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Yale University Press Yidish af Yidish Grammatical Lexical and Conversational Materials for 2nd and 3rd Years of Study
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Yale University Press The Dawn of Slavic
Trade ReviewSelected as a 1996 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice MagazineWinner of the Modern Language Association’s 1997 second biennial Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures"Schenker's years of experience in the classroom are apparent on every page. His scholarship is impeccable; his erudition, formidable. He tells the Slavic story as well as it has ever been told. The Dawn of Slavic is bound to become a classic."—Michael S. Flier, Harvard University
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Yale University Press Advanced Chinese
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Springer Discourse and Behavior
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Springer Markedness
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Springer Language Proficiency Defining Teaching and Testing Cognition and Language
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Springer Us American and Chinese Perceptions and Belief Systems A Peoples Republic of ChinaTaiwanese Comparison Cognition and Language A Series in Psycholinguistics
Book Synopsis1. Psycho-cultural factors in communication.- 2. Family.- 3. National images.- 4. Religion.- 5. Economy.- 6. Education.- References.Table of ContentsPsychocultural Factors in Communication. National Images. Religion. Economy. Education. Appendix: The Association Group Analysis Method.
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St Martin's Press Watch Your Fcking Language
Book SynopsisFor Johnson, swearing is essential to effective communication. With this in mind, he has developed this hilarious guidebook on how to curse effectively in detail, with numerous examples taken from everyday life.
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St Martin's Press The Story of French
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Springer Planning Chinese Characters Reaction Evolution or Revolution 9 Language Policy
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Springer Progress In Speech Synthesis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exploring the Language of Drama
Book SynopsisExploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters: open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse focus on the notion of speech as action there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment Table of ContentsNotes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. From dramatic text to dramatic performance, 3. Turn management in drama, 4. Odd talk: studying discourses of incongruity, 5. Implicature, convention and The Taming of the Shrew, 6. Accessing character through conversation: Tom Stoppard’s Professional Foul, 7. (Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue, 8. ‘Catch[ing] the nearest way’: Macbeth and cognitive metaphor, 9. Three models of power in David Mamet’s Oleanna, 10. ‘Unhappy’ confessions in The Crucible: a pragmatic explanation, 11. The give and take of talk, and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, 12. Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn’s The Revengers’ Comedies, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conceptualizing Metaphors On Charles Peirces
Book SynopsisThe enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be the only useful approach to the riddle of reality.This book represents an attempt to outline an analytical method based on Charles Peirceâs least explored branch of philosophy, which is his evolutionary cosmology, and his notion that the universe is made of an âeffete mind.â The chief argument conceives of human discourse as a giant metaphor in regard to outside reality. The metaphors arise in our imagination as lightning-fast schemes for acting, speaking, or thinking. To illustrate this, each chapter will present a well-known metaphor and explain how it is unfolded and conceptualized according to the new method for revealing meaning.This original work will interest students and scholars in many fields including semiotics, linguistics and philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface Conceptualizing Metaphors (Introduction) 1. The Theoretical Framework of the Forsaken Ideas 2. The Categories, The Ground and The Silent Effects 3. Unlimited Semiosis and Heteroglossia (C.S. Peirce and M.M. Bakhtin) 4. The Living Mind and the Effete Mind 5. The Iceberg and The Crystal Mind 6. The Missing Notion of Subjectivity in Charles Peirce’s Philosophy 7. The Unpredictable Past 8. The Quiet Discourse (Some Aspects of Representation in C. Peirce's Concept of Consciousness) 9. One-man-tango 10. How Is Meaning Possible? Appendix: Ivan Sarailiev – An Early Bulgarian Contributor to Pragmatism Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing Performative Pragmatics
Book SynopsisThis user-friendly introduction to a new performative' methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of action-oriented approaches' from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Paul Grice, Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman.Paying particular attention to language as drama, the group regulation of language use, individual resistance to these regulatory pressures and nonverbal communication, the work also explains groundbreaking concepts and analytical models.With a key points section, discussion questions and exercises in every chapter, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and teachers on a variety of courses, including linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication.Table of ContentsPreface. The Structure of the Book. Acknowledgments. List of Tables Part 1: Introduction 1. Metaphors of Language 2. Histories of Linguistics Part 2: Speech Acts 3. Performatives: Words That Transform Reality 4. Types of Speech Act 5. Creating Context 6. Taking Turns Part 3: Implicatures 7. Manipulating Maxims 8. Divergent Maxims 9. Conversational Invocature. Works Cited. Index
