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Book SynopsisThis book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA.Trade ReviewMakes an outstanding contribution to the field of Second Language Acquisition Research, as it not only provides an informed, critical overview of developments since the early beginnings of this area, but it also lucidly and convincingly argues for the need for SLA researchers to widen the accepted agenda for research in this field by adopting a more multi-disciplinary and socially informed perspective. Baal News This book goes to the very heart of what SLA is ... The value of this book is its contribution to the debate about the objectives of SLA research. If the aim of those working within SLA is to better understand communicative competence it can surely only be a good thing as Block proposes to keep the interdisciplinary barriers down. Language Issues Makes an outstanding contribution to the field of Second Language Acquisition Research, as it not only provides an informed, critical overview of developments since the early beginnings of this area, but it also lucidly and convincingly argues for the need for SLA researchers to widen the accepted agenda for research in this field by adopting a more multi-disciplinary and socially informed perspective. This book goes to the very heart of what SLA is ... The value of this book is its contribution to the debate about the objectives of SLA research. If the aim of those working within SLA is to better understand communicative competence it can surely only be a good thing as Block proposes to keep the interdisciplinary barriers down.

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.Trade ReviewThis gaitherin o essays is a gey uissfu beuk for fowk mintin ti ken mair aboot the backgrun til Scots. A fine presentation of a matter of geolinguistic importance and especially the connection between identity politics and language Covers a number of topics with considerable depth and clarity A very lucid and accessible summary of the present state of knowledge and of the characteristics of this 'illustrious and malleable tongue' as R. L. Stevenson described it. This gaitherin o essays is a gey uissfu beuk for fowk mintin ti ken mair aboot the backgrun til Scots. A fine presentation of a matter of geolinguistic importance and especially the connection between identity politics and language Covers a number of topics with considerable depth and clarity A very lucid and accessible summary of the present state of knowledge and of the characteristics of this 'illustrious and malleable tongue' as R. L. Stevenson described it.Table of Contents1. A Brief History of Scots; John Corbett, J Derrick McClure, Jane Stuart-Smith; 2. Scottish Place-names; Margaret Scott; 3. Scottish Surnames; Carole Hough; 4. Studying Scots Vocabulary; Caroline Macafee; 5. Syntax and Discourse in Modern Scots; Jim Miller; 6. The Phonology of Modern Urban Scots; Jane Stuart-Smith; 7. The Phonology of Older Scots; Caroline Macafee, incorporating material from the late A.J. Aitken; 8. Corpus-based Study of Older Scots Grammar and Lexis; Anneli Meurman-Solin; 9. The Language of Older Scots Poetry; Jeremy J Smith; 10. The Language of Modern Scots Poetry; J. Derrick McClure; 11. The Scots Language Abroad; Michael Montgomery; 12. Language Planning and Modern Scots; John Corbett.

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Book SynopsisThis pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals with human communication and the use of language in its social context. This glossary provides full coverage of both traditional and contemporary terminology.Trade ReviewPeter Trudgill's slim volume, A Glosssary of Sociolinguistics, contains a wealth of information for readers seeking definitions, explanations and examples of the technical terms most frequently employed in sociolinguistics and dialectology. The publication of A Glossary of Sociolinguistics is a landmark event. It signifies the dramatic growth of sociolinguistics over the past several decades and the level of interest it now attracts. Peter Trudgill has been through it all - as a pioneer, a developer and an internationally renowned authority. No one is in a better position to write a glossary of the field, and no one can match Trudgill's lucid, readable style. -- Professor Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University Peter Trudgill's slim volume, A Glosssary of Sociolinguistics, contains a wealth of information for readers seeking definitions, explanations and examples of the technical terms most frequently employed in sociolinguistics and dialectology. The publication of A Glossary of Sociolinguistics is a landmark event. It signifies the dramatic growth of sociolinguistics over the past several decades and the level of interest it now attracts. Peter Trudgill has been through it all - as a pioneer, a developer and an internationally renowned authority. No one is in a better position to write a glossary of the field, and no one can match Trudgill's lucid, readable style.Table of ContentsSample entries: Abstand language (German /'apstant/) A variety of language which is regarded as a language in its own right, rather than a dialect, by virtue of being very different in its characteristics from all other languages. Such is the degree of linguistic distance (German Abstand) between this variety and other languages that, unlike Ausbau languages, there can be no dispute as to its language status. Basque, the language spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France, is a good example of an Abstand language. It is clearly a single language, because its dialects are similar. And it is clearly a language rather than a dialect because, since it is not related historically to any other European languages, it is completely different in its grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation from the neighbouring languages, French and Spanish; dialect contact Contact between linguistic varieties which results from communication between speakers of different but mutually intelligible dialects, often involving accommodation. Such communication is of course very common indeed, but, from the point of view of sociolinguistics, such contacts are particularly interesting where they occur on a large scale, such as at dialect boundaries (see isogloss) or as a result of urbanization or colonization. In these cases, phenomena such as dialect mixture and hyperadaptation may occur; genderlect A variety or lect which is specific to or particularly associated with male or female speakers. This term is in most usages misleading, in that it suggests that there may be communities where male and female speakers use radically different varieties. In fact, while there are some more-or-less gender specific usages in many if not most languages, these range from the use of a small number of words, phrases or conversational devices in some languages to particular vowels, consonants or grammatical endings in others. Most differences between male and female speech are quantitatively revealed tendencies rather than absolute differences.; isogloss A term from dialectology for a line drawn on a dialect map marking off an area which has one particular variant of a linguistic form from another neighbouring area which has a different variant. An additional term isophone is available in strict usage for referring to lines drawn between areas which have different phonetic or phonological variants, leaving isogloss to refer to lexical differences. In practice, however, most writers use isogloss to apply to phonetic, phonological, grammatical and lexical boundaries. Well-known isoglosses include the maken-machen line in Germany and the greasy /s/-/z/ line in the USA; Labovian sociolinguistics Another term for secular linguistics. The American linguist William Labov is the leading figure in this field and pioneered work of this type, notably in his 1966 publication, The Social Stratification of English in New York City; mutual intelligibility The extent to which speakers of one variety are able to understand speakers of another variety. Mutual intelligibility may be a matter of degree - Swedish speakers can understand Norwegian more readily than they can Danish. Note too that the variety of intelligibility may not be entirely mutual - speakers of variety A may be able to understand speakers of variety B more easily than vice versa. And mutual intelligibility can also be acquired - speakers can learn to understand a variety that they initially had considerable difficulty with; vitality A term used in the sociology of language for establishing a typology of language varieties. A language which has a community of native speakers is said to have the characteristic of vitality. Varieties which are undergoing language shift or language death have less vitality than other language varieties. Classical languages such as Latin and Sanskrit, which do not any longer have native speakers, and pidgin languages, which do not (yet) have native speakers, do not have the characteristic of vitality.

