Topics. The Haunted Castle. The Monster. The Vampire. Persecution and Paranoia. Female Gothic. The Uncanny. The History of Abuse. Hallucination and the Narcotic. Guide to Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern
Book SynopsisThe book investigates the little studied syntax of the dialects of southern Italy. In addition to providing a descriptive account of a wide range of syntactic phenomena , the discussion shows how the model of language embodied in Chomsky''s (1995) Minimalist Program can be profitably extended to the study of the syntax of southern Italian dialects, focusing on such topics as Case-marking and finite, infinitival and participial complementation.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Case Marking. 2. Finite and Infinitival Complementation: Null Subjects and Control. 3. The Personal Infinitive. 4. Auxiliary Infinitival Constructions. 5. Auxiliary Selection. 6. Want-passives.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Morphology
Book Synopsis* Brings together articles by authors at the forefront of current morphology research. * Covers traditional issues as well as specific questions that have more recently become the focus of attention. * Explores the role of morphology in a wider perspective: language change, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.Trade Review"I'm enormously impressed by the scope and depth of The Handbook of Morphology. The coverage is broadly inclusive, without sacrificing depth in the discussion of individual issues. The range of topics covered shows us just how far the study of words, their forms and their structures has penetrated into the core of linguistics since the 1960s, when many thought there was no distinct content to morphology, and everything interesting was either syntax or phonology." Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University "Its range is outstanding. Every chapter provides new insights and challenges. I think that, like its companion volume, The Handbook of Phonological Theory, it is destined to become a standard reference in its field." Laurie Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington "The Handbook of Morphology, edited by two outstanding morphologists, will be much appreciated by the linguistic community at large. It will serve as a guide for graduate students in linguistics, and for all those researchers who need a reliable survey of current issues and insights in morphology ... Spencer and Zwicky should be thanked for having created such a fine research tool for Linguistics." Geert Booij, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam "This impressive volume is the first handbook of morphology. It's pioneering status is confirmed by an unprecedented range of topics, not to be found in any existing monograph in the domain of morphology ... I do not know any other book which offers such easy access to all the basics of modern morphology and to such a wide variety of topics." W.U. Dressler, University of Vienna "Strongly theoretic, the handbook is none the less pleasingly rich in carefully explored data, and fits in well with the other volumes in the series of Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics" Forum for Modern Language Skills, Vol 39, 2003Table of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Abbreviations. Introduction (Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky. Part I: The Phenomena. 1. Inflection (Gregory T. Stump). 2. Derivation (Robert Beard). 3. Compounding (Nigel Fabb). 4. Incorporation (Donna B. Gerdts). 5. Clitics (Aaron L. Halpern). 6. Morphophonological Operations (Andrew Spencer). 7. Phonological Constraints on Morphological Rules (Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy). Part II: Morphology and Grammar. 8. Morphology and Syntax (Hagit Borer). 9. Morphology and Agreement (Greville G. Corbett). 10. Morphology and Argument Structure (Louisa Sadler and Andrew Spencer). 11. Morphology and the Lexicon: Lexicalization and Productivity (Mark Aronoff and Frank Anshen). 12. Morphology and Lexical Semantics (Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav). 13. Morphology and Pragmatics (Ferenc Kiefer). Part III: Theoretical Issues. 14. Prosodic Morphology: (John J. McCarthy and Alan S. Prince). 15. Word Syntax (Jindrich Toman). 16. Paradigmatic Structure: Inflectional Paradigms and Morphological Classes (Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy). 17. Morphology as Component or Module: Mapping Principle Approaches (Richard Sproat). Part IV: Morphology in a Wider Setting. 18. Diachronic Morphology (Brian D. Joseph). 19. Morphology and Language Acquisition (Eve V. Clark). 20. Morphology and Aphasia (William Badecker and Alfonso Caramazza). 21. Morphology and Word Recognition (James M. McQueen and Anne Cutler). 22. Morphology in Language Production with Special Reference to Connectionism (Joseph Paul Stemberger). Part V: Morphological Sketches of Individual Languages. 23. Archi (Caucasian - Daghestanian (Aleksandr E. Kibrik). 24. Celtic (Indo-European) (James Fife and Gareth King). 25. Chichewa (Bantu) (Sam A. Mchombo). 26. Chukchee (Paleo-Siberian) (Irina A Muravyova). 27. Hua (Papuan) (John Haiman). 28. Malagasy (Austronesian) (Edward L. Keenan and Maria Polinsky). 29. Qafar (East Cushitic) (Richard J. Hayward). 30. Slave (Northern Athapaskan) (Keren Rice). 31. Wari (Amazonian) (Daniel L. Everett). 32. Warumungu (Australian - Pama - Nyungan) (Jane Simpson). References. Subject Index. Author Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Answer Key For Linguistics
Book Synopsisaeo Written by twelve linguists all internationally recognized as leaders in their fields of specialization. aeo Exercises and data--analysis problems within and at end of each chapter help students learn what it means to actually do linguistics. aeo Includes the latest developments in theoretical linguistics; for example, Optimality Theory.Trade Review"Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory is a very impressive achievement, lucidly and engagingly presenting the major areas of Chomskian theoretical linguistics. Readers who work their way through the comprehensive presentation and the abundant well-chosen exercises will attain a deep understanding of what Chomskian generative grammar is all about, and, even more, a feel for what it is to actually participate in the enterprise." Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut "This is by far the best introductory book and the one that I will use. It gives a real working knowledge of each area of linguistics and maintains a consistent level of intellectual challenge throughout. The exercises are excellent." Edwin Williams, Princeton University "This excellent and detailed introduction to the field of linguistics draws on an impressive range of languages. Any student that wants to find out about the scientific study of human language will profit immensely from this book." Richard Kayne, New York University "This textbook fills in all the gaps that are characteristic of other introductory texts in linguistics. Each section is written by a leading figure in a particular area of linguistic theory: morphology and syntax, semantics, and phonetics and phonology. It is impressive both in breadth and depth. Each section ends by considering how the particular principles that were described in that section emerge in the course of language development, thereby reinforcing the importance of linguistic theory for understanding young children's universal mastery of natural language." Stephen Crain, University of Maryland at College Park "This is an outstanding new introduction to contemporary linguistics, written by a team of the foremost scholars in the field. The orientation throughout is towards real, usually current, research questions. A very nice feature is the inclusion of chapters on language acquisition in connection with each subdiscipline of linguistics. I am sure this book will be the standard introductory textbook for some time to come." Ian Roberts, Universitat Stuttgart "This introductory textbook is unique in the extent and depth of the coverage it provides. Teachers and beginning students of linguistics and cognitive science should find it both helpful and inspiring" Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsSection I: Introduction:. 1. Linguistics: The Scientific Study Of Human Language. Section 2: Morphology And Syntax: . 2. Morphology: The Structure Of Words. 3. Syntax I: Argument Structure And Phrase Structure. 4. Syntax II: Syntactic Dependencies. 5. Syntax III: The Distribution Of Verbal Forms: A Case Study. 6. Acquisition Of Word And Sentence Structure. Section 3: Semantics: . 7. Semantics I: Compositionality. 8. Semantics II: Scope. 9. Semantics III: Cross Categorial Parallelisms. 10. Acquisition Of Meaning. Section 4: Phonetics And Phonology: . 11. Phonetics: The Sounds Of Language. 12. Phonology I: Basic Principles And Methods. 13. Phonology II: Representations. 14. Phonology III: Explanation And Constraints. 15. Acquisition Of Phonetics And Phonology. Bibliography. Glossary.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd FormFocused Instruction and Second Language