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Cambridge University Press The Forms of Narrative
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iUniverse Funs of Chinese Characters
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iUniverse A Fresh Look at American English A Weird and Wonderful Language
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iUniverse Heart Treasures Activating Word Dynamics For Successful Living
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iUniverse UnpeacefulMetaphors
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iUniverse A Universal Language for Mankind IDIRL
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iUniverse Conversation With The WordMan And Other Words on Words
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iUniverse Sound Business The Reality of Chinese Characters
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iUniverse IBOS OF NIGERIA AND THEIR CULTURAL WAYS Aspects of Behavior Attitudes Customs Language and Social Life
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iUniverse A Universal Language for Mankind
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Simon & Schuster Larousse French English Dictionary
Book SynopsisFRENCH-ENGLISH ENGLISH-FRENCH Entirely revised and updated, this is the most affordable and complete French-English English-French dictionary of its kind. Now easier to read and access, with more than 50,000 definitions, it is designed expressly for the widest possible variety of interests and professions -- students, teachers, travelers, and home and office libraries. You''ll find keys to pronunciation, idioms, conjugations, and more, in both languages -- all here, in the finest resource of its kind. FRANÇAIS-ANGLAIS ANGLAIS-FRANÇAIS Avec cette édition entièrement refondue et actualisée, découvrez le dictionnaire français-anglais anglais-français à la fois le plus complet et le plus économique de sa génération. Plus facile à consulter que jamais tout en offrant plus de 50 000 mots et expressions, il est utilisable par tous, en contexte scolaire aussi bien qu''en voyage, chez soi ou au bureau. De précieuses indications sur les difficultés des deux langues (prononciation, conjugaison, tournures idiomatiques...et bien plus encore) contribuent
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Simon & Schuster Ltd BenYehudas Pocket EnglishHebrew HebrewEnglish
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and compact dictionary from the son of the father of modern Hebrew. Designed expressly for the widest possible variety of interests and professions—for students, teachers, travelers, and home and office libraries—this dictionary is derived from the eight-volume Dictionary and Thesaurus of the Hebrew Language by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. In this dictionary you will find over 30,000 vocabulary entries, alphabetically arranged, a thorough and accessible explanation of grammar, including tables of irregular verbs, keys to proper pronunciation, abbreviations, up-to-date technical terms, examples of idiomatic usage, tables of numerals, weights, measures and currency, and much more.
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions Modern propensities or an essay on the art of strangling Illustrated with several anecdotes with Memoirs of Susannah Hill and a summary of her on the charge of hanging Francis Kotzwarra
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Continnuum-3PL Elementary Latin Translation Latin language
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Latin text, with notes in English.Table of ContentsIntroductory Exercises, A-H Exercises 1-96 Special Vocabularies General Vocabulary
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Penguin Putnam Inc Because Internet
Book SynopsisAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone''s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who''s ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It''s the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that''s a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity''s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Interne
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Much Ado About Nonexistence Fiction and Reference
Book SynopsisFiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth.Trade ReviewRejecting standard presuppositions that have guided much of the debate about fictional discourse, Stroll and Martinich offer a novel approach to fictional discourse—indeed, theirs is clearly the most developed and important ordinary language-style treatment of fictional discourse available. This is essential reading for anyone interested in fictional discourse, and also will be relevant to those with broader concerns about meaning and reference and the relation between fiction and history. -- Amie Thomasson, University of MiamiAn interesting, enlightening book. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and up. * CHOICE, Vol. 45 No. 6 (February 2008) *A. P. Martinich and Avrum Stroll have written a crisply argued and fascinating book about fiction and reference. Clear and penetrating, the book performs its two tasks—as a study in the philosophy of language of the nature of reference and a defense of a conception of fictional discourse—in such a way that students are bound to learn a great deal about both. It will serve as an excellent survey of some major developments in twentieth century philosophy of language as well as a providing a compelling view of what fictional discourse is. -- Michael L. Morgan, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Philosophy, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Fiction and Reference Chapter 2 A Theory of Fiction Chapter 3 Pretense and Fiction Chapter 4 History and Fiction Part 5 Part II: Reference and Non-Existence Chapter 6 Fiction and Reference Again Chapter 7 Direct Reference Theories and Natural Kinds
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Polity Press Talk and Social Theory