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Book SynopsisThe first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.Trade ReviewThe strength of this book is in the systematic discussion of a new approach to pragmatics and assumptions concerning interrelations between neighbouring areas of inquiry. Multilingua Throughout this work, Cummings makes a strong, indeed persuasive, case for the reciprocal relationship between pragmatics and a number of other diverse disciplines, inculding artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy! For all scholars working in pragmatics or interested in its influences, Cumming's text provides a rich addition to the field. The Modern Language Journal The relationships of pragmatics with other disciplines involving the study of language and cognition should become more widely understood. Cummings's book is an important effort toward accomplishing that objective. Cognitive Systems Research The volume will be a useful resource for anyone with an interest in pragmatics, its issues and related disciplines, from a general undergraduate audience to someone with specific scholarly interests. It serves to advance the status of linguistic pragmatics leading to real multidisciplinary prospects. Discourse Studies Pragmatics is complex and riven with fierce controversy - not so much a field as a minefield. In this excellent book, Louise Cummings provides a lucid guide to many of these disagreements. ! This is an outstanding book that will challenge students in exactly the right way. Times Higher Education Supplement Advancing several interesting arguments, Cumming's book offers fascinating reading for scholars of pragmatics Year's Work in English Studies The book makes a strong case for investigating pragmatics from a multidisciplinary perspective. Well written and insightful, it constitutes a valuable addition to the existing pragmatics literature The Asian EFL Quarterly One must mention the remarkable richness of the multidisciplinary material included in this book. It draws on wide-ranging data and insights from relevant fields that can inform and be informed by a theory of linguistic pragmatics... The book, however, is an essential reference for graduate studetns as well as scholars working in linguistic pragmatics and other related disciplines. -- Mohammed Farghal, Kuwait University Critical Enquiry in Language Studies An important contribution to reconsidering the current status of pragmatics. -- Aleksandar Carapic, General Limguistics, University of Belgrade Discourse Studies It functions like Levinson's seminal survey in contrasting and tying together historical strands of thought, examining explanations for how meaning interpretation works. This book, however, also suggests many new paths whereby pragmatic fields of investigation can be applied to other areas, such as exploring the ability of patients with neurological damage and schizophrenia to use implicature, or discussing how inferences are exploited in scientific reporting. The tone is serious and the base of scholarly research is evident throughout! an excellent choice for readers who want both more historical depth as well as a guide to the current breadth of scholarly work in pragmatics. -- Laurel Smith Stvan, University of Texas at Arlington Cognitive Linguistics The strength of this book is in the systematic discussion of a new approach to pragmatics and assumptions concerning interrelations between neighbouring areas of inquiry. Throughout this work, Cummings makes a strong, indeed persuasive, case for the reciprocal relationship between pragmatics and a number of other diverse disciplines, inculding artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy! For all scholars working in pragmatics or interested in its influences, Cumming's text provides a rich addition to the field. The relationships of pragmatics with other disciplines involving the study of language and cognition should become more widely understood. Cummings's book is an important effort toward accomplishing that objective. The volume will be a useful resource for anyone with an interest in pragmatics, its issues and related disciplines, from a general undergraduate audience to someone with specific scholarly interests. It serves to advance the status of linguistic pragmatics leading to real multidisciplinary prospects. Pragmatics is complex and riven with fierce controversy - not so much a field as a minefield. In this excellent book, Louise Cummings provides a lucid guide to many of these disagreements. ! This is an outstanding book that will challenge students in exactly the right way. Advancing several interesting arguments, Cumming's book offers fascinating reading for scholars of pragmatics The book makes a strong case for investigating pragmatics from a multidisciplinary perspective. Well written and insightful, it constitutes a valuable addition to the existing pragmatics literature One must mention the remarkable richness of the multidisciplinary material included in this book. It draws on wide-ranging data and insights from relevant fields that can inform and be informed by a theory of linguistic pragmatics... The book, however, is an essential reference for graduate studetns as well as scholars working in linguistic pragmatics and other related disciplines. An important contribution to reconsidering the current status of pragmatics. It functions like Levinson's seminal survey in contrasting and tying together historical