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Book SynopsisPresents a history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. The author describes the differences between English and American usage and, the link between regional dialect and race, class, and gender. He discusses contact with foreign languages, the Internet, and e-mail continue to shape English for future generations.Trade ReviewThe book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be. Publishers Weekly Nonspecialists will join scholars in praising this remarkable linguistic investigation. -- Bryce Christensen Booklist An important and valuable source for anyone who loves the English language, and language in general. -- Gale Zoe Garnett Toronto Globe & Mail Written with real authority, enthusiasm, and love for our unruly and exquisite language. -- Michael Dirda The Washington Post A wonderful book. It's not hard to find well-informed books about the history of the English language, and it's not hard to find good critical accounts of English literature, but to have the two intertwined in one book is remarkable. Language Hat Interesting and informative. -- Tom Oleson Winnipeg Free Press A personal, selective and impassioned journey through the history of English. Times Higher Education Supplement Lerer not only navigates the shifting currents and boiling rapids of English, but also explores its secret coves. -- Rob Kyff Advocate [An] elegant book. -- Karenn Krangle Vancouver Sun A fresh look at the history of the English language. -- Cynthia Lee Katona Magill Book Reviews Inventing English is an invigorating read for the mind and the mouth. Bloomsbury Review Fun and illuminating. -- Carol White The Main Artery This absorbing book provides sufficient information about linguistics and early English language and literature for clarification... Essential. Choice Erudite and accessible. [Lerer] brings both love and rigour to his subject. -- Gale Zoe Garnett Globe & Mail An unusual linguistic and literary feast. -- Anne Curzan Michigan Quarterly Review The casual, witty, and sometimes provocative style in which the book is written provides a very apt vehicle for this very personal account. -- Tim William Machan Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyTable of ContentsA Note on Texts and Letter Forms Introduction: Finding English, Finding Us 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing: Old English and the Origins of Poetry 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan: The Language of Old English Literature 3. In This Year: The Politics of Language and the End of Old English 4. From Kingdom to Realm: Middle English in a French World 5. Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English 6. I Is as Ille a Millere as Are Ye: Middle English Dialects 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose 9. I Do, I Will: Shakespeare's English 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild: New Words and Worlds in Early Modern English 11. Visible Speech: The Orthoepists and the Origins of Standard English 12. A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English 14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English 15. Hello, Dude: Mark Twain and the Making of the American Idiom 16. Ready for the Funk: African American English and Its Impact 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest: The Oxford English Dictionary and its Readers 18. Listening to Private Ryan: War and Language 19. He Speaks in Your Voice: Everybody's English Appendix. English Sounds and Their Representation Glossary References and Further Reading Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisMany people consider bilinguals to be exceptional, yet almost half the world's population speaks more than one language. Bilingualism is found in every country of the world, in every class of society, in all age groups. This is the first book to provide a complete and authoritative look at the nature of the bilingual experience.Trade ReviewThe volume is written in a highly readable, enjoyable style. The coverage is broad and quite comprehensive, with a wide range of examples from different countries and cultures… The message concerning what natural bilingual behavior is like for most bilinguals comes through strongly and impressively. It is this then which holds the book together and which makes it a unique contribution among writings on bilingualism. -- Ellen Bouchard Ryan * Bilingual Review *[This book] is virtually indispensable to anyone already interested in language politics… [Grosjean] has assembled a great deal of valuable and often intriguing data and organized it clearly. * Chicago Reader *What this book conveys is the incredible variety of ways in which an individual or a nation can be bilingual… Grosjean’s book treats the multiple facets of bilingual experience in thought-provoking, wonderful, and lucid prose. Students and general readers, monolingual and bilingual alike, stand to gain new perspectives from reading this excellent comprehensive introduction. -- Loraine K. Obler * Contemporary Psychology *Anyone interested in the distinctly personal aspects of bilingualism will find it rewarding to dip into this survey; he is bound to discover a good deal that has escaped his own attempts. -- W. Haas * Times Literary Supplement *Grosjean has written a very comprehensive review of the field that is both conceptually sound and entertaining. The book will undoubtedly inform, perhaps provoke and…entertain its readers. -- Fred Genesee, McGill UniversityFrançois Grosjean has undertaken a truly formidable task—to give the serious student and the earnest layman some insight into what a generation of intense research has taught us about bilinguals and bilingualism. The book manages to combine a very personal touch, which one feels everywhere as growing out of the author’s own experience as a bilingual, with wide reading in the many fields of research that bear on the problems of bilingualism. -- Einar Haugen, Professor of Scandinavian Language and Linguistics, Emeritus, Harvard University[Life with Two Languages] contains a wealth of interesting information which, to my knowledge, has not been put together in one source