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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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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
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Cosmo Publications Language and Social Development
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Foundation Books Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A
Book SynopsisIndia's rich cultural history includes interactions with various foreign languages like Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Greek, and more. These languages influenced and were influenced by native Indian languages, leading to the birth of new languages. "Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India" explores this sociolinguistic history.
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Creative Books Sociolinguistics and Language Education
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Oslo Academic Press Francophonie: Une Introdcution Critique
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Museum Tusculanum Press Computational Approaches to Text Understanding:
Book SynopsisA survey of current issues in Denmark.
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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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Brill War Words Language History and the Disciplining of English
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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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Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought
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Oxford University Press Intercorporeality
Book SynopsisThis book draws inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty''s concept of intercorporeality to offer a new, multidisciplinary perspective on the body. By drawing attention to the body''s ability to simultaneously sense and be sensed, Merleau-Ponty transcends the object-subject divide and describes how bodies are about, into, and within other bodies. Such inherent relationality constitutes the essence of intercorporeality, and the chapters in this book examine such relationality from a host of diverse perspectives. The book begins with an introductory chapter in which the editors review the current research on bodily interaction, and introduce the notion of intercorporeality as a potentially integrative framework. The first section then offers four chapters devoted to clarifying theoretical and developmental perspectives on intercorporeality. Section 2 contains three chapters that provide insight on intercorporeality from evolutionary, historical, and cross-sectional perspectives. In Section 3, four chapters examine the intercorporeal nature of meaning-making during human interaction. Section 4 then presents three chapters that explore the intercorporeal nature of multi-agent interactions and the role that non-animate bodies (i.e., objects) play in such interaction. Throughout all the chapters, the authors work to integrate research in their specific discipline into the larger, transdisciplinary notion of intercorporeality. This collection provides an indisputably unique perspective on bodies-in-interaction, while simultaneously offering an interdisciplinary way forward in contemporary scholarship on bodies, meaning, and interaction.Trade ReviewWhile some readers will doubtless find value in individual chapters, this is that rare kind of collection that is worth reading in its entirety as it makes a cohesive argument throughout. Scholars of embodied interaction, and social interaction in general, should pay close attention to how the editors of and contributors to this volume have worked towards an integrated framework. * Dr. Donald Everhart, AMDA College of the Performing Arts, Symbolic Interaction *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Christian Meyer, Jürgen Streeck & J. Scott Jordan I. Fundamental Intercorporeality Chapter 1: Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity Thomas Fuchs Chapter 2: Intercorporeality as a Foundational Dimension of Human Communication Jens Loenhoff Chapter 3: Feeling Our Way: Enkinaesthetic Enquiry and Immanent Intercorporeality Susan A. J. Stuart Chapter 4: Haptic Sociality: The Embodied Interactive Constitution of Intimacy Through Touch Marjorie Harness Goodwin II. Extended Intercorporeality Chapter 5: Children's Expressive Handling of Objects in a Shared World Mats Andrén Chapter 6: The Cultural Organization of Intercorporeality: Interaction, Emotion, and the Senses Among the Wolof of Northwestern Senegal Christian Meyer Chapter 7: Taking the World by Hand: How (Some) Gestures Mean Elena Cuffari & Jürgen Streeck Chapter 8: Intercorporeality at the Motor Block: On the Importance of a Practical Sense for Social Cooperation and Coordination Thomas Alkemeyer, Kristina Brümmer & Thomas Pille Chapter 9: Intercorporeal Phantasms: Kinesthetic Alignment with Imagined Bodies in Self-Defense Training Anja Stukenbrock III. Intercorporeality Beyond the Body Chapter 10: Sensible Objects: Intercorporeality and Enactive Knowing Through Things Tomie Hahn & J. Scott Jordan Chapter 11: More than a Body: A Material Engagement Approach Lambros Malafouris & Maria Danae Koukouti Chapter 12: Challenges of Conducting Interaction with Technologically-Mediated Bodies Elizabeth Keating Chapter 13: Achieving Intersubjectivity in Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC): Intercorporeal, Embodied and Disembodied Practices Peter Auer & Ina Hörmeyer Chapter 14: Wild Meaning: The Intercorporeal Nature of Objects, Bodies, and Words J. Scott Jordan & Chris Mays Index
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more broadly inclusive view of sociolinguistics. Hence there is a need for a handbook that will survey the main areas of the field, point out the lacunae in our existing knowledge base, and provide directions for future research.The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics will differ from existing work in four major respects. First, it will emphasize new methodological developments, particularly the convergence of linguistic anthropology and variationist sociolinguistics. Second, it will include chapters on sociolinguistic developments in areas of the worldTrade Review... an invaluable new contribution to the field of sociolinguists ... While it certainly stands out for its careful organization of abundant material, it must be especially praised for the special attention given to relevant topics that pertain to modern-day social preoccupations. In this sense, it will no doubt inspire those in the field to further their research ... this handbook is a unique and welcomed addition to the Oxford Handbook collection * Pablo Pintado-Casas, LINGUIST *The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics contains many insightful chapters, especially on sociolinguistic variation and on language attitudes and policy * Philipp S Angermeyer, Journal of Sociolinguistics *The...handbook benefits from the fact that all of the authors are outstanding scholars who are extremely well known in their respective areas of expertise... [G]raduate students who are interested in sociolinguistic studies are most likely to benefit from reading this handbook in its entirety, because the editors have taken great care to account for a combination of theoretical and practical insights regarding studies of language in social contexts. * Language *Table of ContentsCONTENTS ; Contributors ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Introduction ; Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas ; Part I. Disciplinary Perspectives ; 1. Variationist Sociolinguistics ; Robert Bayley ; 2. Linguistic Anthropology ; Janet Shibamotoe-Smith and Vineeta Chand ; 3. Doers and Makers: The Interwoven Stories of Sociology and the Study of Language ; Christopher McAll ; 4. Critical Discourse Analysis ; Martin Reisigl ; 5. Conversation Analysis ; Paul Seedhouse ; 6. The Intersections of Language Socialization and Sociolinguistics ; Karen Watson-Gegeo and Matthew C. Bronson ; 7. Psycholinguistic Approaches ; Brandon C. Loudermilk ; 8. Interdisciplinary Approaches ; Christine Mallinson and Tyler Kendall ; Part II. Methodologies and Approaches ; 9. Studies of the Community and the Individual ; James A. Walker and Miriam Meyerhoff ; 10. Experimental Methods for Measuring Intelligibility of Closely Related Language Varieties ; Charlotte Gooskens ; 11. Quantitative Analysis ; Kyle Gorman and Daniel Ezra Johnson ; 12. Analyzing Qualitative Data: Mapping the Research Trajectory in Multilingual Contexts ; Juliet Langman ; 13. Longitudinal Studies ; Gillian Sankoff ; 14. Methods for Studying Sign Languages ; Ceil Lucas ; Part III. Bilingualism and Language Contact ; 15. Pidgins and Creoles ; Eric Russell Webb ; 16. Language Maintenance and Shift ; Kim Potowski ; 17. Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition ; Martin Howard, Raymond Mougeon, and Jean-Marc Dewaele ; 18. Codeswitching ; Li Wei ; 19. Sign Language Contact ; David Quinto-Pozos and Robert Adam ; Part IV. Variation ; 20. Sociophonetics ; Maciej Baranowski ; 21. Phonology and Sociolinguistics ; Naomi Nagy ; 22. Morphosyntactic Variation ; Ruth King ; 23. Pragmatics and Sociolinguistic Variation ; Richard Cameron and Scott Schwenter ; 24. Variation and Change ; Alexandra D'Arcy ; 25. Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in Sign Languages ; Adam Schembri and Trevor Johnston ; Part V. Language Policy, Language Ideology, and Language Attitudes ; 26. Language Policy, Ideology, and Attitudes in English-Dominant Countries ; Thomas Ricento ; 27. Language Policies and Language Attitudes in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Vernacularization ; Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu ; 28. Language Policy and Ideology: Greater China ; Qing Zhang ; 29. Language Policies and Politics in South Asia ; Vineeta Chand ; 30. Language Policy and Ideology in Latin America ; Enrique Rainer Hamel ; 31. Language Policy, Ideology, and Attitudes in Western Europe ; Francois Grin ; 32. Language Management in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Countries ; Aneta Pavlenko ; 33. Language Policy and Attitudes towards Sign Languages ; Joseph Hill ; Part VI. Sociolinguistics, the Professions, and the Public Interest ; 34. Language and Law ; Gregory Matoesian ; 35. Our Stories, Ourselves: Can the Culture of a Large Medical School Be Changed without Open Heart Surgery? ; Richard M. Frankel ; 36. Sociolinguistic Studies of Sign Language Interpreting ; Cynthia Roy and Melanie Metzger ; 37. Language Awareness in Community Perspective: Obligation and Opportunity ; Walt Wolfram ; 38. Linguistic and Ecological Diversity ; Suzanne Romaine ; 39. Language Revitalization ; Lenore A. Grenoble ; 40. Linguistics and Social Activism ; Anne H. Charity Hudley
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Oxford University Press Looking like a Language Sounding like a Race
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Oxford University Press, USA Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning
Book SynopsisThis book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning; gestural mediation in a second language; and constructing a self through a second language.Table of ContentsIntroducing sociocultural theory ; 1. Sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom ; 2. Rethinking interaction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zone of proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar ; 3. Subjects speak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task ; 4. The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue ; 5. Playfulness as mediation in communicative language teaching in a Vietnamese classroom ; 6. Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning ; 7. Second language learning as participation and the (re)construction of selves ; 8. Side affects: The strategic development of professional satisfaction ; 9. The appropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners ; 10. Second language acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity ; 11. From input to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecological perspective ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Life Stories
Book SynopsisThis is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships. She focuses on different coherence systems, including `common sense'' and its peculiarly American nature.Trade Review"An excellent example of interdisciplinary theory and research, and a lucid introduction to the study of narrative. Linde bridges the neglected gap between rhetoric and the psychology of narrative. Really delightful."--Andrew Garrison, Miami University "Looks extremely interesting....Offers the opportunity to bridge some significant gaps in our understanding of how our self schemas really function."--Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak, Allegheny College "I have read Life Stories with much pleasure and enlightenment. It is a work that combines impressive scholarship in several academic disciplines, and an insightful perspective on popular culture. It will make a substantial contribution to several fields: linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, psychology, anthropology, and sociology--and no doubt others as well."--Robin Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley "Charlotte Linde's book provides a useful exploration of life stories' structure and their implications for larger issues."--Anthropological Linguistics "Linde's provocative work will stimulate sociologists to rethink how sociological analyses can benefit from the contributions of its cousin sociolinguistics and visa versa."--American Journal of Sociology "Life Stories is a richly innovative study, packed with insights into the way we use stories to create and maintain an identity over time. ...the book contains much that will interest a wide variety of readers, from linguists, narratologists, and literary theorists, to sudents of autobiography and folklore. An imaginative, stylishly written and boldly interdisciplinary study, Life Stories focuses our attention on a hitherto unexplored mode of narrative discourse, throwing new light on the interconnections between self and story."--Style "An excellent example of interdisciplinary theory and research, and a lucid introduction to the study of narrative. Linde bridges the neglected gap between rhetoric and the psychology of narrative. Really delightful."--Andrew Garrison, Miami University "Looks extremely interesting....Offers the opportunity to bridge some significant gaps in our understanding of how our self schemas really function."--Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak, Allegheny College "I have read Life Stories with much pleasure and enlightenment. It is a work that combines impressive scholarship in several academic disciplines, and an insightful perspective on popular culture. It will make a substantial contribution to several fields: linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, psychology, anthropology, and sociology--and no doubt others as well."--Robin Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley "Charlotte Linde's book provides a useful exploration of life stories' structure and their implications for larger issues."--Anthropological Linguistics "Linde's provocative work will stimulate sociologists to rethink how sociological analyses can benefit from the contributions of its cousin sociolinguistics and visa versa."--American Journal of Sociology "Life Stories is a richly innovative study, packed with insights into the way we use stories to create and maintain an identity over time. ...the book contains much that will interest a wide variety of readers, from linguists, narratologists, and literary theorists, to students of autobiography and folklore. An imaginative, stylishly written and boldly interdisciplinary study, Life Stories focuses our attention on a hitherto unexplored mode of narrative discourse, throwing new light on the interconnections between self and story."--Style
