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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to produce an original and in-depth survey of this multi-faceted field. It fills a gap in the existing literature as the first non-encyclopedic volume to provide comprehensive, up to date coverage of this ever-expanding area of linguistics.Trade Review"This collection performs a rite of passage: clinical linguistics has come of age." —David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor "The range of topics represented here, and the quality of the contributions, underline the advances Clinical Linguistics has made in three decades. This volume will for some time be the benchmark against which others in the field will be evaluated." —Paul Fletcher, University College Cork "This comprehensive compendium covers the breadth and depth of clinical linguistics, presenting the latest research on pragmatics, discourse, sociolinguistics, syntax, semantics, phonetics and phonology. The impressive cohort of international contributors comprises the foremost authorities in their fields. This book is a classic reference work and will be frequently cited." —Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, Australia "This Handbook offers state-of-the-art reviews and cutting-edge research reports. It is strongly recommended as a textbook for students at the master's level and higher, instructors and researchers in a variety of disciplines, including Speech-Language Pathology, Clinical Linguistics, Medicine, and Psychology." —Ben Maassen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical CentreTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors v List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction xxiiiMartin J. Ball, Michael R. Perkins, Nicole Müller, and Sara Howard Part I Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociolinguistics 1 1 Discourse Analysis and Communication Impairment 3Nicole Müller, Jacqueline A. Guendouzi, and Brent Wilson 2 Conversational Implicature and Communication Impairment 32Elisabeth Ahlsén 3 Relevance Theory and Communication Disorders 49Eeva Leinonen and Nuala Ryder 4 Neuropragmatics 61Brigitte Stemmer 5 Pragmatic Impairment as an Emergent Phenomenon 79Michael R. Perkins 6 Conversation Analysis and Communication Disorders 92Ray Wilkinson 7 Clinical Sociolinguistics 107Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball 8 Systemic Functional Linguistics and Communication Impairment 130Alison Ferguson and Julie Thomson 9 Cross-Linguistic and Multilingual Perspectives on Communicative Competence and Communication Impairment: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociolinguistics 146Zhu Hua and Li Wei Part II Syntax and Semantics 163 10 Chomskyan Syntactic Theory and Language Disorders 165Harald Clahsen 11 Formulaic Sequences and Language Disorder 184Alison Wray 12 Syntactic Processing in Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders 198Theodoros Marinis 13 Morphology and Language Disorder 212Martina Penke 14 Normal and Pathological Semantic Processing of Words 228Karima Kahlaoui and Yves Joanette 15 Neural Correlates of Normal and Pathological Language Processing 245Stefan Frisch, Sonja A. Kotz, and Angela D. Friederici 16 Bilingualism and Language Impairment 261Jan de Jong 17 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Syntax and Semantics of Language Disorders 275Martha Crago, Johanne Paradis, and Lise Menn 18 Interfaces between Cognition, Semantics, and Syntax 290Maria Black and Shula Chiat Part III Phonetics and Phonology 309 19 Instrumental Analysis of Articulation in Speech Impairment 311Fiona E. Gibbon 20 Instrumental Analysis of Resonance in Speech Impairment 332Tara L. Whitehill and Alice S.-Y. Lee 21 Instrumental Analysis of Phonation 344Shaheen N. Awan 22 Acoustic Analysis of Speech 360Ray D. Kent and Yunjung Kim 23 Clinical Phonetic Transcription 381=Barry Heselwood and Sara Howard 24 Comparisons in Perception between Speech and Nonspeech Signals 400Tessa Bent and David B. Pisoni 25 Phonological Analysis, Phonological Processes 412Adele W. Miccio and Shelley E. Scarpino 26 Constraints-Based Nonlinear Phonological Theories: Application and Implications 423Barbara M. H. Bernhardt and Joseph P. Stemberger 27 Optimality Theory: A Clinical Perspective 439Daniel A. Dinnsen and Judith A. Gierut 28 Government Phonology and Speech Impairment 452Martin J. Ball 29 Articulatory Phonology and Speech Impairment 467Pascal H. H. M. van Lieshout and Louis M. Goldstein 30 A Cognitive Approach to Clinical Phonology 480Anna Vogel Sosa and Joan L. Bybee 31 Neurophonetics 491Wolfram Ziegler 32 Coarticulation and Speech Impairment 506Bill Hardcastle and Kris Tjaden 33 Vowel Development and Disorders 525Carol Stoel-Gammon and Karen Pollock 34 Prosodic Impairments 549Bill Wells and Sandra Whiteside 35 Speech Intelligibility 568Gary Weismer 36 Connected Speech 583Sara Howard, Bill Wells, and John Local 37 Sociophonetics and Clinical Linguistics 603Gerrard Docherty and Ghada Khattab 38 Cross-Linguistic Phonological Acquisition 626David Ingram Author Index 641 Subject Index 668

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1: Phonology was a landmark publication that in the intervening years has not been surpassed in its depth of scholarship and usefulness to the field. With the 2011 posthumous publication of Richard M. Hogg's Volume 2: Morphology, Volume 1 is again in print, now in paperback, so that scholars can own this complete work. Takes account of major developments both in the field of Old English studies and in linguistic theory Takes full advantage of the Dictionary of Old English project at Toronto, and includes full cross-references to the DOE data Fully utilizes work in phonemic and generative theory and related topics Provides material crucial for future research both in diachronic and synchronic phonology and in historical sociolinguistics Table of ContentsPreface viii List of abbreviations xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Orthography and phonology 10 3 The vowels in Germanic 52 I Primitive Germanic (§§1–4) 52 II Vowel harmony (§§5–12) 53 III Loss of nasals and compensatory lengthening (§§13–15) 55 IV Diphthongization (§§16–19) 56 V Influence of */z/ (§§20–1) 59 VI Long vowels (§§22–6) 59 VII Unstressed vowels (§§27–33) 62 VIII Raising of back vowels (§34) 64 4 The consonants in Germanic 66 I Primitive Germanic (§§1–3) 66 II Verner’s Law (§§4–5) 67 III Germanic approximants (§§6–9) 68 IV Consonant loss (§10) 70 V West Germanic gemination (§§11–14) 71 VI Miscellanea (§§15–19) 72 5 Old English vowels 74 I First fronting and associated changes (§§3–15) 75 II Breaking (§§16–34) 82 III Restoration of A (§§35–40) 93 IV Lowering of second elements of diphthongs (§§41–6) 99 V Palatal diphthongization (§§47–73) 104 VI I-umlaut (§§74–86) 118 VII Second fronting (§§87–92) 135 VIII Anglian smoothing (§§93–102) 139 IX Back umlaut (§§103–12) 149 X Palatal umlaut (§§113–18) 163 XI Palatal monophthongization (§§119–23) 166 XII Compensatory lengthening (§§124–30) 169 XIII Hiatus (§§131–54) 172 XIV Merger of /io/ and /eo/ (§§155–62) 185 XV West Saxon developments of high front vowels and diphthongs (§§163–75) 190 XVI The influence of /w/ (§§176–87) 198 XVII The development of Kentish front vowels (§§188–96) 203 XVIII Changes in quantity (§§197–205) 206 XIX Monophthongization of diphthongs (§§206–14) 210 XX Merger of /æ/ and /w/ (§§215–16) 213 6 Unstressed vowels 214 I First fronting and associated changes (§§2–6) 214 II Breaking, palatal diphthongization, i-umlaut, and back umlaut (§§7–12) 217 III Syncope and apocope (§§13–25) 220 IV Shortening (§§26–33) 227 V Epenthesis and syllabification (§§34–45) 230 VI Mergers of unstressed vowels (§§46–62) 235 VII Unstressed medial vowels (§§63–71) 242 7 Old English consonants 246 I Dissimilation (§§4–14) 247 II Palatalization and assibilation (§§15–43) 252 III Development of fricatives (i): lenition (§§44–53) 270 IV Development of fricatives (ii): voicing and devoicing (§§54–68) 276 V Post-vocalic approximants (§§69–76) 283 VI Consonant clusters (§§77–97) 287 VII Loss of final nasals (§§98–100) 298 VIII Late Old English changes (§§101–3) 299 References 301 Word index 315