before—particularly in such a cogent and succinct manner…a thoroughly enjoyable treatment of the phenomenon of bilingualism. -- C. Richard Tucker, Director, Center for Applied LinguisticsTable of Contents1. Bilingualism in the World The Extent of Bilingualism National Patterns of Bilingualism Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities The Origins of Bilingualism The Outcome of Bilingualism 2. Bilingualism in the United States Language Diversity and Bilingualism Aspects of the Life of Linguistic Minorities Bilingual Education Some Linguistic Minorities Language Maintenance and Language Shift 3. Bilingualism in Society Attitudes toward Language Groups and Languages Language Choice Code-Switching Bilingualism and Biculturalism 4. The Bilingual Child Becoming Bilingual The Acquisition of Two Languages Aspects of Bilingualism in the Child Education and the Bilingual Child The Effects of Bilingualism on the Child 5. The Bilingual Person Describing a Person's Bilingualism The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism The Bilingual Brain The Bilingual as a Person 6. Bilingual Speech and Language Speaking to a Monolingual Speaking to a Bilingual The Legacy of Bilingualism References Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisRevealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, this book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals. It shows how allegor expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices.Trade Review"Allegory is a brilliantly original analytical description of the organization of symbolic fiction; it deals with the most interesting topics and asks the right questions; its examples are learned and fascinatingly offbeat... What Mr. Fletcher has achieved is nothing less than a redescription of literature with allegory at the centre."--Times Literary Supplement "[S]parkles with fascinating observations."--Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix A Personal Foreword, Harold Bloom xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Daemonic Agent 24 2. The Cosmic Image 69 3. Symbolic Action: Progress and Battle 147 4. Allegorical Causation: Magic and Ritual Forms 181 5. Thematic Effects: Ambivalence, the Sublime, and the Picturesque 221 6. Psychoanalytic Analogues: Obsession and Compulsion 281 7. Value and Intention: The Limits of Allegory 306 Afterword 362 Afterword to the 2012 Edition 370 Illustrations 413 Bibliography 441 Index 463

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Book SynopsisIf you need to start speaking German Fast, but you don't have a lot of time to study the language, German For Dummies Audio Set is the quick-learning solution for you. These three sixty-minute CDs feature fast, focused instruction that gets you quickly up to speed on essential vocabulary and language structure.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Audio Set 1 Conventions Used in This Audio Set 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 How This Audio Set Is Organized 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Lesson 1:1: Welcome and Overview of CD1: The Basics 5 Lesson 1:2: Personal Pronouns and Formalities 6 Personal Pronouns 6 Formalities 6 Lesson 1:3: Saying “Hello” and “Goodbye”. 7 Greetings 7 Goodbyes 7 Lesson 1:4: Saying and Replying to “How Are You?” 8 Lesson 1:5: Introducing Yourself and Talking about Where You’re From 9 Lesson 1:6: Indispensable Words and Phrases. 11 Pleasantries 11 Asking for help 11 Methods of transport 12 Places 12 People 13 Lesson 1:7: Useful Expressions and Phrases 14 Lesson 1:8: Introduction of Question Words 16 Lesson 1:9: Useful Questions and Answers. 17 Lesson 1:10: You Can Count on Me: An Overview of Numbers. 19 Lesson 1:11: What Time Is It? Finding Out How to Tell Time 21 Vocabulary 21 Example sentences 21 Lesson 1:12: Going through the Calendar and Forming the Date 23 Days of the week 23 Months of the year 23 Days of the month 24 Example sentences 24 Lesson 1:13: Directions 25 Vocabulary 25 Example sentences 26 Lesson 2:1: Welcome and Overview of CD2: The Nitty-Gritty: Language Structure 27 Lesson 2:2: Singular Nouns and Articles 28 At home 28 Downtown 29 Shopping 29 Places and things in the city/country 29 School 30 Occupations 30 Lesson 2:3: Plural Nouns and Articles 31 Lesson 2:4: Demonstrative Pronouns 32 Lesson 2:5: Adjectives and Location Sentences 33 Colors 33 Common adjectives 34 Example sentences about location 34 Lesson 2:6: Degrees of Adjectives 35 Common comparisons 35 Lesson 2:7: To Be or Not To Be: A Very Important Verb 36 Lesson 2:8: Common Regular and Irregular Verbs in the Infinitive Form 37 Regular verbs 37 Irregular verbs 38 Lesson 2:9: Conjugating Verbs in Present Tense 39 Regular verbs 39 Irregular verbs that add an umlaut 39 Irregular verbs with a vowel change 40 Special irregular patterns 40 Irregularities between the singular and plural conjugations 41 Lesson 2:10: Conjugating Verbs in Past Tense 43 Regular verbs 43 Irregular verbs 43 Special irregular pattern 44 Lesson 2:11: Conjugating Verbs in Future Tense 45 Lesson 2:12: Prepositions and Conjunctions 46 Accusative prepositions 46 Dative prepositions 46 Conjunctions 47 Lesson 2:13: Forming Simple Sentences 48 Lesson 2:14: Introducing More Complete Sentences 49 Lesson 2:15: Negative Sentences 50 Lesson 2:16: Forming Questions. 51 Lesson 3:1: Welcome and Overview of CD3: Real-World Situations 53 Lesson 3:2: At the Office 54 Office items 54 Meetings 54 Business departments 55 Colleagues 55 Verbs 55 Example sentences 56 Lesson 3:3: On the Job 57 Vocabulary 57 Verbs 58 Lesson 3:4: Making Small Talk 59 Lesson 3:5: Making Appointments 60 Vocabulary 60 Example sentences 60 Lesson 3:6: Making Travel Arrangements 61 Vocabulary 61 Verbs 61 Example sentences 62 Lesson 3:7: Asking for Directions 63 Vocabulary 63 Example sentences 64 Lesson 3:8: Asking for and Getting Help 65 Vocabulary 65 Example sentences 66 Lesson 3:9: At the Restaurant 67 Vocabulary 67 Verbs 68 Example sentences 68 Lesson 3:10: At the Hotel 69 Vocabulary 69 Verbs 69 Sentences and phrases 70 Lesson 3:11: At the Bank 71 Vocabulary 71 Verbs 71 Sentences and phrases 72 Lesson 3:12: At the Store 73 Vocabulary 73 Verbs 74 Example sentences 74 Mini-Dictionary 75 German-English Mini-Dictionary 75 English-German Mini-Dictionary 81