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Oxford University Press Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words
Book SynopsisWierzbicka demonstrates that every language has its key concepts (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five languages, and using her own natural semantic metalanguage to provide an analytical framework, she shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.Trade ReviewThere is a lot to be gleaned from just about anything produced by Wierzbicka - the "key words book" [...] is no exception [...]. The observations are plentiful and fascinating [...]. [Wierzbicka] has done more than anyone else to really "understand cultures through their key words". * Word, 51 [2000] *
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Oxford University Press Vanishing Voices
Book SynopsisA dramatic account of the rate of language extinction, and how it endangers the future of biodiversityFew people know that nearly 100 native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia''s 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world''s languages may die out in the next century. What has happened to these voices? Should we be alarmed about the disappearance of linguistic diversity?The authors of Vanishing Voices assert that this trend is far more than simply disturbing. Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction of languages is part of the larger picture of near-total collapse of the worldwide ecosystem. Indeed, the authors contend that the struggle to preserve precious environmental resources-such as the rainforest-cannot be separated from the struggle to maintain diverse cultures, and that the causes of language death, like that of ecological destruction, lie at the intersection of ecology and politics.And while Nettle and Romaine defend the world''s endangered languages, they also pay homage to the last speakers of dying tongues, such as Red Thundercloud, a Native American in South Carolina, Ned Mandrell, with whom the Manx language passed away in 1974, and Arthur Bennett, an Australian, the last person to know more than a few words of Mbabaram. In our languages lies the accumulated knowledge of humanity. Indeed, each language is a unique window on experience. Vanishing Voices is a call to preserve this resource, before it is too late.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition "[A] superb study of endangered languages.... The tapestry of supporting detail is every bit as compelling as the central thesis-- from an examination of how indigenous languages function as museums of local culture to a history of the way in which dominant languages like English,Mandarin, and Spanish have vanquished more vulnerable tongues." * The New Yorker *"Language extinction is a great tragedy for human culture and for scholarship on all things human. This fascinating book is the latest word on this important issue, containing a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. If we have the good sense to rescue the priceless legacy of linguistic diversity before it vanishes forever, Vanishing Voices will surely deserve a good part of the credit." * Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and Words and Rules *". . . this clear, cogent and immensely knowledgeable book. . . . Vanishing Voices is a book that needs to be chain-read, therefore: read it, then tell someone else to." * Prof David Crystal, THES *"Vanishing Voices is an urgent call to arms about the impending loss of one of our great resources. Nettle and Romaine paint a breathtaking landscape that shows why so many of the world's languages are disappearing and more importantly, why it matters. They put the problem of linguistic diversity into the wider context of global biodiversity, and propose the revolutionary idea that saving endangered languages is not about dictionaries and educational programs, but about preserving the cultures and habitats of the people who speak them. Along the way it's also a fascinating introduction to how language works: how languages are born, how they die, and how we can prevent their death." * Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University *a "splendid and disturbing book." * The Irish Times (Dublin) *Table of Contents1. Where have All the Languages Gone ; 2. A World of Diversity ; 3. Lost Words / Lost Worlds ; 4. The Ecology of Language ; 5. The Biological Wave ; 6. The Economic Wave ; 7. Why Something Should be Done ; 8. Sustainable Futures ; References and Further Reading ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Conversational Style
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of Deborah Tannen''s first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style-first published in 1984-presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don''t Understand, That''s Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others. Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that make up the speakers'' conversational styles, and in particular how aspects of what she calls a ''high-involvement style'' have a positive effect when used with others who share the style, but a negative effect with those whose styles differ. This revised edition includes a new preface and an afterword in which Tannen discusses the book''s place in the evolution of her work. Conversational Style isTrade ReviewPraise for earlier edition: "By far the most interesting and accessible--and fun!--introduction to conversational style that I know of. Students love it, and I use it as a required textbook whenever I teach sociolinguistics."--Doug Biber, Northern Arizona UniversityPraise for earlier edition: "Interesting and valuable for both laypersons and students."--LanguagePraise for earlier edition: "A contribution not only for the general reader but for any researcher or student interested in conversation."--Language and SocietyTable of ContentsREFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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Oxford University Press Bad Language