strands of thought, examining explanations for how meaning interpretation works. This book, however, also suggests many new paths whereby pragmatic fields of investigation can be applied to other areas, such as exploring the ability of patients with neurological damage and schizophrenia to use implicature, or discussing how inferences are exploited in scientific reporting. The tone is serious and the base of scholarly research is evident throughout! an excellent choice for readers who want both more historical depth as well as a guide to the current breadth of scholarly work in pragmatics.Table of Contents1. The Multidisciplinary Nature of Pragmatics; 2. Theories of Meaning; 3. Inferences; 4. Relevance Theory; 5. Pragmatics and Mind; 6. Argumentation and Fallacies of Reasoning; 7. Habermas and Pragmatics; 8. Artificial Intelligence and Pragmatics; 9. Language Pathology and Pragmatics; 10. Beyond Disciplines.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive dictionary of the field of sociolinguistics, this is a valuable reference book for students and teachers of sociolinguistics, others concerned with the socially-oriented study of language and those with a professional interest in language.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theories and the insights they provide for a greater understanding of varieties of English, past and present.Table of Contents1. Do you speak English?; 2. English-speaking communities; 3. English as an act of identity; 4. Regional and social variation in English; 5. Change in English; 6. Contact; 7. English historical sociolinguistics; 8. Sociolinguistics and the structure of English.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of variation and change, including current debates in the area.Trade ReviewKiesling succeeds in beginning most chapters with guiding, thought-provoking questions, outlining topics discussed in previous sections or chapters, presenting what will be discussed subsequently, and linking the previous and forthcoming theories or concepts together. He also explains findings and conclusions in technical and plain language and buttresses complex ideas with helpful examples that are sometimes related to personal hypothetical situations! This book will be particularly fitting as a textbook for introducing graduate students to linguistic variation for the first time. -- Memoria C. James, University of Texas at Austin LINGUIST list Kiesling succeeds in beginning most chapters with guiding, thought-provoking questions, outlining topics discussed in previous sections or chapters, presenting what will be discussed subsequently, and linking the previous and forthcoming theories or concepts together. He also explains findings and conclusions in technical and plain language and buttresses complex ideas with helpful examples that are sometimes related to personal hypothetical situations! This book will be particularly fitting as a textbook for introducing graduate students to linguistic variation for the first time.Table of ContentsContents List of figures List of tables Preliminaries and acknowledgements Terminology and Notation conventions Phonetic notation Part I: Questions and method 1 Questions about language and variation, and where we got them Questions about language Where we got the questions: From comparative philology to variationist theories Orderly heterogeneity and constraints on its form 2 The Linguistic Variable Definitions and types Linguistic variables at different linguistic levels Variable rules and their 'quiet demise' Criticisms of the notion of linguistic variable The tyranny of correlation and the problem of atomization 3 Discovering and Describing patterns of variation and change Ethical linguistics Finding language to measure Speech communities and sampling Getting speech: interviews and other talk Recording and managing recordings Coding variables Describing patterns Finding structure in variability Testing statistical significance and modelling variation Part II: Variation and social relationships 4 Social patterns I: Interspeaker variation Stratification Canonical patterns: Accommodation Canonical patterns: Differentiation Challenges to canonical patterns 5 Social patterns II: Intraspeaker variation Intraspeaker patterns, community patterns, and style Speech event, register, genre, frame Stance and identity 6 Meaning and social patterns Indexicality: Meaning in the sociolinguistic variable Experimental evidence for meaning Indexical webs, cycles, and fields Dimensions of social meaning in language 7 Acquisition of variation How is variation learned? Early childhood Older children and adolescents Adulthood Transmission and incrementation of changes Part III: Variation, change and linguistic structure Introduction to Part III 8 Structural patterns I: Phonology and Morphology Phonological variation: Patterns of change, structural effects, and explanation Change in progress Shifts and chain shifts Mergers Regularity vs. lexical diffusion Phonological patterns of variety contact Morphological variation 9 Structural patterns II: Syntax, lexical variables, and suprasegmentals Description: the problem of 'saying the same thing' Syntactic variables Pragmatic and discourse variables Lexicon Suprasegmentals: intonation and rhythm Part V: Conclusions 10 The life and times of linguistic changes Sources and actuation of change Early development and spread of change Propagation, diffusion, transmission, and completion References Index

