Sociolinguistics Books
Peter Lang AG Nonstandard Im Semantischen Raum
Book SynopsisSprachwissen, Spracheinstellungen und Sprachvariation sind zentrale Phänomene gesellschaftlicher Konstruktion und Wahrnehmung. Die Studie rekonstruiert diese und untersucht Verwendungen sprachlicher Formen bei Jugendlichen aus der Region Trier empirisch anhand einer dreigliedrigen Leitfrage: Wie wird der Sprachraum von Sprechern mit alltagssprachlichen Termini strukturiert, wie sind davon ausgehende Spracheinstellungen zur Nonstandardverwendung sozial verteilt und wie wird vor diesem Hintergrund Sprachvariation zur Strukturierung von Mikrosituationen verwendet? Die Thematik wird mittels eines Mixed-Methods-Designs und die zentrale Analysekategorie semantischer Raum erschlossen.
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Peter Lang AG Transfer Und Transformation Von Wissen
Book SynopsisWissenstransfer und Wissenstransformation sind zentrale Herausforderungen in der Wissensgesellschaft. Die fortschreitende Fragmentierung von Wissensdomänen und die eingeschränkte Zugänglichkeit von Wissensressourcen sind nur zwei gegenläufige Tendenzen. Umso mehr rücken funktionale Aspekte von Wissenskonstruktion und Wissenskonstitution in den Blickpunkt. Dieser Band bündelt ausgewählte transdisziplinäre Perspektiven und Positionen des Themenfeldes.
£45.99
Lit Verlag The Global and Local Dimensions of English:
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£20.85
Lit Verlag Fula spoken in the City of Maroua (Northern
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£36.00
Lit Verlag Language and Interaction in the Chinese Community
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£34.20
Lit Verlag Language in African Urban Contexts: A
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£27.86
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Multilingual Construction of Identity –
Book SynopsisReporting on a linguistic ethnographic study, Işıl Erduyan explores multilingual identity construction of high school students with Turkish descent enrolled in a downtown high school(Gymnasium) in Berlin. She focuses on naturally occurring classroom interactions across German, Turkish, and English classes and attends to the complex relationship between identities and multilingual repertoires through a scalar analytical perspective. Her findings demonstrate how multilingual students linguistic repertoires are bound by linguistic performances within and across multiple timescales. The study takes an innovative path by attending to the everyday linguistic practices of a group of multilingual immigrant students with the same national background through linguistic ethnographic lenses in the context of mainstream schooling in Europe, and by focusing on a much-understudied group, namely higher achieving students of immigrant descent enrolled in a German high school.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latv
Book SynopsisLanguage policy and usage in the post-communist region have continually attracted wide political, media, and expert attention since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. How are these issues politicised in contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine? This study presents a cross-cultural qualitative and quantitative analysis of publications in leading Russian-language blogs and news websites of these three post-Soviet states in the period from 2004 to 2017. The most notable difference observed between Ukraine, on the one side, and the two Baltic countries, on the other, is that many Russian-writing users in Ukraines internet tend to support the position that the state language, i.e. Ukrainian, is discriminated against and needs special protection by the state, whereas the majority of Russian-speaking commentators on selected Estonian and Latvian news websites advocate the establishment of Russian as a second state language. Despite attempts of Ukraines government to ukrainianise the public space, the position of Ukrainian is still perceived, even by many Russian-writing commentators and bloggers, as being precarious and vulnerable. This became especially visible in debates after the 20132014 Revolution of Dignity, when the number of supporters of an introduction of Russian as a second state language significantly decreased. In the Russian-language segments of Estonian and Latvian news websites and blogs, in contrast, the majority of online users continue to reproduce the image of being victims of their countries nation-building. They often claim that their political, as well as economic rights are significantly limited in comparison to ethnic Estonians and Latvians. This book illustrates thatnotwithstanding variations between the Estonian as well as Latvian cases, on the one hand, and Ukraine, on the otherthere is an ongoing process of convergence within Ukrainian debates if compared to those held in the other two countries in terms of an increasing degree of discursive decommunisation and derussification.
£41.25
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Alphabet of Discord – The Ideologization of
Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between writing systems and nationalism? How can different alphabets coexist in the same country? What is the destiny of the Cyrillic alphabet in Europe? Giustina Selvelli's original work provides detailed answers to these far-reaching and potentially divisive questions and many more by examining several intriguing debates on topics of alphabets and national identity in a number of countries from the Balkan area over the course of the last 100 years. Following an encompassing perspective on alphabetic diversity, Selvelli, an expert on Southeast European Studies, reconstructs the ideological context of national discourses connected to the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, also taking a look at the Arabic and Glagolitic scripts, and interweaving issues on the symbolism of the alphabet with the complex recent history of the region, marked by the parallel influences of the East and the West. She also sheds light on the impact of a range of alphabet policies on ethnolinguistic minorities, proposing a new definition of "alphabetic rights" with special regard to the multiethnic legacy of the former Ottoman and Habsburg empires. This comprehensive book makes us discover the privileged role that writing systems played in the region's delicate post-imperial and post-socialist transitions, leaving us captivated by peculiar stories such as that of the utopian "Yugoslav alphabet".Trade Review"A very important contribution to the study of national identities in the multi-ethnic and multicultural Balkan region. This is a very complex topic, namely the question of the alphabet, and is treated in relation to the important cultural and social consequences within the wider problems of modernization, nation-building, and Europeanization of the various states. Dr. Giustina Selvelli interprets the issue in the light of contemporary critical reflection, emphasizing the highly symbolic value of writing systems and their role in shaping cultural memory and national narratives, demonstrating excellent expertise and contextualization skills." -Krassimir S. Stantchev, Senior Professor in Slavic Studies, University of Roma Tre, Italy"Although the topic of language ideologies in the Balkans has attracted the attention of many researches in the fields of sociolinguistics and nationalism studies, none has focused its attention specifically on the question of writing systems. Giustina Selvelli's book makes up for this lack, examining the fascinating issue of graphic diversity and script reform in Southeast Europe, drawing on a number of previously unresearched sources, and combining a national identity perspective with an interdisciplinary and relational approach." -Aleksander Naumow, Honorary Professor in Slavic Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, ItalyTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Reception of the Abecedar Primer (1925) in Bulgaria; The Latinization Ideology and the Bulgarian Debates; The Contrast Between Arabic and Latin Scripts Among the Bulgarian Turks; Serbo-Croatian in Two Scripts: Digraphia, Alphabet Synthesis and Biliteracy; Cyrillic at War: Script Ideologies in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945; The Rediscovery of Glagolitic: From Regional to National Phenomenon; The Modified Status of Cyrillic in Post-Socialist Croatia and Serbia; Bulgarian Cyrillic Between Tradition and Modernity: The Kronsteiner Affair; The Popular Dimension of the Cyrillic Alphabet and the Rediscovery of Glagolitic; Final Notes; List of References.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language
Book SynopsisYouth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has not received the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa. This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slang and anti-language, are male-oriented. This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youth languages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and domains. While avoiding strict binarizations and potentially flawed dichotomies, the contributing scholars observe some of the motivations for different gender performatives and how these manifest in a variety of language forms and through predominated categories of use. Data samples were obtained through sociolinguistic and anthropological instruments, ranging from questionnaires and structured interviews to street-based observations and corpus analyses. On the whole, the volume engages the literature and debate on language, youth, and especially on gendering dynamics in African youth language practices.
