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  • Cambridge University Press Why We Gesture

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    Book SynopsisGestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech? Are they simply an ''add-on'' to spoken language? Why do we gesture? These and other questions are addressed in this fascinating book. McNeill explains that the common view of language and gesture as separate entities is misinformed: language is inseparable from gesture. There is gesture-speech unity. Containing over 100 illustrations, Why We Gesture provides visual evidence to support the book''s central argument that gestures orchestrate speech. This compelling book will be welcomed by students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology and communication.Trade Review'David McNeill explores and extends his life's work, the study of the gesture/language system - our unique, human, expressive being - in this exhilarating, challenging, masterly tour-de-force.' Jonathan Cole'David McNeill, quite simply, has fundamentally changed how we think about human bodily communication, particularly hand gesture. His views are immensely influential. He tackles the major theoretical questions in this area with great courage and conviction, and his precise arguments really do define the field.' Geoff Beattie, Edge Hill University'David McNeill's decades of groundbreaking work on gesture have transformed the study of language. This book presents penetrating new insights into the embodied nature of utterance formation.' Elena Levy, University of Connecticut'This extraordinary volume synthesises McNeill's trailblazing work on the links between gesture, speech, and language in mind and brain, in interaction, evolution, and development. It is engaging, compelling, and indispensable.' Marianne GullbergTable of ContentsPart I. Gesture-Orchestrated Speech: 1. Why we gesture; 2. The growth point; 3. New form of human action; 4. Orchestration and unpacking; 5. Mimicry and metaphor; Part II. Phylogenesis, Ontogenesis, Brain: 6. Phylogenesis; 7. Ontogenesis; 8. Brain; Part III. The Last Page: 9. Why we gesture (again).

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  • DykeGirl Language and Identities in a Lesbian Group

    Palgrave Macmillan DykeGirl Language and Identities in a Lesbian Group

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    Book SynopsisThis book explores the construction of identities within a lesbian group, outlining interactive tactics used in the production of mutually-negotiated norms of authenticity. Using ethnography and discourse analysis, a range of group-specific personae are revealed to be continually reworked and reproduced within the women''s interaction.Trade Review'Jones' study adds to the currently small amount of scholarship which exclusively addresses lesbian-specific interaction. She has succeeded in creating space for further studies in cross-generational lesbian language; it is my hope that this study will open further avenues for queer sociolinguistics research.' - LINGUISTTable of ContentsTranscription Conventions List of Transcriptions Introduction Sociocultural Approaches to Linguistics Approaches to Language and Sexuality Doing Ethnography with the Stompers Dyke and Girl Negotiating Authentic Style and Practice Indexing Authenticity via Cultural Knowledge Political Difference and Maintenance of Shared Identity Understanding Communities of Practice Sociocultural Linguistics and Sexuality Notes References

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  • Language in the Media

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Language in the Media

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    Book SynopsisSally Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University of Leeds, UK.Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Media and Digital Communication at the University of Alberta, Canada.Table of ContentsForeword, Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin 1. Language in the Media: Theory and Practice, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK) and Astrid Ensslin (University of Alberta, Canada) Part I: Metaphors and Meanings 2. Metaphors for Speaking and Writing in the British Press, John Heywood and Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) 3. Journalistic Constructions of Blair's ‘Apology' for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War, Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield, UK) 4. Crises of Meaning: Personalist Language Ideology in US Media Discourse, Jane Hill (University of Arizona, USA) Part II: National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization 5. National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK) 6. A Language Ideology in Print: the Case of Sweden, Tommaso M. Milani (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) 7. Global Challenges to Nationalist Ideologies: Language and Education in the Luxembourg Press, Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield, UK) Part III: Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes 8. Corsican on the Airwaves: Media Discourse in a Context of Minority Language Shift, Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long Beach, USA) 9. ‘When Hector met Tom Cruise': Attitudes to Irish in a Radio Satire, Helen Kelly-Holmes and David Atkinson (University of Limerick, Ireland) 10. Dealing with Linguistic Difference in Encounters with Others on British Television, Simon Gieve and Julie Norton (University of Leicester, UK) Part IV: Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities 11. Fabricating Youth: New-media Discourse and the Technologization of Young People, Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland) 12. Dreaming of Genie: Gender Difference and Identity on the Web, Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK) 13. Of Chords, Machines and Bumble-bees: The Metalinguistics of Hyperpoetry, Astrid Ensslin (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. Language in the Media: Authenticity and Othering, Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University, UK) Index