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Book SynopsisThis monograph offers a comprehensive reassessment of the dominant German grammarian of the 17th century J.G. Schottelius, and examines his legacy both in Germany and Europe. Offers comprehensive documentation of Schottelius's numerous sources to show the range and limits of scholarly knowledge in 17th-century Germany Introduces new data that provides insight into whether a grammarian like Schottelius could have any impact on how people actually wrote Provides an accessible reading of Schottelius's landmark study (with quotations translated into English) that does not assume prior knowledge of the seventeenth-century German context Traces Schottelius's influence on Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Russian grammar Trade Review“Nicola McLelland’s study of J. G. Schottelius’s Ausführliche Arbeit (AA) is a masterly exploration of an important milestone in the history of German.” (Modern Language Review, 1 July 2014)Table of Contents1 An introduction to the Ausführliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663) and its place in European linguistic thought 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Schottelius in the social and intellectual context of seventeenth-century Europe 1.2.1 Schottelius's life and works 1.2.2 The social, political and intellectual context in Germany 1.2.3 Linguistic thought in Western Europe 1.3 The Ausführliche Arbeit 1.4 Schottelius's ideology and aspirations revealed in the paratextual features of the Ausführliche Arbeit 1.4.1 Visual features that structure the AA 1.4.2 Accompanying material 1.4.3 Engravings, title pages, and the acclamation of peace 2 Schottelius's concept of language 2.1 Introduction 2.2 What is ‘the' German language? 2.2.1 ‘The' German language as a supraregional written language variety 2.2.2 The ‘object language' of the Ausführliche Arbeit: Haubtsprache vs Hochteutsch 2.2.3 The ancestry of German 2.2.4 How and why has German changed over time? 2.3 Language, meaning, and the ‘nature' of the German language 2.3.1 The German SprachNatur ‘linguistic nature' (AA 16, 2: 2) 2.3.2 The problem of language and meaning 2.4 Imagining language: banyans and buildings 2.4.1 The language as a banyan tree 2.4.2 The language as a building 2.5 Evaluating language 2.5.1 Traditional criteria 2.5.2. Ratio, naturalness and linguistic analogy 3 Intersecting discourse traditions in the AA 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Legal discourse 3.3 Practical German grammatography 3.4 The Leiden University network - the roots of Schottelius's linguistic theory in Dutch and Flemish scholarship 3.5 Cultural patriotism 3.5.1 Introduction: cultural and linguistic patriotism 3.5.2 The metaphors of linguistic purism 3.5.3 Cultural-patriotic yardsticks for evaluating the language 3.5.4 Key genres of linguistic patriotism 3.5.5 Language societies, the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (‘Fruit-bearing Society') and society members' impact on the AA 3.6 International Latinate linguistic reflection 3.6.1 Grammatical theory in the Latin tradition 3.6.2 Analogy 3.6.3 History and origin of language 3.7 Pansemioticism 3.8 Intersecting discourses in the Ausführliche Arbeit 3.8.1. Analogy and anomaly - Regel, Grundrichtigkeit and Gewohnheit 3.8.2 The rootword (Stammwort) 4 The genres of the Ausführliche Arbeit and their architexts 4.1 Architextuality in the Ausführliche Arbeit: inheriting and exploring genres 4.2 The orations (Book I, AA 1-170) 4.3 The dialogue on translating (AA 1216-1268) 4.4 Lists: Vielfaltige Gründe / Exempla und Beweistühmer (‘manifold grounds, examples and proofs', AA 148: 10: 30) 4.4.1 The list of proper names (AA 1029-1098): die rechten Teutschen wolklingende Nahmen (‘the proper German, good-sounding names', AA 1031, §1) 4.4.2 The list of proverbs (AA 1099-1147) 4.4.3 The list of writers about Germany, and in or about German (AA 1148-1215) 4.4.4 The list of rootwords (AA 1269-1450) 4.5. The Poetical Treatise (AA 791-997) 4.5.1 Introduction to the poetics 4.5.2 The Verskunst in the context of its predecessors in the genre 4.5.3 Founding poetics on Grundrichtigkeit 4.5.4 Verse types and ars combinatoria 4.6 Verse 4.7 Conclusion 5 The Sprachkunst of the Ausführliche Arbeit and its architexts 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Schottelius's grammar in competition with Gueintz (1641) 5.3 The grammar of 1663 and its hypotexts of 1641 and 1651 5.4 Rhetorical élan and constructing the authority of the grammarian 5.5 Schottelius's grammar and its architexts: his predecessors in the discourse of German grammatography 5.5.1 The existing grammatical tradition 5.5.2 The structure of the grammar compared with its predecessors 5.5.3 Spelling 5.5.4. Etymologia (AA 224-690): inflection and word-formation 5.5.4.1 Inflection 5.5.4.2 Word-formation 5.5.5 Syntax 5.6 Exemplification of copia 5.7 Schottelius's grammatical terminology 6 Intertextuality, authorities and evidence in the Ausführliche Arbeit 6.1 Hypotextuality and the AA 6.2 Intertexts 6.2.1. The range of sources and authorities in the AA 6.2.2 Legal sources 6.2.3 Evidence of German used in technical domains 6.2.4 Didactic and prescriptive works on German language and style 6.2.5 Chronicles and other historical works 6.2.6 Philological study and speculation 6.2.7 Looking beyond Europe 6.3 Contemporary literary figures referenced in the AA 6.3.1 Christianity and Spracharbeit 6.4 A special relationship: Schottelius and Georg-Philipp Harsdörffer 7 The legacy of the Ausführliche Arbeit in Germany and in Europe 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Cultural patriotism: the popularization of interest in and pride in German 7.3 Language history 7.3.1 The origin of German and the origin of language 7.3.2 Historical linguistic methodology 7.3.3 Understanding linguistic change in German 7.4 Conceptualizing language 7.4.1 Linguistic rationalism 7.4.2 Hypostatization of the language and the ‘spirit' of the language 7.4.3 Correct language (Sprachrichtigkeit) 7.4.4 Discourse strategies for talking about the language: metaphor 7.4.5 Excursus: Schottelius and Leibniz 7.5 Lexicography 7.6 Subsequent Grammars of German 7.7 Pedagogical grammars for foreign learners 7.8 Grammatography in other languages 7.8.1 Danish grammar 7.8.2 Swedish grammar 7.8.3 Dutch grammar 7.8.4 Russian grammar 7.8.5 The rootword in Semitic and Sanskrit languages 7.9 Conclusion 8 Prescription and practice: Schottelius and the development of a standard language 8.1 Introduction: how can we assess Schottelius's influence on language usage? 8.2 Scenario 1: Prescription of practice that is already widespread 8.3 Scenario 2: The prescription codifies practice that is found, but which is still more or less marginal compared with other forms, spellings and structures 8.4 Scenario 3: A variant is stigmatized 8.5 Scenario 4: Schottelius advocates spellings, forms or structures that are not found at all in earlier practice 8.6 Scenario 5: Schottelius is silent with regard to a form which nevertheless changes in frequency in subsequent usage 8.7 Conclusion 9 Conclusion Appendix 1: Sources and authorities referenced in the AA Bibliography Primary sources Secondary literature Index of words cited Index of subjects and names

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Book SynopsisA revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award-winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice.