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V&R unipress GmbH Sprache in kulturellen Kontexten / Language in
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V&R unipress GmbH Binomials in English/Polish Company Registration
Book SynopsisShedding new light on legal formulaicity
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V&R Unipress Language, Culture, Identity: Between
Book SynopsisLanguage, culture, identity as the three elements establishing manâs âœbeingâ in the world and their mutual relations/dependencies/contexts
£38.69
Peter Lang AG English Core Linguistics: Essays in Honour of D.
Book SynopsisThis volume unites nineteen papers on core topics in linguistics: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology of English, exploring both synchronic and diachronic aspects of the English language. The papers have been collected to honour D. J. Allerton, who has taken a keen interest in all of these fields throughout his professional life. He has just retired from his professorship at the university of Basel where he has been professor of English linguistics since 1980. The authors of the contributions are colleagues and former students, all of whom felt inspired by his way of doing linguistics. Topics covered range from the Great Vowel Shift to contemporary changes in World Englishes, and from theoretical questions on the sound system and word formation patterns of English to more applied topics in phraseology and the lexicon.
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Cosmo Publications Language and Social Development
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£30.38
Creative Books Sociolinguistics and Language Education
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Oslo Academic Press Francophonie: Une Introdcution Critique
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£18.00
Museum Tusculanum Press Computational Approaches to Text Understanding:
Book SynopsisA survey of current issues in Denmark.
£20.69
Aarhus University Press Which Identity for Which Europe?
Book SynopsisThe northern territories of the former Soviet Union remain an under-researched and thus under-represented region in European studies, even though an understanding of the political, social and economic forces shaping these new nation states is of importance to the stability of Europe as a whole. Thus, this book explores questions relating to European identity in the northern part of the former Soviet Union, in particular the Baltic countries with an emphasis on Estonia and Latvia, but also on Belarus, Lithuania and Russia. The authors are social and political scientists and psychologists from Belarus, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Language of Riddles, Humor & Literature: Six
Book SynopsisThis is a selection of essays in stylistics by John M Dienhart (1939-2004) which are now collected for the first time. The essays investigate a variety of linguistic aspects of texts from different genres: from punning riddles and other kinds of humorous text to fictional prose and poetry. The essays are characterised by their pedagogical style and analytical insight and illustrate in an exemplary way how work in stylistics may simultaneously contribute to our understanding of a given text and of a particular linguistic phenomenon. John Dienhart was a dedicated linguist who loved his work and undertook all his projects with great commitment -- a commitment and enthusiasm which are unmistakably evident in the essays of this book.
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U Press Creativity and Continuity: Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the dynamic interplay between creativity and continuity in communication. Though conventionalisation is essential to any understanding of the foundation of interaction and language, thus far it has not been the subject of any substantial collective effort. New research presented here seeks to redress this. An introductory chapter critically reviews the theoretical assumptions and pitfalls of twentieth-century approaches to communication and conventionalisation. The successive chapters are by scholars from different theoretical backgrounds within language and literature. They study the processes of conventionalisation from the complementary perspectives of linguistic and literary research traditions and cover a diverse field of cognitive, social, and historical aspects of language. The target readership of the book is scholars and students of language and communication -- including literacy and literary studies and philosophy of language -- who are interested in foundational issues and their profound implications for empirical analysis.