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  • Multispecies Discourse Analysis

    Bloomsbury Academic Multispecies Discourse Analysis

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    Book SynopsisThis book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism. Here, new ecocultural identities are taking shape as people strive to make sense of their shifting multispecies landscape, and as sea turtles gradually reclaim beaches after decades of absence. The book offers researchers in ecolinguistics and related ecologically engaged fields in discourse analysis an integrative theoretical and methodological approach to empirically investigate the human and ''more-than-human'' discourses and practices shaping problematic human-wildlife interaction. Containing short vignettes in each chapter covering the biology and behaviours of sea turtles, this book suggests how discourse analysts might contribute to a ''life-sustaining multispecies ethics'' in an uncertain socio-ecological time increasingly being referred to as the Anthropocene.

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  • Language and Social Justice

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Language and Social Justice

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    Book SynopsisKathleen C. Riley is Assistant Teaching Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Rutgers University, USA. Bernard C. Perley is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez isProfessor of Social Research Methodology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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  • Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of our Semiotic Mind

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of our Semiotic Mind

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    Book SynopsisAntonis Iliopoulos is a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC HANDMADE project at the University of Oxford, UK, which explores creative gesture in pottery-making.

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  • The University and the Algorithmic Gaze

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The University and the Algorithmic Gaze

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    Book SynopsisThis open access book takes an innovative and critical look at the ways in which digital data and algorithms are changing the face of higher education in multiple ways. It examines their impact at both the macro scale of universities and systems worldwide, but also at the more subtle level of effects on academics and students. In doing so, it focuses on the day-to-day life of the university, examining how the digital is changing the way that we communicate, learn, and create new knowledge. As well as exploring the role of big data' and learning analytics, the book also focuses on areas of academic life not normally considered to be part of datafication, such as the physical structures of surveillance on campus and the ways in which systems of quality' in research can morph into regimes of surveillance and algorithmic discipline. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume interweaves insights from Surveillance Studies, Science and Technology Studies an

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  • Abortion in Ireland

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Abortion in Ireland

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    Book SynopsisSimon Statham is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Queen's University Belfast, UK.Helen Ringrow is Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

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  • Conversing in the Metaverse

    Bloomsbury Academic Conversing in the Metaverse

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    Book SynopsisJieun Kiaer is Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK.

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  • Analysing Environmental Discourse

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Analysing Environmental Discourse

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    Book SynopsisScott Burnett is Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  • Harmonious Discourse Analysis

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Harmonious Discourse Analysis

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    Book SynopsisRuihua Zhao is Associate Professor of Social Science at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Guowen Huang is Professor at City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.

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  • World Englishes and Social Media

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) World Englishes and Social Media

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    Book SynopsisSofia Rüdiger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.Sven Leuckert is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

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  • Navigating Dementia and Society

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Navigating Dementia and Society

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    Book SynopsisEmma Putland is Senior Research Associate for the UKRI-funded Public Discourses of Dementia' project at Lancaster University, UK.

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  • Constructing Brexit Britain

    Bloomsbury Academic Constructing Brexit Britain

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    Book SynopsisTamsin Parnell is Research Assistant on the EDIFY project in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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  • Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore The Garden City

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore The Garden City

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    Book SynopsisTodd LeVasseur is Senior Lecturer in the Environmental Studies program at YNUSC, Singapore, where he teaches environmental humanities courses. He is also a Senior Instructor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the College of Charleston, USA.

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  • Poetics of Living

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Poetics of Living

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    Book SynopsisKuniyoshi Kataoka is Professor of English Linguistics at Aichi University, Japan. He has edited several books and published numerous refereed papers in major sociolinguistic journals.Makiko Takekuro is Professor in the School of Law at Waseda University, Japan.Takeshi Enomoto is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka University, Japan.

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  • The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

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    Book SynopsisThis edited volume explores how migrant identities are created and constructed in discourse both by migrants themselves and by others. The contributors reveal how migrant identities are discursively constructed by those with lived experiences of mobility and those who view themselves as part of the host' population. This dual focus responds to a lack of previous research examining migration representation from both perspectives. Readers will discover how the discursive constructions of migrant identities in different domains relate to one another.The case studies include a broad range of text types from film, government documents and narrative accounts to newspapers and Twitter. They also cover a wide range of contexts including Argentina, Australia, Italy, Romania, and UK, making this is a more comprehensive account of the framing of migration than has been previously accomplished. The chapters all follow the same structure to help the reader learn how to inv

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  • Ultralingualism

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ultralingualism

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    Book SynopsisAndrey Rosowsky is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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  • Characters and Surprises in Standup Comedy

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Characters and Surprises in Standup Comedy

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    Book SynopsisLorenzo Logi is a Sessional Academic at Sydney University, University of New South Wales and Macquarie University, Australia.