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Book SynopsisExamines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience. Far from reducing the reading experience to a series of numbers, the data-driven approaches in the study underline the complexity and elusiveness of seemingly basic literary processes and concepts.

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Book SynopsisA summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America.Table of Contents 1. History of Studies in Middle American Linguistics (Norman A. McQuown) 2. Inventory of Descriptive Materials (William Bright) 3. Inventory of Classificatory Materials (María Teresa Fernández de Miranda) 4. Lexicostatistic Classification (Morris Swadesh) 5. Systemic Comparison and Reconstruction (Robert Longacre) 6. Environmental Correlational Studies (Sarah C. Gudschinsky) 7. Type Linguistic Descriptions A. Classical Nahuatl (Stanley Newman) B. Classical Yucatec (Maya) (Norman A. McQuown) C. Classical Quiche (Munro S. Edmonson) D. Sierra Popoluca (Benjamin F. Elson) E. Isthmus Zapotec (Velma B. Pickett) F. Huautla de Jiménez Mazatec (Eunice V. Pike) G. Jiliapan Pame (Leonardo Manrique C.) H. Huamelultec Chontal (Viola Waterhouse) 8. Language-in-Culture Studies (Miguel León-Portilla) References

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Book SynopsisAt several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In Dante and Augustine, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet.Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of liTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction Linguistics a. The nature of language and the common project of Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia: enucleare aliis conceptum b. The quest for a perfect language: Latin as grammar c. An alternative model: Augustine again d. Concetto: the redefinition of conceptual speech in the Commedia e. Concetto again: Dante's incarnational poetics in Paradiso Poetics a. The making of poetry: verba and sentential as discretive mixta b. Meaning in poetry: the task of prose c. Convenientia across secular and biblical writings d. On translating meaning: biblical poetry and the sweetness of the Psalms Hermeneutics a. The burden of interpretation: authorial intention in Dante's "minor" works b. Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano: texts and authors framing Statius' Christianity c. Reading beyond the author: two stumbling blocks in Purgatorio XXII d. Augustine's regula caritatis and the interpretation of the Commedia e. Augustine's hermeneutics and the poetics of the Spirit Conclusion Works Cited

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Book SynopsisLanguage in all its modes—oral, written, print, electronic—claims the central role in Walter J. Ong’s acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life’s work. This first publication of Language as...Trade Review"Language as Hermeneutic is fresh and startlingly relevant. This short book could have an important impact on issues of cognition, interpretation, and the reception of literary and philosophical texts in an era of technological and media transformation." -- William J. Kennedy, author of Petrarchism at WorkTable of ContentsPreface Introduction, by Sara van den Berg Part I: by Walter J. Ong Prologue 1. Orality, Writing, Presence 2. Hermeneutics, Textual and Other 3. Affiliations of Hermeneutics with Texts 4. The Interpersonalism of Hermeneutics, Oral and Other 5. Hermeneutics, Print, and "Facts" 6. Hermeneutics and the Unsaid 7. Meaning, Hermeneutic, and Interpersonal Trust 8. Hermeneutic and Communication in Oral Cultures 9. Logos and Digitization 10. Hermeneutics in Children’s Learning to Speak 11. Language, Technology, and the Human Epilogue: The Mythology of Logos Illustrations References Part II Language as Hermeneutic, by Thomas D. Zlatic Language as Hermeneutic, by Thomas D. Zlatic Part III Time, Digitization, and Dalí’s Memory, by Walter J. Ong Picturing Ong’s Oral Hermeneutic, by Thomas D. Zlatic Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author''s findings about the surprising persistence of the language of slavery demonstrate the difficulty of escaping the legacy of a shameful past.For Epstein, language is crucial to understanding slavery, for it preserves the hidden conditions of that institution. He begins his book by discussing the words used to conduct and describe slavery in Italy, from pertinent definitions given in early dictionaries, to the naming of slaves by their masters, to the ways in which bondage has been depicted by Italian writers from Dante to Primo Levi and Antonio Gramsci. Epstein then probes Italian legal history, tracing the evolution of contracts for buying, selling, renting, and freeing people. Next he considers the behaviors of slaves and slave owners as a means of exTrade ReviewEach chapter sets up a dialogue between medieval language about slavery and language in more recent times—for example, in the Risorgimento, the anti-slavery movement in Italy, colonial experience, and fascism. Epstein concedes that the Italian contribution to slavery has been insignificant in global terms but that Italy's medieval experience with slavery has colored modern language about color and ethnicity.... The third substantive chapter deals with day-to-day life for slaves: the work that was expected of them, the treatment of slave pregnancy, cultural resistance from slaves, and other related issues. Epstein combs through notarial charters in search of language that is 'personal' rather than formulaic in order to humanize this picture of domestic slaves' daily life. This chapter and the following one on the Great Economy explore the heritage of medieval slavery for the plantation system in the New World, which will be of interest to those who study slave systems in the modern world. Throughout his study, Epstein pays attention to the practice of slavery on the islands of the Mediterranean and in overseas colonies of Italian city-states.... This monograph presents a case for a historical memory of slavery that colors modern discourse in Italy and carries important implications for perceptions of race and ethnicity. -- Susan Mosher Stuard, Haverford College * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Scholars with specialisms outside Italy will find a great deal of interest in this book and many intriguing parallels with systems of slavery elsewhere.... Epstein's persuasive notion of the corrupting and normalizing language of medieval slavery will effect a permanent change in the way in which Italian slavery will be approached in the future. His pioneering, well written and constructed study is very timely, and it is to be hope that it will provide a lead for other much needed investigations of the culture of Italian slavery, both historical and interdisciplinary. -- Kate Lowe * Slavery and Abolition *Speaking of Slavery argues that Italian words specifically, and Italy's spoken culture generally, supported the owning and exploiting of humans, thus mainstreaming ideas about cultural superiority and inferiority that are still evident in Italian nomenclature today.... Epstein's study is successful on two fronts. First, he successfully challenges the alienation of discussions of New World slavery to the American context; moreover, he demonstrates that the attitudes of explorers like Christopher Columbus cannot be separated from preexisting slave traditions and language traditions. While the international slave market lost its stronghold long ago, the language established to support it still shapes ideas about race. In the end, the relationship between early Italian slavery and Italian ideas about ethnicity is still evident in the language used to talk about color and race, specifically the language reserved for immigrant laborers and ethnic minorities living in Italy today. -- Audrey Kerr, Southern Connecticut University * Sixteenth Century Journal *Steven Epstein's study of slavery in medieval Italy focuses on language, the ways people talked or wrote about slaves in a variety of contexts and the ways slaves talked about themselves. He makes it clear that slavery's significance in Italian history is more cultural than economic; although he does discuss the kinds of work that slaves did, he is more concerned with the intellectual and social implications of markets than with quantifying the contributions of slaves to production.... In the later Middle Ages women slaves outnumbered men slaves, while among free servants men were the minority. Epstein implies that the feminization of (free) domestic service in sixteenth-century Venice may be a result of the decline of slavery and the replacement of female domestic slaves by free female servants.... A final contribution of Epstein's work is to set slavery in the context of servanthood and poverty. Servants and poor laborers were not legally property, but their lives might be in effect quite similar to those of slaves, and the kind of language used about them could be similar as well. -- Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota * Speculum *The heart of the book examines the language used in many kinds of medieval documents dealing with slavery... Many interesting individual stories and insights.... * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly depicting the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs, Tom G. Hoogervorst paints a rich portrait of the social life of this community as well as the articulation of their aspirations, anxieties and concerns that were expressed in creative use of multiple languages. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Prism into the Past 1. Connected Language Histories 2. On Good, Bad, and Ugly Malay 3. Printing, Pulp, and Popularity 4. Competing Expressions of Modernity 5. The Humoristic and the Invective Epilogue: An Important Historical Monument