Book SynopsisHow does classroom language learning take place? How does an understanding of second language acquisition contribute to language teaching? In answering these questions, Rod Ellis reviews a wide range of research on classroom learning, developing a theory of instructed second language acquisition that has significant implications for language teaching. The early chapters of this book trace the attempts to explain classroom language learning in terms of general theory of learning (behaviorism) and the study of naturalistic language learning. The middle chapters document the attempts of researchers to enter the black box of the classroom in order to describe the teaching-learning behaviors that take place there and to investigate to what extent and in what ways instruction results in acquisition. The book concludes with a theory of classroom language learning. This theory advances an explanation of the relationship between explicit and implicit linguistic knowledgeTable of ContentsPart I-Introduction. 1. Investigating the Form-Focused Instruction: Rod Ellis. Part II - Experimental Studies. 2. Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion: An Experimental Study: Elaine M. Day and Stan M. Shapson. 3. The Differential Role of Comprehension and Production Practice: Robert M. DeKeyser and Karl J. Sokalski. 4. Attention, Awareness and Foreign Language Behavior: Ronald P. Leow. 5. Does Type of Instruction Make A Difference? Substantive Findings From a Meta-analytic Review: John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega. Part III - Interpretative Classroom Studies. 6. Another Piece of the Puzzle: The Emergence of the Present Perfect: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig. 7. Negotiation of Form, Recasts, and Explicit Correction in Relation to Error Types and Learner Repair in Immersion Classrooms: Roy Lyster. 8. Learner-Generated Attention to Form: Jessica Williams. 9. The Case of the Missing "No": The Relationship Between Pedagogy and Interaction: Paul Seedhouse. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language Bananas and Bonobos
Book SynopsisThis collection of humorous and accessible essays presents a series of engaging reflections on linguistic concerns, including: how people who are deaf and blind can communicate; what makes Woody Allen funny; the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees; and political correctness.Trade Review"These sketches by Neil Smith's deft and expert hands provide a wonderful sampling of many and diverse paths of inquiry inspired by and informing the study of language, the unexpected delights one encounters on the way, the surprising and thought-provoking insights, and the puzzles, paradoxes and mysteries that offer a persistent challenge to understanding of essential elements of human nature." Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Neil Smith has not only a profound knowledge of current developments in linguistics but also a talent for explaining the issues clearly and approachably." John Wells FBA, University College London "Smith is a thorough linguist with a sense of humor. Readers will find interesting linguistic ideas in small delicate amount enough to induce a linguistic quest for more revealing information. This book offers quick linguistic treats of fresh ideas and key findings in linguistics." Linguistische BerichteTable of ContentsPreface. Prelude:. 1. How to be the Center of the Universe. Part I: Problems:. 2. Tadoma. 3. Putting a Banana in Your Ear. 4. A Fragment of Genius. 5. Colourful Language. 6. The Structure of Noise. 7. Dissociations. Part II: Puzzles:. 8. Puzzle. 9. PC. 10. Acquired Whining. 11. Godshit. 12. The Golem. 13. $. Part III: Polemics:. 14. Bonobos. 15. Whales, Sunflowers and the Evolution of Language. 16. Jackdaws, Sex and Language Acquisition. 17. Does Chomsky Exist?. 18. Relentless Jollity, Inexorable Logic and the Nature of Mind. 19. Structural Eccentricities. 20. The Velarity of Linguists. Glossary. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisFeaturing the work of the six great Romantic Poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats - this concise collection illustrates the new way of thinking voiced by the Romantic poets in an age of rebellion and revolution.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. Part I: William Blake (1757-1827):. 1. Songs of Innocence:. Introduction. The Shepherd. The Echoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. The Blossom. The Chimney Sweeper. The Little Boy Lost. The Little Boy Found. Laughing Song. A Cradle Song. The Divine Image. Holy Thursday. Night. Spring. Nurse's Song. Infant Joy. A Dream. On Another's Sorrow. 2. Songs of Experience:. Introduction. Earth's Answer. The Clod and the Pebble. Holy Thursday. The Little Girl Lost. The Little Girl Found. The Chimney Sweeper. Nurse's Song. The Sick Rose. The Fly. The Angel. The Tyger. My Pretty Rose-Tree. Ah, Sunflower!. The Lily. The Garden of Love. The Little Vagabond. London. The Human Abstract. Infant Sorrow. A Poison Tree. A Little Boy Lost. A Little Girl Lost. To Tirzah. The Schoolboy. The Voice of the Ancient Bard. A Divine Image. Part II: William Wordsworth (1770-1850):. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey. The Two-Part Prelude (Part I only). Strange fits of passion I have known. Song (‘She dwelt among the 'untrodden ways'). A slumber did my spirit seal. Three years she grew in sun and shower. I travelled among unknown men. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802. Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. Daffodils. Stepping Westward. The Solitary Reaper. The River Duddon: Conclusion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Of the Fragment of ‘Kubla Khan'. Kubla Khan. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts. Frost at Midnight. Christabel (Part I and conclusion only). George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824). From Don Juan: Canto II (extracts). Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). To Wordsworth. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni. Ozymandias. The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester. Ode to the West Wind. England in 1819. Sonnet (‘Lift not the painted veil'). To a Skylark. John Keats (1795-1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Addressed to Haydon. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again. Sonnet (‘When I have fears that I may cease to be'). The Eve of St Agnes. La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad. Ode to Psyche. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Indolence. To Autumn. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art. Index of titles and first lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Poetry from 1660 to 1780
Book SynopsisThis concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age. Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789. Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities. Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period. Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction: Duncan Wu. 1. John Milton (1608-1674):. Paradise Lost. Book I. Book Ii. 2. John Dryden (1631-1700): Absalom And Achitophel:. A Poem To The Memory Of Mr Oldham. A Song For St Cecilia’s Day. 3. John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (1647-1680):. The Imperfect Enjoyment. A Satyr Against Reason And Mankind. The Disabled Debauchee. Lampoon [On The Women About Town]. Signior Dildo. A Satyr On Charles Ii. A Letter From Artemiza In The Town To Chloe In The Country. A Ramble In Saint James’s Park. Song (‘Fair Cloris In A Pigsty Lay’). A Song (‘Absent From Thee I Languish Still’). 4. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745):. A Description Of The Morning. A Description Of A City Shower. Strephon And Chloe. The Lady’s Dressing Room. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed. Cassinus And Peter. A Tragical Elegy. Verses On The Death Of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. 5. Alexander Pope (1688-1744):. Epistle To Miss Blount, With The Works Of Voiture. The Rape Of The Lock. Eloisa To Abelard. Elegy To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady. 6. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):. The Vanity Of Human Wishes. 7. Thomas Gray (1716-1771):. Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College. Sonnet [On The Death Of Mr Richard West]. Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat. Elegy Written In A Country Church-Yard. 8.William Collins (1721-1759):. Ode To Fear. Ode To Evening. 9. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774):. The Deserted Village, A Poem. Index Of Titles And First Lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Future of Theory