Book SynopsisIs today''s language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Reexamining debates over relativism in language, Battistella argues that we should view language as made up of alternative forms of regularity and orderliness, which require informed engagement with usage.Trade Review...written for a non-scholarly audience, although it might be useful as a pre-course book for undergraduates... Books on this subject tend to adopt polarized positions, and while it is clear which end of the spectrum Battistella occupies, he writes in a style that would not automatically alienate those who initially disagreed with him. * The Year's Works in English Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Bad Language: Realism versus Relativism Anything Goes A Culture of Engagement Bad Writing The Craft of Writing Clear and Direct The Relativity of Style What is Good Writing? Bad Grammar Prescriptive Grammar The Emergence of Prescriptivism The Doctrines of Usage and Utility The English Language Arts and Beyond Conservatives and Progressives The Necessity for Grammar Bad Words Cursing in the Media and the Arts Offensive Language Bad Words as a Social Construction Slang as Bad Language Political Correctness Conventionalism and Comfort Levels Bad Citizens Birth of a Nation Native American Languages Manualism versus Oralism Restrictions on Foreign Languages Bilingual Education English Only One Flag, One Language Bad Accents Broken English Attitudes Toward Regional Dialects Ebonics Accomodating to the Idealized Mainstream Images and Engagement Imagining Language English Made Hard Beyond Simplistic Characterizations Notes Reference Index
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Oxford University Press, USA When Languages Die
Trade ReviewIn this scholarly yet very readable study, Harrison writes powerfully of the value and beauty of these vanishing knowledge systems. * PD Smith, The Guardian *K. David Harrison makes an excellent case for studying our disappearing languages. Intrepid and dedicated, he is committed to salvaging what he can before it is too late. * Gregory Norminton, TLS *Table of Contents1.: A World of Many (Fewer) Voices 2.: An Extinction of (ideas about) Species 3.: Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning Case Study: Urban Nomads of Mongolia 4.: An Atlas in the Mind Case Study: Wheel of Fortune, and a Blessing 5.: Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends Case Study: New Rice vs. Old Knowledge 6.: Counting to Twenty on your Toes Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives 7.: Worlds within Words Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Investigating Variation The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisLinguistic variation has most commonlu been studied in communities that have the dominant social organization of our time: occupation and ethnic diversity, socioeconomic stratification, and a population size that precludes community-wide face-to-face interaction. In such communities literacy introduces overarching, extra-community linguistic norms, and linguistic variation correlates with socioeconomic class. Investigating Variation explores a different kind of social organization: small size, enclavement, common occupation, absence of social stratification, bilingualism with extremely weak extra-community norming for the local minority language, which shows a very high level of individual variation. Nancy C. Dorian''s examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recognition of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups. Reports of similar variation phenomena in locations with similar social-setting and social-organization features (contemporary minority-language pockets in Ireland, Russia, Norway, Canada, and Cameroon) make it possible to recognize a particular set of factors that contribute to the emergence and persistence of socially neutral inter-speaker and intra speaker variation. The documented existence of still other forms of social organization, rare now but once more widespread, suggests that additional forms of linguistic variation, as well as other facets of language use related to social organization, remain unexamined, calling for attention before the few communities that represent them disappear altogether.Table of Contents1. The Variation Puzzle ; 2. The East Sutherland Fishing Communities ; 3. Dimensions of Linguistic Variation in a Socioeconomically Homogeneous Population ; 4. A General Introduction to Speakers and Variables ; 5. A Close Look at Some Embo Variables and their Use ; 6. Kin Groups, Peer Groups, and Variation ; 7. Speech Norms, Accommodation, and Speaking Well in Gaelic Embo ; 8. Socially Neutral Linguistic Variation: Where, Why, What for, and How? ; 9. Conclusion ; Notes ; References
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Clarendon Press Language Policy and Social Reproduction Ireland 18931993 Oxford Studies in Language Contact
Book SynopsisTaking the well-known Irish language revival policy as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between processes of economic and social development on the one hand, and processes of language and cultural change on the other. Does modernization inevitably mean the end of traditional languages and cultural practices, or can they re-emerge in new forms?Trade Reviewhe devotes most of his book to a re-assembly of statistical data from a series of language surveys, census returns and administrative files ... Prof. Ó Riagáin usefully brings diverse sets of data into this single volume. * Patrick Cummins, Journal of Linguistics Institute of Ireland, 36/36 *this book is critical reading for anyone interested in either the Irish language or minority language policy in general. He brings together the key findings of previous studies along with an in-depth analysis of more recent research...a handy reference book. * irish Journal of Sociology *Having meticulously laid the foundations for his study, he sets about considering the nature of theoretical perspectives in sociolinguistic research in general, and in Irish in particular ... excellent research is characterised by its clarity of argument, its objectivity and attention to detail. This book is to be recommended by all who are interested in language, and particularly those who are involved in minority language planning. * The Month *This is an interesting, challenging contribution to studies of language policy and language planning in general, as well as to our understanding of Irish-English biligualism in Ireland ... The book ... contributes to the development of hypotheses about the fate of linguistic minorities in the modern world. * Monica Heller, American Journal of Sociology, May 1999, 104:6 *
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Oxford University Press, USA Language Wars and Linguistic Politics
Book SynopsisNon-linguistic conflicts - economic, religious, territorial - are often projected on to language differences, and may be played out in the language policies of governments and other holders of power. Jean-Louis Calvet deals broadly, in a non-technical and introductory style, with this interaction of language issues and political process. He examines the fundamental problems arising from language contact, multilingualism, and the conflicts caused by inequalities symbolized in various patterns of language use. The author draws extensively on his own research and uses numerous case studies to illustrate the power-political dimensions of language policies from many parts of the world, such as Africa, China, South America, the former Soviet Union, and Europe. He cites the former Soviet Union as a prime example of an attempt to impose, for ideological reasons, a supra-national vehicular language, in order to supersede the languages of regional nationalism. Professor Calvet offers no simple solutions to the `war of languages'' but urges all those involved in language intervention - from the professional `language planners'' to school teachers - to combine the need to promote majority languages with respect for the diversity of local languages and language varieties.Trade ReviewNontechnical and interesting, it is addressed to nonspecialists and is recommended for all academic and public collections. * G. R. Wasserman, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: THE ORIGINS OF CONFLICT ; 1. The Question of Origins ; 2. Religions and Language ; 3. A Multilingual World ; 4. Ideologists of Superiority ; PART II: THE BATTLEFIELD ; 5. Lingua Francas and Vernaculars ; 6. The Family as a Battlefield ; 7. Markets and Languages ; 8. Lingua Francas ; 9. The Death of Languages ; PART III: AMONG THE ADMINISTRATORS ; 10. Language Policy and Planning: First Approach ; 11. Case Studies: The Management of Multilingualism ; 12. Case Studies: Language Planning and Nationalism ; 13. Case Study: The Language Struggle of the Jivaro of Ecuador ; 14. The War of Writing ; 15. The War of Words ; 16. Trench Warfare: The Case of French ; 17. The Pacifist Illusion and Esperanto ; Conclusion