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSpanning from the biblical account of creation to modern genetics, Blumenberg's book can be understood as an intense effort to refract the history of ideas through the lens of a fundamental metaphor. In detailed individual analyses of relevant historical texts, he explains the metaphor's various assignments of meaning from the intellectual, sociocultural, and biographical contexts in which it is deployed. * Rhetorica *Learning about Blumenberg's metaphorology as well as the stars of intellectual history has been made possible for Anglophones by the extraordinary translation skills of Robert Savage and David Roberts. * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisIn Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a total faith in literature as a force of invention and discovery, as a resource and an encyclopaedia.They met regularly, exchanged many letters and fought many battles together, against every kind of academicism, every political and ideological regression. Barthes shed light on Sollers's work in a series of articles that are still of great relevance today. Sollers, in turn, assumed the role of Barthes's publisher at Le Seuil from the publication of his Critical Essays in 1964, and was left deeply shocked and saddened by Barthes's death in 1980. In short, they were very close to each other, despite their differences, and Sollers expresses here what this meant at the time and what it continues to represent, highlighting the themes that sustained their friendship.The book also contains some thirty letters from Barthes to Sollers, completing our image of one of the most extraordinary partnerships in French literary life.Trade Review"These traces of an elusive life – a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history – add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer."—Michael Wood, Princeton University"This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest – anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters from Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers."—Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents Friendship R.B. Letters from Roland Barthes to Philippe Sollers Appendices

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Book SynopsisIn Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a total faith in literature as a force of invention and discovery, as a resource and an encyclopaedia.They met regularly, exchanged many letters and fought many battles together, against every kind of academicism, every political and ideological regression. Barthes shed light on Sollers's work in a series of articles that are still of great relevance today. Sollers, in turn, assumed the role of Barthes's publisher at Le Seuil from the publication of his Critical Essays in 1964, and was left deeply shocked and saddened by Barthes's death in 1980. In short, they were very close to each other, despite their differences, and Sollers expresses here what this meant at the time and what it continues to represent, highlighting the themes that sustained their friendship.The book also contains some thirty letters from Barthes to Sollers, completing our image of one of the most extraordinary partnerships in French literary life.Trade Review"These traces of an elusive life – a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history – add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer." —Michael Wood, Princeton University "This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest – anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters fro, Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers."—Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK"enjoyably grouchy homage"The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Friendship R.B. Letters from Roland Barthes to Philippe Sollers Appendices