Book SynopsisAddresses anxieties about theory and claims that it still has a crucial role to play. This book sketches its genealogy, particularly its relation to surrealism, philosophy, and the hard sciences. It proposes that theory, like hysteria, consistently points out the inadequacies of official, serious and 'masterful' knowledge.Trade Review"As with other books in this publisher's series, the intent is to engage the general educated public in a discussion of meaningful concepts, and Rabate succeeds excellently. For all public and academic collections." Library Journal "This clearly written, well-documented study will serve graduate students, faculty and researchers." ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Geneaology 1: Hegel's Plague 21 2. Genealogy 2: The Avant-Garde at Theory's High Tide 47 3. Theory, Science, Technology 93 4. Theory not of Literature but as Literature 117 Conclusion 141 Notes 151 Index 164
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd English Words
Book SynopsisEnglish Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology covers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary introduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics Trade Review“A very special book that captures, at an introductory level, the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the history and structure of English.” Will Leben, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. IPA Transcription Key. 1. What is a word?. 1.1 Explaining word in words. 1.2 Language is a secret decoder ring. 1.3 Wordhood: the whole kit and caboodle. 1.4 Two kinds of words. 1.5 The anatomy of a listeme. 1.6 What don’t you have to learn when you’re learning a word?. 1.7 A scientific approach to language. 2. Sound and fury: English phonology. 2.1 English spelling and English pronunciation. 2.2 The voice box. 2.3 The building blocks of words I: Consonants in the IPA. 2.4 Building blocks II: Vowels and the IPA. 2.5 Families of sounds and Grimm’s law: a case in point. 3. Phonological words: Calling all Scrabble players!. 3.1 Guessing at words: The Scrabble problem. 3.2 Building Blocks III: The Syllable. 3.3 Phonotactic restrictions on English syllables. 3.4 From a stream of sound into words: Speech perception. 3.5 Syllables, rhythm, and stress. 3.6 Using stress to parse the speech stream into words. 3.7 Misparsing the speech stream, mondegreens and allophones. 3.8 Allophony. 3.9 What we know about phonological words. 4. Where do words come from?. 4.1 Getting new listemes. 4.2 When do we have a new word?. 4.3 New words by ‘mistake’: back-formations and folk etymologies. 4.4 New words by economizing: clippings. 4.5 Extreme economizing: acronyms and abbreviations. 4.6 Building new words by putting listemes together: affixation and compounding. 4.7 Compounding clips and mixing it up: Blends. 4.8 New listemes via meaning change. 4.9 But are these words really new?. 5. Pre- and suf-fix-es: Engl-ish Morph-o-log-y. 5.1 Listemes. 5.2 Making up words. 5.3 Affixal syntax: Who’s my neighbor?, Part I. 5.4 Affixal phonology: Who’s my neighbor? Part II. 5.5 Allomorphy. 5.6 Closed-class and open-class morphemes: Reprise. 6. Morphological idiosyncrasies. 6.1 Different listemes, same meaning! Irregular suffixes. 6.2 Root irregulars. 6.3 Linguistic paleontology: fossils of older forms. 6.4 Why some but not others?. 6.5 How do kids figure it out?. 6.6 Representing complex suffixal restrictions. 6.7 Keeping Irregulars: Semantic clues to morphological classes. 6.8 Irregulars III: Suppletion. 6.9 Keeping Irregulars: Producing words on the fly. 6.10 Productivity, blocking and Bushisms. 7. Lexical semantics: The structure of meaning, the meaning of structure. 7.1 Function meaning vs. Content meaning. 7.2 Entailment. 7.3 Function words and their meanings. 7.4 Content words and their meanings. 7.5 Relationships and Argument Structure: Meaning and grammar. 7.6 Argument Structure. 7.7 Derivational morphology and argument structure. 7.8 Subtleties of argument structure. 7.9 Function vs. content meanings: the showdown. 7.10 How do we learn all that?. 8. Children learning words. 8.1 How do children learn the meanings of words?. 8.2 Learning words for middle-sized observables. 8.3 When the basics fail. 8.4 Morphological and syntactic clues. 8.5 Learning words for non-observables. 8.6 Syntactic frames, theta roles and event structure. 8.7 Agent-Patient Protoroles. 8.8 Functional listemes interacting with content listemes. 8.9 Simple co-occurrence? Or actual composition?. 8.10 Yes, but where do the words come from in the first place?. 9. Accidents of history: English in flux. 9.1 Linguistic change, and lots of it. 9.2 Layers of vocabulary and accidents of history. 9.3 A brief history of England, as relevant to the English vocabulary. 9.4 55 B.C. to 600 A.D. : How the English came to England. 9.5 600-900 A.D. The English and the Vikings. 9.6 1066-1200: Norman Rule. 9.7 1200-1450: Anglicization of the Normans. 9.8 1450-1600 The English Renaissance. 9.9 1600 -1750: Restoration, Expansion. 9.10 1750-modern day. 9.11 The rise of prescriptivism: How to really speak good. 9.12 English orthography: The Roman alphabet, the quill pen, the printing press and the Great Vowel Shift. 9.13 Summary. List of Works Consulted. Glossary. Words Consulted. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd English Words
Book SynopsisEnglish Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology covers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary introduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics Trade Review“A very special book that captures, at an introductory level, the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the history and structure of English.” Will Leben, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. IPA Transcription Key. 1. What is a word?. 1.1 Explaining word in words. 1.2 Language is a secret decoder ring. 1.3 Wordhood: the whole kit and caboodle. 1.4 Two kinds of words. 1.5 The anatomy of a listeme. 1.6 What don’t you have to learn when you’re learning a word?. 1.7 A scientific approach to language. 2. Sound and fury: English phonology. 2.1 English spelling and English pronunciation. 2.2 The voice box. 2.3 The building blocks of words I: Consonants in the IPA. 2.4 Building blocks II: Vowels and the IPA. 2.5 Families of sounds and Grimm’s law: a case in point. 3. Phonological words: Calling all Scrabble players!. 3.1 Guessing at words: The Scrabble problem. 3.2 Building Blocks III: The Syllable. 3.3 Phonotactic restrictions on English syllables. 3.4 From a stream of sound into words: Speech perception. 3.5 Syllables, rhythm, and stress. 3.6 Using stress to parse the speech stream into words. 3.7 Misparsing the speech stream, mondegreens and allophones. 3.8 Allophony. 3.9 What we know about phonological words. 4. Where do words come from?. 4.1 Getting new listemes. 4.2 When do we have a new word?. 4.3 New words by ‘mistake’: back-formations and folk etymologies. 4.4 New words by economizing: clippings. 4.5 Extreme economizing: acronyms and abbreviations. 4.6 Building new words by putting listemes together: affixation and compounding. 4.7 Compounding clips and mixing it up: Blends. 4.8 New listemes via meaning change. 4.9 But are these words really new?. 5. Pre- and suf-fix-es: Engl-ish Morph-o-log-y. 5.1 Listemes. 5.2 Making up words. 5.3 Affixal syntax: Who’s my neighbor?, Part I. 5.4 Affixal phonology: Who’s my neighbor? Part II. 5.5 Allomorphy. 5.6 Closed-class and open-class morphemes: Reprise. 6. Morphological idiosyncrasies. 6.1 Different listemes, same meaning! Irregular suffixes. 6.2 Root irregulars. 6.3 Linguistic paleontology: fossils of older forms. 6.4 Why some but not others?. 6.5 How do kids figure it out?. 6.6 Representing complex suffixal restrictions. 6.7 Keeping Irregulars: Semantic clues to morphological classes. 6.8 Irregulars III: Suppletion. 6.9 Keeping Irregulars: Producing words on the fly. 6.10 Productivity, blocking and Bushisms. 7. Lexical semantics: The structure of meaning, the meaning of structure. 7.1 Function meaning vs. Content meaning. 7.2 Entailment. 7.3 Function words and their meanings. 7.4 Content words and their meanings. 7.5 Relationships and Argument Structure: Meaning and grammar. 7.6 Argument Structure. 7.7 Derivational morphology and argument structure. 7.8 Subtleties of argument structure. 7.9 Function vs. content meanings: the showdown. 7.10 How do we learn all that?. 8. Children learning words. 8.1 How do children learn the meanings of words?. 8.2 Learning words for middle-sized observables. 8.3 When the basics fail. 8.4 Morphological and syntactic clues. 8.5 Learning words for non-observables. 8.6 Syntactic frames, theta roles and event structure. 8.7 Agent-Patient Protoroles. 8.8 Functional listemes interacting with content listemes. 8.9 Simple co-occurrence? Or actual composition?. 8.10 Yes, but where do the words come from in the first place?. 9. Accidents of history: English in flux. 9.1 Linguistic change, and lots of it. 9.2 Layers of vocabulary and accidents of history. 9.3 A brief history of England, as relevant to the English vocabulary. 9.4 55 B.C. to 600 A.D. : How the English came to England. 9.5 600-900 A.D. The English and the Vikings. 9.6 1066-1200: Norman Rule. 9.7 1200-1450: Anglicization of the Normans. 9.8 1450-1600 The English Renaissance. 9.9 1600 -1750: Restoration, Expansion. 9.10 1750-modern day. 9.11 The rise of prescriptivism: How to really speak good. 9.12 English orthography: The Roman alphabet, the quill pen, the printing press and the Great Vowel Shift. 9.13 Summary. List of Works Consulted. Glossary. Words Consulted. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Linguistics