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Book SynopsisHow do children and adults become multilingual? How do they use their languages? What influence does being multilingual have on their identities? What is the social impact of multilingualism today and how do societies accommodate it? These are among the fascinating questions examined by this book. Exploring multilingualism in individuals and in society at large, Stavans and Hoffmann argue that it evolves not from one factor in particular, but from a vast range of environmental and personal influences and circumstances: from migration to globalisation, from the spread of English to a revived interest in minority languages, from social mobility to intermarriage. The book shows the important role of education in helping to promote or maintain pupils'' multilingual language competence and multilingual literacy, and in helping to challenge traditional monolingual attitudes. A clear and incisive account of this growing phenomenon, it is essential reading for students, teachers and policy-makers alike.Trade Review'The authors of this book demonstrate that multilingualism is as old as humanity itself. Language and politics have always been intertwined, creating amazing and conflictual complexity … This is a very clear and highly informative book.' Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Global and Societal Issues in Multilingualism and Trilingualism: 1. Historical perspectives of language contact; 2. Patterns of societal multilingualism; 3. Old and new linguistic minorities; 4. Globalisation, language spread and new multilingualisms; Part II. Construing Individual Multilingualism: 5. Individual multilingualism; 6. Multilingual language competence and use; 7. Accommodating multilingualism; 8. Multilingual education and multilingual literacies; Glossary; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisSonidos en contextois a comprehensive, theory-independent description of Spanish phonetics and phonology for intermediate to advanced students. It provides articulatory descriptions of native pronunciations, as well as practical advice on producing native-like sounds and a logical progression of exercises leading to that end.What sets this book apart from other phonetics texts is its emphasis on real-world examples of spoken Spanish, using native pronunciation modeled in natural contexts. While other available texts stress phonetic theory, this one provides hands-on activities that are entertaining, culturally framed, and relevant to students' interests and experiences. The book also includes a downloadableinstructor's manual, as well as engaging, colorful exercises in the text, photos of realia, and a high quality and very diverse 6-hour audio program, available online.

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Book SynopsisThe language of Ancient Egypt has been the object of careful investigation since its decipherment in the nineteenth century, but this is the first accessible account which uses the insights of modern linguistics. Antonio Loprieno traces Ancient Egyptian's historical development from Old Egyptian to Coptic, and, combining diachronic and synchronic viewpoints wherever possible, he looks at the hieroglyphic system and its cursive varieties (Hieratic and Demotic), the phonology of Classical Egyptian and Coptic, the phonology and syntax of the literary languages, and semantic and pragmatic constraints on syntax. He also looks at the genetic connections of Egyptian within the Afroasiatic family, especially with Semitic languages such as Akkadian, Arabic, and Hebrew. This book will be essential reading for linguists and Egyptologists alike.Trade Review'This is an outstanding book that should help to persuade Egyptologists of the value of Linguistics while making the Egyptian Language fully available to Linguists … the accuracy and penetration of Loprieno's rendering is striking.' John Baines, The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of Contents1. The language of Ancient Egypt; 2. Egyptian graphemics; 3. Egyptian phonology; 4. Elements of historical morphology; 5. Nominal syntax; 6. Adverbial and pseudoverbal syntax; 7. Verbal syntax; Epilogue; References; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThe Malay-language term used for indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, “Orang Asli”, covers at least 19 culturally and linguistically distinct subgroups. This volume is a comprehensive survey of current understandings of Malaysia's Orang Aslicommunities (including contributions from scholars within the Orang Asli community), looking at language, archaeology, history, religion and issues of education, health and social change, as well as questions of land rights and control of resources.Until about 1960 most Orang Asli lived in small camps and villages in the coastal and interior forests, or in isolated rural areas, and made their living by various combinations of hunting, gathering, fishing, agriculture and trading forest products. By the end of the century,logging, economic development projects such as oil palm plantations, and resettlement programmes have displaced many Orang Asli communities and disrupted long established social and cultural practices.The chapters in the present volume show Orang Asli responses to the challenges posed by a rapidly changing world. The authors also highlight the importance of Orang Asli studies for the anthropological understanding of small-scale indigenous societies in general.Trade ReviewMalaysia’s Original People: Past, Present And Future Of The Orang Asli is a dense, far-reaching compendium of essays."- Star2.com

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. Senate recently proposed the U.S.-China Cultural Engagement Act, a $1.3 billion initiative to provide Chinese language and culture instruction in American schoolsTrade Review"A brief introduction to the main characteristics of Chinese, written to be accessible to beginning students as well as anyone with a general interest in Chinese language and culture. Provides a demystifying overview of Chinese from a linguistic, historical and social perspective." --Omniglot.com blog"Excellent overview of the Chinese language. It's perfect for a reader with some knowledge of linguistic terms, but it's definitely written for a layman. It has tons of examples and really whetted my appetite to learn more." —Goodreads