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Central European University Press Words in Space and Time
Book SynopsisWith forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe's languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe's dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a proper nation is none other than the speech community of a single languag
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University of Chicago Press Home Signs
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Cambridge University Press Emoji in Higher Education
Book SynopsisPresenting the findings of a study of emoji use in health profession courses, this book explores emoji literacy across a range of public health education contexts. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Lexington Books Bridging the Humor Barrier
Book SynopsisThe language barrier is a familiar term, but what exactly is the humor barrier? Humor is a universal phenomenon, but the cultural variance in how humor is used can prove to be a major obstacle for English language learners hoping to communicate effectively in cross-cultural contexts. While a growing number of researchers have explored the importance of helping language learners better understand the humor of the target culture, in Bridging the Humor Barrier: Humor Competency Training in English Language Teaching, editors John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard bring together language teachers and researchers from a range of cultural and teaching contexts to tackle how to actually overcome the humor barrier. This book empirically examines humor competency training and presents related research bearing implications for humor training. Contributors address a wide range of genres of humor, providing fresh insights into helping language learners deepen their understanding and appreciation of tTrade ReviewHighly recommended not only for researchers and students working on language teaching, linguistics, pragmatics, and intercultural communication, but also for language teachers who could be inspired and motivated by the different approaches included therein. * The European Journal of Humour Research *In Bridging the Humor Barrier, readers can find a comprehensive introduction into teaching about humor in their classrooms and providing their students the skills they need in order to understand and produce their own humorous conversations. In addition, its articles and plethora of sources used throughout the text serves as a solid jumping point for those who wish to delve into researching further into the topic. It balances this research well with practical guidelines and suggestions, resulting in a well-rounded text that would be a welcome addition in any language educator’s collection. This text should be of interest to all language educators, as well as educators at large who wish to incorporate culturally literate, culturally sensitive humor into their teaching practices. * Kobe JALT Journal *"As our world is becoming more divided between the conservatives and the progressives, we need a tool to help us all see the common ground. Humor, language play, satire, sarcasm, irony, and parody all require people to see an issue from more than a single perspective. Bridging the Humor Barrior is a perfect tool for allowing advanced English learners around the world not only to develop sophisticated English language skills, but also to better understand cultural and political differences." -- Don Nilsen, Arizona State University"I found the book to be an original contribution that belongs in the library of all humor scholars interested in the intersection of teaching English in an intercultural setting and humor. It is a very rich collection of articles, with a wide breadth of methodologies and goals, which fills a significant gap in the literature." -- Salvatore Attardo, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionJohn Rucynski Jr. and Caleb PrichardPart 1: Humor Competence Development Outside the ClassChapter 1：“Working Backwards from Funny: Preparing Language Learners to Use Humor in Intercultural Encounters”Anne PomerantzChapter 2：“Humor Competency: The Role of Sociopragmatic Knowledge in Expressions of Humor in Intercultural Interactions”Jules WinchesterChapter 3：“Feeling Inadequate: Lessons from Cross-Cultural Adaptation to Help Learners Get over Inadequacies in Humor Competency”Maria Ramirez de ArellanoPart 2: Integrated Humor InstructionChapter 4：“Humor-Integrated Language Learning (HILL): Teaching with and about Humor”Mohammad Ali Heidari-ShahrezaChapter 5：“Junior High English Textbook Interactional Humor: Pragmatic Possibilities”Scott GardnerChapter 6：“Reading Jokes in English: How English Language Learners Appreciate and Comprehend Humor”Nadezda PimenovaPart 3: Explicit Humor Competency TrainingChapter 7：“Humor Competency Training for Sarcasm and Jocularity”Caleb Prichard and John Rucynski Jr.Chapter 8：“Theory, Content Knowledge, Input, Output: Elements in the Teaching and Learning of Humor Competence”Richard HodsonChapter 9：“Using Diaries to Research and Develop Humor Competence in a Second Language”Maria PetkovaChapter 10：“Training English Language Learners to Recognize English Satirical News”John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard
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Verso Books Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign
Book SynopsisThough not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Françoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its practitioners inscribed. Granted a new lease of life by the Humanists and the Catholic Church, Latin was the form in which generations of schoolchildren were taught to read, millions of people worshipped, and an international community of scholars communicated with one another. It conveyed sacredness, but also obscenity; learning, as well as pedantry; science, but also trickery and mumbo-jumbo. Few individuals even among the clergy or the most learned scholars have ever managed to speak it with any degree of correctness or fluency, let alone elegance. Why, despite rationalist criticisms that Latin was inaccessible to the great majority of people, and inconvenient and time-consuming for the rest, did it maintain such a strong presence - some would say a tyranny - for so long?Trade ReviewA splendid book: original in method, suggestive in argument, and a pleasure to read. -- Anthony Grafton * London Review of Books *... [a] fascinating and lively survey of the place of Latin western culture during the past 400 years. * Independent *... richly researched and delightful ... with scholars of Waquet's generosity and ability, the old language might yet have a future. * New Criterion *... detailed and wide-ranging ... * Los Angeles Times Book Review *... an eloquent obituary ... * Spectator *Fascinating. -- A.C. Grayling * Guardian, Summer Choice *Latin is dead and this book is its epitaph ... it is the merit and interest of Waquet's survey that she finds Latin not only deployed for the liturgy, but also to describe things carnal, pornographic, or otherwise shameful. * Daily Telegraph *A wonderful survey. -- A. N. Wilson
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University of Hertfordshire Press What is the Romani Language
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wordslut A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the
Book SynopsisEven before its usage to mean “a female canine,” bitch didn’t refer to women at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word for “genitalia.” A perfectly innocuous word devolving into an insult directed at females is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant “housewife”;Trade Review“Amanda Montell has given validation and tools to those of us who have always felt wrong in our guts about the way gender permeates our means of communication and the criticisms often lobbed at women for how we talk. Wordslut is brilliant fun and empowers all women to give ourselves a voice.” -- Gaby Dunn, author of Bad with Money“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words. Who knew sociolinguistics could be so damn entertaining? Leave it to a master of language like Amanda Montell to pull off this semantic magic trick.” -- Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy Grounded in decades of innovative feminist scholarship, full of witty personal stories, and written with the pragmatic aim of disrupting and changing the status quo, this is a humorous and important book for anyone interested in gender equality, wordplay, or fostering precise communication. Just the kind of sharp, relevant scholarship needed to continue to inspire the next generation of feminist thought. -- Kirkus Reviews“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.” -- Jill Soloway“As a bitch who says bitch and loves to talk about bitches, this smart and freakishly entertaining book awakens parts of my brain I didn’t know existed while tickling all my foul-mouthed, feminist, word-obsessed fancies. If you’re a human who speaks English and aren’t reading this, then what on earth are you doing.” -- Samantha Irby“This feisty, fascinating critique of the English language will make you feel smarter after every paragraph. Amanda Montell’s analyses are sharp and provocative but also funny and accessible. She’s the cool feminist nerd we need.” -- Whitney Cummings, creator of 2 Broke Girls“At its heart, this work reflects a tenet of sociolinguistic study: language is not divorced from culture; it both reflects and creates beliefs about identity and power. Modern stylings situated within foundational research will hopefully bring a new audience to the field of language and gender studies.” -- Library Journal“Wordslut is filled with fascinating info about the sexist history of our language: I literally said ‘whoa’ multiple times while reading this book. It is so witty and brilliant. Men and women both need to read it.” -- Blyth Roberson