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  • Queer Correctives

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Correctives

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    Book SynopsisQueer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. In Singapore, Christian discourses of sex and sexuality have materialised in the form of testimonials that detail the pain and suffering of homosexuality, and how Christianity has been a salve for the tribulations experienced by the storytellers. This book freshly engages with Michel Foucault's posthumous and final volume of The History of Sexuality by revitalising his work on biblical metanoia as a form of homophobia. Drawing on Foucauldian critical theory and approaches in discourse studies, it shows how language is at the centre of this particular iteration of neo-homophobia, one that no longer finds value in overt expressions of hate and disdain for those with non-normative sexualities, but relies extensively on seemingly neutral calls for c

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  • Linguistics and Oral History

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Linguistics and Oral History

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    Book SynopsisChris Fitzgerald is a Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland.

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  • Conspiracy as Genre

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Conspiracy as Genre

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    Book SynopsisCatherine Tebaldi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital and Linguistic Anthropology at the Culture and Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.Alistair Plum is Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Linguistics at the Culture and Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Christoph Purschke is Head of the Culture and Computation Lab and Professor in Computational Linguistics at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

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  • Language Knowledge and Society in Higher Education

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Language Knowledge and Society in Higher Education

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    Book SynopsisIan Bruce is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.Alex Ding is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the University of Leeds, UK.

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  • Language and Memory

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Language and Memory

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    Book SynopsisNatalie Braber is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.Thomas Van de Putte is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London, UK.Sophie van den Elzen is Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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  • Transcending Language Education in Japan

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transcending Language Education in Japan

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    Book SynopsisMadoka Hammine is Assistant Professor in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver, ColoradoNathanael Rudolph is Professor of sociolinguistics and language education at Kindai University in Higashiosaka, Japan

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  • Metalanguage and Identity

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Metalanguage and Identity

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  • Space Time and Quantification in the YiChing

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Space Time and Quantification in the YiChing

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    Book SynopsisYancheng Yang is Associate Professor at Henan University of Science and Technology, China.

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  • Comparing Linguistic Diachronies

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Comparing Linguistic Diachronies

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    Book SynopsisNikolaos Lavidas is Associate Professor of Diachronic Linguistics at the University of Athens, Greece.Alexander Bergs is Full Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.Elly van Gelderen is Regents' Professor Emeritus in English, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University, USA.Ioanna Sitaridou is Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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  • How We Talk About Animals and Why it Matters

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) How We Talk About Animals and Why it Matters

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    Book SynopsisAlison Sealey is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK.

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  • Hermeneutical Narratives in Christian Religious Experience

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hermeneutical Narratives in Christian Religious Experience

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    Book SynopsisMalgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at Opole University of Technology, Poland.Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation Studies and Slavic Languages at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

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  • Ecolinguistics Social Justice and Sustainability

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ecolinguistics Social Justice and Sustainability

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    Book SynopsisMohamed Mliless is an independent researcher in Ecolinguistics and Critical Environmental Discourse Analysis, Morocco.Mohammed Larouz is Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Moulay Ismail University of Meknès, Morocco.David Stringer is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Second Language Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.Diego Luis Forte is an Academic Consultant for the Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina and a Teacher of English at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.George M. Jacobs is Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.Meng Huat Chau is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at Zhejiang International Studies University, China.

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  • Principles of Linguistic Change Volume 3