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Book SynopsisBrings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiryThis book puts writing at the centre of sociolinguistic inquiry drawing on a range of academic fields including New Literacy Studies, semiotics, genre studies, stylistics and new rhetoric. The key question the book explores is- what do we mean by ''writing'' in the 21 century?Using examples from across a range of contexts the book argues that writing, involving both old and new technologies, is a pervasive and complex communicative feature of contemporary life.The book is organised around the following areas: The multimodal nature of writing The verbal dimension to writing. Writing as everyday practice. Writing as a differentiated semiotic and social resource. Writing as the inscription of identity A range of analytic tools for analysing writing as text and practice are illustrated including genre, register, discourse and metaphor, as well as notions which emphasise the mobile potential of writing such as genre chains, networks, literacy brokers and text trajectories. This book seeks to redress the neglect of writing in the field of sociolinguistics by introducing readers to the nature and consequences of what it means to do writing in a globalised world.Table of Contents1. Introduction: exploring writing; 2. Written texts - a question of mode?; 3. Inside written texts; 4. Writing as situated practice (1): Identity and performance; 5. Writing as situated practice (2): Participation, networks and resources; 6. What writing does for sociolinguistics; 7. Researching written texts and practices.

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Book SynopsisHave wireless mobile communication technologies changed the way people talk to one another? This volume takes a global perspective and provides readers with a nuanced, ethnographically-informed understanding of mobile communication and sociolinguistics. It contains a glossary of relevant terms.

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Book SynopsisA case study on Tanzania highlighting the theoretical and methodological approaches in sociolinguistics. It focuses on the influence of Ujamaa ideology on Swahili's formation, treatment, and implementation. It features updates to the discussions of code-switching and language policies and ideologies.

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Book SynopsisThe book offers a close examination of cognition-in-interaction in three distinctive aspects: learning to teach, novice and expert teachers cognition, and interactive decision making. Book views cognition as a socially constructed and contextual process, and treats interaction as a framework that deals with psychological matters and visible way.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Language teacher cognition: An overview; Chapter 2 Approaches to the study of teacher cognition; Chapter 3 Teacher cognition and Interaction; Chapter 4 Learning to teach and pre-service teacher cognition; Chapter 5 Developing expertise and in-service teacher cognition; Chapter 6 Interactive decision-making; Chapter 7 Understanding pedagogy; Chapter 8 Language teacher education.

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Book SynopsisReviews and debates the theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology. This book maps the theoretical achievements in the field and offers innovative approaches to the major questions. Its discusses the scope of evaluative morphology, its formal, semantic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and word formation issues and more.

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Book SynopsisOver the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. This book presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of whether language death and dialect death can be considered aspects of the same phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin. Set against the background of the rapid transformation of Russia into a major European power, the two volumes of French and Russian in Imperial Russia consider the functions of multilingualism and the use of French as a prestige language among the elite, as well as the benefits of Franco-Russian bilingualism and the anxieties to which it gave rise. This first volume provides insight into the development of the practice of speaking and writing French at the Russian court and among the Russian nobility from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. It examines linguistic practice, the use of French in Russia in various spheres, domains and genres, as well as the interplay between the two languages. Including examples of French lexical influence on Russian, this volume takes a sociolinguistic interest in language choice, code-switching and the degree to which the language community being observed was bilingual or diglossic.A comprehensive and original contribution to the multidisciplinary study of language, the two volumes address, from a historical viewpoint, subjects of relevance to sociolinguists (especially bilingualism and multilingualism), social and cultural historians (social and national identity, linguistic and cultural borrowing), Slavists (the relationship of Russian and western culture) and students of the European Enlightenment, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and cultural nationalism.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin. Set against the background of the rapid transformation of Russia into a major European power, the two volumes of French and Russian in Imperial Russia consider the functions of multilingualism and the use of French as a prestige language among the elite, as well as the benefits of Franco-Russian bilingualism and the anxieties to which it gave rise. This first volume, Language Use among the Russian Elite, provides insight into the development of the practice of speaking and writing French at the Russian court and among the Russian nobility from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. It examines linguistic practice, the use of French in Russia in various spheres, domains and genres, as well as the interplay between the two languages. Including examples of French lexical influence on Russian, this volume takes a sociolinguistic interest in language choice, code-switching and the degree to which the language community being observed was bilingual or diglossic. A comprehensive and original contribution to the multidisciplinary study of language, the two volumes address, from a historical viewpoint, subjects of relevance to sociolinguists (especially bilingualism and multilingualism), social and cultural historians (social and national identity, linguistic and cultural borrowing), Slavists (the relationship of Russian and western culture) and students of the European Enlightenment, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and cultural nationalism.

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Book Synopsis10 years after the eruption of the Arab revolutions, El Mustapha Lahlali explores the dialectical relationship between discourse and social change during and post the conflict. In particular, the book examines how Arabic public and political discourse shapes and is shaped by the wider social, cultural and political environment. Analysing the dialogue of various actors, Islamic parties and stakeholder ? as well as marginalised voices ? Arabic Political Discourse in Transition identifies the key linguistic strategies and features used to frame, represent and position oneself at times of conflict.

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Book SynopsisExamines language and identity in Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. This book offers a study of identity in modern Egyptian public discourse. It helps us to decode and understand the messages put forward by the competing factions in Egyptian politics.