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Oxford University Press, USA Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic 15901670
Book SynopsisThe Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabilizing the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) capitalized on this tradition in his notorious Theological-political Treatise (1670). However, the foundations on which his radical biblical scholarship is built were laid by Reformed philologists who started from the hermeneutical assumption that philology was the servant of reformed dogma. On the basis of this principle, they pushed biblical scholarship to the centre of historical studies during the first half of the seventeenth century.Dirk van Miert shows how Jacob Arminius, Franciscus Gomarus, the translators and revisers of the States'' Translation, Daniel Heinsius, Hugo Grotius, Claude Saumaise, Isaac de La Peyrère, and Isaac Vossius all drew on techniques developed by classical scholars of Renaissance humanism, notably Joseph Scaliger, who devoted themselves to the study of manuscripts, (oriental) languages, and ancient history. Van Miert assesses and compares the accomplishments of these scholars in textual criticism, the analysis of languages, and the reconstruction of political and cultural historical contexts, highlighting that their methods were closely linked.Trade ReviewVan Miert has done an excellent job placing biblical philology in its broader context. The study is clearly underpinned by meticulous research... * William A. Ross, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly *This is a valuable analysis of a time when the Bible was at the forefront of daily life and politics. * George J. Brooke, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *This wonderful study was written in the context of the research project Biblical Criticism in the Seventeenth Century, led by Henk Nellen and Piet Steenbakkers. * Jan Bloemendal, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands / Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Biblical Philology in the Sixteenth Century 1: Joseph Scaliger: The Power of Philology (1590-1609) 2: Biblical Philology: Nothing Radical (1609-1619) 3: Mobilizing Biblical Philology: The States' Translation (1619-1637) 4: The Biblical Philology of Daniel Heinsius (1619-1640) 5: Grotius's Annotationes on the Bible (1619-1645) 6: Claude Saumaise and the 'Hairy War' (1640-1650) 7: Radical Philology: Isaac de La Peyrère (1643-1660) 8: On the Eve of Spinoza: The Rise of Biblical Philology (1650-1670) Conclusion: The Emancipation of Biblical Philology (1590-1670) Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification
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Oxford University Press Im Sorry for What Ive Done The Language of Courtroom Apologies Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Book SynopsisThis book examines 52 apologetic allocutions produced during federal sentencing hearings. The practice of inviting defendants to make a statement in their own behalf is a long-standing one and it is understood as offering defendants the opportunity to impress a judge or jury with their remorse, which could be a factor in the sentence that is imposed. Defendants raised the topics of the offense, mitigation, future behaviour and the sentence in different ways and this book explores the pros and cons associated with the different strategies that they used. Because there is no way of ascertaining exactly how effective (or ineffective) an individual allocution is, case law, sociolinguistic and historical resources, and judges'' final remarks are used to develop hypotheses about defendants'' communicative goals as well as what might constitute an ideal defendant stance from a judge''s point of view. The corpus is unique because, unlike official transcripts, the transcripts used for this study include paralinguistic features such as hesitations, wavering voice, and crying-while-talking. Among its highlights, the book proposes that although a ritualized apology formula (e.g., I''m sorry or I apologize ) would appear to be a good fit for the context of allocution and even appears to be expected, the use of these formulas carries implications in this context that do not serve defendants'' communicative goals. I argue that the application of Austin''s (1962) performative-constative continuum reveals that offense-related utterances that fall closer to the constative end are more consistent with the discursive constraints on the speech event of allocution. Further, I propose that the ideologies associated with allocution, in particular the belief that allocution functions as a protection for defendants, obscures the ways in which the context constrains what defendants can say and how effectively they can say it.Trade ReviewI'm Sorry For What I Have Done is accessible at all levels ... an exceedingly interesting read. * Sarah Morley, LSE USAPP31/08/14 *I have no hesitation in recommending it to any student of language. * Joe Sinclair, New Nuturing Potential *invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers in the domains of linguistics and law * Guofeng Wang, Discourse Studies *Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction ; Chapter Two: Apologies and Courtroom Apologies ; Chapter Three: The Context of Federal Sentencing Hearings ; Chapter Four: What Defendants Say in Response to their Offenses ; Chapter Five: Defendants Talk about the Past, the Future, and the Present: Mitigation, Future ; Chapter Six: Broad Features of Defendants' Allocutions ; Chapter Seven: Conclusions ; Appendix 1: Data collection and the defendants ; Appendix 2: Coding system ; Appendix 3: Transcription practices & the corpus of allocutions ; Appendix 4: Display of allocutions by coded categories ; Appendix 5: Sentencing table ; Works Cited
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Oxford University Press Relationship Thinking