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Book SynopsisIt might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers, their intimate friends or their pets. And if you live in India or Nigeria, you might use five different languages during a typical day. Katrin Kohl makes a passionate case for why we must embrace languages in all their diversity. When you study a language, you open a unique doorway into the world, immerse yourself in a different way of seeing, and discover new ways of communicating with people from different cultures on their terms. Kohl argues that language diversity is of vital importance to human societies, sustaining the complexity of human nature, culture and technology. We should care about preserving it as much as we care about preserving the diversity of our biological world.Trade Review‘Anyone who thinks “English is enough” should read this book! It is a well-grounded, elegant and passionate appeal to halt our descent into the fruitless desert of monolingualism.’David Bellos, Princeton University ‘A powerful and timely explanation of the discipline of Modern Languages and why it is fundamentally important both to universities and society.’Charles F. Burdett, Durham University‘Modern Languages is a clear and engaging reminder to monolingual first-language English speakers of their responsibility to respect, embrace and promote linguistic diversity.’Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisIt might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers, their intimate friends or their pets. And if you live in India or Nigeria, you might use five different languages during a typical day. Katrin Kohl makes a passionate case for why we must embrace languages in all their diversity. When you study a language, you open a unique doorway into the world, immerse yourself in a different way of seeing, and discover new ways of communicating with people from different cultures on their terms. Kohl argues that language diversity is of vital importance to human societies, sustaining the complexity of human nature, culture and technology. We should care about preserving it as much as we care about preserving the diversity of our biological world.Trade Review‘Anyone who thinks “English is enough” should read this book! It is a well-grounded, elegant and passionate appeal to halt our descent into the fruitless desert of monolingualism.’David Bellos, Princeton University ‘A powerful and timely explanation of the discipline of Modern Languages and why it is fundamentally important both to universities and society.’Charles F. Burdett, Durham University‘Modern Languages is a clear and engaging reminder to monolingual first-language English speakers of their responsibility to respect, embrace and promote linguistic diversity.’Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisLe but de cet ouvrage est d’initier à l’analyse linguistique en dégageant la structure du français moderne. Cela, de la manière la plus claire possible, sans jargon inutile. Notre analyse est ouverte à tous les courants et non enfermé dans une école contraignante. L’étude de la langue nous mène à des implications stylistiques, esthétiques et sociales, d’où des incursions dans les variations individuelles, dialectales et idéologiques. Les variations du français de France, comme celles du Canada occupent ici une large place.Des exercices à la fin de chaque chapitre offrent le moyen d’appliquer les connaissances acquises. Du bon temps en perspective pour les curieux et les amoureux de la langue!Features: la quatrième édition de Structure du français moderne est destinée spécialement aux étudiants qui apprennent le français comme langue seconde le manuel comprend des exemples tirés non seulement du français européen, mais aussi des variétés du français que l’on trouve en Amérique du Nord et des créoles à base lexicale française que l’on trouve dans les Antilles et dans l’océan indien on trouvera à la fin du manuel un glossaire des termes utilisés les questions à la fin des chapitres ont été entièrement révisées et de nouvelles questions ont été ajoutées Table of Contents Avant-propos Partie I. Introduction Chapitre 1. De la grammaire à la linguistique 1. La grammaire et la linguistique 2. La norme et le pouvoir 3. Les normes et les usages 4. La langue et ses usages 5. Les registres 6. L’étude de la langue au cours des âges 7. La langue et le langage 8. Les emplois métaphoriques du mot langage 9. La langue et la parole 10. Les différents codes linguistiques 11. La diachronie et la synchronie 12. L’évolution du français Chapitre 2. La communication et le signe linguistique 1. La boucle de la communication 2. Les différents types de code 3. Les différents types de communication 4. Les signes : indices, signaux et codes 5. L’interprétation des signes 6. Les indices et les signaux de la parole 7. Les constituants du signe linguistique 8. La signification 9. Le lien arbitraire entre signifiant et signifié 10. Le signe linguistique : conventionnel et nécessaire 11. Les unités distinctives du signe linguistique 12. La nature discrète du signe linguistique 13. La forme et la substance Chapitre 3. La structuration du système linguistique 1. La spécificité du code linguistique humain 2. La connaissance intuitive des règles linguistiques 3. Connaissance intuitive et connaissance passive 4. Les quatre sous-systèmes linguistiques 5. La stratification du système linguistique 6. Les techniques d’analyse linguistique 7. Le paradigme et la commutation 8. Le syntagme et la permutation 9. Commutation et permutation : axe vertical/axe horizontal 10. L’articulation linguistique 11. La première articulation : les unités significatives 12. La deuxième articulation : les unités distinctives 13. L’économie de la double articulation 14. La spécificité humaine : Double articulation, linéarité, dissociation du message, mensonge et métaphore 15. La productivité et la créativité du système linguistique Partie II. La phonétique et la phonologie Chapitre 4. L’articulation des voyelles françaises 1. La phonétique et la phonologie 2. Les diverses branches de la phonétique 3. L’appareil de production sonore 4. La représentation phonétique des voyelles 5. L’articulation des voyelles françaises 6. Les traits articulatoires des voyelles françaises 7. Phonétique et orthographe 8. L’utilité linguistique des voyelles 9. La redondance Chapitre 5. L’articulation des consonnes françaises 1. L’articulation des consonnes 2. Le classement des consonnes selon le mode articulatoire : occlusion c. friction/constriction 3. Le classement des consonnes selon le mode articulatoire : consonne orale c. consonne nasale 4. Le classement des consonnes selon le mode articulatoire : consonne voisée c. consonne non-voisée 5. Le classement des consonnes selon leur lieu d’articulation 6. Les traits articulatoires des consonnes du français 7. Les semi-consonnes 8. Le classement auditif des consonnes Chapitre 6. La phonologie des voyelles françaises 1. Description phonétique / description phonologique 2. Les phonèmes et les variantes 3. Le système des oppositions phonologiques des voyelles françaises 4. Les traits distinctifs (articulatoires) des phonèmes pour la description phonologique 5. Les paires minimales 6. La disparition de certaines oppositions vocaliques 7. La disparition de la prononciation de UN et du A postérieur 8. Les facteurs externes de l’évolution du système des oppositions vocaliques 9. La syllabe et la division syllabique du français 10. La loi de la distribution complémentaire des voyelles du français 11. Les exceptions des cas 1, 4 et 6 12. Les oppositions phonologiques dans les cas 1, 4 et 6 13. Les variantes libres : discursives, dialectales, sociales, phonostylistiques 14. Variantes conditionnées Chapitre 7. La phonologie des consonnes françaises 1. Les oppositions consonantiques 2. Les oppositions des occlusives 3. La corrélation des occlusives 4. Les oppositions des fricatives 5. La corrélation des fricatives 6. Le rendement phonologique 7. Les variantes libres et les variantes conditionnées 8. Les variantes consonantiques conditionnées 9. Le mécanisme de l’assimilation des variantes conditionnées 10. Les variantes consonantiques dialectales ou sociologiques Chapitre 8. L’accentuation 1. L’accentuation : définition générale 2. La nature phonétique de l’accentuation 3. L’accentuation démarcative française 4. Enchaînement, ambiguïté et découpage des unités de sens 5. L’accentuation d’insistance 6. La fonction distinctive de la place l’accentuation Chapitre 9. L’intonation 1. L’intonation : définition générale 2. La nature phonétique de l’intonation 3. La description linguistique de l’intonation 4. L’intonation de la phrase déclarative 5. L'intonation de la phrase impérative 6. L'intonation de la phrase interrogative 7. Les rôles linguistiques de l’intonation : la fonction de démarcation 8. Les rôles linguistiques de l’intonation : la fonction de modalisation 9. Les rôles linguistiques de l’intonation : la fonction de hiérarchisation 10. Le rôle phonostylistique de l’intonation Chapitre 10. E caduc 1. Définition du E caduc 2. Le E caduc et l’orthographe 3. Le E caduc et la structure syllabique 4. Cas du maintien obligatoire du E caduc 5. Suppression obligatoire du E caduc 6. Prononciation facultative du E caduc 7. Le E caduc et les oppositions phonologiques 8. Le E caduc dans la versification classique Chapitre 11. L’enchaînement et la liaison 1. L’enchaînement 2. Les latences consonantiques : les liaisons 3. La liaison 4. Les consonnes de liaison 5. Les liaisons obligatoires 6. Les liaisons interdites 7. Les liaisons facultatives 8. La liaison et la dénasalisation 9. Le rôle phonologique de la liaison 10. Le rôle phonostylistique du E caduc et de la liaison Partie III. La morphologie Chapitre 12. Les catégories morphologiques 1. L’analyse des unités significatives 2. Les parties traditionnelles du discours 3. Une nouvelle classification 4. Les catégories morphologiques : mot, monème, morphème, lexème 5. Liste ouverte et liste fermée 6. Le classement des lexèmes 7. Les sèmes grammaticaux et l’appartenance catégorielle des morphèmes 8. L’autonomie des morphèmes 9. Les amalgames morphologiques 10.Le morphème zéro 11. Les marques morphologiques 12. Les marques morphologiques et les codes Chapitre 13. Le genre 1. La distinction entre le genre et le sexe 2. Le genre morphologique en français 3. Le genre et la distinction lexicale 4. L’arbitraire du genre 5. L’invariabilité du genre 6. Le genre, les variations régionales et populaires et le changement diachronique 7. Les marques écrites du genre 8. Grammaire et féminisation 9. Les marques orales du féminin Chapitre 14. Le nombre 1. La distinction de nombre 2. Les oppositions singulier/pluriel/duel/triel 3. Le nombre et le dénombrement 4. Les substantifs sans pluriel 5. Les substantifs sans singulier 6. Le nombre et la distinction lexicale 7. Les marques écrites du nombre 8. Les marques orales du nombre 9. Les marques du verbe 10. Marques redondantes du pluriel dans les verbes 11. Les particularités graphiques des verbes, noms et adjectifs 12. Les marques du pronom personnel Chapitre 15. La morphologie du verbe : forme, voix, nombre et personne 1. L’information verbale 2. Les différents types de forme verbale 3. L’analyse verbale 4. La voix verbale 5. Le nombre 6. La personne Chapitre 16. La morphologie du verbe : mode, temps, aspect 1. L’infinitif et le participe 2. Le mode indicatif 3. Le mode impératif 4. Le mode subjonctif 5. Le mode conditionnel 6. Le temps 7. L’aspect verbal 8. Les verbes transitifs et intransitifs 9. Les auxiliaires modaux et temporels Chapitre 17. La dérivation et la composition 1. Mots simples, dérivés et composés 2. Le terme de base 3. L’affixation : affixes, flexions, suffixes, préfixes 4. La préfixation 5. Les préfixes séparables et inséparables 6. Le classement sémantique des préfixes 7. La suffixation 8. Les divers types de suffixes 9. La composition 10. Les mots composés nominaux 11. Les mots composés des autres catégories grammaticales 12. Les sigles 13. La troncation 14. La cohésion des mots composés Chapitre 18. La structure du lexique 1. L’hétérogénéité du lexique français 2. Les onomatopées et les mots expressifs 3. Les mots d’origine celtique 4. Les emprunts modernes 5. Mots populaires, mots savants, doublets 6. L’étymologie populaire 7. L’intégration phonologique des emprunts 8. L’intégration morphologique 9. L’emprunt traduit 10. Le calque sémantique 11. Le voyage des mots 12. La morphologie des néologismes 13. Les dictionnaires 14. Le lexique et le vocabulaire 15. Les enquêtes sur le français parlé 16. Statistiques du vocabulaire de la langue parlée 17. La structuration du vocabulaire du français parlé 18. Le vocabulaire de base du français québécois Partie IV. La syntaxe Chapitre 19. L’analyse syntaxique 1. La syntaxe 2. Syntaxe parlée et syntaxe écrite 3. L’analyse syntaxique 4. La phrase globale 5. La phrase et ses règles de réécriture 6. Le groupe nominal 7. Les déterminants du groupe nominal 8. Les expansions du groupe nominal 9. Le groupe verbal 10. Les expansions du groupe verbal 11. Le groupe prépositionnel 12. Le GP complément circonstanciel 13. Le GP complément d’objet indirect d’un verbe transitif 14. Le GP complément d’un verbe intransitif 15. Le GP complément de nom 16. Le GP complément de groupe adjectival 17. Les règles de réécriture et les compléments Chapitre 20. La syntaxe et l’ambiguïté 1. L’ambiguïté syntaxique de type A : le GP avec effacement de la préposition 2. L’ambiguïté de type B 3. L’ambiguïté de type C : le GP complément de nom et le GP complément circonstanciel 4. L’ambiguïté de type D : le GN avec article partitif et le GP complément circonstanciel 5. L’ambiguïté de type E : le GP complément d’objet indirect et le GP complément circonstanciel 6. La levée de l’ambiguïté par la prosodie Chapitre 21. Les phrases interrogatives, impératives, négatives et passives 1. Les modalités phrastiques 2. Les polarités 3. La voix 4. Les phrases interrogatives 5. L’interrogation en langue parlée 6. Les phrases impératives 7. Les phrases négatives 8. Les phrases passives 9. Le complément d’agent 10. Les phrases sans forme passive 11. Les combinaisons de modalités globales, de polarités et de voix Chapitre 22. Les phrases complexes : la coordination 1. La coordination 2. La coordination des phrases 3. La coordination des groupes nominaux 4. La coordination des groupes verbaux 5. Les locutions conjonctives Chapitre 23. Les phrases complexes : la relativisation 1. Les phrases relatives 2. La relativisation du GN sujet 3. La relativisation du GN complément d’objet direct 4. La relativisation du GN complément d’objet indirect 5. La relativisation du GN complément de nom 6. La relativisation et l’interprétation sémantique Partie V. La sémantique Chapitre 24. L’analyse sémantique 1. Sens linguistique, sens contextuel et sens situationnel 2. La signification 3. Le signe linguistique et le référent 4. Le sens propre et le sens contextuel 5. Le sens contextuel en morphologie 6. Dénotation et connotation 7. La connotation du signifié 8. La connotation du signifiant 9. La métonymie 10. La métaphore 11. Monèmes, sémèmes et sèmes 12. La difficulté du choix des sèmes 13. La grille d’analyse sémique 14. Les limites de l’analyse sémique 15. La syntaxe et l’interprétation sémantique Chapitre 25. Synonymie, antonymie et polysémie 1. La synonymie 2. Les quasi-synonymes 3. Les doublets 4. Les variantes synonymiques 5. L’antonymie lexicale 6. L’antonymie et les clichés 7. L’antonymie morphologique 8. La polysémie 9. L’homonymie 10. Champ notionnel, champ lexical et champ morphologique 11. Les variations stylistiques 12. L’analyse sémique des métaphores 13. L’analyse sémique des gros mots Chapitre 26. De la sémantique de la phrase à la pragmatique 1. Du mot à la phrase et au contexte 2. La présupposition et le présupposé 3. Les présupposés lexicaux et grammaticaux 4. De la phrase au discours 5. Les relations sémantiques externes 6. Les relations sémantiques internes : argumentation et régulation du discours 7. L’argumentation déguisée 8. L’énonciation 9. La pragmatique 10. L’explicite et l’implicite 11. Les actes de parole 12. Les actes illocutoires 13. L’acte perlocutoire Partie VI. La sociolinguistique Chapitre 27. La variation sociale 1. Les facteurs sociologiques de la variation 2. L’âge 3. Le sexe 4. Le choix des variables linguistiques 5. Exemple d’une étude simple d’une variable sociophonétique, la stratification du R à New York 6. La variation en fonction du contexte linguistique 7. La variation en fonction du contexte social 8. Les règles variables 9. Indicateur et marqueur 10. De l’indicateur au marqueur 11. Code restreint et code élaboré 12. Les variations régionales, sociolectales et langue standard 13. Sociolinguistique et évolution 14. Les facteurs idéologiques Chapitre 28. La variation dialectale 1. La norme et les usages 2. Les divisions linguistiques de la France 3. Langue, dialecte, patois, parler et créole 4. Sabir et pidgin 5. L’approche sociolinguistique dans l’étude des dialectes 6. Attitude et comportement 7. Les forces linguistiques en cause 8. Les enquêtes dialectologiques modernes 9. L’idiomatologie 10. Esthétique, clarté, efficacité, richesse 11. Le contact des langues et le franglais 12. La langue et l’idéologie 13. La synchronie dynamique Chapitre 29. Le français canadien 1. La langue et l’histoire 2. Les apports dialectaux du français au français canadien 3. La variation canadienne 4. La variation vocalique 5. La variation consonantique 6. La variation prosodique 7. La variation morphologique 8. La variation morphosyntaxique 9. La variation lexicale 10. Les emprunts à l’anglais 11. Les anglicismes au Canada 12. Le fonds amérindien 13. Problèmes d’assimilation Glossaire Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to correct a common misunderstanding of a technique of mathematical logic.

