Linguistics Books
The University of Chicago Press Readings in Linguistics I II
Book SynopsisThis volume, consisting of 19 articles from "Readings in Linguistics I" and 20 articles from "Readings in Linguistics II", constitutes a collection of papers in English, German and French on subjects of continuing interest to linguists of all schools.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Boswell Thesis Essays on Christianity Social
Book SynopsisBrings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book's immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. This book also includes discussions of John Boswell's career, including his influence among gay and lesbian Christians.
£89.30
The University of Chicago Press Elements of Acoustic Phonetics
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£27.00
The University of Chicago Press English Verb Classes and Alternations A
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£34.20
The University of Chicago Press A Latin Reader for Colleges
Book SynopsisSelections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Contacts Desired Gay and Lesbian Communications
Book SynopsisThe making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story.Trade Review"Martin Meeker's vivid account of the first gay guidebooks, newspapers, and publishing companies and of how early activists worked to change the mass media's representation of gay life provides an innovative new framework for analyzing the early gay movement and helps explain how San Francisco became the promised land to so many lesbians and gay men. This is a revelatory and utterly fascinating book." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York"
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Contacts Desired Gay and Lesbian Communications
Book SynopsisThe making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story.Trade Review"Martin Meeker's vivid account of the first gay guidebooks, newspapers, and publishing companies and of how early activists worked to change the mass media's representation of gay life provides an innovative new framework for analyzing the early gay movement and helps explain how San Francisco became the promised land to so many lesbians and gay men. This is a revelatory and utterly fascinating book." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Battle in the Mind Fields
Book SynopsisWe frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side. Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on a uniquely interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics, from nineteenth-century currents of thought in the mind sciences through to the origins of structuralism and the ruptures, both political and intellectual, in the years leading up to World War II. Seeking to explain where contemporary ideas in linguistics come from and how they have been justified, Battle in the Mind Fields investigates the porous interplay of concepts between psychology, philosophy, mathematical logic, and linguistics. Goldsmith and Laks trace theories of thought, self-consciousness, and language from the machine age obsession with mind and matter to the development of analytic philosophy, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, positivism, and structural linguistics, emphasizing throughout the synthesis and continuity that has brought about progress in our understanding of the human mind. Arguing that it is impossible to understand the history of any of these fields in isolation, Goldsmith and Laks suggest that the ruptures between them arose chiefly from social and institutional circumstances rather than a fundamental disparity of ideas.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted to
Book SynopsisMcCawley supplements his earlier book-which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic-with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta's work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determiners.
£49.40
The University of Chicago Press The Syntactic Phenomena of English
Book SynopsisA complete course in the syntactic structure of English. The edition offers coverage of areas such as appositive constructions, parasitic gaps and expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. It progresses from overview to major constructions and grammar with end-of-chapter exercises.
£66.50
The University of Chicago Press The Politics of Linguistics
Book SynopsisLinguists in the past two centuries have, for the most part, approached language as an autonomous entity; their practice has been to study languages without considering the culture, society, or beliefs of the speakers. Autonomous linguistics has been attacked from both the left and the right. Critics on the left (in particular Marxists) argue that the separation of language from its societal context reinforces the status quo by downplaying the role of language as an instrument of ideology and social control. Critics on the right object to the value-free analyses of individual languages required by the autonomous approach and to the idea that all languages merit equal attention.The Politics of Linguistics surveys two centuries of debate over autonomy. The discussion includes the political implications of the birth of the modern field of linguistics in the Romantic movement, the views of Marx and Engels on language, the attack on structural linguistics by both Hitler and Stalin, the role
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The University of Chicago Press Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
Book SynopsisThis volume proposes means of describing, comparing, and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, providing the foundations for a theory of diversity based upon popular science.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press HeadDriven Phrase Structure Grammar
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The University of Chicago Press The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other
Book SynopsisHow reliable are all those stories about the number of Eskimo words for snow? How can lamps, flags, and parrots be libelous? These and many other odd questions are typical topics in this collection of essays that present and occasionally zany, often wry, but always fascinating look at language and the people who study it.
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The University of Chicago Press Phonetic Symbol Guide
Book SynopsisThis is an encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the many characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages. It includes 61 new entries, an expanded glossary of phonetic terms, added symbol charts and an index.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Linguistic Turn Essays in Philosophical
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The University of Chicago Press On the Origin of Language
Book SynopsisThis volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book "Of Grammatology," and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Mother of Writing The Origin and Development of a
Book SynopsisIn February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people's long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as Mother (Source) of Writing. An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole. In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writi
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The University of Chicago Press Linguistic Diversity and National Unity Language
Book SynopsisUnlike other multi-ethnic nations, Thailand has maintained relative stability despite its 80 languages. In this study of the relations among politics, geography and language, Smalley shows how Thailand has maintained national unity through an elaborate social and linguistic hierarchy.
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The University of Chicago Press The Science of Character Human Objecthood and the
Book SynopsisThis series is designed to provide a detailed account of one of the major problems in the teaching of a second languagethe interference caused by structural differences between the native language of the learner and the foreign language he is studying. The similarities and differences between English and the language being taught are described in two volumes, one on the sound systems and one on the grammatical systems, for some of the foreign languages most in demand in the United States today.