Book SynopsisLinguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for undergraduate and graduate level students without previous background in linguistics.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xiii Preface xvii Part I Language and the Language Faculty 1 1 From Language to Linguistics 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Languages 5 1.3 Other Languages 9 1.4 Differences 15 1.5 Linguistics 17 1.6 Different Kinds of Grammar 19 1.7 The Contents of this Book and the Subfields of Linguistics 22 Summary 24 Assignments 26 Test Yourself 27 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 27 2 The Language User 29 2.1 Introduction 29 2.2 Knowledge and Ability: The Cognitive System 30 2.3 Language and the Brain 34 2.4 Language Comprehension 37 2.4.1 Speech Recognition 38 2.4.2 Word Recognition 39 2.4.3 Understanding Sentences 41 2.4.4 Interpretation of Utterances 43 2.4.5 From Speech Recognition to Interpretation 43 2.5 Language Production 44 2.5.1 What Do You Want to Say? 45 2.5.2 Formulation: Grammatical Encoding 46 2.5.3 Formulation: Phonological Encoding 48 2.5.4 Articulation 50 2.5.5 Speaking: From Intention to Articulation 51 Summary 52 Assignments 53 Test Yourself 54 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 55 3 Language Acquisition 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 How Do Children Acquire Language? 59 3.3 The Order of First Language Acquisition 62 3.4 Factors that Influence the Acquisition of a Second Language 66 3.5 The Order of Second Language Acquisition 69 3.6 Bilingual Development 74 Summary 77 Assignments 78 Test Yourself 79 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 80 Part II Language and Interaction 81 4 Discourse 83 4.1 Introduction 83 4.2 Interpretation and Inference 84 4.3 Cooperation 86 4.4 Conversations 89 4.5 Coherence Through Linguistic Form 95 Summary 98 Assignments 99 Test Yourself 100 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 101 5 Speech Acts 103 5.1 Introduction 103 5.2 An Utterance is an Act 104 5.3 Information Structure 110 5.4 Pragmatic Appropriateness 114 Summary 117 Assignments 118 Test Yourself 119 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 119 Part III Sentences and Their Meaning 121 6 Constituents and Word Classes 123 6.1 Introduction 123 6.2 Constituents 124 6.3 Sentences, Clauses and Phrases 126 6.4 Phrase Types 127 6.5 Heads and Modifiers 130 6.6 Constituent Structure 131 6.7 Phrases Versus Words 135 6.8 Word Classes: Content Words 136 6.9 Word Classes: Function Words 138 Summary 140 Assignments 140 Test Yourself 142 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 142 7 Simple Sentences 143 7.1 Introduction 143 7.2 Functions of Phrases Within the Sentence 144 7.3 Valency 147 7.4 Semantic Roles 150 7.5 Grammatical Roles 151 7.6 The Marking of Semantic and Grammatical Roles 153 7.7 Reduction of Valency 154 7.8 Reflexive Constructions 155 7.9 Pronominalisation 157 Summary 158 Assignments 158 Test Yourself 160 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 160 8 Complex Sentences 161 8.1 Introduction 161 8.2 The Functions of Embedded Clauses 162 8.3 The Forms of Embedded Clauses 165 8.4 Interaction between Main Clause and Embedded Clause 168 8.4.1 Equi-Deletion 168 8.4.2 Raising 169 8.4.3 Sequence of Tenses 170 8.5 Coordinated Clauses 172 8.6 The Form of Coordinated Clauses 173 Summary 174 Assignments 175 Test Yourself 176 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 176 9 Constituent Order 177 9.1 Introduction 177 9.2 Constituent Order and Levels of Analysis 178 9.3 Constituent Order at the Sentence Level 179 9.4 Clause Type 181 9.5 Embedded Clauses 182 9.6 Complexity 183 9.7 The Information Status of Constituents 184 9.8 Constituent Order within Constituents 185 9.8.1 The Noun Phrase 186 9.8.2 The Verb Phrase 187 9.9 Correlations 188 9.10 Discontinuous Constituents 190 Summary 191 Assignments 191 Test Yourself 192 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 193 10 Sentence Meaning 195 10.1 Introduction 195 10.2 Compositionality 196 10.3 Noun Phrases: Reference 197 10.4 Noun Phrases: Deixis and Anaphora 203 10.5 Verb Phrases: Tense and Aspect 206 10.6 Verb Phrases: Situation Types 210 Summary 214 Assignments 214 Test Yourself 215 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 216 Part IV Words and Their Meaning 217 11 Lexicon 219 11.1 Introduction 219 11.2 What is a Word? 220 11.3 The Relation Between Word Form and Meaning 221 11.4 Content Words and Function Words 223 11.5 The Lexicon 226 11.6 Kinds of Lexical Information 228 11.7 Dictionaries 230 11.8 Meaning and Meaning Relations 232 11.9 Semantic Description 235 11.10 Words Across Languages 236 Summary 237 Assignments 239 Test Yourself 240 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 240 12 Word Formation 241 12.1 Introduction 241 12.2 The Internal Composition of Words 242 12.3 The Functions of Word Formation 243 12.4 Derivation 245 12.5 Inflection 249 12.6 Morphological Forms 251 12.7 The Structure of Words and Their Meanings 255 12.8 Differences between Derivation and Inflection 256 12.9 Morphological Differences between Languages 258 Summary 260 Assignments 261 Test Yourself 263 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 263 13 Compounds and Idiomatic Expressions 265 13.1 Introduction 265 13.2 Structure and Meaning of Compounds 266 13.3 Types of Compounds 270 13.4 Incorporation 271 13.5 Idiomatic Expressions 272 13.6 The Meaning of Idiomatic Expressions 274 Summary 279 Assignments 280 Test Yourself 281 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 281 Part V Speech Sounds 283 14 Speaking and Listening – Speech Sounds 285 14.1 Introduction 285 14.2 Speaking 287 14.3 The Speech Signal 288 14.4 Hearing and Understanding 291 14.5 Speech Sounds 292 14.5.1 Introduction 292 14.5.2 Pulmonic Consonants 293 14.5.3 Non-pulmonic Consonants 296 14.5.4 Vowels 296 14.5.5 Diphthongs 297 14.5.6 Further Features 298 14.6 Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition 298 Summary 299 Assignments 301 Test Yourself 301 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 302 15 Sound Systems and Phonological Processes 303 15.1 Introduction 303 15.2 Distinctiveness 304 15.3 Sound Systems 307 15.4 Distinctive Features 311 15.5 Morphophonological Processes 314 15.6 Graphemes and Phonemes 316 Summary 317 Assignments 317 Test Yourself 318 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 319 16 Syllables, Stress and Intonation 321 16.1 Introduction 321 16.2 The Syllable: Phonotactics 322 16.3 The Word: Stress 326 16.4 The Sentence: Intonation 328 16.5 Rhythm 330 Summary 331 Assignments 332 Test Yourself 333 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 333 Part VI Languages and Communities 335 17 Differences and Similarities between Languages 337 17.1 Introduction 337 17.2 Similarities between Languages 339 17.3 Genetic Relations 342 17.4 Language and Culture 349 17.5 Language and Thought: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 354 Summary 357 Assignments 358 Test Yourself 359 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 359 18 Language Variation 361 18.1 Introduction 361 18.2 What is a Language? 362 18.3 What is a Dialect? 364 18.4 The Study of Language Variation 366 18.5 Language Variation and Social Factors 369 18.5.1 Region 370 18.5.2 Social Class 372 18.5.3 Ethnic Group 374 18.5.4 Age 374 18.5.5 Gender 375 18.6 Other Factors: Situation and Linguistic Context 377 18.7 Language Variation and Social Meaning 379 Summary 381 Assignments 382 Test Yourself 382 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 383 19 Language Change 385 19.1 Introduction 385 19.2 Historical Linguistics 386 19.3 The Process of Change 390 19.4 The Role of Social Groups in Language Change 394 19.5 Embedding Changes into the Language System 397 19.6 The Evaluation of Language Change 399 Summary 400 Assignments 400 Test Yourself 401 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 401 20 Bilingualism 403 20.1 Introduction 403 20.2 The Bilingual Community 404 20.3 Language Policy 407 20.4 Bilingual Education 408 20.5 The Bilingual Individual 410 20.6 Bilingualism and Interference 412 20.7 The Emergence of New Languages 418 Summary 421 Assignments 422 Test Yourself 422 Acknowledgments and Further Reading 423 References 425 Sources of Illustrations 433 Index 435
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Structuralism