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Oxford University Press Inc The Ethnomethodology Program Legacies and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter One: Introduction: Garfinkel and the Ethnomethodology Movement John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard SECTION ONE: ANTECEDENTS AND THEORY Chapter Two: A Comparison of Decisions Made on Four 'Pre-Theoretical' Problems by Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schuetz Harold Garfinkel Chapter Three: Harold Garfinkel's Focus on Racism, Inequality and Social Justice: The Early Years 1939-1952 Anne W. Rawls Chapter Four: Garfinkel's Studies of Work Michael E. Lynch SECTION 2: EMPIRICAL IMPACT Chapter Five: Ways of Working: An Introduction to the Study of Naturally Organized Ordinary Activities Harold Garfinkel Chapter Six: Rules and Their Enforcement "For Another First Time": Policing the Sidewalk Geoffrey Raymond, Lillian Jungleib, Don Zimmerman, and Nikki Jones Chapter Seven: The Co-Operative, Transformative Organization of Human Action and Knowledge Charles Goodwin Chapter Eight: Sex and the Sociological Dope: Garfinkel's Intervention into the Emerging Disciplines of Sex/Gender Kristen Schilt Chapter Nine: Garfinkel, Social Problems, and Deviance: Reflections on the Values of Ethnomethodology Darin Weinberg Chapter Ten: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: Mutual Influences Steven Clayman, John Heritage, and Douglas W. Maynard SECTION 3: GROWTH POINTS Chapter Eleven: The Situated and Methodic Production of Accountable Action: The Challenges of Multimodality Lorenza Mondada Chapter Twelve: Recovering the Work of a Discovering Science with a Video Camera in Hand: The Electronically Probed/Visually Discovered Spectrum Philippe Sormani Chapter Thirteen: Research with Numbers Michael Mair, Christian Greiffenhagen, and Wes Sharrock Chapter Fourteen: The Sherlock Experiment Eric Livingston and John Heritage Chapter Fifteen: Technology in Action Christian Heath and Paul Luff Chapter Sixteen: Occam's Razor and the Challenges of Generalization in Ethnomethodology Iddo Tavory Chapter Seventeen: Ethnomethodology and Atypical Interaction: The Case of Autism Douglas W. Maynard and Jason J. Turowetz Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Nahuatl Nations
Book SynopsisNahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Magnus Pharao Hansen studies how this relation has been shaped by history and how it plays out today in Indigenous Nahua towns, regions, and educational institutions, and in the Mexican diaspora. Based on long-term fieldwork in several Nahuatl speaking communities in Central Mexico, Hansen uses a combination of methods from ethnohistory, sociolinguistics, anthropology and ethnography to study the political importance of Nahuatl in different periods and places, and for different persons. He suggests that the complicated political relations between State, Nation and Nahua communities can be understood through the concept of ''semiotic sovereignty'', which refers to a community''s ability to manage its own semiotic resources, including its own language, and the cultural practices that constitute it as a political community. He argues that Indigenous languages are likely to remain vital as long as they used as languages of political community, and they also protect the community''s sovereignty by functioning as a barrier that restricts access to the participation for outsiders. Semiotic sovereignty therefore becomes a key concept for understanding how Indigenous communities can maintain both their political and linguistic vitality. While the Mexican Nation seeks to expropriate Indigenous semiotic resources in order to improve its brand on an international marketplace, Indigenous communities may employ them in resistance to state domination.
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Cambridge University Press The Suspects Statement
Book SynopsisWhat suspects tell the police may become a crucial piece of evidence when the case comes to court. But what happens to ''the suspect''s statement'' when it is written down by the police? Based on a unique set of data from over fifteen years'' worth of research, Martha Komter examines the trajectory of the suspect''s statement from the police interrogation through to the trial. She shows how the suspect''s statement is elicited and written down in the police report, how this police report both represents and differs from the original talk in the interrogation, and how it is quoted and referred to in court. The analyses cover interactions in multiple settings, with documents that link one interaction to the next, providing insights into the interactional and documentary foundations of the criminal process and, more generally, into the construction, character and uses of documents in institutional settings.Trade Review'Komter identifies a very compelling and troubling social phenomenon; in its most colloquial sense … Her analysis in chapters two and especially three is meticulous and informative, contrasting the distinction between what is said and what is written as a matter of lived work.' Patrick G. Watson, Journal of Pragmatics'Komter has produced an ultra-detailed and sophisticated analysis of context in motion, a rare masterpiece reminiscent of ethnomethodological classics from the golden era of institutional ethnography … Her study is must reading for not only those in the ethnomethodological 'community' but also forensic linguists interested in police interviews as well as linguistic anthropologists studying interdiscursivity, extextualization, and multimodality in institutional contexts.' Gregory Matoesian, Discourse Studies'The Suspect's Statement provides a strong foundation for future studies that can examine the suspect's statement in other contexts, such as judicial opinions and media reports.' Dakota Wing, LINGUIST List'In this rigorous book, Komter offers a detailed investigation of entextualisation. Any researcher working on how discourse changes as it is decentered and recentered across contexts will profit from including The suspect's statement in her or his theoretical framework… ' Amanda Diniz Vallada, Language in SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The police interrogation: the talk, the typing and the text; 3. The police report: the document, the text and the talk; 4. The trial: documents in action; 5. The career of a suspect's statement; 6. Conclusion and discussion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Leadership Discourse at Work
Book SynopsisEmploying a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that distracts from business, humour performs a myriad of important functions in the workplace context.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions Introduction Transactional Aspects of Leadership Discourse: Humour and Getting Things Done The 'Other' Side of Leadership Discourse: Humour and the Performance of Relational Leadership Activities Doing Leadership in Context: The Impact of Working Groups Leadership, Humour and Workplace Culture Balancing Leader and Gender Identities Conclusion Notes References Index
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Multilingual Matters Translanguaging in Translation: Invisible