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Book SynopsisJapanese and Korean are typologically quite similar languages, and the linguistic phenomena of the former often hve counterparts in the latter. These collections from the annual Japanese/Korean linguistics conference include essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages. Such comparative studies deepen our understanding of both languages and will be a useful reference to students and scholars in either field.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new edition, Perry has added a preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics and on attitude reports. He reveals a coherent and structured family of contents-from reflexive contents that place conditions on their actual utterance to fully incremental contents that place conditions only on the objects of reference-reconciling the legitimate insights of both the referentialist and descriptivist traditions.

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Book SynopsisMost computer programs that analyze spoken dialogue use a spoken command grammar, which limits what the user can say when talking to the system. To make this process simpler, more automated, and effective for command grammars even at initial stages of a project, the Regulus grammar compiler was developed by a consortium of experts—including NASA scientists. This book presents a complete description of both the practical and theoretical aspects of Regulus and will be extremely helpful for students and scholars working in computational linguistics as well as software engineering.

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Book SynopsisEmpirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The papers fall into five main categories, reflecting the cognitive and functional orientation of the conference: reciprocity between lexis and syntax, semantic factors affecting form patterning, grammaticalization of basic verbs, form/meaning pairings in discourse, and experimental investigations of language/mind and language/use interactions. In addition, a plenary paper by Nick Evans on complex events, propositional overlay, and the special status of reciprocal clauses is included.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," the contributors explore a number of areas, including the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit communication; the idea of the logical form of our assertions; the notion of conventional meaning; the phenomenon of deixis, which refers to an utterance that requires context in order to be fully understood; the treatment of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes.

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Book SynopsisJapanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for the comparative study of these languages. The papers in the volumes are from the twenty-second and twenty-third conferences. They include essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages.

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Book SynopsisMathematical Structures in Languages introduces a number of mathematical concepts that are of interest to the working linguist. The areas covered include basic set theory and logic, formal languages and automata, trees, partial orders, lattices, Boolean structure, generalized quantifier theory, and linguistic invariants, the last drawing on Edward L. Keenan and Edward Stabler's Bare Grammar: A Study of Language Invariants, also published by CSLI Publications. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, this book contains numerous exercises and will be a valuable resource for courses on mathematical topics in linguistics. The product of many years of teaching, Mathematic Structures in Languages is very much a book to be read and learned from.