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The University of Chicago Press Legal Language
Book SynopsisThis history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.
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The University of Chicago Press Written on Bamboo and Silk
Book SynopsisThis study traces the development of Chinese writing from the earliest inscriptions to the advent of printing, organizing its history with significant attention to the tools used for these acts. In this revised edition Edward L.Shaughnessy contributes a new introduction.Trade Review"This admirable monograph covers the whole field of epigraphy and the technique of human communication, including the origins and development of paper and the use of it for writing, down to the time of the invention of printing." - Journal of Asian Studies "The best study on the subject, this book should be recommended not only to students of book history and of Chinese culture, but to those in other disciplines who are seeking evidence of the early stages of communication in Chinese Civilization." - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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The University of Chicago Press What Proust Heard Novels and the Ethnography of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“What Proust Heard is the work of a scholar at the peak of his powers. Lucey offers an entirely new reading of Proust. This book helps us understand what novels—particularly Proust’s extraordinary novel of novels—can do to register and create social worlds. The result is a new genre of literary criticism that helps us understand how and why we experience reading (of all things) as a conversation outside our own heads.” * Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine *“Michael Lucey, an essayist esteemed for ground-breaking work on Balzac, Gide, Proust, and Colette, has opened up the world of literary criticism once again, this time through a rigorous investigation of the field of linguistic anthropology. That in itself is news. But the real achievement here is the way his synthesis of the two fields enables him to analyze the use of conversation in fiction, in authors with very different styles and intentions: Proust, Sarraute, and brilliantly, Rachel Cusk. I’ll never read or hear any of them the same way again.” * Alice Kaplan, Yale University *“From the formal patterns of Vinteuil’s musical compositions to the cries of the Paris street traders, what Proust heard and what with him the reader of A la recherche du temps perdu encounters, is one of the richest sound worlds of fiction since Rabelais. Above all there are the multiple registers of human speech, to the analysis of which Michel Lucey brings the conceptual tools of sociology and anthropology in the elaboration of what he calls an ‘ethnography of talk’. His account is a veritable tour de force in its mix of theoretical sophistication and close-up auditory attentiveness. It is a major contribution to our understanding of Proust’s great novel and more generally of the functioning of the novel as a literary genre. It is, in short, indispensable listening matter.” * Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge *"It is this Proust—the listener more than the dreamer—who interests Michael Lucey. The Proust Lucey evokes in What Proust Heard is a certain type of listener, someone who attends not only to words but also to how words function in particular interactions — what Lucey calls 'language-in-use.'" * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Readers of What Proust Heard will not only learn many fine-grained, incisive ways of speaking about speaking - social indexicality, meta-pragmatics, register shibboleths, footing - but stand to reconceive what it means to speak - 'the work that talk does' - both in novels and in the world." * L'Esprit Créateur *Table of ContentsOn Citations Introduction 1 Proust the Linguistic Anthropologist Interlude: Talk in Balzac and Eliot 2 Idiotic Speech (Acts?) and the Form of In Search of Lost Time Interlude: Harmonizing Habitus in Woolf 3 Proust and Bourdieu: Distinction and Form Interlude: Indexical Force in Sarraute and Cusk Conclusion: Animation and Statistics Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Anaphora and Conceptual Structure Cognitive
Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of the classic problem of constraints on pronominal anaphora within the framework of cognitive grammar. This work argues that these constraints can be explained in terms of semantic interactions between nominals and the contexts in which they are embedded.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Case of the Shrinking Friend A Gumboot Kids
Book SynopsisWhite extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it. "A fascinating study of the language of the law...This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role."--New Law Journal
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The University of Chicago Press When Words Lose Their Meaning Constitutions and
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McGill-Queen's University Press Negotiating Linguistic Plurality