Book SynopsisJohn Sturrock's classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory. A classic work in literary and cultural theory. Reissued to coincide with calls for a return to structuralism. Includes a new introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté, which explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years. Table of ContentsIntroduction 2003: Are you History? Jean-Michel Rabaté. Introduction to the second edition: John Sturrock. Language. Social Sciences. Semiotics. Literature. Post-Structuralism. Conclusion. Further Reading. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Structuralism
Book SynopsisJohn Sturrock's classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory. A classic work in literary and cultural theory. Reissued to coincide with calls for a return to structuralism. Includes a new introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté, which explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years. Table of ContentsIntroduction 2003: Are you History? Jean-Michel Rabaté. Introduction to the second edition: John Sturrock. Language. Social Sciences. Semiotics. Literature. Post-Structuralism. Conclusion. Further Reading. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Programming for Linguists
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the rudiments of Perl programming. It provides the general reader with an interest in language with the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language. Exposes the general reader with an interest in language to the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language. Contains simple examples and exercises that gradually introduce the reader to the essentials of good programming. Assumes no prior programming experience. Accompanied by exercises at the end of each chapter and offers all the code on the companion website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hammond Trade Review''Learning to program isn't really hard,' the author claims. Teaching good programming to linguists, however, or to arts and humanities students in general, isn’t really that easy a job either, in practice. This introductory book, clear and concise as it is, should be a helpful tool at the very first stages of such an enterprise." Kwee Tjoe Liong, Universiteit van Amsterdam "The really strong points of the book are the examples and exercises. These are almost all language-related and include useful, interesting and relevant questions and situations that the reader interested in language research will appreciate." New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics "Surprisingly readable...should be on the bookshelf of any discourse analysist even thinking about tinkering with using computers to automate some portion of their data analysis...the examples and exercises are excellent, as is [Hammond's] exegesis of the examples- slow without becoming tedious." Discourse StudiesTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1. Why Programming and Why Perl?. 2. Getting Started. 3. Basics: Control Structures And Variables. 4. Input and Output. 5. Subroutines And Modules. 6. Regular Expressions. 7. Text Manipulation. 8. HTML. 9. CGI. Appendix A. Objects. Appendix B. Tk. Appendix C. Special Variables. Appendix D. Where To Find Out More. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Writing Systems
Book SynopsisAccessibly written, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important theoretical issues. Discusses systems as diverse as Chinese, Greek, and Maya.Trade Review"The author and publishers can be congratulated on an excellent work; if I were teaching a class on writing systems now, this would be my first choice as a textbook." --William Bright, review in Written Language and Literacy "This is an excellent comprehensive textbook for university courses on writing systems (grammatology), with enough preliminary remarks of a theoretical nature to enable the student to master the scripts from around the world, including cuneiform of various types, Semitic, Greek, Roman, etc. It is written in a clear style with a very good glossary and up-to-date bibliography." --Alan S. Kaye, California State University, FullertonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. A Note on Dates. 1. Introduction. Importance Of Writing. Definition Of Writing. Aspects Of Writing. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 2. Theoretical Preliminaries. Graphemes And Allographs. Arrangement Of Symbols. Relationship To Language. Diglossia. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 3. Chinese. Background, History, And Sociolinguistics. Phonology Of Modern Standard Chinese. Relationship Of Language And Writing In Chinese. Origin And Structure Of Chinese Characters. Internal Structure Of Chinese Characters. How Many Characters Does Chinese Have?. Recent Reforms. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 4. Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese. Japanese. Korean. Vietnamese. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 5. Cuneiform. Background And History. Tokens And The Invention Of Writing. Materials Of Writing. Social Context Of Cuneiform Writing. An Early Sumerian Tablet From Uruk. Internal Structure Of Cuneiform. Example Text. Other Cuneiform Writing. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 6. Egyptian. Language Family. Background And History. Phonology Of Old Egyptian. Origin Of Egyptian Writing. Styles Of Writing. Social Context Of Writing. Internal Structure Of Egyptian Writing. Example Text. Decipherment. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 7. Semitic. Semitic Language Family. Origin Of The Semitic Abjad. Development Of The Semitic Abjad. Hebrew. Arabic. The Ethiopic Abugida. The Distinctiveness Of Abjads. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 8. The Greek Alphabet. Background And History. Greek Scripts Before The Alphabet. Development Of The Greek Alphabet. Abjad To Alphabet. The Relationship Of Language And Writing In Greek. Scripts Derived From The Greek Alphabet. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 9. The Roman Alphabet. From Greece To Italy. Etruscan. Latin. The Roman Alphabet. Examples Of Roman Writing. Later History Of The Roman Alphabet. Orthographic Depth: Two Examples. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 10. English. Background And History. Old English. Middle English. Modern English. Spelling And Sound Changes. Spelling Reform. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 11. The Indian Abugida And Other Asian Phonographic Writing. Background And History. Indus Valley Writing. Bra?Hmi@ And Kharos.T.Hi. Devana?Gari@ As Applied To Sanskrit. Southeast Asian Writing. The Tibetan Abugida. The ’Phags-Pa Script. The Mongolian And Manchu Alphabets. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 12. Maya. History And Background. Structure Of The Maya Writing System. The Maya Calendar. Example Text. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 13. Other Writing Systems. Cherokee. Cree. Inuktitut. Runic. Ogham. Pahawh Hmong. Bliss. Further Reading. Terms. Exercises. 14. Classification Of Writing Systems. Phonetic, Semantic, And Glottographic Writing. Glottographic Writing. Gelb’s Unilinear Theory Of Development. Syllabic Vs. Moraic. Korean Hankul As A Featural System. Conclusion. Further Reading. Terms. Appendix A: Some Basic Linguistic Notions. Appendix B: The International Phonetic Alphabet. Appendix C. English Transcription. Appendix D: Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.Trade Review"The Japanese language has had a prominent position in the development of linguistic theory over the past 30 years. This handbook represents the first significant collection to provide a detailed overview of the major intellectual descriptive and analytic tasks which have occupied researchers working on the language. It will be of great value to linguists who have an interest in Japanese or who wish to see how Japanese evidence bears on many major theoretical issues." Peter Sells, Stanford University "I found it very useful that each chapter provides references for those who want to investigate a specific topic further; this is a source to consult for anyone who wants to start research on Japanese linguistics." Functions of LanguageTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Accent (Shosuke Haraguchi). 2. Mora and Syllable (Haruo Kubozono). 3. The Phonological Lexicon (Junko Itô and Armin Mester). 4. Variationist Sociolinguistics (Junko Hibiya). 5. Scrambling (Naoko Nemoto). 6. Reflexives (Takako Aikawa). 7. Passives (Hiroto Hoshi). 8. Causatives (Shigeru Miyagawa). 9. Quantification and wh-Constructions (Taisuke Nishigauchi). 10. Word Formation (Taro Kageyama). 11. Tense and Aspect (Toshiyuki Ogihara). 12. Lexical Semantics (Natsuko Tsujimura). 13. First Language Acquisition (Yukio Otsu). 14. Sentence Processing (Mineharu Nakayama). 15. Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (Senko Maynard). 16. Sociolinguistics: Honorifics and Gender Differences (Sachiko Ide and Megumi Yoshida). Bibliography. Index.