    John Wiley and Sons Ltd Principles of Linguistic Change Volume 3

    Book SynopsisWritten by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible for linguistic change Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from one another Establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community and diffusion across communities Completes Labov's seminal Principles of Linguistic Change trilogy Trade ReviewThe culminating volume in Labov's magnum opus on language variation and change will assure forever his indelible imprint on the field of linguistics. Thanks to Labov, the field should never be the same." — Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University "William Labov completes his monumental study of sound change by examining the forces that drive divergence and convergence in neighboring communities. His impeccable attention to detail is illuminated, as always, by his sensitivity to the social, communal and personal motives that lie behind the ways in which we talk to one another." — J.K. Chambers, University of Toronto "Labov's inexhaustible creative wellspring produces a fountain of insight and essential reading for all scholars concerned with language as a dynamic social organism. This volume assembles elements of his work into a grand mosaic: a work of science, but also a work of art." — Gregory R. Guy, New York University Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Preface. Abbreviations. 1 Introduction to Cognitive and Cultural Factors in Linguistic Change. 1.1 Cognitive Factors. 1.2 Cultural Factors in Linguistic Change. 1.3 Convergence and Divergence. 1.4 The Darwinian Paradox Revisited. 1.5 Divergence and the Central Dogma. 1.6 The Community Orientation of Language Learning. 1.7 The Argument of this Volume. 1.8 The English Vowel System and the Major Chain Shifts of North American English. Part A Cross-Dialectal Comprehension. 2 Natural Misunderstandings. 2.1 The Collection of Natural Misunderstandings. 2.2 Modes of Correction. 2.3 How Common Are Misunderstandings? 2.4 What Is the Role of Sound Change in Misunderstanding? 2.5 The Linguistic Focus of the Misunderstandings. 2.6 The Effect of Mergers. 2.7 Chain Shifts. 2.8 Philadelphia Sound Changes. 2.9 r-less vs r-ful Dialects. 2.10 Sound Changes General to North America. 2.11 An Overview of Natural Misunderstandings. 3 A Controlled Experiment on Vowel Identification. 3.1 The Peterson–Barney Experiment. 3.2 Replicating the Peterson–Barney Experiment. 3.3 Overall Success in Identification. 3.4 Responses to the Chicago Speakers. 3.5 Responses to the Birmingham Speakers. 3.6 Responses to the Philadelphia Speakers. 3.7 Overview. 4 The Gating Experiments. 4.1 Construction of the Gating Experiments. 4.2 Overall Responses to the Gating Experiments. 4.3 Comprehension of the Northern Cities Shift in Chicago. 4.4 Recognition of Chicago Sound Changes in the Word Context. 4.5 The Effect of Lexical Equivalence. 4.6 Comprehension of Southern Sound Changes in Birmingham. 4.7 Comprehension of Philadelphia Sound Changes. 4.8 Overview of the Gating Experiments. Part B The Life History of Linguistic Change. 5 Triggering Events. 5.1 Bends in the Chain of Causality. 5.2 Causes of the Canadian Shift. 5.3 Causes of the Pittsburgh Shift. 5.4 Causes of the Low Back Merger. 5.5 The Fronting of /uw/. 5.6 The Northern Cities Shift. 5.7 An Overview of Triggering Events. 6 Governing Principles. 6.1 The Constraints Problem. 6.2 The (Ir)Reversibility of Mergers. 6.3 The Geographic Expansion of Mergers in North America. 6.4 Principles Governing Chain Shifts. 6.5 Principles Governing Chain Shifting within Subsystems. 6.6 How Well Do Governing Principles Govern? 7 Forks in the Road. 7.1 The Concept of Forks in the Road. 7.2 The Two-Stage Model of Dialect Divergence. 7.3 The Fronting and Backing of Short a. 7.4 Divergent Development of the /o/ ~ /oh/ Opposition. 8 Divergence. 8.1 Continuous and Discrete Boundaries. 8.2 The North/Midland Boundary. 8.3 Communication across the North/Midland Boundary. 8.4 The Two-Step Mechanism of Divergence. 8.5 Unidirectional Change: The Low Back Merger. 8.6 Consequences of the Low Back Merger for the English Vowel System. 8.7 Resistance to the Low Back Merger. 8.8 Further Differentiation by Chain Shifts. 8.9 A General View of Linguistic Divergence in North America. 9 Driving Forces. 9.1 The Importation of Norms. 9.2 Locality. 9.3 Social Networks and Communities of Practice. 9.4 Socioeconomic Classes. 9.5 Acts of Identity. 9.6 The Relation of Social Classes in Apparent Time. 9.7 Gender as a Social Force. 9.8 The Regional Dialect. 9.9 Accounting for the Uniform Progress of the Northern Cities Shift. 10 Yankee Cultural Imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift. 10.1 The North/Midland Boundary. 10.2 The History of the North/Midland Boundary. 10.3 The Material Basis of the North/Midland Opposition. 10.4 The Cultural Opposition of Yankees and Upland Southerners. 10.5 Coincidence with Geographic Boundaries of Political Cultures. 10.6 Red States, Blue States, and the Northern Dialect Region. 10.7 Relation of Dialects to County Voting Patterns. 10.8 The History of the Death Penalty. 10.9 Ideological Oppositions in the North. 10.10 The Geographic Transformation. 11 Social Evaluation of the Northern Cities Shift. 11.1 The North/Midland Experiment 1. 11.2 Conclusion. 12 Endpoints. 12.1 Skewness as an Index of Approach to Endpoint. 12.2 Social Characteristics of Endpoints. 12.3 The Eckert Progression as the Product of Re-Analysis by Language Learners. Part C The Unit of Linguistic Change. 13 Words Floating on the Surface of Sound Change. 13.1 The Issues Reviewed. 13.2 The Fronting of /uw/. 13.3 The Fronting of /ow/. 13.4 Homonyms. 13.5 The Raising and Fronting of /æ/ in the Inland North. 13.6 Overview. 13.7 Participation in Sound Change. 13.8 The Modular Separation of Phonological and Social Factors. 13.9 Conclusion. 14 The Binding Force in Segmental Phonology. 14.1 Is There Allophonic Chain Shifting before Nasals? 14.2 Allophonic Chain Shifting in the Southern Shift? 14.3 The Binding Force. Part D Transmission and Diffusion. 15 The Diffusion of Language from Place to Place. 15.1 Family-Tree and Wave Models of Change. 15.2 Defining Transmission and Diffusion. 15.3 Structural Diffusion. 15.4 Accounting for the Difference between Transmission and Diffusion. 15.5 Diffusion in Dialect Geography. 15.6 The Diffusion of the NYC Short-a System. 15.7 The Transmission and Diffusion of Mergers and Splits. 15.8 Diffusion of the Northern Cities Shift. 15.9 The Social Context of Transmission and Diffusion. 15.10 Prospectus. 16 The Diffusion of Language from Group to Group. 16.1 Diffusion to the AAVE Community. 16.2 Influence of Surrounding Dialects on AAVE Pronunciation. 16.3 The Diffusion of Constraints on -t, d Deletion to Children in Minority Communities. 16.4 The Diffusion of Grammatical Variables to Adult Members of the African–American Community. 16.5 Directions of Diffusion in the Latino Community. 16.6 The Nature of Diffusion across Communal Boundaries. 17 Conclusion. 17.1 Summary of the Argument. 17.2 The Relation of Linguistic Change to Animal Systems of Communication. 17.3 More on the Functions of Language. 17.4 Social Intelligence and Object-Oriented Intelligence. Notes. References. Index.