Book SynopsisCultural and linguistic diversity and plurality are seen as markers of our time, linked to discourses about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the context of economic globalization in the late twentieth century. It is often monolingualism, however, that informs understanding and policies regulating the relationship between languages, nations, and communities.Grounded by the idea of language as lived experience, Negotiating Linguistic Plurality assumes linguistic plurality to be a continuing human condition and offers a novel transnational and comparative perspective on it. The essays featured cover concepts and praxis in which linguistic plurality surfaces in the public sphere through institutional and individual practices. The collection adopts a critical view of language policies and foregrounds distances and dissonances between policy and language practices by presenting lived experiences of multilingualism. Translation, seen as constitutive to the relations inherentTrade Review“This strong collection offers perspectives on multilingualism and linguistic plurality that are purposefully disparate – moving across different orders of expression (policy, conversations in daily life, Indigenous wisdom) – to present an innovative approach to investigating plurilingualism.” Sherry Simon, Concordia University“The collection brings together a varied group of international social scientists who contribute to a growing literature on current approaches and debates in the study of linguistic plurality, regarding both the ways in which it unfolds and is transacted in general, and specifically how it is negotiated via translation. … thought-provoking and a good read … an important source of knowledge for linguistic experts, social scientists, policy-makers, and researchers.” South Asian Diaspora
£62.90
Columbia University Press Serendipities Language Lunacy
Book SynopsisIn a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities----unanticipated truths----often spring from mistaken ideas. Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America.Trade ReviewEco cajoles his readers to go out and learn more, and perhaps, to disagree with him. -- Scott Gordon The Daily Yomiuri Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous... The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions. The Atlantic Fans of Eco's novels will not be left dissatisfied--his fictional players are still present: Templars, Illuminati, Jesuits, Theosophists, and Masons. They all have a part in this intriguing look at how the study of language can be full of surprises. Booklist Rich in historical anecdotes... Throughout, his treatments are informative, intellectually sophisticated, and thoroughly entertaining. Library Journal This collection will certainly appeal to specialists. But Eco's ability to balance technical subject matter with broadly intelligible anecdotes and illustrations should make it valuable and pleasurable for anyone seeking a gallant introduction to the philosophy of language. Publishers Weekly Eco's insistent curiosity, his vital imagination and his almost overwhelming erudition work together like forces of nature to push and pull the book's five essays in unpredictable directions. Review of Contemporary Fiction These essays are equally entertaining and unusual. Scotland on Sunday Informative, instructive, and entertaining. World Literature TodayTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Force of Falsity 2. Languages in Paradise 3. From Marco Polo to Leibniz: Stories of Intellectual Misunderstandings 4. The Language of the Austral Land 5. The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Killing the Messenger 100 Years of Media
Book SynopsisA resource for readers who want to experience the media criticism. It includes selections chosen from magazines, journals, official reports, and public speeches and covers a range of issues: the inadequacy of the press to police themselves, the importance of ethics and training, the problem of bias and sensationalism, and the threat of censorship.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1. Reporting on Public and Private Matters The Right to Privacy, by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis Editorials from the Emporia Gazette, 1901-1921, by William Allen White The Press and the Individual, by George Seldes Part 2. The Power of the Press and How to Curb It The American Newspaper: A Study of Journalism in Relation to the Public, by Will Irwin Selection from The Brass Check, by Upton Sinclair Selection from the "Report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press", by Robert Maynard Hutchins The End of Free Lunch, by A. J. Liebling Part 3. Journalists and Their Biases-Conscious or Not? The Man with the Muckrake, by Theodore Roosevelt Speeches on the Media, by Spiro Agnew The Presidency and the Press, by Daniel P. Moynihan A Test of the News, by Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz Part 4. Telling Stories: Facts, Truth, and the News Writing News and Telling Stories, by Robert Darnton Newspapers and the Truth, by Frederick Lewis Allen The Legend on the License, by John Hersey Part 5. Making the Press Professional Selections from the College of Journalism, by Joseph Pulitzer The Social Composition of Washington Correspondents, by Leo C. Rosten The Role of the Mass Media in Reporting of News about Minorities, by Commission on Civil Disorders Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Watchdog Journalism in South America News
Book SynopsisArguing that critical reporting in South America can be better understood as watchdog journalism than as investigative reporting of the American or European variety, this text examines the country's historical absence of a critical press and discusses the evolution of journalistic culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Investigative Reporting and Watchdog Journalism I. The Mainstreaming of Watchdog Journalism 1. The Dogs That Didn't Bark 2. The Barks 3. Why Watchdogs Bark II. The Social Organization and Culture of Newsmaking 4. The Politics of Sources 5. Parallel Ideals: Facticity and Objectivity in ExposCs 6. Professional Crusaders: The Politics of Professional Journalism III. Watchdog Journalism and the Quality of Democracy 7. Can Watchdog Journalism Tell the Truth? 8. Watchdog Journalism and Democratic Accountability Conclusion
£80.00
Columbia University Press Watchdog Journalism in South America