Book SynopsisThis book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It examines the traces of translanguaging in translated texts with special focus on the strategic use of scripts, morphemes, words, names, onomatopoeias, metaphors, puns and other contextualized linguistic elements. As a result, the author draws attention to the long-term, often invisible contributions of translanguaging performed by translators to the development of languages and society. The analysis sheds light on the problems caused by monolingualizing forces in translation, teaching and communicative contexts in modern societies, as well as bringing a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies. Trade ReviewDr. Eriko Sato presents a fascinating analysis of interlingual and intralingual translanguaging practices observed in texts translated from Asian languages to English and vice versa. Her rich accounts of historical developments concerning the languages, combined with her accessible writing style, will engross researchers, as well as teachers, learners, and translators of these languages. * Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA *Inspired by the tenets underpinning the multilingual turn in applied linguistics, Eriko Sato conducts a detailed empirical investigation into the role of interlingual and intralingual translanguaging in shaping the norms of language use, particularly when traces of such practice are found in translated texts. In doing so, she shows that translation and translanguaging complement each other and are clearly beneficial to language learning. * Sara Laviosa, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy *Sato’s insightful analysis and thorough comparisons between source and target texts in less frequent languages represent a valuable contribution to the fields of languaging, translation, and applied linguistics. * Laura Dubcovsky, University of California, Davis, USA, LINGUIST List 33.2489 *Translanguaging in Translation provides a vibrant and enjoyable illustration of the function of translanguaging in translation. The strength of this book lies in its exploration of translanguaging as a means of addressing the challenges of translation, e.g., with respect to names [...] Sato’s book is recommended for translators, language practitioners, and educators who are interested in exploring the application of translanguaging in translation. * Yiqing Li and Fan Fang, Shantou University, China, Perspectives 2023 *The major contribution of this book is that Sato has collected her abundant data by using a translanguaging approach and conducting in-depth and thought-provoking analysis of translated texts involving mainly 4 Asian languages. Little research has explored this topic with examples in so many Asian languages, which fully embodies translanguaging in translation and thus fills a gap by providing empirical evidence of the problems and potential solutions. * Yangming Bai, Hubei University of Technology, China and Lawrence Rosenwald, Wellesley College, USA, System 113 (2023) *Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Scripts Chapter 3. Names Chapter 4. Words Chapter 5. Contexts Chapter 6. Roles of Translanguaging and Translation Chapter 7. Conclusion References Primary Sources Appendices Index
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John Benjamins Publishing Co The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic
Book SynopsisThe Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the socio-cultural context in Ireland. The analysis not only considers macro-social categories but also pragmatic norms and situational, more fluid aspects of communication. Contemporary social meanings and associated phonetic realisations are described and explained as the result of diachronic developments. Since the independence of Ireland local pronunciations have been re-evaluated and realisations connected with the former coloniser have fallen out of use even in formal and powerful domains. This investigation thus highlights the importance of diachronic data to understand contemporary sociolinguistic variation.
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Cambridge University Press Register Genre and Style
Book SynopsisA fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles, while Part II provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties, general and professional written varieties and emerging electronic varieties. Part III introduces more advanced analytical approaches and deals with larger theoretical concerns, such as the relationship between register studies and other sub-disciplines of linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. A new chapter on EAP and ESP has been added, with new sections on the important differences between academic writing in the humanities and sciences, and a case study on engineering reports as an ESP register and genre. CoveTrade Review'This book is an excellent discourse analysis resource for both students and professionals from all research orientations. It includes very detailed frameworks for situational, linguistic, and functional analyses of variation.' Viviana Cortes, Georgia State UniversityTable of Contents1. Registers, genres, and styles: fundamental varieties of language; Part I. Analytical Framework: 2. Describing the situational characteristics of registers and genres; 3. Analysing linguistic features and their functions; Part II. Detailed Descriptions of Registers, Genres, and Styles: 4. Interpersonal spoken registers; 5. Written registers, genres, and styles; 6. Academic and professional written registers; 7. Registers and genres in interpersonal electronic communication; 8. Historical evolution of registers, genres, and styles; Part III. Larger Theoretical Issues: 9. Multidimensional patterns of register variation; 10. Register studies in context.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Negotiating Moves
Book SynopsisThis study of Japanese business discourse adopts Bakhtin''s notion of speech genres as an heuristic in order to analyze groups of spoken texts which display similar constellations of compositional, thematic, and stylistic features. Drawing upon a corpus of over 540 naturally-occurring telephone conversations collected in the Kanto and Kansai areas of Japan, Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura demonstrates how Japanese business professionals present, negotiate and clarify their identities and intentions and enlist and offer assistance with respect to a variety of transactions such as toiawase inquiries, merchandise orders, shipping confirmations, and reports of delivery problems. In the process, she highlights the critical deictic function of linguistic devices such as the no desu (extended predicate) construction in producing formulations, and politeness expressions that index the dynamic uti/soto (''inside''/ ''outside'') continuum. She also illustrates some of the ways in which these negotiatinTrade Review'...this volume offers much new information about the structure of Japanese interaction and will be of tremendous value in the rapidly expanding field of Japanese discourse' Scott Saft, Japanese Language and Literature, Vol 38, issue 1, 2004 "...in what it says about Japanese, its arguments, supported by excellent exemplification throughout the book, are strong, and deserve to be fed into the mainstream of debate on the notion of genre, particularly spoken genres, an area where much work in the construction of theory and analytical frameworks still remains to be done." Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham, published in Applied Linguistics (2005) 26: 128-131; doi:10.1093/applin/amh045Table of ContentsIntroduction: Objectives; Related linguistic studies on Japanese business discourse and negotiation; Motivation for the study; Identifying and describing a genre - Japanese business transactional telephone conversations; Bakhtin and the notion of speech genres; Focal exchange - problem presentation and resolution; Specific goals of the study; Overview of subsequent chapters. Data and Methodology: Introduction; Recent methods for data elicitation; Rationale for an ethnomethodological approach; Data collection methods for this study; Description of the JBC corpus; The genre of Japanese business transactional telephone conversations; Relevant findings from conversation analysis; Previous studies on offers in Japanese; Closings; Concluding remarks. The Structure of Japanese Business Transactional Telephone Conversations: Introduction; Business transactional calls vs service encounters; Overall structure and identifying register features; Call openings; Transition section; Matter(s) for business discussion; Pre-closing devices; Discussion of other issues or transactions; Concluding remarks. Types of Japanese Business Transactional Telephone Calls: Introduction; General toiawase inquiries; Merchandise orders; Shipping confirmations; Problem reports; Concluding remarks. Problem Presentation and Resolution in Japanese Business Transactional Calls: Introduction; Problem presentation and resolution in JBCs - two examples; Interactional asynchrony in JBCs; Problem reports in English; Problem reporting sequences in English vs; Japanese service encounters; Interactional asynchrony in English - service recipients' accounts vs; service providers' formulations; Problem resolution in English vs; Japanese; Concluding remarks. Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: Introduction; Metalanguage regarding communication in Japanese; Ellipsis and uti/soto deixis; Japan as a high context culture; Concluding remarks; Conclusions. Strategies for reporting problems> The function and distribution of moves toward problem resolution; Role relationships, genre, and cultural norms; Putting genres to use; Areas for future research.