Book SynopsisTalk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. introduces the study of ''talk'' linked to social theory; develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk; the use of everyday examples - a family dinner table, a school classroom, an academic advising session in an community college - enhances the book's appeal to a non-specialist as well as a specialist audience; reviews the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in social theory and in the sociolinguistic study of talk. Trade Review"This latest book by Erickson addresses an issue that is very timely and topical ... the puzzle it seeks to crack is one that has long haunted researchers in social sciences and related areas." Journal of Sociolinguistics "I cannot think of another social science scholar who has done more to move qualitative research and methodology in creative directions…among the most important contributions to social theory in recent years." Regina Smardon, University of Pennsylvania "Frederick Erickson is someone who illuminates details of talk and interaction. More than that, he illuminates where we stand in making sense of human life in terms of social theory. This is a book not to be missed." Dell Hymes, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsDedication. Preface. Acknowledgements. PART ONE: Examples of the conduct of talk. 1. Sketching the terrain. 2. Seventy-five dollars goes in a day. 3. I can make a "P". 4. You wrestlin’?. 5. He has no history of IVDA. PART TWO: Thinking about talk and social theory. 6. General perspectives on talk and social theory. 7 Toward a more practical theory of practices in talk. 8 Summing up. Further Reading. References. Index.
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Polity Press Towards an Ecology of World Languages
Book SynopsisThere are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfil various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers.Trade Review"A treasure-trove addition in the realm of ecolinguistics ... of interest not only to professional linguists – it is also a highly recommended textbook for students of linguistics." Jan Blommaert and Pan Lin, Journal of Sociolinguistics "This is an important book, original in its conception, provocative in its argument, accessible in its content. Given the growing interest in language diversity, the publication of this book in English will be of great value for students and scholars alike." Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford "Calvet’s ideas are great, and are as relevant today as ever." David Crystal, University of WalesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION: practices and representations 1. The ecology of languages The need for identity and its linguistic manifestations: endogenous and exogenous relexifications The graphic environment Dramatic change in a specific linguistic ecology: the example of Australia The political frontier and the ecolinguistic system The influence of the horse on European languages 98 A false conception of linguistic ecology: Bickerton's simulation project Conclusions 2. The galaxy of languages Constellations of languages The galactic model and linguistic policy: the example of the European Community The Hindi constellation The Bambara constellation The galaxy of writing systems Conclusions 3. Regulation and change: the homeostatic model An example of internal regulation: vernacular variants of French Of ships and languages: from Christopher Columbus to lingua franca Vernacularization as ecological acclimatization:varieties of French in Africa African argots and the ecolinguistic niche; the example of Bukavu Conclusions: acclimatization and acclimatation 4. Linguistic representations and change Linguistic insecurity and representations: a historical approach Some theoretical problems: a first approach Some problems of description Conclusions 5. Transmission and change The transmission of first languages and the myth of the mother tongue The case of creoles: upheaval in the ecolinguistic niche and linguistic change The transmission of gravitational systems Conclusion: evolution and revolution 6. Five case studies One name for several languages: Arabic schizoglossia Several names for one language: the example of Kituba One, two or three languages? The example of Serbo-Croat Kraemer: the invention of French in the socioprofessional context An ecological niche: the Island of St-Barthélemy CONCLUSION: Inventing language, giving it a name Notes Bibliography Index
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AuthorHouse The Phaistos Disc Alias the Minoan Calendar
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Brill The Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
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Springer The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Selected Essays 200 Synthese Library
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Springer The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Selected Essays 200 Synthese Library
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Springer Agreement and AntiAgreement A Syntax of Luiseo 17 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese 19 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Mind Meaning and Metaphysics
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Springer Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability 20 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability 20 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer On the Definition of Binding Domains in Spanish Evidence from Child Language 11 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Phrase Structure in Natural Language 21 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Phrase Structure in Natural Language 21 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer From Discourse to Logic Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory 42 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar 22 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Warlpiri MorphoSyntax A Lexicalist Approach 23 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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