Book SynopsisIn Relationship Thinking, N. J. Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships. This is a naturalistic approach to human sociality, grounded in the systematic study of real-time data from social interaction in everyday life. Many of the illustrative examples and analyses in the book are a result of the author''s long-term field work in Laos. Enfield promotes an interdisciplinary approach to studying language, culture, and mind, building on simple but powerful semiotic principles and concentrating on three points of conceptual focus. The first is human agency: the combination of flexibility and accountability, which defines our possibilities for social action and relationships, and which makes the fission and fusion of social units possible. The second is enchrony: the timescale of conversation in which our social relationships are primarily enacted. The third is human sociality: Trade ReviewFor all readers with an interest in the nature of human sociality and communicative behavior in general, and the link between relationship thinking and agency in particular, this volume certainly provides rich and stimulating food for thought. * Ingjerd Hoëm, Journal of Anthropological Research *I found this book both provocative and motivational. ... it is certainly one of those that has most repaid study. In particular, I enjoyed the way the author so impeccably covered his subject via the disciplines of anthropology. semiotics, sociology and linguistics, and I have been left with much food for thought. * Joe Sinclair, New Nurturing Potential *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1 Relationships ; 1.1 The data of relationships ; 1.2 Context ; 1.3 Relationship thinking ; 1.4 Enacting relationships and relationship types ; 1.5 Relationship-grounded society ; 2 Sociality ; 2.1 Human social intelligence ; 2.2 Social motivations ; 2.3 Tools for assessment and management ; 2.4 Semiotic process ; 2.5 Norms and heuristics ; 2.6 Communication as tool use ; 2.7 Two primitive imperatives for communication ; 3 Enchrony ; 3.1 Enchrony and its scope ; 3.2 Causal frames for understanding meaning ; 3.3 Normative organization ; 4 Semiosis ; 4.1 Anatomy of the semiotic process ; 4.2 Flexibility in semiotic processes ; 4.3 Inference as a semiotic process ; 4.4 Cultural epidemiology as a semiotic process ; 4.5 Elements of the semiotic process and their possibilities ; 4.6 Payoffs of this framework ; 4.7 The Saussurean sign: a convenient untruth ; 4.8 A frame-content dynamic ; 4.9 Meaning as a public process ; 5 Status ; 5.1 Status predicts and explains behavior ; 5.2 Entitlements, commitments, enablements ; 5.3 Relationships as statuses ; 6 Moves ; 6.1 Moves are composite signs ; 6.2 Composite utterances are interpreted as wholes ; 6.3 Turn-taking: moves in linguistic clothing ; 6.4 The move as a privileged level of semiosis ; 7 Cognition ; 7.1 Behavior-reading ; 7.2 Cognition and language ; 7.3 Psychology as interpretative heuristic ; 7.4 Fear of cognition? ; 8 Action ; 8.1 Natural action versus social action ; 8.2 Courses of action ; 8.3 Speech acts and actions-en ; 8.4 Categories of action-en? ; 8.5 A composite notion of actions-en ; 8.6 Ontology of actions-en ; 8.7 A generative account of action-en ; 9 Agency ; 9.1 Flexibility and accountability ; 9.2 Agent unity heuristic ; 9.3 Joint agency ; 9.4 Distributed agency ; 10 Asymmetry ; 10.1 Propositions and the relativity of knowledge ; 10.2 Epistemic Authority ; 10.3 Distribution of agency in practice ; 10.4 Sources of Asymmetry ; 10.5 Our imperfect communication system ; 11 Culture ; 11.1 Cultural systems ; 11.2 The Kri house as a system context for social relations ; 11.3 Ritual in communication ; 11.4 Kri residence ; 11.5 Practical interpretation of the Kri residence: to follow a norm ; 11.6 Spatial distribution and diagrammatic iconicity ; 11.7 Sanction of norms: making the tacit explicit ; 11.8 Everyday ritual and social relations ; 12 Grammar ; 12.1 Language as a system ; 12.2 Syntagmatic relations: grammar for turns ; 12.3 Paradigmatic relations in linguistic grammars ; 12.4 Markedness: special effects of choice within a system ; 12.5 The Lao system of person reference ; 12.6 Default reference to persons in Lao ; 12.7 Pragmatically marked initial references ; 12.8 Grammar expresses social relations under the radar ; 13 Knowledge ; 13.1 Common ground ; 13.2 Sources of common ground ; 13.3 Fuel for Gricean amplicative inference ; 13.4 Grounding for inferring ; 13.5 Audience design ; 13.6 Affiliation and information ; 13.7 From information to social relations ; Conclusion ; References ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Sociolinguistic Typology
Book SynopsisPeter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages and dialects spoken across the globe, from Vietnam to Nigeria, Polynesia to Scandinavia, and from Canada to Amazonia. Modesty prevents Pennsylvanian Dutch Mennonites using the verb wotte (''want''); stratified society lies behind complicated Japanese honorifics; and a mountainous homeland suggests why speakers of Tibetan-Burmese Lahu have words for up there and down there. But culture and environment don''t explain why Amazonian Jarawara needs three past tenses, nor why Nigerian Igbo can make do with eight adjectives, nor why most languages spoken in high altitudes do not exhibit an array of spatial demonstratives. Nor do they account for some languages changing faster than others or why some get more complex while others get simpler. The author looks at these and many other puzzles, explorTrade Reviewthis thought-provoking work ... offers a fresh and compelling reason for linguists to focus on less commonly studied endangered languages. We therefore recommend this stimulating book to anyone interested in exploring possible connections between sociolinguistcs, language change, and typology. * James N. Stanford and Timothy J. Pulju, Studies in Language *An exciting book, multi-faceted and lucid, a book that can not only be recommended to researchers on linguistic change and historical sociolinguistics but also to advanced students in the field. * Juerg Schwyter, Neuphilologische Mitteilunge *a brisk and informative introduction to a way of thinking about language that has profound implications for analysis of language diachrony, acquisition, contact, and spread - and of course, given those areas, creolization. * Brian McWhorter, Revista de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola *This bold new book, by one of the fields leading sociolinguists, outlines the need for a new intellectual project at the heart of our discipline, emphasising the crucial role of the small face-to-face societies that have shaped most of human history in generating the outer reaches of linguistic complexity. * Nicholas Evans, Professor of Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University *This focussed and important work shows that degree of contact, the size of the community of speakers, and coherence within that community are all important factors in the degree to which languages become structurally simpler (losing agreement and gender for example) or more complex. This is a must-read for anyone interested in language change. * Gary Miller, author of Language Change and Linguistic Theory *Table of ContentsPrologue: Social Correlates of Linguistic Structures ; 1. Sociolinguistic Typology and the Speed of Change ; 2. Complexification, Simplification, and Two Types of Contact ; 3. Isolation and Complexification ; 4. Mechanisms of Complexification ; 5. Contact and Isolation in Phonology ; 6. Mature Phenomena and Societies of Intimates ; Epilogue: On the Future of Linguistic Complexity ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Sociolinguistic Typology