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Independently Published Stephanus Textus Receptus of 1550
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Independently Published Stephanus Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus as
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Independently Published The New Testament in Koine Greek
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£39.00
Independently Published Kennicotts Critical Edition of the Masoretic Text
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Harvard University Press In Isolation
Book SynopsisIn this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human lives and civic freedoms that citizens continue to suffer in Russia’s hybrid war on its territory.Trade ReviewA rare and unsettling insider’s account of conditions in the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic.’…Aseyev examines unrelentingly, piercingly, and scathingly why Ukrainians in the east of the country supported, and continue to support, the separatists and mercenaries and their Kremlin sponsors—in effect, how Putin’s misinformation campaign successfully revived the Soviet mindset in the Donbas. -- Julian Evans * Times Literary Supplement *[A] fascinating account of life in the [Donetsk People’s Republic]…Aseyev’s book is a kind of Lonely Planet guide to a republic that doesn’t officially exist, except in the minds of its fervent believers…The DPR is a Soviet Disneyland. There are icons of Stalin and Lenin, Komsomol youth leagues and shops selling cheap Russian sausage in Back-in-the-USSR–style packaging. It is a glorious march forward to a largely imaginary past, although there is nothing make-believe about the violence in the DPR. -- Colin Freeman * The Telegraph *Few people can better articulate the experience of life under Russian occupation than Stanislav Aseyev, [who] gives a first-person account of the shelling, propaganda, and internal power struggles of Donetsk in the early days of the war that began there in 2014. The brutality and arbitrariness of rule in Russian-occupied Donbas that Aseyev depicts hint at what would await Ukraine in the event of a Russian-imposed regime, underscoring why the stakes of the war today could not possibly be higher. -- Lilian Posner * Foreign Policy *Provides a focal point for understanding the highly intense and entangled background of the current Russo-Ukrainian war. -- Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed * East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies *Aseyev’s writing captures the surreal moment when eastern Ukraine went from a familiar country to an eerie, apocalyptic landscape. Towns went from places of comfort populated by friends and family to hostile territories patrolled by former friends turned vigilantes. To read his essays is to be transported to a savage, backwards world that some of us would rather forget. -- Simon OstrovskyStanislav Aseyev, imprisoned for almost three years for his candid reports included in this book, tells the story of the Donbas people and how they sought to make sense of an absurd war on their land. In Isolation is an extraordinary account of the Donbas as seen from within, and the people trapped there. It reveals in minute detail the inner workings of the hybrid war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine in 2014. -- Hiroaki Kuromiya, author of Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian–Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990sWhat strikes one in this collection is the cool, precise recording of the details of this Soviet Dismaland, like an anthropologist studying hell. This is a remarkable portrait of how propaganda deforms life, from one of the world’s greatest battlegrounds of information warfare. We hear much on the dangers of current disinformation—in the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic,’ these dangers take on a demonic dimension. -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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Harvard University Press Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 40
Book SynopsisProceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40 features Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on Irish chronicles, Ruairí Ó hUiginn assessing the Irish genealogical corpus in its sociological context, Georgia Henley on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work in Norman Ireland and Wales, and other articles centered on Irish and Welsh.
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Harvard University Press Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja: Part 2
Book SynopsisA new edition, based on new manuscripts, of King Bhoja of Malwa’s eleventh century treatise on Sanskrit poetics, Śṛṅgāraprakāśa. The work is a mine of quotations, including from lost Sanskrit and Prakit poetry, as well as a theoretical treatment of erotic sentiment.
