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Cambridge University Press Cretan Hieroglyphic
Book SynopsisNearly 4000 years ago a hieroglyphic script was used on Crete which predates Linear A and Linear B, indeed any other writing in Europe, but remains undeciphered since its discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is the first comprehensive account of this script, which is analysed by the leading experts through an array of lenses, including archaeology, philology, palaeography, cognitive studies and decipherment theory, in order to showcase its importance in the history of writing. The book takes a broad approach to writing, understanding it not solely or even mainly as a visual tool to convey language, but primarily as a social and cultural phenomenon rooted in agency, materiality, and semiotics. The volume will provide an invaluable tool for scholars and will facilitate further research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Multiscriptal English in Transliterated Linguistic Landscapes
Book SynopsisIn this monograph, ''multiscriptal English'' is theorised. Unorthodox and unconventional this may sound, a salient sociolinguistic reality is emerging globally. That is, while standardised English (Roman script) is routinely taught and used, English in superdiverse, multilingual, and/or (post)colonial societies is often camouflaged in local scripts and ''passes off'' as local languages in these places'' linguistic landscapes through transliteration (at lexical, phrasal and sentential levels). To illustrate, documentary evidence from Arabic, Malay (Jawi), Nepali, Urdu, Tamil, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Thai, etc. is presented. Through inter-scriptal rendition, English is glocalised and enshrined in seemingly ''exotic'' scripts that embody different socio-political and religious worldviews. In the (re)contextualisation process, English inevitably undergoes transformations and adopts new flavours. This gives English a second life with multiple manifestations/incarnations in new contexts. This points to the juggernaut of English in our globalised/neoliberal world. The existence of multiscriptal English necessitates more coordinated and interdisciplinary research efforts going forward.
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Cambridge University Press Authorship Analysis in Chinese Social Media Texts
Book SynopsisThis Element explores the sentiment and keyword features in both authorship profiling and authorship attribution in social media texts in the Chinese cultural context. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Romance Crimes
Book SynopsisUncovering the criminal world of romance fraudsters through their devastating interplay of love, money, sextortion and threat. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press LGBTQ and Feminist Digital Activism
Book SynopsisThis Element focuses on the linguistic and discursive practices employed by digital citizens to promote their causes on social media, that is to engage in digital activism, drawing attention to the growing importance of this phenomenon about gender identity and sexuality issues.
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Cambridge University Press Leveraging relations in diaspora
Book SynopsisThis Element expands the horizon of sociopragmatic research inquiry into the sociocultural norms that underlie the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations in a diasporic context. It offers new insights beyond the dyad in a globalised context of social inequality.
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Cambridge University Press Feminism Corpusassisted Research and Language Inclusivity
Book SynopsisThis Element presents an investigation into the use of the gender inclusive strategy schwa in a corpus of tweets; the schwa is employed in Italian to overcome grammatical (feminine and masculine) morphological inflections, having at its core linguistic and social binarism. The investigation is set in a country where LGBTQIA communities still face institutional discrimination, yet it is contextualised in the growing work on inclusivity discussed in languages and contexts worldwide. The corpus is examined quantitatively and qualitatively, as well as read through a triangulation of two frameworks: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. The findings, obtained from corpus-assisted research and digital ethnography, show that the new linguistic strategy is used creatively, functionally, and not exclusively as a self-representation tool but is also a viable and powerful replacement for generic sexist language.
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Cambridge University Press Speech Acts
Book SynopsisThis Element outlines issues in the study of speech acts. Discursive approaches shift the focus to interaction and interactional sequences. Multimodal approaches show that the speech act needs to be extended to cover the multimodality of communicative acts. Diachronic approaches focus on the historicity of speech acts.
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Cambridge University Press Speech Act Theory
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Cambridge University Press Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
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Cambridge University Press Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
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Cambridge University Press Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities
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Cambridge University Press Queering Language Revitalisation
Book SynopsisThis Element aims to understand how multilingualism, second language acquisition and minority language revitalisation have overlooked queer sexual identities. The marginalisation of queer subjects in these strands of linguistics can be traced to the Fishmanian model of 'Reversing Language Shift' (RLS).
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Cambridge University Press Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Uptalk in Hong Kong English
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Cambridge University Press Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations
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Cambridge University Press Trust Discourse and Corporate Corruption
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Cambridge University Press Discourse Materiality and Agency within Everyday Social Interactions
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Cambridge University Press Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa
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Cambridge University Press Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem
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LEGARE STREET PR A Provincial Glossary With a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions
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LEGARE STREET PR Der Der Berlinische Dialekt Untersucht Und Nach Aufzeichnungen Richtiger Berliner Herausgegeben
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Legare Street Press Everyday English. A Sequel To
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LEGARE STREET PR A A Study in the Warwickshire Dialect
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Legare Street Press The The Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbins Tummus and Meary
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Legare Street Press Cummerland Talk
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Legare Street Press Contributions to the History of the Durham Dialects
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Legare Street Press Conversations in Gaelic English
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Legare Street Press A A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of MidYorkshire With Others Peculiar to Lower Nidderdale. To Which is Prefixed on Outline Grammar of the MidYorkshire Dialect Volume 5
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Legare Street Press Reports Notices and Library With a List of the Societys Publications and Various Indexes Volume 33
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Legare Street Press Enquête linguistique sur les patois dArdenne
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Legare Street Press A A Word on the Wane
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Legare Street Press Wörterbuch der Gauner und Diebessprache.
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Legare Street Press Atti Della R. Accademia Della Crusca
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Legare Street Press Anglicismes Et Canadianismes
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Legare Street Press Ueber Die Wupperthaler Mundart
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Legare Street Press Le parler dolois étude et glossaire des patois comparés de larrondissement de SaintMalo suivi dun relevé des locutions et dictions populaires
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Legare Street Press Le Le Livre Jaune
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Legare Street Press Het Dialect Der Stad Maastricht ...
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Legare Street Press Die Sprache Der Luxemburger.
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Legare Street Press Umgangsprache
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Legare Street Press Versuch Eines Schweizerischen Idiotikon
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Legare Street Press Nu Teutonish
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Legare Street Press Speaking And Writing English A Course Of Study For The Eight Grades Of The Elementary School With A Preliminary Discussion Of The Problem Of Elementary English
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Legare Street Press Memorias De La Real Academia Española Volume 9
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Legare Street Press Dialekticky Slovnik Moravsky Volume 1
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LEGARE STREET PR Recueil Des Discours Rapports Et Pièces Lus Dans Les Séances Publiques Et Particulières De Lacadémie Française Volume 1...
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Legare Street Press Tableau Synoptique Et Comparatif Des Idiomes Populaires Ou Patois De La France Contenant De Notices Sur La Littrature Des Dialectes Leur Division Territoriale Ainsi Que Celle De Leurs Sousespces Etc...
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