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Book SynopsisDeutsch: Na Klar! gives students everything they need to build a solid foundation in Introductory German, with its unique integration of authentic materials and targeted listening and speaking activities, contemporary culture and communicative building blocks. The Eighth Edition, available with Connect and LearnSmart, builds on the hallmark features of this program that support the core goals of the Introductory German course: A flexible approach that immerses students in German language and culture, designed to suit a wide variety of teaching styles, methodologies, and classrooms.  Engaging video interviews on a variety of chapter topics featuring speakers from varying backgrounds.  An emphasis on culture through a rich array of authentic visual and textual materials with accompanying activities anTable of ContentsPreface Einführung Kapitel 1 Das bin ich Kapitel 2 Wie ich wohne Kapitel 3 Familie und Freunde Kapitel 4 Mein Tag Kapitel 5 Einkaufen Kapitel 6 Wir gehen aus Kapitel 7 Freizeit und Sport Kapitel 8 Wie man fit und gesund bleibt Kapitel 9 In der Stadt Kapitel 10 Auf Reisen Kapitel 11 Der Start in die Zukunft Kapitel 12 Haus und Haushalt Kapitel 13 Medien und Technik Kapitel 14 Die öffentliche Meinung Appendix A Hin und her: Part 2 Appendix B Grammar Tables Vocabularies German-English Vocabulary English-German Vocabulary Index

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Book SynopsisThrough an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism. This title is also available as Open Access.Trade Review'This sweeping study clarifies our understanding of the role of language and authority in the Indian nation through Odia speakers' use of literature, education, politics, and identity. Anyone interested in the intersection of language politics and culture, along with its ties to nation and territory, should read Mishra's book.' Rosina Lozano, Princeton University, New Jersey'Intensely engaging, lucidly written and carefully drawn upon rich archival, historical and literary sources, Mishra presents a set of compelling arguments and theoretical insights while analysing the six decades of Odisha as a linguistic state formation. Language and the Making of Modern India shows how regional and national formations are not opposed but reproduce each other in multiple ways.' Asha Sarangi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India'Language and the Making of Modern India will be valuable to scholars of Indian vernacular politics, regionalism, nationalism, and citizenship. Mishra's is a pioneering study that shows how regional linguistic politics are crucial to understanding the history of citizenship in modern India, and how language became the crucial grounds for the constitution of the Indian national subject.' Farina Mir, University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction: nation in the vernacular; 1. How the vernacular became regional; 2. Vernacular publics: a modern Odia readership imagined; 3. The Odia political subject and the rise of the Odia movement; 4. Odisha as vernacular homeland; 5. The invisible minority: history and the problem of the Adivasi; 6. The genius of India: linguistic difference, regionalism and the Indian nation; Postscript.

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Book SynopsisThis long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Martha Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40% of which are unique to these painted manuscripts, and discuss current and past interpretations of these graphemes.

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Book SynopsisDieser Band der Gesammelten Schriften von Friedrich A. von Hayek kann - neben der Verfassung der Freiheit - als das zweite Hauptwerk des bedeutenden Ökonomen und Sozialphilosophen gelten. Es ist die Einzelveröffentlichung, die den besten Überblick über sein gesamtes theoretisches Werk bietet. Sie umfaßt Hayeks allgemein sozial- und rechtsphilosophische Überlegungen zu den Grundlagen sozialer Ordnung, seine Theorie der spontanen Ordnung und der kulturellen Evolution, seine politische Ökonomie der Ordnung des Marktes und seine Diagnose der Gefährdungen dieser Ordnung, ebenso wie seine politische Philosophie der institutionellen Grundlagen einer freien Gesellschaft und seine Analyse zeitgenössischer Demokratie. Das Werk erschien in drei Bänden auf Englisch 1973, 1976 und 1979, eine deutsche Übersetzung erschien ebenfalls in drei Bänden 1980 und 1981. Für diese einbändige Ausgabe wurde es von Monika Streissler neu ins Deutsche übersetzt.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Humboldt's profound study is one of the classics of linguistic theory, a work of great insight and originality, of deep significance for the study of language and of human psychology and culture. His concept of linguistic forms and his ideas concerning linguistic creativiety are particularly fascinating and provocative, and of great contemporary interest." * Noam Chomsky *"This treatise, in our open and covert pro and con, has ever since determined the course of all subsequent philology and philosophy of language. . . . Astounding, obscure, and yet continuously stimulating." * Martin Heidegger *Table of ContentsNote to the Translation Translator's Foreword Preface by Alexander von Humboldt Transliteration of Foreign Alphabets Objective of the Present Treatise 1. The Course of Human Development 2. Effect of Exceptional Intellectual Power: Civilization, Culture, and Education 3. Cooperation of Individuals and Nations 4. A More Detailed Consideration of Language 5. Morphology of Languages 6. Nature and Properties of Language 7. The Phonetic System of Languages 8. Internal Linguistic Morphology and Structure 9. The Relationship of Phonemic Quantity to Intellectual Concept 10. The Linguistic Process: Etymology and Morphology 11. Isolation, Inflection, and Agglutination of Words 12 The Word Unit: The Incorporative Capacity of Language 13. Accentuation 14. The Incorporative System of Languages: Syntactical Sentence Components 15. Congruence of Phonetic Patterns of Languages with Grammatical Requirements 16. Structural Differences Between Languages 17. The Character of Languages 18. Independent Synthesis in Languages 19. A Review of the Present Investigation 20. Less Developed Linguistic Structure: The Semitic and Delaware Indian Languages 21. Less Developed Linguistic Structure: The Chinese and Burmese Languages 22. The Origin of Polysyllabic Structure Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, ScottTrade Review"[Philosophy of Language] covers an impressive number of controversies in philosophy of language. And it does that in a nontechnical way that is likely to prove attractive to many instructors in the field."