Book SynopsisArguing that critical reporting in South America can be better understood as watchdog journalism than as investigative reporting of the American or European variety, this text examines the country's historical absence of a critical press and discusses the evolution of journalistic culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Investigative Reporting and Watchdog Journalism I. The Mainstreaming of Watchdog Journalism 1. The Dogs That Didn't Bark 2. The Barks 3. Why Watchdogs Bark II. The Social Organization and Culture of Newsmaking 4. The Politics of Sources 5. Parallel Ideals: Facticity and Objectivity in ExposCs 6. Professional Crusaders: The Politics of Professional Journalism III. Watchdog Journalism and the Quality of Democracy 7. Can Watchdog Journalism Tell the Truth? 8. Watchdog Journalism and Democratic Accountability Conclusion
£24.00
Columbia University Press Language in Danger
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvides an engrossing account of both how languages evolve and interact with one another, and of how much is lost when the last speaker of [a language] dies. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *Warning of the loss of linguistic diversity as speakers are assimilated to global languages, Dalby argues that language loss entails an irreplaceable loss of local cultural knowledge... [T]his is a successful presentation of a key argument for preserving linguistic diversity. * Choice *Passionate and lucid... the whole book works up to a magnificent final chapter... ardent, dignified, and convincing. * The Spectator *A wide-ranging and lucid study of how languages die. * Sunday Telegraph *This argument about why we should care about the present-day loss of languages is convincing. * Publishers Weekly *Andrew Dalby (2003), as author of Language in Danger provides an interesting account of how languages evolve and interact with one another... The aim to promote awareness for cultural linguistic diversity, regardless of globalisation, can be heard loud and clear. -- Nicholas Alexis Zoffel * Language and Intercultural Communication *Table of Contents1. Language and Our Species2. Language and Change3. Language and Community4. Language and Nation5. How to Become a Global Language6. When We Lose a Language7. The Loss of Diversity
£46.75
Columbia University Press Rules and Representations
Book SynopsisDraws on philosophy, biology, and the study of the mind to consider the nature of human cognitive capacities, particularly as they are expressed in language. This book considers the biological basis of language capabilities and the possibility of studying mental structures and capacities in the manner of the natural sciences.Trade ReviewFrom time to time ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside of linguistics to some theses stated... by Noam Chomsky. -- Ian Hacking New York Review of Books Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today... reading Chomsky on linguistics one repeatedly has the impression of attending to one of the more powerful thinkers that ever lived. -- Paul Robinson New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Norbert Hornstein Preface Part I 1. Mind and Body 2. Structures, Capacities, and Conventions 3. Knowledge of Grammar 4. Some Elements of Grammar Part II 5. On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities 6. Language and Unconscious Knowledge Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Covering Violence A Guide to Ethical Reporting
Book SynopsisA guide for becoming a sensitive and responsible reporter. Discussing such topics as rape and the ethics of interviewing children, it gives students and journalists a better understanding of what is happening "on the scene" of a violent event, including where a reporter can go safely and legally, and how to obtain the useful information.Trade Review[Simpson and Cote] offer a revised doctrine: that journalists at an accident or a disaster refrain from commando tactics and even try to be helpful, that victims should get respect and scrupulous coverage...and that journalists themselves can become secondary victims. Columbia Journalism ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Journalists and Violence Sharon Schmickle: Finding Peace in Covering a War A Little Boy, a Frantic Effort Sharon Schmickle 1. Assault on an Essential Human System 2. The Journalist: At Risk for Trauma 3. 9/11: Lessons from a Sunny Morning David Handschuh: The Meaning of Being There 4. Reporting at the Scene Marley Shebala: Adding Context to the Scene What Is a Navajo Leader? Marley Shebala 5. The Interview: Assault or Catharsis? Anh Do: Crossing Cultural Borders Hope: Caring for Newborns Inspires an Inmate to Start a Family?Bribing a Guard at Her Husband?s Prison So the Couple Can Be Together Anh Do 6. Writing the Trauma Story Sonia Nazario: Writing from the Inside Enrique?s Journey: Defeated Seven Times, a Boy Again Faces ?the Beast? Sonia Nazario 7. Pictures and Sounds of Trauma Fletcher Johnson: Eyewitness to Hell 8. Reporting About Children Jane O. Hansen: Moving Readers to Protect Children Selling Atlanta?s Children Jane O. Hansen 9. Columbine: A Story That Won?t Let Go 10. Reporting on Rape Trauma Debra McKinney: Charting the Course of Recovery Malignant Memories: It?s a Long Road Back to Recovery from Incest Debra McKinney 11. Using the Searchlight with Precision and Sensitivity Scott North: A Witness for the Community Family Supports Decision on Plea Deal; Answers Wait 21 Years Scott North 12. Oklahoma City: ?Terror in the Heartland? 13. Conclusions Guidelines for Journalists Who Cover Violence The Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence A Note About Trauma Training Resources for Journalists Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Classical Japanese A Grammar
Book SynopsisClassical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. It includes detailed explanations of basic grammar and explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese. This companion volume includes exercise answers and tables.