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  • The Literary Lifeline

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Literary Lifeline

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    Book SynopsisKevin Harvey is Associate Professor at the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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  • Language Smugglers

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Language Smugglers

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    Book SynopsisTranslation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from one language to another a border-crossing activity, where the border is a linguistic one. But what if the text one is translating is not written in one language; indeed, what if no text is ever written in a single language? In recent years, many books of fiction and poetry published in so-called Canada, especially by queer, racialized and Indigenous writers, have challenged the structural notions of linguistic autonomy and singularity that underlie not only the formation of the nation-state, but the bulk of Western translation theory and the field of comparative literature. Language Smugglers argues that the postnational cartographies of language found in minoritized Canadian literary works force a radical redefinition of the activity of translation altogether. Canada is revealed as an especially rich site for this study, with its official bilingualism and multiculturalism policies, its robust

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Saigon Street Talk: Colloquial Vietnamese Slang, Sayings, and Swearing

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  • SIL International, Global Publishing Your Language Matters

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  • SIL International, Global Publishing Language in the Mission of God

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  • Workable Accents

    Bloomsbury Academic Workable Accents

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    Book SynopsisVijay A. Ramjattan is Assistant Professor in the Language and Literacies Education department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

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  • Ukrainian Border Dialects in BelarusianRussian Contact Areas

    Bloomsbury Academic Ukrainian Border Dialects in BelarusianRussian Contact Areas

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    Book SynopsisSalvatore Del Gaudio is Associate Professor of Slavic Philology and Linguistics in the Department of Humanities at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is also Professor at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine, and is in cooperation with the Potebnja Institute of Linguistics in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

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  • Skaryna Press .

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  • Remit Press Kien Universala EsperantoAsocio

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  • Curtis Publishing Ask Love Amour

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  • Curtis Publishing Ask Love Amour

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  • Classiques Garnier Neologica 202418

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