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Book SynopsisLanguage, Labour and Migration explores two fundamental aspects of the migrant experience through a multi-disciplinary lens which combines the research of leading academics at the cutting edge of their fields. This latest volume from the centre for the Study of Migration brings together the work of anthropologists, economists, geographers, historians, political scientists and medical practitioners. Essays explore topics which include the role of mother tongue as a bridge to assimilation, the racialization of immigrants and refugees through language, the patterns of resistance undertaken by lascars, the experience of black British seamen in the eighteenth century, health advocacy in the twentieth century and the way in which cyber-space is being used to rediscover ethnic identity in the twenty-first century. Other essays examine Chinese labour in France during the First world war, employment opportunities for those deficient in the majority language and poverty in old age. All providTrade Review’Can greater toleration and integration of immigrants in Britain arise if we open our society to the voices of others? This seems like a reasonable proposition. However, what if the majority receives these voices as noise, an unintelligible and alien sound? In these pages Anne Kershen allows the previously-muted sounds of Yiddish-speakers, Syletis, Welsh, Irish, Germans, Lascars and Black Jacks (African mariners) to be heard as voices, perhaps for the first time for many readers. This pioneering collection shows how mother tongues can sometimes act as a bridge to acceptance and mobility, but often end as a cul de sac where only the sounds of silence, isolation and reluctant conformity are heard.’ Robin Cohen, University of Warwick, UK ’This wide-ranging collection of essays views the vicissitudes of ethnicity and race in modern Britain through the twin prisms of labour and language. Lively, engaging and richly documented, they move the discussion of how minority groups respond to challenging circumstances to a new level of sophistication and complexity.’ Professor Todd Endelman, University of Michigan, USA 'Perhaps its strongest point is the way it illustrates the breadth of issues surrounding the use of language as a tool for communication. Another strength of the book is its ability to tie together cultural, economic and political themes. Overall it is an important book given today's political, economic and cultural climate. Migration is set to increase and it is vital for us to gain a better understanding of these issues. This book acts as an important first step in doing so. The variety of illustrative examples also make it a fascinating read.' Black and Asian Studies Association Newsletter '...a collection of interesting and often provocative contemporary and historical cases studies of migrant communities language and labor.' Progress in Human Geography 'This book is a mine of information and it is highly recommended to schTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Anne J. Kershen. Language: Mother tongue as a bridge to assimilation?: Yiddish and Sylheti in East London, Anne J. Kershen; Do not give flowers to a man: refugees, language and power in twentieth century Britain, Tony Kushner; Shamrocks growing out of their mouths: language and the racialization of the Irish in Britain, Bronwen Walter; Health advocacy in medicine, Veronica L.C. White; Becoming a Diaspora: the Welsh experience from Beulah Land to Cyber-Cymru, Wayne Parsons. Labour: I asked how the vessel could go: the contradictory experiences of African and African Diaspora mariners and port workers in Britain, c. 1750-1850, Ian Duffield; Patterns of resistance: Indian seamen in imperial Britain, Shompa Lahiri; From Shangdong to the Somme: Chinese indentured labour in France during World War I, Paul Bailey; It’s not working: refugee employment and urban regeneration, Alice Bloch; Are the UK’s ethnic minorities at a disadvantage when they get older?, Mahmood Messkoub; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative collaborative research project conducted jointly at Durham University and the Istitut fÃr deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, Germany. It focuses on the study of public debates on economic and political integration of Europe, in both Britain and Germany and how these debates have developed in the post war period up to the 1990s. The following topics are investigated: Euro-discourse and the new media, British national identity in the European context, representations of Germany in the context of European integration in Margaret Thatcher's autobiographies, European debates in post-World War II Germany, the European debate in and between Germany and Great Britain, the career of the neologism Euro in German Press Texts and the metaphorization of European politics. The study links to Internet implications, providing the basis for further contrastive and comparative research on public discourse in the field of European politics.Trade Review�...an insightful study...� Journal of European Area StudiesTable of ContentsContents: British Discourse on Europe: British national identity in the European context, Gerlinde Mautner; Representations of Germany in the context of European integration in Margaret Thatcher’s autobiographies, Ruth Wittlinger; A province of a federal super state, ruled by an unelected bureaucracy - keywords of the Euro-sceptic discourse in Britain, Wolfgang Teubert; German Discourse on Europe: Words, phases and argumentational structures in the German debate on Europe in the early post-war period, Heidrun Kämper; Euro: the career of a European neologism in German press texts (1995-1999), Dieter Herberg. Comparative Studies: The European debate in and between Germany and Great Britain, Colin Good; The metaphorization of European politics: movement on the road to Europe, Andreas Musolff; Attitudes to Europe - mediated by translation, Christina Schäffner; Der Ton wird schärfer. Stereotypes in media translation, Arachne van der Eijk-Spaan.

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Book SynopsisMichael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies.Trade ReviewIn this book Gorham decided to survey a very dynamic and unstable period of Russian contemporary history that has not yet been studied from the perspective of language culture.... Gorham's innovative work, referring to numerous historical and socio-political contexts, not only enables a better undestanding of the last 25 years of the Russian Federation, but also offers a new perspective on the interrelation between language, culture, and politics. -- Magda Dolinska-Rydzek * Europe-Asia Studies *There are very few books analyzing post-Soviet culture from the perspective of politics and vice versa. Michael Gorham's second monograph belongs to this rare and highly valuable breed, as it embraces the period from Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost to the anti-Putin protests of 2011–12. Michael Gorham has written a highly necessary book establishing a new approach to post-Soviet politics through the study of competition between language ideologies and rhetorical models warring for political prominence. Written in a highly accessible manner and rich with unique factual material, it should become an essential part of diverse courses on post-Soviet culture, language, and politics on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. -- Mark Lipovetsky * Slavic Review *Micahel Gorham's After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin is an insightful and thought-provoking cultural history of the Russian language and its close connection to Russian politics in the period from Gorbachev's perestroika to the early years of Putin's third presidential term Meticulously researched, wonderfully written, and full of vivid examples and compelling vignettes, After Newspeak is essential reading for anyone studying Russian politics, language, media, and national identity. -- Anna Popkova, Western Michigan University * International Journal of Communication 11 *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translations Introduction: Ideologies, Economies, and Technologies of Language 1. The Soviet Legacy: From Political to Cultural Correctness 2. Glasnost Unleashed: Language Ideologies in the Gorbachev Revolution 3. Economies of Profanity: Free Speech and Varieties of Language Degradation 4. In Defense of the National Tongue: Guardians, Legislators, and Monitors of the Norm 5. Taking the Offensive: Language Culture and Policy under Putin 6. "Cyber Curtain" or Glasnost 2.0? Strategies for Web-based Communication in the New Media Age Conclusion Appendix: Sayings and Proverbs about Language