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Columbia University Press Chomsky Notebook
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA brilliant book. -- Vineeth Mathoor MetapsychologyTable of ContentsPart I. Chomsky 1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?, by Noam Chomsky 2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture, by Noam Chomsky Part II. Introductions 3. Chomsky, France, Reason, Power, by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck 4. An Interview with Noam Chomsky, by Jean Bricmont Part III. Linguistic Theory and Language Processes 5. The Varying Aims of Linguistic Theory, by Cedric Boeckx and Norbert Hornstein 6. Language, Thought, and Reality After Chomsky, by Gennaro Chierchia 7. Generative Syntax in the Brain, by Yosef Grodzinsky Part IV. Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind 8. Learning Organs, by Charles R. Gallistel 9. Innateness, Choice, and Language, by Elizabeth Spelke 10. The Scope and Limits of Chomsky's Naturalism, by Pierre Jacob Part V. Chomsky and the Intelligentsia 11. Conspiracy: When Journalists (and Their Favorites) Misrepresent the Critical Analysis of the Media, by Serge Halimi and Arnaud Rindel 12. Noam Chomsky and the University, by Pierre Guerlain 13. The Practice of Intellectual Self-Defense in the University, by Normand Baillargeon 14. Chomsky, Faurisson, and Vidal-Naquet, by Jean Bricmont 15. Chomsky and Bourdieu: A Missed Encounter, by Frederic Delorca Part VI. Politics: Theory and Practice 16. Chomsky in France: The Resistance to Pragmatic Anti-Authoritarianism, by Larry Portis 17. Testimony, by Susan George 18. Truth, Balance, and Freedom, by Akeel Bilgrami List of Contributors
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Columbia University Press Chomsky Notebook
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA brilliant book. -- Vineeth Mathoor MetapsychologyTable of ContentsPart I. Chomsky 1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?, by Noam Chomsky 2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture, by Noam Chomsky Part II. Introductions 3. Chomsky, France, Reason, Power, by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck 4. An Interview with Noam Chomsky, by Jean Bricmont Part III. Linguistic Theory and Language Processes 5. The Varying Aims of Linguistic Theory, by Cedric Boeckx and Norbert Hornstein 6. Language, Thought, and Reality After Chomsky, by Gennaro Chierchia 7. Generative Syntax in the Brain, by Yosef Grodzinsky Part IV. Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind 8. Learning Organs, by Charles R. Gallistel 9. Innateness, Choice, and Language, by Elizabeth Spelke 10. The Scope and Limits of Chomsky's Naturalism, by Pierre Jacob Part V. Chomsky and the Intelligentsia 11. Conspiracy: When Journalists (and Their Favorites) Misrepresent the Critical Analysis of the Media, by Serge Halimi and Arnaud Rindel 12. Noam Chomsky and the University, by Pierre Guerlain 13. The Practice of Intellectual Self-Defense in the University, by Normand Baillargeon 14. Chomsky, Faurisson, and Vidal-Naquet, by Jean Bricmont 15. Chomsky and Bourdieu: A Missed Encounter, by Frederic Delorca Part VI. Politics: Theory and Practice 16. Chomsky in France: The Resistance to Pragmatic Anti-Authoritarianism, by Larry Portis 17. Testimony, by Susan George 18. Truth, Balance, and Freedom, by Akeel Bilgrami List of Contributors
£24.00
Columbia University Press The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 Compiled by the American Society of Magazine Editors
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Columbia University Press Fate Time and Language
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFatalism, the sorrowful erasure of possibilities, is the philosophical problem at the heart of this book. To witness the intellectual exuberance and bravado with which the young Wallace attacks this problem, the ambition and elegance of the solution he works out so that possibility might be resurrected, is to mourn, once again, the possibilities that have been lost. -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Thirty-six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction As an early glimpse at the preoccupations of one of the 20th century's most compelling and philosophical authors, it is invaluable, and Wallace's conclusion... is simply elegant. Publishers Weekly This book is for any reader who has enjoyed the works of Wallace and for philosophy students specializing in fatalism. Library Journal [A] tough and impressive book.Financial Times -- Anthony Gottlieb Financial Times an excellent summary of Wallace's thought and writing which shows how his philosophical interests were not purely cerebral, but arose from, and fed into, his emotional and ethical concerns. -- Robert Potts Times Literary Supplement Fate, Time, and Laguage contains a great deal of first-rate philosophy throughout, and not least in Wallace's extraordinarily professional and ambitious essay... -- Daniel Speak Notre Dame Philosophical Review Valuable and interesting. -- James Ley Australian Literary Review A philosophical argument that deserves a place in any college-level library interested in modern philosophical debate. A lively, debative tone keeps this accessible to newcomers. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert Introduction: A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The Philosophical Mind of David Foster Wallace, by James Ryerson Part I: The Background Introduction, by Steven M. Cahn 1. Fatalism, by Richard Taylor 2. Professor Taylor on Fatalism, by John Turk Saunders 3. Fatalism and Ability, by Richard Taylor 4. Fatalism and Ability II, by Peter Makepeace 5. Fatalism and Linguistic Reform, by John Turk Saunders 6. Fatalism and Professor Taylor, by Bruce Aune 7. Taylor's Fatal Fallacy, by Raziel Abelson 8. A Note on Fatalism, by Richard Taylor 9. Tautology and Fatalism, by Richard Sharvy 10. Fatalistic Arguments, by Steven Cahn 11. Comment, by Richard Taylor 12. Fatalism and Ordinary Language, by John Turk Saunders 13. Fallacies in Taylor's "Fatalism," by Charles D. Brown Part II: The Essay 14. Renewing the Fatalist Conversation, by Maureen Eckert 15. Richard Taylor's "Fatalism" and the Semantics of Physical Modality, by David Foster Wallace Part III: Epilogue 16. David Foster Wallace as Student: A Memoir, by Jay Garfield Appendix: The Problem of Future Contingencies, by Richard Taylor
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Columbia University Press Chaoyue Workbook Advancing in Chinese Practice