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Princeton University Press Magnificent Buildings Splendid Gardens
Book SynopsisMagnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin''s work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin''s approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to privatTrade Review"This compendium of scholarly essays charts admirably David Coffin's remarkable and enviable ability to express simply, clearly and authoritatively the results of a lifetime's scrupulous and disciplined research."--Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Burlington Magazine "Each essay, almost every paragraph, had the effect of inspiring the reader to follow it up with more research of their own."--Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review "The volume stands as witness to the accomplishments of this prolific scholar and reflects his many interests."--Claudia Lazzaro, Sitelines: A Journal of Place "We ... may ... praise the work of David Robbins Coffin in bringing aspects of Italian architecture and gardens, and instances of English gardens to wider attention. All scholars may wholeheartedly welcome this most useful volume, whose index is exemplary."--David H. Kennett, Sixteenth Century Journal
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Princeton University Press First Step
Book SynopsisFeaturing both traditional and simplified characters along with pinyin and English translation, this book includes comprehensive exercises and character writing sheets with information on the stroke orders of introduced characters.Table of ContentsUsers's Manual Hanyu Pinyin Romanization System 1 1 Teacher and Students 3 2 The Books Are on the Table 15 3 I Am Very Busy Today 27 4 Beijing Roast Duck 39 5 A Picture 53 6 My Two Friends 67 7 Choosing Classes 77 8 Cannot See Clearly 89 9 To Drink Tea or Coffee 99 10 Looking for Glasses While Wearing Them 111 11 Who Ate My Stuff 121 12 The Door Is Locked, I Cannot Get In 133 13 Buy Shoes 145 14 Cannot Get up and Late for School 157 15 It's Snowing! 169 16 Getting Fatter, What Shall I Do? 181 17 Ride a Bike 193 18 The Bike Was Stolen 203 19 Chinatown 211 20 East Asian Library 223 21 Chinese Table 233 22 Our Chinese Teachers 241 23 Individual Sessions 251 24 See a Movie 259 25 I'm Vegetarian 267 26 Speech Contest 275 27 I Have to Move 285 28 Living Off Campus Is Not as Good as Living in the Dorm 293 29 Xiao Ding and Susan 301 30 An Email to Parents 309
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Princeton University Press The Imaginative Argument
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Particularly helpful [and] offers sound suggestions. . . . [These] are pointers all writers can use."---Erika Dreifus, The Writer
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Princeton University Press Language and Thought
Book SynopsisMost philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that even when the speaker is perfectly sincere, what he is thinking need not be the same thing as what he is saying. Originally published in 1982. The PrinTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. x*I. The Statemental Theory of Meaning, pg. 1*II. Traditional Theories of Proper Names, pg. 40*III. The Meaning of a Proper Name, pg. 55*IV. Singular Terms, pg. 106*V. The Traditional Theory of Predicates, pg. 128*VI. Synthetic Predicates, pg. 140*VII. Nonsynthetic Predicates, pg. 166*VIII. The Alethic Modalities, pg. 175*IX. Doxastic and Epistemic Sentences, pg. 188*X. Languages, Institutions, and Conventions, pg. 210*XI. Stating, pg. 239*XII. Nondeclarative Sentences, pg. 253*Appendix: A General Statemental Semantics, pg. 265*Bibliography, pg. 289*Index, pg. 295
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Travels in China
Book SynopsisIn 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius.Trade Review"The book's most charming aspect is his little sketches: of hairstyles, or statues, or seating plans, and one tiny caricature of a near-featureless but somehow reassuring Confucius, an apparition perhaps of one whom Barthes wished to meet but didn't."—The Guardian "The three notebooks that make up 'Travels in China' record impressions of what Barthes sees, hears, eats, and thinks in the present tense, so that we feel as if we’re perched on his shoulder, watching the events unfold in real time."—Los Angeles Review of Books "These writings present an encounter between one of modern France's most influential intellectuals and a China undergoing profound change and adjustment."—Times Higher Education "An entertainingly frank personal travelogue."—The Newark Star-Ledger "Travels in China presents the drama of the leftist semiotician in a world in which there doesn't seem to be anything left to interpret.... In general, this collection calls to mind those may Utopias verging on dystopias in which, all social problems having been solved, society lapses into a stultifying bordeom - except that this wasn't a fantasy of the future but rather an encounter with what existed in the here and now."—New Statesman "A China that was in the throes of its cultural revolution was perhaps the perfect location for the unsentimental, observant and wry writer, who loved nothing more than to burst the vain balloons of human life. It is all here, from the greasy rice spoiling his new trousers on the way out, to the official and officious goodbye at Beijing."—Good Book Guide "Reveals a figure who saw failure before his contemporaries and found Tel Quel's Maoist phase to be far from a great leap forward."—Times Literary Supplement "Barthes's notebooks show three things that differentiate him from many useful idiots, as Lenin once put it, of the time: he was honest about what he saw in China, he was bored most of the time, and he was gay."—Literary Review "This is an image of pre-capitalist China, a snapshot of a nation that has changed utterly in the past 35 years."—Sydney Morning Herald "Barthes writes with his customary insight and style."—Conde Nast Traveller "These notebooks, object of much controversy when published in France, record Barthes' attempts to take an interest in Mao's China and his disaffection from the eager political discussions of his French companions. Though Barthes would doubtless have opposed the publication of this combination of dutiful note-taking and intimate notations, these fragments give an unfiltered picture of his affective reactions, touristic boredom, and sexual frustration."—Jonathan Culler, Cornell University "What's delicate and even discreetly political about these engaging notes on a brief trip to China is the liveliness of Barthes's resistance to the obvious and his continuing quest for the oblique and curious. He was too subtle a thinker simply to endorse the unpredictable; but he knew when to worry about predictability, even in a good cause."—Michael Wood, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionMap of ChinaRoland Barthes: Notes from a Visit to ChinaNotebook 1Notebook 2Notebook 3Notes for Notebooks 1-3Notebook 4Thematic index Index of proper namesFacsimile of Notebook 1(Roland Barthes Archives, IMEC)
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Edinburgh University Press Language and Logics
Book SynopsisIncluding a brief review of classical logic and its major assumptions, this textbook provides a guided tour of modal, many valued and substructural logics. The textbook starts from simple and intuitive concepts, clearly explaining the logics of language for linguistics students who have little previous knowledge of logic or mathematics.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hannah Arendt International Library of Essays in
Book SynopsisHannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together the most important English-language essays of the past 30 years on Arendt''s unique and lasting contributions to social and political philosophy.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction, Amy Allen; Part I Arendt's Reconceptualization of the Political: The contradictions of Hannah Arendt's political thought, Margaret Canovan; Freedom and worldliness in the thought of Hannah Arendt, George Kateb; Hannah Arendt's communications concept of power, Jürgen Habermas; Justice: on relating private and public, Hannah Fenichel Pitkin; Oases in the desert: Hannah Arendt on democratic politics, Jeffrey C. Isaac. Part II Arendt's Philosophical Lineage: Judging in a world of appearances: a commentary on Hannah Arendt's unwritten finale, Ronald Beiner; Beyond good and evil: Arendt, Nietzsche and the aestheticization of political action, Dana R. Villa; Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and the politics of remembrance, Jeffrey Andrew Barash. Part III Difference, Identity and Selfhood in Arendt: Hannah Arendt and the will, Suzanne Jacobitti; Arendt, identity, and difference, B. Honig; Arendt and the shadow of the other, Johanna Meehan. Part IV Theorizing Dark Times: Totalitarianism, Eichmann, and Evil: Hannah Arendt and the redemptive power of narrative, Seyla Benhabib; Common sense and political barbarism in the theory of Hannah Arendt, Sandra K. Hinchman; Holes of oblivion: the banality of radical evil, Peg Birmingham; Theaters of justice: Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann trial, and the redefinition of legal meaning in the wake of the Holocaust, Shoshana Felman. Part V Critical Extensions/Appropriations: Arendt on Race, Gender and Sexuality: The moral costs of political pluralism: the dilemmas of difference and equality in Arendt's 'Reflections on Little Rock', James Bohman; Solidarity after identity politics: Hannah Arendt and the power of feminist theory, Amy Allen; Refiguring the Jewish question: Arendt, Proust, and the politics of sexuality, Morris Kaplan; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bishops Saints and Historians Studies in the
Book SynopsisThroughout his career, Robert Brentano attempted to understand the nature and ''style'' of ecclesiastical institutions in Italy and the British Isles, the specific qualities of saints and the communities that formed around them, and the ways in which seemingly cryptic archival remains of medieval administrative activity, as well as chronicles and lives, could reveal vital details about change and continuity in local and regional religious life and even ''the color of men''s souls''. These issues are explored in the essays assembled in Parts I (Bishops) and II (Saints). Part III (Historians) brings together articles that examine the writing of history by both medieval authors and modern historians, and includes Brentano''s reflections on his own practice as an historian. The introduction by W. L. North offers a brief biography and introduction to reading Brentano''s works, followed by a complete bibliography of his publications.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, W.L. North; Bibliography of the works of Robert J. Brentano, W.L. North. Part 1 Bishops: The Whithorn vacancy of 1293-94; Late medieval changes in the administration of vacant suffragan dioceses: province of York; The bishops' books of Città di Castello; Sealed documents of the medieval archbishops at Amalfi; Vescovi e collocazione socio-culturale del clero parrocchiale; Notarial cartularies and religious personality: Rome, Rieti and Bishop Thomas of Secinaro (1339-1341); Vescovi e vicari generali nel basso medioevo; The local church of Amalfi in the context of Italian ecclesiastical institutions in the 13th and 14th centuries. Part 2 Saints: Francis of Assisi's gloss of Matthew 6:34; Early Franciscans and Italian towns; 'Do not say that this is a man from Assisi'; Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, and a caterva virginum; Filippa Mareri, la santa baronessa, la santa del Cicolano; Santa Filippa Mareri nel movimento religioso femminile del secolo XIII; Il movimento religioso femminile a Rieti nel secoli XIII-XIV; Peter of Morrone, space, and the problem of relics; Sulmona society and the miracles of Peter of Morrone; Identities and national formation: does religion integrate or disperse communities?. Part 3 History and Historians: Il sogno di Sant' Anselmo e lo sviluppo della biografia medievale; Samson of Bury revisited; The Jurisdictio Spiritualis: an example of 15th-century English historiography; The sound of Stubbs; Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906); The chronicle of Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano; Matteo Camera's masterpiece; Italian ecclesiastical history: the Sambin revolution; Bishops and saints; Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Red Shoes for Rachel
Book SynopsisThis award-winning collection of three novellas features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles. Zumoff's translation of Sandler's original Yiddish collection makes the J.I. Segal Award-winning volume available to English readers for the first time.