--Choice "[T]his is, in my view, a very valuable (though not at all introductory) overview, from a particular perspective, to be sure, of the trajectory on the philosophy of language from Frege to the present... [I]t covers a remarkable amount of ground in a short space, both presenting and contributing to an important network of themes that have shaped the philosophical study of language in the analytic tradition."--Kirk Ludwig, PhilosophiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART ONE: A Century of Work in the Philosophy of Language Chapter One: The Logical Study of Language 7 1.1 Gottlob Frege--Origins of the Modern Enterprise 7 1.11 Foundations of Philosophical Semantics 7 1.12 Frege's Distinction between Sense and Reference 8 1.13 The Compositionality of Sense and Reference 10 1.14 Frege's Hierarchy of Indirect Senses and Referents 13 1.15 The Semantic Importance of Frege's Platonist Epistemology 15 1.16 Potential Problems and Alternative Analyses 16 1.17 The Fregean Legacy 20 1.2 Bertrand Russell: Fundamental Themes 20 1.21 Quantification, Propositions, and Propositional Functions 20 1.22 Generalized Quantifiers 23 1.23 Denoting Phrases, Definite Descriptions, and Logical Form 24 1.24 Russell's Theory of Scope 26 1.25 Thought, Meaning, Acquaintance, and Logically Proper Names 28 1.26 Existence and Negative Existentials 30 Selected Further Reading 32 Chapter Two: Truth, Interpretation, and Meaning 33 2.1 The Importance of Tarski 33 2.11 Truth, Models, and Logical Consequence 33 2.12 The Significance of Tarski for the Philosophy of Language 38 2.2 Rudolf Carnap's Embrace of Truth-Theoretic Semantics 41 2.3 The Semantic Approach of Donald Davidson 45 Selected Further Reading 49 Chapter Three: Meaning, Modality, and Possible Worlds Semantics 50 3.1 Kripke-Style Possible Worlds Semantics 50 3.2 Robert Stalnaker and David Lewis on Counterfactuals 56 3.3 The Montagovian Vision 63 Selected Further Reading 75 Chapter Four: Rigid Designation, Direct Reference, and Indexicality 77 4.1 Background 77 4.2 Kripke on Names, Natural Kind Terms, and Necessity 78 4.21 Rigid Designation, Essentialism, and Nonlinguistic Necessity 78 4.22 The Nondescriptive Semantics of Names 80 4.23 Natural Kind Terms 88 4.24 Kripke's Essentialist Route to the Necessary Aposteriori 91 4.3 Kaplan on Direct Reference and Indexicality 93 4.31 Significance: The Tension between Logic and Semantics 93 4.32 The Basic Structure of the Logic of Demonstratives 94 4.33 Direct Reference and Rigid Designation 97 4.34 'Dthat' and 'Actually' 99 4.35 English Demonstratives vs.'Dthat'-Rigidified Descriptions 100 4.36 Final Assessment 104 Selected Further Reading 105 PART TWO : New Directions Chapter Five: The Metaphysics of Meaning: Propositions and Possible Worlds 109 5.1 Loci of Controversy 109 5.2 Propositions 111 5.21 Why We Need Them and Why Theories of Truth Conditions Can't Provide Them 111 5.22 Why Traditional Propositions Won't Do 113 5.23 Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Propositions 116 5.231 The Deflationary Approach 117 5.232 The Cognitive-Realist Approach 121 5.3 Possible World-States 123 5.31 How to Understand Possible World-States 123 5.32 The Relationship between Modal and Nonmodal Truths 126 5.33 Our Knowledge of World-States 126 5.34 Existent and Nonexistent World-States 128 5.35 The Function of World-States in Our Theories 129 Selected Further Reading 130 Chapter Six: Apriority, Aposteriority, and Actuality 131 6.1 Language, Philosophy, and the Modalities 131 6.2 Apriority and Actuality 132 6.21 Apriori Knowledge of the Truth of Aposteriori Propositions at the Actual World-State 132 6.22 The Contingent Apriori and the Apriori Equivalence of P and the Proposition That P Is True at @ 134 6.23 Why Apriority Isn't Closed under Apriori Consequence: Two Ways of Knowing @ 135 6.24 Apriori Truths That Are Known Only Aposteriori 136 6.25 Apriority and Epistemic Possibility 137 6.26 Are Singular Thoughts Instances of the Contingent Apriori? 140 6.3 'Actually' 142 Selected Further Reading 143 Chapter Seven: The Limits of Meaning 145 7.1 The Traditional Conception of Meaning, Thought, Assertion, and Implicature 145 7.2 Challenges to the Traditional Conception 147 7.21 Demonstratives: A Revision of Kaplan 147 7.22 Incomplete Descriptions, Quantifiers, and Context 151 7.23 Pragmatic Enrichment and Incomplete Semantic Contents 155 7.231 Implicature, Impliciture, and Assertion 155 7.232 Pervasive Incompleteness? Possessives, Compound Nominals, and Temporal Modification 158 7.3 A New Conception of the Relationship between Meaning, Thought, Assertion, and Implicature 163 7.31 The Guiding Principle 163 7.32 Demonstratives and Incomplete Descriptions Revisited 164 7.33 Names and Propositional Attitudes 168 7.4 What Is Meaning? The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics 171 Selected Further Reading 173 References 175 Index 187