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The University of Chicago Press Spaces Worlds and Grammar Cognitive Theory of
Book SynopsisThese 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. The contributors analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals and deictic expression.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Speak No Evil
Book SynopsisOpponents of speech codes often argue that liberal academics use the codes to advance an agenda of political correctness. But Jon B.Trade Review"Speak No Evil is an interesting inquiry into the debate and practice of hate speech regulation on college campuses and beyond. This fascinating study surpasses the usual legalistic and policy questions to look at how hate speech has developed and thrived in American institutional settings. It is original, compelling, and most convincing." - Michael McCann, coauthor of Distorting the Law"
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The University of Chicago Press Speaking of Crime
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The University of Chicago Press When Words Lose Their Meaning Constitutions and
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McGill-Queen's University Press Language Ethics
Book SynopsisLanguage is central to political philosophy, yet until now there has been little in the way of a common framework capable of bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and ethics. Studies are predominantly carried out in isolated disciplinary silos - notably linguistics, philosophy, political science, public administration, and education. This volume proposes a new vision for understanding the political ethics of language, particularly in linguistically diverse societies, and it establishes the necessary common framework for this field of inquiry: language ethics. Through creative and constructive thinking, Language Ethics considers how to advance our understanding of the human commonalities of moral and linguistic capacities and the challenge of linguistic difference and societal interdependence. The book embraces the longstanding centrality of language to moral reasoning and reinterprets it in a manner that draws on the social and political life of real-world intTrade Review"Drawing on both normative principles and empirical findings, the various essays in this volume examine the centrality of language to issues of social justice, exploring its role in establishing social equality, status, and solidarity, as well as how individual and group identity and dignity seek verbal expression. Also explored are the expressive and communicative aspects of language as shown through social, economic, and political practices and structures. The essays are rigorous, thorough, and demanding, while also being fair and fecund. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." Choice
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McGill-Queen's University Press Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language
Book SynopsisIn 1911-1912, anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a century later, this book continues Barbeau's work.Trade Review"Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language is very significant as a literary record of a people and a language, and makes a major contribution to the study of Indigenous language in North America." David Kanatawakhon-Maracle, Western University, Ontario
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Columbia University Press The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Book SynopsisAn award-winning novelist composes a multifaceted critique of the politics of personal expression.Trade ReviewThe Fall of Language in the Age of English provocatively participates in current debates on world literature, translation, reading, and writing in the age of global English and the Internet, bringing forward a new and illuminating perspective on the translingual formation of national languages and the now endangered arc of modern literature. It is written from the viewpoint of a noted Japanese novelist as well as from a wider theoretical and historical perspective. -- Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University A dazzling rumination on the decline of local languages, most particularly Japanese, in a world overshadowed by English. Moving effortlessly between theory and personal reflection, Minae Mizumura's lament-linguistic and social in equal measure-is broadly informed, closely reasoned, and-in a manner that recalls her beloved Jane Austen-at once earnest and full of mischief. -- John Nathan, translator of Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Soseki A stirring call to consciousness about the role of language... For English speakers, the book presents an important opportunity to walk in someone else's shoes. Publishers Weekly The Fall of Language in the Age of English is-or at least can be-valuable to any literature-interested reader. Certainly, it is an interesting personal introduction to aspects of Japanese writing, and its transitions across recent centuries, as Japan's own position internationally has shifted. -- M. A. Orthofer The Complete Review A call to arms for everyone: for all non-native English speakers to embrace and champion literature in their own languages, and for English speakers to be that little less arrogant in their use of their mother tongue, which just happens to have become the world's universal language. -- Sophie Knight The Japan Times Mizumura traces how the myth of the 'national language,' a pure upwelling of political character, coincided with the flowering of the nation-state-and, even more fascinatingly, of the novel itself... 'Language' may be in the book's title, but Mizumura has really crafted a conservationist's plea for literature. -- Katy Waldman Slate Rigorous and wide-ranging... This book is a cracker. -- Peter Gordon Asian Review of Books An eye-opening call to consciousness about the role of language. Publishers Weekly Tip Sheet There is incredibly smart stuff in here... Mizumura's ability to weave together so many strands of history (lingual, academic, economic, geopolitical) paints a clear picture of the evolution of Japanese literature, with commentary on the rest of the globe being a pleasant byproduct. -- Graham Oliver The Rumpus [A] highly charged book. -- Eric Banks The Chronicle Of Higher Education Persuasive, elegantly written... [The Fall of Language in the Age of English] is highly deserving of attention, from English and Japanese speakers alike, as well as from anyone concerned about literature's past and future. -- Rebecca Hussey The Quarterly Conversation The Fall of Language in the Age of English deserves wider coverage (and debate). Flavorwire Mizumura has crafted a book that stimulates thought, excites passions, and encourages debate. For these alone, it is well worth a read. -- Erik R. Lofgren World Literature Today Translators Juliet Winter Carpenter and Mari Yoshihara have done a superb job of rendering [the text] into clear, readable English. Japanese Studies This powerful, insightful work analyzes the predicament of world languages and literatures in an age when English has become the universal language of science and the default language of the internet... Rich, profound meditation on language and literature. Claremont Review of Books In The Fall Of Language in the Age of English, Minae Mizumura shows, better than anyone ever has, how English is wrecking other languages - reducing even great literary languages, including Japanese and French, to local dialects - and makes a vigorous case for the superiority of the written over the spoken word. -- Benjamin Moser New York Times Book Review [Mizumura's] book is a 'text to read' in the 'universal library,' to use her terms. -- Selma K. Sonntag Journal of Asian Studies Skillfully translated. -- Harou Shirane Public Books The care with which Mizumura has crafted this book... [makes] the reading of it a pleasure, allowing for wit and personality to shine. Full StopTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition Introduction, by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter 1. Under the Blue Sky of Iowa: Those Who Write in Their Own Language 2. From Par Avion to Via Air Mail: The Fall of French 3. People