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Columbia University Press Course in General Linguistics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI am delighted that Wade Baskin's classic translation is back in print, especially since Saussy and Meisel's judicious updating and summary of recent scholarly discoveries make this an invaluable resource for English readers.Table of ContentsEditors' Preface and Acknowledgments Textual Note Introduction: Saussure and His Contexts Course in General Linguistics Translator's Introduction Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter I. A Glance at the History of Linguistics Chapter II. Subject Matter and Scope of Linguistics; Its Relations with Other Sciences Chapter III. The Object of Linguistics Chapter IV. Linguistics of Language and Linguists of Speaking Chapter V. Internal and External Elements of Language Chapter VI. Graphic Representation of Language Chapter VII. Phonology Appendix: Principles of Phonology Chapter I. Phonological Species Chapter II. Phonemes in the Spoken Chain Part One: General Principles Chapter I. Nature of the Linguistic Sign Chapter II. Immutability and Mutability of the Sign Chapter III. Static and Evolutionary Linguistics Part Two: Synchronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. The Concrete Entities of Language Chapter III. Identities, Realities, Values Chapter IV. Linguistic Value Chapter V. Syntagmatic and Associative Relations Chapter VI. Mechanism of Language Chapter VII. Grammar and Its Subdivisions Chapter VIII. Role of Abstract Entities in Grammar Part Three: Diachronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. Phonetic Changes Chapter III. Grammatical Consequences of Phonetic Evolution Chapter IV. Analogy Chapter V. Analogy and Evolution Chapter VI. Folk Etymology Chapter VII. Agglutination Chapter VIII. Diachronic Unites, Identities, and Realities Appendices to Parts Three and Four Part Four: Geographical Linguistics Chapter I. Concerning the Diversity of Languages Chapter II. Complication of Geographical Diversity Chapter III. Causes of Geographical Diversity Chapter IV. Spread of Linguistic Waves Part Five: Concerning Retrospective Linguistics Chapter I. The Two Perspectives of Diachronic Linguistics Chapter II. The Oldest Language at the Prototype Chapter III. Reconstructions Chapter IV. The Contribution of Language to Anthropology and Prehistory Chapter V. Language Families and Linguistic Types Errata Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Course in General Linguistics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI am delighted that Wade Baskin's classic translation is back in print, especially since Saussy and Meisel's judicious updating and summary of recent scholarly discoveries make this an invaluable resource for English readers.Table of ContentsEditors' Preface and Acknowledgments Textual Note Introduction: Saussure and His Contexts Course in General Linguistics Translator's Introduction Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter I. A Glance at the History of Linguistics Chapter II. Subject Matter and Scope of Linguistics; Its Relations with Other Sciences Chapter III. The Object of Linguistics Chapter IV. Linguistics of Language and Linguists of Speaking Chapter V. Internal and External Elements of Language Chapter VI. Graphic Representation of Language Chapter VII. Phonology Appendix: Principles of Phonology Chapter I. Phonological Species Chapter II. Phonemes in the Spoken Chain Part One: General Principles Chapter I. Nature of the Linguistic Sign Chapter II. Immutability and Mutability of the Sign Chapter III. Static and Evolutionary Linguistics Part Two: Synchronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. The Concrete Entities of Language Chapter III. Identities, Realities, Values Chapter IV. Linguistic Value Chapter V. Syntagmatic and Associative Relations Chapter VI. Mechanism of Language Chapter VII. Grammar and Its Subdivisions Chapter VIII. Role of Abstract Entities in Grammar Part Three: Diachronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. Phonetic Changes Chapter III. Grammatical Consequences of Phonetic Evolution Chapter IV. Analogy Chapter V. Analogy and Evolution Chapter VI. Folk Etymology Chapter VII. Agglutination Chapter VIII. Diachronic Unites, Identities, and Realities Appendices to Parts Three and Four Part Four: Geographical Linguistics Chapter I. Concerning the Diversity of Languages Chapter II. Complication of Geographical Diversity Chapter III. Causes of Geographical Diversity Chapter IV. Spread of Linguistic Waves Part Five: Concerning Retrospective Linguistics Chapter I. The Two Perspectives of Diachronic Linguistics Chapter II. The Oldest Language at the Prototype Chapter III. Reconstructions Chapter IV. The Contribution of Language to Anthropology and Prehistory Chapter V. Language Families and Linguistic Types Errata Notes Works Cited Index
£25.20
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Columbia University Press Paleopoetics
Book SynopsisUsing new data from neuroscience and evolutionary biology, an exploration of what the development of our species can tell us about the origins of language and the verbal imagination.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant book. Its argument is careful and convincing and its presentation is erudite and elegant. Paleopoetics presents a history of the co-development of humanity and arts as mutually reinforcing and defining, ranging from deep prehistory to current concerns of arts and literary study. The ideas which are developed are drawn from a range of credible, multidisciplinary sources, and a huge range of literary works serves as final close evidence for much of the argument and discussion. This book represents a timely and major contribution to scholarship. -- Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham, author of Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading For the most part, intellectual discussions of language and its evolution focus on grammar and the dry anatomy of the sentence. Christopher Collins reminds us that language is also, and probably more fundamentally, a vehicle of performance, as expressed in ritual, song, folk tales, drama-in a word, poetics. In coining the term 'paleopoetics,' he recognizes the prehistoric antecedents of poetics in visual arts, gesture, mimesis, crafted tools, and what he calls the presymbolic mind. In linking these with our modern understanding of human cognition and brain function, he offers startling new insights into the nature of human evolution. -- Michael Corballis, University of Auckland, author of From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language Exploring the bodily roots of rhetoric and poetry by combining insights from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Benveniste to Langacker, and from Gestalt psychology to Merlin Donald's theory of human