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Jewish Publication Society Dictionary of Jewish Words
Book SynopsisA dictionary that contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English. It includes words for and associated with Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history, the Bible and other sacred texts, worship, and more.Trade Review“Highly recommended.”—Choice
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Translating Literature
Book SynopsisThe problems of translating literature explored through both theoretical approaches and practical case studies.Interest in the issues of translation continues to grow, and is reflected in this collection of essays by specialists in both literature and translation studies, all of whom have experience of translating literary texts themselves. The essays include both diverse theoretical approaches and practical case studies, and a wide range of topics are covered, including the history of translation in Scotland, the problems of translating Chinese poetry into English, renaissance theories of translation, George Eliot's translations, and Eastern European perceptions of English Romantic literature. Professor SUSAN BASSNETT teaches at the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Contributors: SUSAN BASSNETT, THEO HERMANS, FELICITY ROSSLYN, ANDRE LEFEVERE, PIOTR KUHIWCZAK, JOHN CORBETT, SUSANNE STARKTable of ContentsIntroduction. Intricate Pathways: Observations on Translation and Literature - Susan Bassnett The Task of the Translator in the European Renaissance: Explorations in a Discursive Field - Theo Hermans Heroic Couplet Translation - A Unique Solution? - Felicity Rosslyn Translation and the Creation of Images, or 'Excuse me, is this the same poem?' - Andre Lefevere Translation and National Canons: Slav Perceptions of English Romanticism - Piotr Kuhiwczak Written in the Language of Scottis Natioun: Literary Translation into Scots - John Corbett Marian Evans, The Translator - Suzanne Stark
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Juristes et droits savants Bologne et la France
Book SynopsisThis fourth collection by Professor Andrà Gouron presents a set of twenty studies on jurisprudence, jurists and legal practice in the 12th and 13th centuries. The focus is on the schools and traditions of Bologna and in France, but the coverage includes canon, Roman and customary law. The first part deals with theories diffused by the jurists of Bologna and France and the literary genres in which they expressed these theories, particularly on questions of presumptions, proof, and illicit conditions. In the second section the author looks at some of the persons involved in the juridical renaissance of this period, and at some of the effects of the legal doctrines being taught on royal legislation, procedure, the fiscal system, and urban autonomy. Ce volume - le quatriÃme de lâauteur dans cette collection - rÃunit vingt articles du professeur Gouron. Onze de ces articles forment une premiÃre partie, consacrÃe aux thÃories diffusÃes par les juristes de Bologne ou de France et aux genresTrade Review'André Gouron is known as one of the great specialists in the history of medieval law. Twenty articles published between 1911 and 1996 have been collected in this volume and bear witness to the prolific output of this historian.' Bulletin CodicologiqueTable of ContentsContents: Avertissement; Theories et enseignement universitaire: Usage de l'hypothèse et reconstruction historique de la science civiliste au XIIe siècle; Canon law in Parisian circles before Stephan of Tournai's Summa; Théorie des présomptions et pouvoir législatif chez les glossateurs; La diffusion des premiers recueils de questions disputées: des civilistes aux canonistes; De la 'constitution' Habita aux Tres Libri; Observations sur le Stemma Bulgaricum; L'enseignement du droit civil au XIIe siècle: de la coutume à la règle; Placentinus, 'Herold' der Vermutungslehre?; Testis unus, testis nullus dans la doctrine juridique du XIIe siècle; 'Conditio probrosa et spernenda'; Rationabiliter et ratio dans les écrits juridiques du Midi provençal au XIIe siècle; Doctrines, pouvoir et société (Législation et pratiques): Ordonnances des rois de France et droits savants (XIIIe-XVe siècles); Sur les traces de Rogerius en Provence; Medieval courts and towns: examples from southern France; Maître Durand, pionnier du notariat savant; 'Utriusque partis allegationibus auditis'; L'invention' de l'impôt proportionnel au Moyen Age; Le 'grammairien enragé': Aubert de Béziers et son Å“uvre (ms. Turin, Bibl. Naz. D. v. 19); Un juriste bolonais docteur in utroque au XIIe siècle?; 'Populus': legal entity and political autonomy; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Between France and England Politics Power and
Book Synopsis'Between France and England' characterises the role played by most rulers of the duchy of Brittany during the late Middle Ages, before it was finally united with Valois France. These essays (including three appearing for the first time in English) explore political and institutional aspects of the changing relationship between France and Brittany, within the context of Anglo-French relations, as well as social consequences of the development of a largely autonomous state within the larger French kingdom during a period dominated by war and economic crisis. The transformation of medieval France into an early modern state changed the traditional relationship between the king and his great feudal princes. But some princes reacted by imitating the crown, creating their own more advanced administrations and an ideological base for claims to exercise 'regal rights' within their lordships, often expressed in striking visual and symbolic form. These trends are evident in the late medieval duchy of Brittany where the Montfort dynasty all but succeeded in nullifying royal control.Trade Review'... an extremely important collection of essays by one of the finest historians of late medieval France.' H-France ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Tradition, history and the French: a case of tunnel vision; The Capetians and Brittany; Nantes au début de la guerre civile en Bretagne; Ancenis, Froissart and the beginnings of the War of Succession in Brittany (1341); Edward III's captains in Brittany; Politics, sanctity and the Breton state: the case of the Blessed Charles de Blois, duke of Brittany (d. 1364); Between France and England: Jeanne de Navarre, duchess of Brittany and queen of England (1368-1437); Notaries and notarial practice in medieval Brittany; The late medieval state and social change: a view from the duchy of Brittany; Aristocracy, faction and the state in 15th-century Brittany; 'En son habit royal': le duc de Bretagne et son image vers la fin du Moyen Âge; Les signes du pouvoir. L'Ordre de l'Hermine, les devises et les hérauts des ducs de Bretagne au XVème siècle; Index.
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
Book SynopsisFormerly published by AMS Press, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History continues with an annual volume now published by ACMRS.
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Cornell University Press Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature
Book SynopsisThis work contains over 2,500 entries to guide students and scholars interested in the languages and literature of Vietnam. The books, monographs, and journal articles considered are those written in the Western languages (especially French and...Trade ReviewA handy reference tool that will be quite helpful not only to Vietnam specialists but to comparative linguists, folklorists, and cultural studies analysts as well. * Journal of Asian Studies *
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Cornell University Press Intermediate Spoken Vietnamese
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