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Book SynopsisShared, posted, tweeted, commented upon, and discussed online as well as off-line, internet memes represent a new genre of online communication, and an understanding of their production, dissemination, and implications in the real world enables an improved ability to navigate digital culture. This book explores cases of cultural, economic, and political critique levied by the purposeful production and consumption of internet memes. Often images, animated GIFs, or videos are remixed in such a way to incorporate intertextual references, quite frequently to popular culture, alongside a joke or critique of some aspect of the human experience. Ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality coalesce in the book's argument that internet memes represent a new form of meaning-making, and the rapidity by which they are produced and spread underscores their importance.Table of ContentsPart 1: Conceptual Voices 1. The Selfish Gene Revisited: Affordances and Constraints of Dawkins’ Meme 2. Internet Memes in Current and Future Academic Research 3. A New Genre of Online Communication Part 2: Application and Case Studies 4. Politics 5. Public Relations 6. Consumer Activism 7. Audiences Part 3: Historical Antecedents 8. Pre-Digital Memetic Counterparts 9. Remix Culture, Past-Present-Future Part 4: Coda 10. Why Memes Matter and Why They Will Remain Relevant

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Book SynopsisProvides advanced introductions to the main areas of study in contemporary Applied Linguistics, with a principal focus on the theory and practice of language teaching and language learning and on the processes and problems of language in use.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students studying linguistics, applied linguistics, education, or language teaching, this textbook explores how second language and bilingual learners master challenging grammatical areas in English, Spanish, and other languages in the classroom.Trade Review'This textbook will equip the next generation of researchers and practitioners for optimized intervention studies. Informed by the state of the art, it discusses which types of information can be useful to the language learner, identifies remaining gaps in evidence, and suggests promising techniques to investigate them. The extensive and clearly illustrated glossary of linguistic terms is a great pedagogical resource in itself.' Cecile De Cat, University of Leeds'Many in academia talk about the importance of cross-pollination and interdisciplinarity, but few offer a model on how to do it. This book does, offering an accessible introduction appropriate for advanced students, practitioners, and researchers alike. It succeeds in combining theoretical research and intervention research, paving a new way forward in SLA. Each chapter provides thought-provoking, open-ended discussion questions that are certain to inspire linguistic discovery.' Timothy Gupton, University of Georgia'An innovative textbook with comprehensive explanations of linguistic and second language acquisition theories, as well as their connection to second language development and foreign language teaching in the real world. Highly recommended for students, language teachers, and researchers who want a solid foundation for what we currently know about the effects of intervention on grammatical knowledge in L2 acquisition.' Makiko Hirakawa, Chuo University, Japan'Written with the unmistakable erudition and clarity that characterizes the authors' work, this volume is an important - even necessary - read. It brings together research from multiple perspectives to answer the crucial question of whether classroom instruction aids the L2 acquisition process – and how it might do so more effectively. This volume is sure to become a touchstone in the field.' Tania Leal, University of Arizona'I applaud Ionin and Montrul for doing an excellent job in approaching the topic in such an accessible way. Written in plain language, this book makes an essential read for upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students who are interested in linguistics, SLA, and language teaching. It is an ideal text for graduate students who are seeking an all-round knowledge of grammar instruction, and for researchers who plan to conduct experimental intervention research in the lab or in the classroom.' Jie Zhang, University of Oklahoma'Ionin and Montrul have successfully blended theoretical research in SLA and second language pedagogy. Each section presents a thorough, yet accessible, summary of the research as it relates to linguistic structures in second language acquisition. The discussion and application questions are well designed for emerging SLA researchers, and will most certainly benefit advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students.' Suzanne Johnston, University of Central Arkansas'This book is a timely contribution to the field, bridging the gap between SLA research and language teaching practice. By focusing on specific form-meaning mappings in the core area of morphosyntax and semantics, and by presenting the intervention research in an accessible and systematic manner, this book provides a valuable resource to both SLA and language pedagogy researchers. It offers theoretical foundations, research methodological skills, and non-trivial findings that can guide effective language teaching for both second language learners and heritage learners in a variety of instructional settings.' EunHee Lee, University at Buffalo, The SUNY'Ionin and Montrul have produced an invaluable resource at the intersection of linguistics, SLA, and language pedagogy. It provides a lot of food for thought across the research-practice divide. Practitioners are introduced to pedagogical insights from theoretical SLA. Linguists are challenged to consider practical learning issues and applications of acquisition research.' Tom Rankin, Masaryk University, Czech Republic'A much needed, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to classroom research that has its basis in theories of theoretical linguistics and second language acquisition. Readers will obtain a solid grounding in intervention research, and a foundation for carrying out such research themselves. Anyone interested in linking theory and language teaching will find this book to be invaluable.' Lydia White, McGill University, MontréalTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements, Abbreviations used in glosses for non-English examples; 1. Theoretical foundations; 2. Intervention research and grammar teaching; 3. Articles; 4. Verb placement and question formation; 5. Inflectional morphology; 6. Subjunctive mood; 7. Argument structure; 8. Direct and indirect objects; 9. Word order and related syntactic phenomena; 10. Where to go next; Glossary; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe clear and easy way to understand the science behind speech Phonetics is the scientific study of speech sounds, and deals with how people produce speech and hear specific speech features.