cognitive evolution and modern neuroscience, Paleopoetics represents a bold synthesis that helps bring closer the 'two cultures' of science and the humanities, extending it further towards performance art and literature. This book deserves to be read by all interested in the emerging fields of cognitive poetics and cognitive semiotics. -- Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, coeditor of Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness, and Language Paleopoetics is an important book for anyone interested in language, linguistics, discourse, or humanities, but seems especially timely in today's poetic culture. -- Joel Weishaus Rain Taxi Careful and well written... A worthwhile addition to the literature on the evolution of the arts. -- Richard A. Richards Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsPreface Some Notes on Dating and Nomenclature Acknowledgments 1. The Idea of a Paleopoetics 2. From Dualities to Dyads 3. Play and Instrumentality 4. The World as We See It 5. Human Communication: From Pre-Language to Protolanguage 6. Language: Its Prelinguistic Inheritance 7. The Poetics of the Verbal Artifact Epilogue: The Neopoetics of Writing Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Paleopoetics
Book SynopsisUsing new data from neuroscience and evolutionary biology, an exploration of what the development of our species can tell us about the origins of language and the verbal imagination.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant book. Its argument is careful and convincing and its presentation is erudite and elegant. Paleopoetics presents a history of the co-development of humanity and arts as mutually reinforcing and defining, ranging from deep prehistory to current concerns of arts and literary study. The ideas which are developed are drawn from a range of credible, multidisciplinary sources, and a huge range of literary works serves as final close evidence for much of the argument and discussion. This book represents a timely and major contribution to scholarship. -- Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham, author of Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading For the most part, intellectual discussions of language and its evolution focus on grammar and the dry anatomy of the sentence. Christopher Collins reminds us that language is also, and probably more fundamentally, a vehicle of performance, as expressed in ritual, song, folk tales, drama-in a word, poetics. In coining the term 'paleopoetics,' he recognizes the prehistoric antecedents of poetics in visual arts, gesture, mimesis, crafted tools, and what he calls the presymbolic mind. In linking these with our modern understanding of human cognition and brain function, he offers startling new insights into the nature of human evolution. -- Michael Corballis, University of Auckland, author of From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language Exploring the bodily roots of rhetoric and poetry by combining insights from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Benveniste to Langacker, and from Gestalt psychology to Merlin Donald's theory of human cognitive evolution and modern neuroscience, Paleopoetics represents a bold synthesis that helps bring closer the 'two cultures' of science and the humanities, extending it further towards performance art and literature. This book deserves to be read by all interested in the emerging fields of cognitive poetics and cognitive semiotics. -- Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, coeditor of Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness, and Language Paleopoetics is an important book for anyone interested in language, linguistics, discourse, or humanities, but seems especially timely in today's poetic culture. -- Joel Weishaus Rain Taxi Careful and well written... A worthwhile addition to the literature on the evolution of the arts. -- Richard A. Richards Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsPreface Some Notes on Dating and Nomenclature Acknowledgments 1. The Idea of a Paleopoetics 2. From Dualities to Dyads 3. Play and Instrumentality 4. The World as We See It 5. Human Communication: From Pre-Language to Protolanguage 6. Language: Its Prelinguistic Inheritance 7. The Poetics of the Verbal Artifact Epilogue: The Neopoetics of Writing Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Inventing English A Portable History of the
Book SynopsisA masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem.Trade Review"A personal, selective, and impassioned journey through the history of English."-Times Higher Education Supplement"An invigorating read for the mind and the mouth."-Bloomsbury Review"Lerer not only navigates the shifting currents and boiling rapids of English, but also explores its secret coves."-Advocate"[A] remarkable linguistic investigation."-Booklist"Written with real authority, enthusiasm, and love for our unruly and exquisite language."-Washington Post"The book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be."-Publishers Weekly"Erudite and accessible."-Globe & Mail"An unusual linguistic and literary feast."-Michigan Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsA Note on Texts and Letter Forms Preface to the Revised Edition Introduction: Finding English, Finding Us 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing: Old English and the Origins of Poetry 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan: The Language of Old English Literature 3. In This Year: The Politics of Language and the End of Old English 4. From Kingdom to Realm: Middle English in a French World 5. Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English 6. I Is as Ille as a Millere Are Ye: Middle English Dialects 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose 9. I Do, I Will: Shakespeare's English 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild: New Words and Worlds in Early Modern English 11. Visible Speech: The Orthoepists and the Origins of Standard English 12. A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English 14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English 15. Hello, Dude: Mark Twain and the Making of the American Idiom 16. Ready for the Funk: African American English and Its Impact 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest: The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Readers 18. Listening to Private Ryan: War and Language 19. He Speaks in Your Voice: Everybody's English 20. Faith in English: Vernacular Devotion and Biblical Translation Epilogue: The Talk and the Text Appendix: English Sounds and Their Representation Glossary References and Further Reading Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition Index