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Book SynopsisMichael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies.Trade ReviewIn this book Gorham decided to survey a very dynamic and unstable period of Russian contemporary history that has not yet been studied from the perspective of language culture.... Gorham's innovative work, referring to numerous historical and socio-political contexts, not only enables a better undestanding of the last 25 years of the Russian Federation, but also offers a new perspective on the interrelation between language, culture, and politics. -- Magda Dolinska-Rydzek * Europe-Asia Studies *There are very few books analyzing post-Soviet culture from the perspective of politics and vice versa. Michael Gorham's second monograph belongs to this rare and highly valuable breed, as it embraces the period from Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost to the anti-Putin protests of 2011–12. Michael Gorham has written a highly necessary book establishing a new approach to post-Soviet politics through the study of competition between language ideologies and rhetorical models warring for political prominence. Written in a highly accessible manner and rich with unique factual material, it should become an essential part of diverse courses on post-Soviet culture, language, and politics on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. -- Mark Lipovetsky * Slavic Review *Micahel Gorham's After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin is an insightful and thought-provoking cultural history of the Russian language and its close connection to Russian politics in the period from Gorbachev's perestroika to the early years of Putin's third presidential term Meticulously researched, wonderfully written, and full of vivid examples and compelling vignettes, After Newspeak is essential reading for anyone studying Russian politics, language, media, and national identity. -- Anna Popkova, Western Michigan University * International Journal of Communication 11 *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translations Introduction: Ideologies, Economies, and Technologies of Language 1. The Soviet Legacy: From Political to Cultural Correctness 2. Glasnost Unleashed: Language Ideologies in the Gorbachev Revolution 3. Economies of Profanity: Free Speech and Varieties of Language Degradation 4. In Defense of the National Tongue: Guardians, Legislators, and Monitors of the Norm 5. Taking the Offensive: Language Culture and Policy under Putin 6. "Cyber Curtain" or Glasnost 2.0? Strategies for Web-based Communication in the New Media Age Conclusion Appendix: Sayings and Proverbs about Language

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Book SynopsisSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, nationality groups have claimed sovereignty in the new republics bearing their names. With the ascendance of these titular nationality groups, Russian speakers living in the post-Soviet republics face a radical crisis of identity. That crisis is at the heart of David D. Laitin''s book.Laitin portrays these Russian speakers as a beached diaspora since the populations did not cross international borders; the borders themselves receded. He asks what will become of these populations. Will they learn the languages of the republics in which they live and prepare their children for assimilation? Will they return to a homeland many have never seen? Or will they become loyal citizens of the new republics while maintaining a Russian identity? Through questions such as these and on the basis of ethnographic field research, discourse analysis, and mass surveys, Laitin analyzes trends in four post-Soviet republics: Estonia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.Trade ReviewA book of remarkable theoretical scope and empirical richness, one which stands as a model of how social scientific inquiry ought to be conducted... A landmark in scholarship on nationalism and on the former Soviet Union more specifically. The boldness of its assertions, its dazzling design and execution, and the wealth of stimulating ideas found within it make it a truly outstanding achievement. -- Mark R. Beissinger, University of Wisconsin * American Journal of Sociology *This very important book offers evidence on this topic and much else. It is a pathbreaking analysis of nationalism and identity, a masterpiece by a major scholar at the height of his powers. -- John Hall * Canadian Journal of Political Science *

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Book SynopsisFor decades the superimposition of languages in Algeria has had growing cultural and political consequences. The relations between identity and language, already complicated before independence, became all the more entangled after 1962 when the new...Trade ReviewAlgeria in Others' Languages tells in turn, and collectively, of an erstwhile Algerian history of indigenous conflict and colonial violence and the individual critical visions and languages of another once-upon-a-time that is still to come. -- Barbara Harlow * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *

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Book SynopsisOffers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Terminology and Orthography1. The Specter of Language Death2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death3. Programming Language Maintenance4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice6. Death by Suicide7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and IdentityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Terminology and Orthography1. The Specter of Language Death2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death3. Programming Language Maintenance4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice6. Death by Suicide7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and IdentityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis The Bearer of This Letter illuminates the enduring effects of colonialism by examining the decades-long tension between written words and spoken words in a reservation community. Drawing on archival sources and her own extensive work in the community, Mindy J. Morgan investigates how historical understandings of literacy practices challenge current Indigenous language revitalization efforts on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana.Created in 1887, Fort Belknap is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine peoples. The history of these two peoplesover the past century is a common one among Indigenous groups, with religious and federal authorities aggressively promoting the use of English at the expense of the local Indigenous languages. Morgan suggests that such efforts at the assimilation of Indigenous peoples had a far-reaching and not fully appreciated consequence. Through a close reading of federal, local, and missionary records at Fort Belknap, MorgTrade Review"Morgan provides an excellent explication of the power of language/literacy in the reservation world and Indian efforts to manipulate literacy to privilege their cultures. Literacy was a colonial tool for domination, but American Indian societies may now be using it to anticipate a multilingual future as they turn their oral languages into written languages used for their own purposes, as at Fort Belknap. Anyone interested in the effort to revive indigenous languages will benefit from the summaries of issues and solutions."—G. Gagnon, Choice"[The Bearer of This Letter's] ethnolinguistic relevance is obvious and central, but students of Indian history, culture, literature, and rhetoric will also find a good deal to occupy them. For educators and scholars focusing on Montana tribes, The Bearer of This Letter will quickly become an indispensable resource."—Matt Herman, Montana, The Magazine of Western History"This book is an important and pioneering effort that brings ethnohistorical rigor to the task of understanding current literacy debates in the Fort Belknap (Montana) Indian community by understanding the evolution of relevant language ideologies there from pre-reservation times to current efforts involving language renewal."—Paul V. Kroskrity, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsPrefaceNotes on Terminology and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Fort Belknap and the Question of Native Language LiteracyChapter 1. Before the Reservation: Language Practices and the Documentary RecordChapter 2. Creating Boundaries: English Literacy in the Early Reservation EraChapter 3. English Only: Language Ideology and the Limits of LiteracyChapter 4. Shifts in Practice: Literacy during the Indian New DealChapter 5. Bringing the Languages Back: Developing Bilingual Education at Fort BelknapChapter 6. The Nakoda Alphabet: Re-Imaging Literacy and TraditionSummary: New Literacies and Old WaysBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communications systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between discourse networks in 1800 and 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism of American literary scholars, both in the intellectual influences to which Kittler responds and in his concern to ground literature in the most concrete details of historical reality.The artful structure of the book begins with Goethe''s Faust and ends with Valery''s Faust. In the 1800 section, the author discusses how language was learned, the emergence of the modern university, the associated beginning of the interpretation of contemporary literature, and the canonization of literature. Among the writers and works KittlTrade Review“A new and encyclopedic vision of modern German literary, intellectual and social history, achieved through the optic of discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and semiotic theory, analyzed in a spirit of playfulness and impudent precision.”—Stanley Corngold, Princeton University"Kittler is the true heir to McLuhan's legacy. Where the latter relied on prophecy and striking formulas, Kittler provides thorough yet insightful analysis, drawing upon all the reurces of a well-informed theoretical imagination. In this book, he retraces the contours of one of modernity's foundational configurations: that if the inscription systems that determine the positions of subjects in relation to the materialities of the means of communication and to the changing patterns of human conviviality that are derived from them. The book proves compelling not only because of the power of its analyses but also because it provides a model or rigor for this type of endeavor in cticital studies."—Wlad Godzich, University of MontrealTable of ContentsForeword Part I. 1800: 1. The mother's mouth 2. language channels 3. The toast Part II. 1900: 4. The great Lalula 5. Rebus 6. Queen's sacrifice Afterword to the second printing Notes Index of persons.

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Book SynopsisThis book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881.Trade Review“With his customary versatility and lucidity Harshav has given us . . . a host of new and provocative insights into modern Jewish history. . . . This book is an outstanding attempt to juxtapose the revolution in Jewish life with that of the Hebrew language in such a way that each informs our understanding of the other.”—Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTS PART I: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 PART II: 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 PART III: Harshav Barbara

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Book SynopsisThrough the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores how early Soviet language culture gave rise to unparalleled verbal creativity and utopian imagination, while sowing the seeds for perhaps the most notorious forms of Orwellian "newspeak" known to the modern era.Trade Review"A first-rate book that explains, better than anything else in print, the origins and inner workings of the Stalinist language culture. Gorham breaks new ground, writing with zest and elegance as he tells a fascinating story."—Victoria Bonnell, University of California "A rare thing indeed, a wholly original work of scholarship. Gorham's work is truly outstanding." -James von Geldern, Macalester CollegeTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction 1. The Contours of the Communication Gap 2. The Revolutionary Voice and the Resurrection of Meaning 3. Awkward Ambiguities of the Soviet Vox Populi 4. Models of Proletarian Language Acquisition 5. The Cleansing Authority of the Russian National Voice 6. Canonization of the Party-State Voice 7. Narrating the Party State Epilogue: The Politics of Voice at the Margins of Soviet History Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a history of and definition for jive, followed by examples of folktales, poetry, and Shakespeare 'translated' into jive. This work includes a jive glossary for easy reference as well as stories told in jive. It is suitable for those interested in African American history and culture or linguistics.Trade ReviewThis book is a gem, and its reprinting highlights the contributions of one of the most creative and socially conscious wordsmiths in American history. -- H. Samy Alim, UCLA, author of Roc the Mic RightBy making this material available, readers will have a strong guide to understanding references to this language in a variety of media. -- Steven C. Tracy, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction by Thomas Aiello Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive Diggeth Thou? The Jiver's Bible Editor's Notes