Around the World Writing in External Languages 4. The Birth of Japanese as a National Language 5. The Miracle of Modern Japanese Literature 6. English and National Languages in the Internet Age 7. The Future of National Languages Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Book SynopsisAn award-winning novelist composes a multifaceted critique of the politics of personal expression.Trade ReviewThe Fall of Language in the Age of English provocatively participates in current debates on world literature, translation, reading, and writing in the age of global English and the Internet, bringing forward a new and illuminating perspective on the translingual formation of national languages and the now endangered arc of modern literature. It is written from the viewpoint of a noted Japanese novelist as well as from a wider theoretical and historical perspective. -- Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University A dazzling rumination on the decline of local languages, most particularly Japanese, in a world overshadowed by English. Moving effortlessly between theory and personal reflection, Minae Mizumura's lament-linguistic and social in equal measure-is broadly informed, closely reasoned, and-in a manner that recalls her beloved Jane Austen-at once earnest and full of mischief. -- John Nathan, translator of Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Soseki A stirring call to consciousness about the role of language... For English speakers, the book presents an important opportunity to walk in someone else's shoes. Publishers Weekly The Fall of Language in the Age of English is-or at least can be-valuable to any literature-interested reader. Certainly, it is an interesting personal introduction to aspects of Japanese writing, and its transitions across recent centuries, as Japan's own position internationally has shifted. -- M. A. Orthofer The Complete Review A call to arms for everyone: for all non-native English speakers to embrace and champion literature in their own languages, and for English speakers to be that little less arrogant in their use of their mother tongue, which just happens to have become the world's universal language. -- Sophie Knight The Japan Times Mizumura traces how the myth of the 'national language,' a pure upwelling of political character, coincided with the flowering of the nation-state-and, even more fascinatingly, of the novel itself... 'Language' may be in the book's title, but Mizumura has really crafted a conservationist's plea for literature. -- Katy Waldman Slate Rigorous and wide-ranging... This book is a cracker. -- Peter Gordon Asian Review of Books An eye-opening call to consciousness about the role of language. Publishers Weekly Tip Sheet There is incredibly smart stuff in here... Mizumura's ability to weave together so many strands of history (lingual, academic, economic, geopolitical) paints a clear picture of the evolution of Japanese literature, with commentary on the rest of the globe being a pleasant byproduct. -- Graham Oliver The Rumpus [A] highly charged book. -- Eric Banks The Chronicle Of Higher Education Persuasive, elegantly written... [The Fall of Language in the Age of English] is highly deserving of attention, from English and Japanese speakers alike, as well as from anyone concerned about literature's past and future. -- Rebecca Hussey The Quarterly Conversation The Fall of Language in the Age of English deserves wider coverage (and debate). Flavorwire Mizumura has crafted a book that stimulates thought, excites passions, and encourages debate. For these alone, it is well worth a read. -- Erik R. Lofgren World Literature Today Translators Juliet Winter Carpenter and Mari Yoshihara have done a superb job of rendering [the text] into clear, readable English. Japanese Studies This powerful, insightful work analyzes the predicament of world languages and literatures in an age when English has become the universal language of science and the default language of the internet... Rich, profound meditation on language and literature. Claremont Review of Books In The Fall Of Language in the Age of English, Minae Mizumura shows, better than anyone ever has, how English is wrecking other languages - reducing even great literary languages, including Japanese and French, to local dialects - and makes a vigorous case for the superiority of the written over the spoken word. -- Benjamin Moser New York Times Book Review [Mizumura's] book is a 'text to read' in the 'universal library,' to use her terms. -- Selma K. Sonntag Journal of Asian Studies Skillfully translated. -- Harou Shirane Public Books The care with which Mizumura has crafted this book... [makes] the reading of it a pleasure, allowing for wit and personality to shine. Full StopTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition Introduction, by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter 1. Under the Blue Sky of Iowa: Those Who Write in Their Own Language 2. From Par Avion to Via Air Mail: The Fall of French 3. People Around the World Writing in External Languages 4. The Birth of Japanese as a National Language 5. The Miracle of Modern Japanese Literature 6. English and National Languages in the Internet Age 7. The Future of National Languages Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£58.77
Columbia University Press The Sounds of Mandarin
Book SynopsisThis book traces the surprising social history of China’s spoken standard, from its creation as the national language of the early Republic in 1913 to its journey into postwar Taiwan to its reconfiguration as the common language of the People’s Republic after 1949.Trade ReviewThe Sounds of Mandarin is the definitive study of the modern Chinese quest for a unified spoken language. Janet Y. Chen transports readers into the meeting rooms where linguistic models were debated and the classrooms, movie theaters, and military units where the national language was taught. She captures the elusiveness of crafting a single national standard and the challenge of making it a living language. -- Robert Culp, author of The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State SocialismThis absorbing narrative traces efforts to establish a common spoken language across China’s national expanse. Ingenious reformers, determined state authorities, and beleaguered teachers were no match for China’s cacophonous soundscape. Placing spoken language at the heart of historical explanation, The Sounds of Mandarin is by turns hilarious and sobering. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzIn prose that is as clear as it is elegant, Chen’s book introduces the myriad actors—reformists, linguists, educators, and state officials—who negotiated the social stakes, political implications, and pedagogical processes of making the Chinese nation speak, utter, sing, and chant in unity. This is a wonderful read by a masterful historian. -- Eugenia Lean, author of Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940For years, scholars mostly assumed that we knew the roughly parallel stories of ‘linguistic unification,’ both on the Chinese mainland and in Taiwan: a slow but inexorable triumph of standardization pushed by strong states armed with new technologies. Janet Y. Chen’s exciting book shows us something radically different: stop-start cycles of intense campaigns; powerful, multivalent resistance; changing, politically fraught standards; and divergent outcomes. -- Kenneth Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World EconomyIn The Sounds of Mandarin, Chen explores the complex process by which Chinese nation-builders struggled to define and promulgate a shared national language, to enable the state to talk to its citizens and its citizens to talk to one another. The result is a surprising and fascinating window into the politics of modernizing China. -- Michael Szonyi, professor of history and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityA valuable addition to the growing scholarship on Chinese languages and scripts. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Language and TransliterationIntroduction1. Dueling Sounds and Contending Tones2. In Search of Standard Mandarin3. The National Language in Exile4. Taiwan Babel5. The Common Language of New ChinaEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£28.50