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Columbia University Press On Company Time
Book SynopsisOn Company Time tells the story of American modernism from inside the offices and on the pages of the most successful and stylish magazines of the twentieth century. Donal Harris draws out the profound institutional, economic, and aesthetic affiliations between modernism and American magazine culture.Trade ReviewOn Company Time alters forever an old story about literary modernism by showing that writers did not just take a paycheck from the big magazines. This rich and substantial consideration of the complex relations between major writers and mass-market publications shows how several modern styles were developed in collaboration by the magazines and the writers they employed. Donal Harris's account of this collaboration expands our notions of what American writing is and changes the history of how it came to be. -- Michael North, author of Novelty: A History of the NewWriting in response to both classic and recent scholarship that represents modernism as an insulated coterie endeavor, Harris convincingly and compellingly establishes that modernist authors were engaged with and appeared in mainstream magazines from the start. On Company Time enriches and expands our understanding of the dialectic between modernism and mass culture, revealing that what has frequently been seen as an antagonistic relationship was really a close collaboration that determined both the career arcs of major modernist authors and the design of mainstream magazines. Elegantly written and exhaustively researched, On Company Time is an eminent example of the new modernist studies. -- Loren Glass, author of Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-GardeHarris's fascinating On Company Time is the book we have been waiting for to help us think through the significance of the commercially popular 'big magazines' that dominated the print-cultural landscape of modernity. Guiding us through magazine offices and showing us print technologies, publishing strategies, and periodical styles along the way, Harris deftly traces the mutual influence of modernism and the commercial magazines. Compelling, imaginative, and entertaining, this book provides an exhilarating new view of modern print culture. -- Barbara Green, University of Notre Dame, coeditor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies Drawing our attention to a set of major institutions that have until now remained hidden in plain sight of recent cultural history, On Company Time makes an extraordinarily rich and persuasive contribution to the study of American literary modernism. It is also a work of relentlessly lively intelligence and writerly charm. -- Mark McGurl, author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative WritingA welcome addition to the fields of periodical and New Modernist studies, particularly in its consideration of modernism’s vexed relationship with the mainstream. . . . Lucidly written and ambitious. * Journal of American Studies *Highly recommended. * Choice *Literary critics and magazine scholars alike should find merit in On Company Time. Scholars passionate about the history of magazine media will appreciate Harris’s research and relish details relevant to the development of the industry. -- Catherine Staub * Journal of Magazine Media *A nuanced and provocative study. . . . On Company Time offers new perspectives on some of the twentieth century’s most important writers and their relationship with some of the period’s most storied publications. * J-History *Donal Harris delivers an exceptionally thought out book that highlights the complexities that have shaped our modern magazine system. -- Brittany Fuller * Publishing Research Quarterly *On Company Time illuminates the intersections between American literature and journalism in the decades that witnessed the professionalization of both fields. * American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Modernism Big1. Willa Cather's Promiscuous Fiction2. Printing the Color Line in The Crisis3. On the Clock: Rewriting Literary Work at Time Inc.4. Our Eliot: Mass Modernism and the American Century5. Hemingway's Disappearing StyleAfterword: Working from HomeNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Negotiating Languages
Book SynopsisCasts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goalsTrade ReviewA monumental work. Its eloquence is sublime, the stories are tantalizing, and the illustrations are gripping. -- Syed Akbar Hyder, author of Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory South Asianists have needed a pioneering book that takes seriously the ideological underpinnings of dictionary production and meaning-making across a range of linguistic, cultural, and class boundaries and shows how dynamic such exchanges often are. Negotiating Languages is a major contribution to the study of South Asia. -- Christi Merrill, author of Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession Who knew that lexicographical analysis could be so historically revelatory, culturally astute, and rich in anecdotes? Hakala's book is not only a source to be mined for information but also a joy to read. Everyone with an interest in South Asian language history will find it both a treasure and a pleasure. -- Frances Pritchett, author of Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics A pioneering study of Hindi/Urdu lexicography, Hakala's book is an equally significant contribution to the sociology of Urdu's premodern literature. His meticulous analyses of four lexicons, dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, bring revealing insights to the issues that much concerned not only the lexicographers but also all the creative writers of those times, as well as issues of linguistic authority and authenticity and gender and class identities. -- C. M. Naim, author of Urdu Texts and Contexts A brilliant contribution to the story of how Hindustani emerged as a standardized, comprehensive language, and in the end diverged into Urdu and Hindi as languages of cultural and national identity. With great originality, Hakala shows how dictionaries change over time in their sources, format, claims to authenticity, and the populations they at once reflect and create. We will never look at the Fallon, Platts, and Farhang that sit on our desks in the same way again. -- Barbara D. Metcalf, author of Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Chronology 1. A Plot Discovered 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures 3. 1800: Through the Veil of Poetry 4. 1900: Lexicography and the Self 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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