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Phonetics 7 Chapter 1: Understanding the A-B-Cs of Phonetics 9 Chapter 2: The Lowdown on the Science of Speech Sounds 15 Chapter 3: Meeting the IPA: Your New Secret Code 37 Chapter 4: Producing Speech: The How-To 51 Chapter 5: Classifying Speech Sounds: Your Gateway to Phonology 73 Part II: Speculating about English Speech Sounds 91 Chapter 6: Sounding Out English Consonants 93 Chapter 7: Sounding Out English Vowels 107 Chapter 8: Getting Narrow with Phonology 123 Chapter 9: Perusing the Phonological Rules of English 131 Chapter 10: Grasping the Melody of Language 145 Chapter 11: Marking Melody in Your Transcription 157 Part III: Having a Blast: Sound, Waveforms, and Speech Movement 169 Chapter 12: Making Waves: An Overview of Sound 171 Chapter 13: Reading a Sound Spectrogram 191 Chapter 14: Confirming That You Just Said What I Thought You Said 219 Part IV: Going Global with Phonetics 235 Chapter 15: Exploring Different Speech Sources 237 Chapter 16: Visiting Other Places, Other Manners 253 Chapter 17: Coming from the Mouths of Babes 277 Chapter 18: Accentuating Accents 291 Chapter 19: Working with Broken Speech 315 Part V: The Part of Tens 333 Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes That Beginning Phoneticians Make and How to Avoid Them 335 Chapter 21: Debunking Ten Myths about Various English Accents 341 Index 347

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Part I. Language and Translanguaging 1. Language, Languaging and Bilingualism 2. The Translanguaging Turn and its Impact Part II. Education and Translanguaging 3. Language, Bilingualism and Education 4. Translanguaging and Education 5. Translanguaging to Learn 6. Translanguaging to Teach 7. Translanguaging in Education: Principles, Implications, Challenges ConclusionTrade Review“This book constitutes a challenge to traditional and established ways of understanding education in our increasingly diverse and globalized world. For researchers in the field of bilingualism and multilingualism the book attempts to describe and provide support for a term that goes beyond the description of multilingual language practices. Monolingual ideological stances strongly affect how many applied linguists and sociolinguists discuss bilingualism and multilingualism. This book is an absolute must-read for those who seek to adopt a more critical perspective.” (Melissa Moyer, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol. 20, 2016)"Ofelia García and Li Wei have just managed to write the book that will definitely inscribe the concept of 'translanguaging' in the heuristic landscape of Language Education." -Language and Intercultural Communication "Garcia and Wei effectively argue that translanguaging is clearly a process that advocates for polymorphus language learners and is indeed worth serious consideration in our current educational system.' - HispaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Language and Translanguaging 1. Language, Languaging and Bilingualism 2. The Translanguaging Turn and its Impact Part II. Education and Translanguaging 3. Language, Bilingualism and Education 4. Translanguaging and Education 5. Translanguaging to Learn 6. Translanguaging to Teach 7. Translanguaging in Education: Principles, Implications, Challenges Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBy taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the process of managing relations across cultures. With research-based examples and student friendly features, it provides a groundbreaking analytic framework for understanding intercultural relations, and offers important new insights for researchers, students and practitioners.Trade Review'With a firm focus on the negotiation of relationships in context, Helen Spencer-Oatey and Daniel Kadar provide an immensely useful discussion of theory, methodology, and applications in intercultural research on politeness. Their analyses draw on their extensive research experience and are illuminated by data from a wide range of sources, making this an engaging text which researchers, practitioners and students will find stimulating.' Janet Holmes, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington'This is an extraordinarily rich textbook on the cross-cultural management of interpersonal relationships, embedded in a state-of-the-art knowledge of recent research on the impact of our many cultural identities on how we communicate with others and the cooperative or conflictual results that follow. Both authors are recognized scholars in their respective areas of social psychology and in linguistic pragmatics but also have extensive experience in living and working successfully across cultural lines. Their academic backgrounds and personal experience produce a book that is both sophisticated in its appreciation of culture and practical in its application to the real world of interacting across cultural lines. Reading this book would be informative and enlightening to academics and students in the disciplines of social psychology, intercultural communication, discourse analysis and socio-pragmatics, as well as to professionals working in contexts of cultural diversity. Eminently readable and readily applicable.' Michael Harris Bond, Hong Kong Polytechnic University'This wide-ranging multidisciplinary collation of research over-layered with original thinking is a jaw-droppingly impressive achievement. Both theoretical and applied, we (researchers, practitioners, students) are guided by the authors through the complexities of intercultural politeness with an easy yet assured hand, assisted by copious examples, diagrams and clarity of writing. This is a book that will reverberate through scholarship for many years to come.' Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University'Emphasizing interpersonal relationships in intercultural settings, the authors offer an elegant integration of theoretical inputs, empirical evidences, concrete experiential examples, and practical reflections questions on intercultural politeness. The book is a timely contribution to our world that is in need of enhanced competences for intercultural connection.' Yih-Teen Lee, IESE Business School, University of Navarra'As the world becomes a global village through increased intercultural contacts amidst the complexities of ethnic discriminations wrought by Covid-19 (Kulich et al, in press) the book Intercultural Politeness couldn't have come out at a better time. This book provides a thorough analysis of managing intercultural relations across cultures. Aside from their excellent pedagogical approach in laying bare the complex concepts of culture, politeness and intercultural relations, Spencer-Oatey and Kádár draw upon several experiential anecdotes from their travels and sojourns across the globe to make the issues real and timely. In two words, I will describe this book as 'interesting and educative'. The authors do an excellent job in taking the reader on a discovery journey. Across the 17 chapters, the authors take the reader from the barest rudimentary level to a rock-solid foundation of the intricacies of managing intercultural relations of modern societies. The reader simply cannot miss the finesse in the building blocks that the authors use when they intersperse each chapter with boxes of research report excerpts and their personal encounters. These research reports will undoubtedly wet any reader's appetite for going to the original source. The book is absolutely a must-read textbook by anyone interested in understanding intercultural relations.' David Sam, University of Bergen, Norway'If you are interested in a culture-sensitive and situationally-attuning scholarly book that weaves the domains of linguistic pragmatics, intercultural communication, and cross-cultural psychology seamlessly, read this book! Through a rigorous examination of the different approaches that contribute to an understanding of the various intercultural encountering processes, Dr Spencer-Oatey and Dr Kádár have succeeded in telling a compelling story of the multilayered dynamics of intercultural politeness and (im)politeness. Presenting extensive intercultural critical incidents, experiential discourse examples, and well-analysed research schemas, the book helps promote competent relationship-building sensibilities across cultures.' Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University, Fullerton, USA'Aware of diverse approaches to trans-, cross-, or inter-cultural communications, Helen Spencer-Oatey and Dániel Kádár remind us that no matter what our framework or approach, successful interactions happen when satisfying relationships are fostered, established, and maintained, and that 'intercultural politeness' is often a key part of those. Moving beyond classic 'politeness theory,' this work integrates a wide range of frameworks, provides data, and offers in-depth insights into the dynamics of politeness in different cultural contexts. The authors insightfully apply these to contexts like the workplace, small talk, intercultural friendships, as well how emics like guanxi are worked out in assumed etics like intercultural competence. Masterful, concise, and compelling - a must read for anyone who values a research base to enjoy better relationships!' Steve Kulich, President, The International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR)'The book is intended for researchers into intercultural theory, pragmatics and conflict research but is also relevant for intercultural trainers and language teachers. Each chapter ends with a summary and some with questions for reflection and discussion in class.' Maurice Cassidy, Training, Language and Culture'… a much-needed book … In our current globalised world, it could be argued that anyone could benefit from this book!' Dely L Elliot, Social Psychological Review'… the book appropriate for advanced students, scholars, and intercultural trainers.' L. B. Jabs, ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Conceptual Foundations: 2. Conceptualising politeness; 3. Conceptualising culture; Part II. Evaluating Politeness across Cultures: 4. Overview of the politeness evaluation process; 5. Contextual assessments and culture; 6. Norms, expectations and culture; 7. Evaluation warrant 1: culture and the bases of rapport; 8. Evaluation warrant 2: culture and conceptions of the socio-moral order; 9. Making judgements and culture; 10. Application: data analysis sample and practice; Part III. Managing Politeness across Cultures: 11. Managing politeness across cultures: an overview; 12. Responding to offencess and restoring relations; 13. Dealing with disagreement and conflict; 14. Maintaining smooth intercultural relations; 15. Initiating and fostering positive intercultural relations; Part IV. Implications and Concluding Comments: 16. Implications for politeness theory; 17. Implications for the intercultural field.

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Book SynopsisPhonics helps you learn to read and spell. Words are like codes and phonics teaches children how tocrack the reading code. Phonics is indeed an important part of any reading development programme.• Phonics teaching is often referred to as ‘synthetic phonics’.• Phonics helps teach children the sounds made by individual groups, for example, the letter ‘c’makes a 'k' sound.• It trains children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word, for example,blending the sounds 'k', 'a', 't' makes CAT.This book is ideally meant for children from ages 3–8. However, do remember that children aremade readers on the laps of the parents and with the nurturing of the alma mater. Grab thisbook—it’s the best thing you can do to make children pronounce correctly.

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Book SynopsisMiryam Segal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures at Queens College, The City University of New York.

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