Columbia University Press The Sounds of Mandarin
Book SynopsisThis book traces the surprising social history of China’s spoken standard, from its creation as the national language of the early Republic in 1913 to its journey into postwar Taiwan to its reconfiguration as the common language of the People’s Republic after 1949.Trade ReviewThe Sounds of Mandarin is the definitive study of the modern Chinese quest for a unified spoken language. Janet Y. Chen transports readers into the meeting rooms where linguistic models were debated and the classrooms, movie theaters, and military units where the national language was taught. She captures the elusiveness of crafting a single national standard and the challenge of making it a living language. -- Robert Culp, author of The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State SocialismThis absorbing narrative traces efforts to establish a common spoken language across China’s national expanse. Ingenious reformers, determined state authorities, and beleaguered teachers were no match for China’s cacophonous soundscape. Placing spoken language at the heart of historical explanation, The Sounds of Mandarin is by turns hilarious and sobering. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzIn prose that is as clear as it is elegant, Chen’s book introduces the myriad actors—reformists, linguists, educators, and state officials—who negotiated the social stakes, political implications, and pedagogical processes of making the Chinese nation speak, utter, sing, and chant in unity. This is a wonderful read by a masterful historian. -- Eugenia Lean, author of Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940For years, scholars mostly assumed that we knew the roughly parallel stories of ‘linguistic unification,’ both on the Chinese mainland and in Taiwan: a slow but inexorable triumph of standardization pushed by strong states armed with new technologies. Janet Y. Chen’s exciting book shows us something radically different: stop-start cycles of intense campaigns; powerful, multivalent resistance; changing, politically fraught standards; and divergent outcomes. -- Kenneth Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World EconomyIn The Sounds of Mandarin, Chen explores the complex process by which Chinese nation-builders struggled to define and promulgate a shared national language, to enable the state to talk to its citizens and its citizens to talk to one another. The result is a surprising and fascinating window into the politics of modernizing China. -- Michael Szonyi, professor of history and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityA valuable addition to the growing scholarship on Chinese languages and scripts. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Language and TransliterationIntroduction1. Dueling Sounds and Contending Tones2. In Search of Standard Mandarin3. The National Language in Exile4. Taiwan Babel5. The Common Language of New ChinaEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press Global Language Justice
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis.Trade ReviewIn a beautiful assemblage of theory and poetry, this volume addresses one of the most difficult problems of our planetary age, caught between the intensity of cultural wars and the uncertainties of the digital revolution: Which futures, rights, and institutions exist for the world’s many languages, inherited from history and recreated in everyday life? It clarifies the struggle for concrete universalism with striking vigor and originality. -- Etienne Balibar, author of On Universals“Can we demand language justice the way others have demanded environmental justice, economic justice, and social justice?” This absolutely fundamental question of our time is trenchantly examined throughout this collective study of the lifeworld of human languages. At a moment when there is renewed focus on the links between the right to language diversity and human rights, on what the American Bar Association calls "language justice" and the right to translation, Global Language Justice comes at a particularly opportune moment. It offers experimental approaches to language extinction and digital language projects aimed at translating and preserving languages. It also defines emerging fields of public policy that draw on the rich connections between the humanities and multilingual education and art practice, especially for those committed to rethinking global language politics in relation to climate change and ecopolitical activism. -- Emily Apter, author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of UntranslatabilityIn nine thoughtful chapters this collection lays out the parameters for the conversation on language justice in the twenty-first century context of the digital revolution, climate catastrophe, mass displacement, language endangerment and reclamation, the Global English industry, and economic polarization on a planetary scale. The authors question the concept of language rights as either the beginning or end point of this conversation and call for a new theorizing of equality as it pertains to languages and speakers. Readers will encounter keen new insights on such topics as digitization, scripts and Unicode; alternatives to the concept of "language death"; the role of linguistic pluralism in new forms of political dissent; and the fraughtness of translation. -- Mary Louise Pratt, author of Planetary LongingsBy interspersing academic essays with multilingual poems, Liu, Rao, and Silverman have assembled a rich, stimulating kaleidoscope of global explorations of the complex entanglements of language, environment, and technology in the 21st century. -- Ingrid Piller, author of Linguistic Diversity and Social JusticeTable of ContentsPoems and ArtworksAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Lifeworld of Languages: Rethinking Logos, Oikos, and Techné, by Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao1. Equality or Diversity: Language, Rights, Justice, by L. Maria Bo2. Global Language Justice Inside the Doughnut: A Planetary Perspective, by Suzanne Romaine3. The Asylum Trial: Translating Justice at the Borders of Europe, by Tommaso Manfredini4. Challenging “Extinction” Through Modern Miami Language Practices, by Wesley Y. Leonard5. Indigenous Languages Between Erasure and Disinvention, by Daniel Kaufman and Ross Perlin6. Linguistic Democracy and the Algerian Hirak, by Madeleine Dobie7. Digital Vitality for Linguistic Diversity: The Script Encoding Initiative, by Deborah Anderson8. Language Justice in the Digital Sphere, by Isabelle a. Zaugg9. Exit: An Interview, by Laura Kurgan and Charlotte A. SilvermanContributorsIndex
£27.00
Indiana University Press Creatures of Politics Media Message and the
Book SynopsisExamines some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their ownTrade Review...Very few scholars can match [the authors'] detailed analysis of political and media discourse. The authors illuminate the subtle, multimodal, and intertextual mechanisms by which messages are constructed. Those who read their work will learn much about the semiotics of presidential campaigns as well as the cultural expectations that regulate and naturalize our electoral character contests. * Presidential Studies Quarterly *A quirky, sharp and depressing analysis of the current state of campaigning. * Kirkus Reviews *[Creatures of Politics] cover[s] different aspects of messaging with interesting discussions, and provides[s] new ways of thinking about campaign coverage. * Foreword Reviews *[Creatures of Politics] makes for a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric. * Publishers Weekly *The authors draw on findings from electoral politics, the mass media and linguistic anthropology to analyse political communications, exploring how the 'messages' of presidential candidates are crafted not only through their platforms, but through verbal, sartorial, gestural, behavioural and linguistic cues. * Survival *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Message is the Medium2. Getting it Ju:::st Right3. Addressing "The Issues" 4. Ethnoblooperology5. Unflipping the Flop6. The Message in Hand7. What Goes Around. . .
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