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Book SynopsisBroad generalizations about "people today" are a familiar feature of first-year student writing. How Students Write brings a fresh perspective to this perennial observation, using corpus linguistics techniques. This study analyzes sentence-level patterns in student writing to develop an understanding of how students present evidence, draw connections between ideas, relate to their readers, and, ultimately, learn to construct knowledge in their writing.Drawing on both first-year and upper-level student writing, the book examines the discourse of students at different points in their education. It also distinguishes between argumentative and analytic essays to explore the way school genres and assignments shape students' choices.In focusing on sentence-level features such as hedges ("perhaps") and boosters ("definitely"), this study shows how such rhetorical choices work together to open or close opportunities for thoughtful exchanges of ideas. Attention to these features can help instructors foster civil discourse, design effective assignments, and expose and question norms of higher education.Trade ReviewThis book fills a critical gap in our understanding of how undergraduates and early-career graduate students develop as academic writers and, crucially, why their writing evolves the way it does." - Dylan B. Dryer, University of Maine

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Book SynopsisThis unique textbook teaches the Old English language, pairing grammatical instruction with Old English passages from historical and literary documents in chronological order and provides a summary of major events. Fifty lessons present translation passages from the Peterborough manuscript of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Alfredian translation of the Universal History of Paulus Orosius, and other prose and poetic texts. Supplementary sections in each lesson provide additional lexical, historical, literary, and cultural information relevant to the translation passages, and the lessons are reinforced by brief exercises and advanced translation sentences. A section of twenty-six advanced readings features a generous assortment of poetry, including passages from Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament. The book concludes with a thorough grammatical appendix as well as glossaries of linguistic terms, proper names, and Old English words.Trade ReviewThis is a superb, innovative textbook that lays claim to an original approach and pedagogy as well as a comprehensiveness that other introductory readers and textbooks for Old English lack. Its coverage of the language for students of all levels is impressive." - Andrew Scheil, University of Minnesota

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Book SynopsisThough its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term “scapegoat” has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While William Tyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by Lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of violence, from its elevation by Frazer to a ritual category in his ethnological opus The Golden Bough to its pivotal roles in projects as seemingly at odds as Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Western metaphysics and René Girard’s theory of cultural origins. A copiously researched and groundbreaking investigation of the expression in such wide use today, Flesh Becomes Word follows the scapegoat from its origins in Mesopotamian ritual across centuries of typological reflection on the meaning of Jesus’ death, to its first informal uses in the pornographic and plague literature of the 1600s, and finally into the modern era, where the word takes recognisable shape in the context of the New English Quaker persecution and proto-feminist diatribe at the close of the seventeenth century. The historical circumstances of its lexical formation prove rich in implications for current theories of the scapegoat and the making of the modern world alike.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible and readable overview of linguistic research. The text uses pedagogical tools such as analogies, metaphors, and graphic organisers to clarify the meaning of complex linguistic concepts. To ensure that readers develop a firm and lasting grasp of new ideas, the book illustrates theoretical concepts with language samples (such as popular song lyrics or famous sayings) that are likely to be familiar to the reader. The use of such recognisable language material is intended to help students see the language in their own environment as worth observing and analysing. Above all, the book is meant to help future teachers in the classroom. This goal largely determines the book’s scope. The text provides an overview of those studies that have especially significant implications for classroom practice. For instance, the chapter on neurolinguistics covers research into the gestures that accompany speech, and the chapter on semantics places special emphasis on discussing the role of conceptual metaphors in cognition. Each of the book’s eleven chapters concludes with a section entitled “Implications for Instruction.” These sections engage to reader in exploring the practical significance of linguistic research.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible and readable overview of linguistic research. The text uses pedagogical tools such as analogies, metaphors, and graphic organisers to clarify the meaning of complex linguistic concepts. To ensure that readers develop a firm and lasting grasp of new ideas, the book illustrates theoretical concepts with language samples (such as popular song lyrics or famous sayings) that are likely to be familiar to the reader. The use of such recognisable language material is intended to help students see the language in their own environment as worth observing and analysing. Above all, the book is meant to help future teachers in the classroom. This goal largely determines the book’s scope. The text provides an overview of those studies that have especially significant implications for classroom practice. For instance, the chapter on neurolinguistics covers research into the gestures that accompany speech, and the chapter on semantics places special emphasis on discussing the role of conceptual metaphors in cognition. Each of the book’s eleven chapters concludes with a section entitled “Implications for Instruction.” These sections engage to reader in exploring the practical significance of linguistic research.

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Book Synopsis Is English in Utah truly unique? If so, what makes it different? What stereotypes about how Utahns speak are completely off base? Which are accurate? To answer these questions, linguist David Ellingson Eddington surveyed more than 1,700 Utahns in an effort to better understand and systematize the peculiarities of English spoken in the Beehive State. This resulting book is sophisticated, accessible, and often humorous; it’s the kind of work that professional linguists, students, and general audiences can use and enjoy. Utah is linguistically interesting for a variety of reasons, including the massive numbers of immigrants who flocked to Utah Territory in the first years of its settlement; its relative isolation from 1847 until the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869; and the fact that so many Utahns belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—giving them greater commonality than is often the case. Notably, the book argues that particular religious affiliation, or lack thereof, might play a part in how you use the features that make up Utah English. An accessible study of dialect in Utah, this book explores how social and geographic factors influence the pronunciations and regional expressions that characterize Utah English. Reflecting years of dealing with misconceptions about dialect both in and out of the classroom, Eddington covers vocabulary, individual words, syntax, vowels, and consonants, blending a serious and sometimes humorous approach to his research. Trade Review “David Eddington has written the book that I’ve long wished I could write. It is a casual but careful treatment of ‘Utah English,’ distilling what we know about the region’s linguistic features, and doing so in an accessible fashion.”—David Bowie, University of Alaska Anchorage “An interested reader, whether a linguist or a nonlinguist, is sure to appreciate a whole host of interesting findings here.”—Kamil Kaźmierski, Adam Mickiewicz University Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Utah English Survey Chapter 2. Scone, Sluff, and Potato Bug: What Makes Utah Vocabulary Unique? Chapter 3. For Cute and Used to Do: Utah Grammatical Novelties Chapter 4. Pop or Soda? Individual Words and Pronunciations in Utah Chapter 5. Felling Tests in Spanish Fark and Other Shifty Utah Vowel Chapter 6. There’s Nothing Constant about Consonants Chapter 7. Summary and Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe idea of Peace Linguistics (PL) has been around for decades. However, the practice of PL has only occurred much more recently, only within the last few years, since the first creditbearing, university-level PL course was taught at Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2017. Since then, the field of NPL has grown beyond its original goals, of using peaceful language and language that avoids or de-escalates conflict. The New Peace Linguistics (NPL) focuses on in-depth, systematic analyses of the spoken and written language of some of the most powerful people in the world, such as presidents of the USA, as it is they who have the power to start wars or to bring peace. As the first book to be published on PL and on NPL, this work represents a ground-breaking study of the power of language to hurt and harm or to help and give hope.The first four chapters of the book, which provide the foundation on which the rest of the book is built, introduce the concept of Peace Linguistics and the New Peace Linguistics, starting with the origins of PL and coming to the present day. The remaining Part Two and Part Three chapters present in-depth, systematic NPL analyses of George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell, Barack H. Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden. The concluding chapter reiterates the most important distinguishing and recurring features of NPL, and looks at where the field may be headed in the future.