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Book SynopsisThe book presents an interdisciplinary examination of how we use creativity to form and interpret new words. Pioneering in its scope, it combines theoretical and experimental research conducted with over seven hundred participants. It will pave the way for new research amongst linguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and psychologists.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible textbook introduces concepts and frameworks from linguistics and uses them in the analysis of language on social media. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics and with examples drawn from 12 different social media platforms, including TikTok, Twitter (the book was written prior to the X rebrand), Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction provides the tools to unpick how language is used to portray a particular identity, to persuade, to inform, to amuse and entertain, to vent and to complain.Analysing the language of social media highlights the strategies which operate in the messages and posts found on such platforms. Together, these strategies involve a wide variety of language registers, creativity and language play and a wealth of linguistic innovation. By evidencing the many nuanced ways in which people are engaging with social media, this book demonstrates how users of social media are linguistically savTrade Review"Andreea Calude has done an excellent job of explaining fundamental concepts in linguistics. The textbook strikes a perfect balance between theory and practice, drawing on literature from various disciplines to provide a comprehensive characterization of social media practices. Importantly, the book assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and is written in a manner that is engaging and accessible to students."Carmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTable of ContentsLists of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of internet slang and abbreviations; About this book; 1. Language and social media; 2. Using social media for your purpose: Exploring genre, register and style; 3. Using social media to speak to your tribe: Considering Audience Design, language choice and multilingualism; 4. Using social media to get things done: Analysing speech acts and politeness; 5. Using social media to be yourself: Examining indexing, gender and communities of practice; 6. Using social media to save the world: Theorising metaphor; 7. Using social media to influence public opinion: Surveying texts with Move Analysis and corpus linguistics; 8. Using social media to amuse and entertain: Introducing word-formation and grammatical constructions 9. Using social media to rally for your language: Measuring linguistic vitality and language endangerment; 10. Epilogue: Ethical considerations and language change; Index; Index of languages; Index of social media platforms

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Book SynopsisBilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alone. Bringing together key insights from psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, Luna Filipovic presents a new model of bilingual language processing that captures bilingualism within and across minds. The model enables readers to explain traditional puzzles in the field, and accounts for some apparently contradictory reports in different studies. It shows how theory can be applied in practice and how practice feeds back into theory, with mutual benefits. Bilinguals are studied in action, when they interact with other bilinguals or monolinguals, when they recall witnessed events in real life and in the lab and when they translate and interpret for the benefit of monolinguals. This interdisciplinary take on bilingualism in action will lead to new research on bilingualism itself, and to applications in forensic linguistics and translation studies.Trade Review'In conclusion, Bilingualism in Action convincingly argues for the need for more granular, fine-tuned research that ties together sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic variables so as to understand the 'why' behind individual differences of bilingual processing and production outcomes. Indeed, this book made me ruminate on my own bilingual experience, my current usage tendencies, and the ways in which I convey typological differences when teaching my second language to Anglophone students. This text would greatly benefit scholars who wish to subvert their field's empirical norms and embrace the interdisciplinary nature of such a unified approach. Finally, this book would be an excellent addition to any graduate syllabus on bilingualism and would serve any graduate student seeking direction on her next research topic.' Rachel B. Poulin, The LINGUIST ListTable of Contents1. Introduction to the domain of applied bilingual studies; 2. Bilingualism research: what we know and what we need to know; 3. Introducing CASP for Bilingualism; 4. Action time: CASP for bilingualism at work; 5. Bilingual cognition: language, memory and judgment; 6. Bilinguals in action as language professionals: specialised interpreting and translating; 7. Conclusions and future directions.

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Book SynopsisBringing together a team of global experts, this is the first volume of its kind to focus on the ways in which meanings are ascribed to actions in social interaction. It will be essential reading for academic researchers and students interested in the relationship between language, behaviour and social interaction.

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Book SynopsisAfter conquering the Internet, cats are now taking on linguistics! Since the advent of social media, cats have become a topic central to online communication, and the multitude of cat-related accounts now online has made this a world-wide phenomenon. Through cat-inspired varieties of language, we have developed a genre of cat-inspired vocabulary. And on our special social media accounts for our cats, we take on their identities, as we post, write, talk, and chat - as our feline friends. This innovative book provides linguistic analyses of the cyber ''Cativerse'', exploring online language variation, and explaining key linguistic concepts all through the lens of cat-related communication. Each chapter explores a different sociolinguistic phenomena, drawing on fun and engaging examples including memes, hashtags, captions and ''LOLcats'', from platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Innovative yet accessible, it is catnip for all ''hoomans'' interested in how language is used online.Table of Contents1. The cativerse; 2. The feline territory of language; 3. Meowlogisms; 4. Da kittehz; 5. Virtual furever homes; 6. Multimeowdality; 7. Meow and more; 8. Going on pawtrol; 9. Linguistic scratching posts; 10. #StatsWithCats; 11. Cattitude and Purrception.

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Book SynopsisIncluding examples from a broad range of sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium, to provide an encompassing theoretical framework for the second-person pronoun. With its unique inter-disciplinary perspective, it will interest students and scholars of both linguistics and literature.

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