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Book SynopsisThe idea of Peace Linguistics (PL) has been around for decades. However, the practice of PL has only occurred much more recently, only within the last few years, since the first creditbearing, university-level PL course was taught at Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2017. Since then, the field of NPL has grown beyond its original goals, of using peaceful language and language that avoids or de-escalates conflict. The New Peace Linguistics (NPL) focuses on in-depth, systematic analyses of the spoken and written language of some of the most powerful people in the world, such as presidents of the USA, as it is they who have the power to start wars or to bring peace. As the first book to be published on PL and on NPL, this work represents a ground-breaking study of the power of language to hurt and harm or to help and give hope.The first four chapters of the book, which provide the foundation on which the rest of the book is built, introduce the concept of Peace Linguistics and the New Peace Linguistics, starting with the origins of PL and coming to the present day. The remaining Part Two and Part Three chapters present in-depth, systematic NPL analyses of George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell, Barack H. Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden. The concluding chapter reiterates the most important distinguishing and recurring features of NPL, and looks at where the field may be headed in the future.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education. Using the nexus of race, language, and education as a lens through which one can better understand the role of the world language education classroom as both a setting of oppression and as a potential setting for transformation, Democracy and World Language Education: Toward a Transformation offers insights into a number of important topics.Among the issues that are addressed in this timely book are linguicism, the ideology of linguistic legitimacy, raciolinguistics, and critical epistemology. Specific cases and case studies that are explored in detail include the contact language Spanglish, African American English, and American Sign Language. The book also includes critical examinations of the less commonly taught languages, the teaching of classical languages (primarily Latin and Greek), and the paradoxical learning and speaking of "critical languages" that are supported primarily for purposes of national security (Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, etc.).

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education. Using the nexus of race, language, and education as a lens through which one can better understand the role of the world language education classroom as both a setting of oppression and as a potential setting for transformation, Democracy and World Language Education: Toward a Transformation offers insights into a number of important topics.Among the issues that are addressed in this timely book are linguicism, the ideology of linguistic legitimacy, raciolinguistics, and critical epistemology. Specific cases and case studies that are explored in detail include the contact language Spanglish, African American English, and American Sign Language. The book also includes critical examinations of the less commonly taught languages, the teaching of classical languages (primarily Latin and Greek), and the paradoxical learning and speaking of "critical languages" that are supported primarily for purposes of national security (Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, etc.).

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects landmark research in a burgeoning field of visual analytics for linguistics, called LingVis. Combining linguistic data and linguistically oriented research questions with techniques and methodologies developed in the computer science fields of visual analytics and information visualization, LingVis is motivated by the growing need within linguistic research for dealing with large amounts of complex, multidimensional data sets. An innovative exploration into the future of LingVis in the digital age, this foundational book both provides a representation of the current state of the field and communicates its new possibilities for addressing complex linguistic questions across the larger linguistic community.

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Book SynopsisThe interviews in this volume form the nearest thing possible to an autobiography of eminent computer scientist Donald E. Knuth. Based on the English-language Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth, also published by CSLI Publications, this book brings the highlights of that material to a Francophone audience.

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Book SynopsisEvolutionary linguistics (also known as Darwinian linguistics) is a significant development in the study of linguistics. Evolutionary linguists view Linguistics as a subsector of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. It thus has a sociobiological approach to language studies. Bio-linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and evolutionary anthropology are also closely related to this approach. In the previous two decades, evolutionary models have become prevalent in a variety of language research fields. Historical linguistics and the study of language's origin both naturally make use of evolutionary models in many studies around. The present book attempts to shed light on these aspects of linguistics. However, the absence of data around the transition from our primate lineages to the arrival of modern human language in all societies hinders the application of evolutionary models in the latter scenario. Data from the archaeological records and comparisons of human and other animal social-cognitive capacities and communication systems, especially nonhuman primates, are all we have to research. This volume does not discuss the study of the origin of human language. However, due to the vastness and expansion of the subject matter, the review is limited to studies in which evolutionary biology's qualitative concepts and quantitative methodologies have been applied to the study of language, particularly, language change and phylogeny.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Language Chapter 2 The Foundation of Human Language Uniqueness Chapter 3 Linguistic Structure and Evolution of Words Chapter 4 Cognition and Logic in Communication Chapter 5 Grammar Acquisition Chapter 6 Models of Evolution of Speech and Phonology Chapter 7 Signs Before the Speech: Gestural Protolanguage Theories Chapter 8 Play as a Precursor of Phonology and Syntax Chapter 9 The Role of Mimesis in Infant Language Development Chapter 10 Future of Linguistics

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Book SynopsisThe book entitled, Linguistic Science Theories Complexity, Applications, and Interactions introduces students to the complexity of linguistic science and applies it to the scientific research of language. It demonstrates that there is evidence of language as a complex system at every level of linguistic study. This crucial volume, written for researchers and students of language and linguistics, employs cutting-edge ideas on topics like morphology, grammar, and phonetics that are typically covered in the general introduction to language research. Interaction and emergence are two key terminologies from complex system studies, a novel science that is presently useful in topics such as evolutionary biology, but also perfectly suited to the humanities. The author discusses this theme throughout the book. Since language is a by-product of human behaviour that is constantly emerging, evolving, changing, and sometimes, endangering itself due to the lack of social and cultural interactions, the level of complexity applied to it also varies across time and societies. Considering the prevalent pedagogical policies and practices, this volume also provides a critical review of the current state of language, its flux, its applications, and its social and cultural interactions. The contents of the book also focus on second language teaching and learning and the flux in its use of dialects in society and schools. The variety of syllabi, curriculum, materials development, and related quality issues, as well as various types of schools, systems, and typologies of teaching situations, are all methodologically analyzed. Several pedagogically significant implications have been investigated, and suggestions have been made to raise the quality and standards of language education in schools on the grounds of the critical perspectives and insights of the linguistic science theories presented herein. The book, therefore, may help students, teachers, and scholars of linguistics because of its novel scholastic content.

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Book SynopsisThis reference guide intends to help the students of social and behavioral science to cope with the key concepts which are often used for evaluating students' content knowledge. It presents information to those who want to get a snapshot of the key terms in research. The book is intended as a reference guide to indicate the meaning and use of different terminologies, concepts, approaches, methods, sampling procedures, designs, statistics, and data collection in research. This book provides a simple way of defining the key concepts in research. The information is presented in a glossary format which does not does not require depth and specificity in definition. This features make the book as a resource pocket guide that the intended readers can easily use to brush up their research knowledge. This volume is designed to appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, practitioners, researchers, across the field of social and behavioral science.

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Book SynopsisSpellbound considers the history of English spelling and provides suggestions for modern day reform of its irregularities.The first half of the book reviews the history of English spelling and the reasons for the many irregularities of our modern language. The author argues that the irregular spelling of English contributes seriously to the high rate of illiteracy in the English speaking world. He then reviews some of the many attempts to reform the spelling of other languages, some of which were successful and others not. During the first half of the 20th century there was a flurry of interest in reforms for English but since then reform has been little more than the object of humor. Spellbound considers the reasons for this opposition to reform.The book then turns to current proposals for the reform of English. It describes the criteria that should govern the choice among alternative reforms and considers in detail the relatively easily reformed consonants and the much more difficult vowels. Special attention is given to ways of designing a spelling that is equally suitable for the many and diverse dialects of spoken English. While the author recognises that a unified spelling could not be perfect for any single dialect, he argues that it could be very much better than our present spelling for all dialects. Spellbound concludes by looking at possible ways by which reforms might be brought about today.

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