Book SynopsisPeter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages and dialects spoken across the globe, from Vietnam to Nigeria, Polynesia to Scandinavia, and from Canada to Amazonia. Modesty prevents Pennsylvanian Dutch Mennonites using the verb wotte (''want''); stratified society lies behind complicated Japanese honorifics; and a mountainous homeland suggests why speakers of Tibetan-Burmese Lahu have words for up there and down there. But culture and environment don''t explain why Amazonian Jarawara needs three past tenses, nor why Nigerian Igbo can make do with eight adjectives, nor why most languages spoken in high altitudes do not exhibit an array of spatial demonstratives. Nor do they account for some languages changing faster than others or why some get more complex while others get simpler. The author looks at these and many other puzzles, explorTrade Reviewthis thought-provoking work ... offers a fresh and compelling reason for linguists to focus on less commonly studied endangered languages. We therefore recommend this stimulating book to anyone interested in exploring possible connections between sociolinguistcs, language change, and typology. * James N. Stanford and Timothy J. Pulju, Studies in Language *An exciting book, multi-faceted and lucid, a book that can not only be recommended to researchers on linguistic change and historical sociolinguistics but also to advanced students in the field. * Juerg Schwyter, Neuphilologische Mitteilunge *a brisk and informative introduction to a way of thinking about language that has profound implications for analysis of language diachrony, acquisition, contact, and spread - and of course, given those areas, creolization. * Brian McWhorter, Revista de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola *This bold new book, by one of the fields leading sociolinguists, outlines the need for a new intellectual project at the heart of our discipline, emphasising the crucial role of the small face-to-face societies that have shaped most of human history in generating the outer reaches of linguistic complexity. * Nicholas Evans, Professor of Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University *This focussed and important work shows that degree of contact, the size of the community of speakers, and coherence within that community are all important factors in the degree to which languages become structurally simpler (losing agreement and gender for example) or more complex. This is a must-read for anyone interested in language change. * Gary Miller, author of Language Change and Linguistic Theory *Table of ContentsPrologue: Social Correlates of Linguistic Structures ; 1. Sociolinguistic Typology and the Speed of Change ; 2. Complexification, Simplification, and Two Types of Contact ; 3. Isolation and Complexification ; 4. Mechanisms of Complexification ; 5. Contact and Isolation in Phonology ; 6. Mature Phenomena and Societies of Intimates ; Epilogue: On the Future of Linguistic Complexity ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Always on
Book SynopsisIn Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies-including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis - are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had surprisingly little impact on student writing. Electronic media has magnified the laid-back whatever attitude toward formal writing that young people everywhere have embraced, but it is not a cause of it. A more troubling trend, according to Baron, is the myriad ways in which we block incoming IMs, camouflage ourselves on Facebook, and use ring tones or caller ID to screen incoming calls on our mobile phones. Our ability to decide who to talk to, she argues, is likely to be among the most lasting influences that information technology has upon the waTrade ReviewNaomi Baron artfully combines historical surveys, research summaries, and findings of her own to give us a comprehensive, insightful, and thoughtful handbook for understanding electronic communication-what it is, how it works, and how it's changing our lives and our interpersonal relationships. * Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University, author of You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation *Table of ContentsPREFACE
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Oxford University Press, USA The War on Terror Narrative
Book SynopsisThe War on Terror Narrative analyzes three types of data-presidential speeches, U.S. media discourse, and focus group interviews-to provide a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration''s narrative about the war on terror. The narrative sustains, in Foucault''s terms, a regime of truth by placing boundaries around what can meaningfully be said and understood about the subject. Adam Hodges illustrates that even as social actors resist the narrative and the policy it entails, they appropriate its language to be heard and understood. While this often works to strengthen the narrative, discourse is inevitably reshaped as it enters into new contexts. This recontextualization allows for the introduction of new meanings, and therein lies the potential for resistance and social transformation. Hodges argues that applying ideas on intertextuality to the analysis of political discourse is central to understanding the way micro-levelTrade Review[Hodge's] well-designed and well-executed multi-disciplinary study goes a long way in helping us understand the dynamic and complex nature of the macro-micro relationship. * Patricia L. Dunmire, Journal of Language and Politics *Table of ContentsAPPENDIX A. CORPUS OF PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES; APPENDIX B. TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES; APPENDIX C. TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS FOR FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS; MEDIA DISCOURSE DATA; REFERENCES; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Revivalistics
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Oxford University Press Stance
Book SynopsisAll communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-a-vis the expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech. This book brings together contributions in a new and dynamic current of academic explorations of stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical texts, naturally occurring conversation, classroom interaction and interviews, leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics in this volume explore how linguistic stancetaking is implicated in the representation of self, personal style and acts of stylization, and self- and other-positioning. The analyses also focus on how speakers deploy and take up stances vis-a-vis sociolinguistic variables and the critical role of stance in the processes of indexicalization: how linguistic forms come to be associated with social categories and meanings. In doing so, many of the authors address critical issueTrade ReviewStance covers every facet of the field, from variationist to interactionist to ethnographic sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, providing a unifying concept which allows for exciting new avenues of analysis. This is a major contribution toward untangling the web of relationships between agency and structuration, and toward understanding the complex processes of social change. * Monica Heller, University of Toronto *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance, Alexandra Jaffe ; 2. Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, Barbara Johnstone ; 3. How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter, Judith Irvine ; 4. Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult, Janet McIntosh ; 5. Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture, Robin Shoaps ; 6. Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects, Alexandra Jaffe ; 7. From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang, Mary Bucholtz ; 8. Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation, Scott Kiesling ; 9. Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction, Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow ; 10. Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss, Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland
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Oxford University Press LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY SOCIAL JUS P
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Oxford University Press Talking about Troubles in Conversation
Book SynopsisFew conversational topics can be as significant as our troubles in life, whether everyday and commonplace, or more exceptional and disturbing. In groundbreaking research conducted with John Lee at the University of Manchester UK, Gail Jefferson turned the microscope on how people talk about their troubles, not in any professional or therapeutic setting, but in their ordinary conversations with family and friends. Through recordings of interactions in which people talk about problems they''re having with their children, concerns about their health, financial problems, marital and relationship difficulties (their own or other people''s), examination failures, dramatic events such as burglaries or a house fire and other such troubles, Jefferson explores the interactional dynamics and complexities of introducing such topics, of how speakers sustain and elaborate their descriptions and accounts of their troubles, how participants align and affiliate with one another, and finally manage to mTrade ReviewThe collection provides a rare opportunity for the reader to reflect on a set of CA papers built around a single theme and arising from a single research project. In this way, it provides a useful addition to the literature. And the collection provides a manual for those who may like to adopt Jeffersons approach in the exploration and description of other large-scale conversational sequences. * Simon Williams, Discourse Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Talking About Troubles; an Introduction. Paul Drew, John Heritage, Gene Lerner & Anita Pomerantz ; Chapter 1 On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation. ; Chapter 2 On 'Trouble-Premonitory' Response to Inquiry. ; Chapter 3 The Rejection of Advice: Managing the Problematic Convergence of a 'Troubles-Telling' and a 'Service Encounter'. ; Chapter 4 On The Interactional Unpackaging of a 'gloss'. ; Chapter 5 On the Organization of Laughter in Talk About Troubles. ; Chapter 6 On Stepwise Transition From Talk About a Trouble to Inappropriately Next-Positioned Matters.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Narratives of Place Belonging and Language An Intercultural Perspective Language and Globalization
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Preface Out of Place? Narrative Journeys Word and World The Web of Family Relationships Self and Other in Dialogue Cultural Patterns and Belonging Interculturality and Creativity Select Bibliography IndexTrade Review"The study presented in the book is interesting for its interdisciplinary or, more precisely, transdisciplinary outlook and the insightful stories that may be creatively re-interpreted by different readers/scholars. It thus contributes not only to such fields as (linguistic or literary) anthropology and second-language acquisition, but is also a very enlightening source for literary studies, diaspora studies, (cross-)cultural studies, place studies, translation studies, language philosophy, and so on." - Hou-Song, Zhejiang University, ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Out of Place? Narrative Journeys Word and World The Web of Family Relationships Self and Other in Dialogue Cultural Patterns and Belonging Interculturality and Creativity Select Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Relocation of English Shifting Paradigms in a Global Era Language and Globalization
Book SynopsisAddressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examination of current sociolinguistic study of English in the world and suggests a new approach which focuses more on ideological and psychological aspects of the phenomenon.Trade Review'This is an innovative and thought-provoking monograph...[it] is thoughtful, well-written, and full of insights, drawn from the author's research as well as his personal experience. It is strongly recommended to all those interested in the development of world Englishes as a field research and pedagogy.' - Kingsley Bolton, World EnglishesTable of ContentsPreface English in the World Language and Nation Building World Englishes The Contradiction of Plurality English as a Lingua Franca The Location of English in Malaysia The Relocation of English References Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Language Policy and Language Planning From Nationalism to Globalisation
Book Synopsis1. Introduction PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE 2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States 4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING 5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas 6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca 7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation 8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES 10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages11 . New Polities and New Nation Building12 . Endangered Languages 13. Conclusion: Community and TrTrade Review“The intended readership of the book is broad, and may include sociolinguists, diachronic linguistics researchers, general language researchers, and anyone who shows an interest in investigations into language problems, language policy, and language planning. … the book remains a great contribution to the area of language policy and language planning and deserves my wholehearted recommendation.” (Haoda Feng, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (2), April, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE 2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States 4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING 5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas 6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca 7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation 8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES 10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages11 . New Polities and New Nation Building12 . Endangered Languages 13. Conclusion: Community and Transcendence
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Researching Cultures of Learning International Perspectives on Language Learning and Education
Book SynopsisThis edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning. The concept can be used to explore socio-cultural features of language learning and use contexts in educational institutions, and cultural practices of pedagogic activities and classroom interaction.Trade Review'This book is definitely worth reading. It redefines the concept of learning cultures within different contexts. The book will be beneficial for language learners and teachers but also useful for Western and Asian academics, to cultivate a greater understanding of the cultural influences affecting English Language Education within a global classroom context.' - Language in SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Appendices Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Researching Cultures of Learning; M.Cortazzi & L.Jin PART I: SOME ISSUES OF RESEARCH AND ITS APPLICATION Cultures of Learning: an Evolving Concept and an Expanding Field; Y.Yuan & Q.Xie Comparing Learning Characteristics in Chinese and Anglophone Cultures: Pitfalls and Insights; J.Ryan PART II: EXPLORING CHANGES IN CULTURAL HERITAGES AND LEARNING Understanding the Chinese Learners: From a Perspective of Confucianism; Junju, W. Reforming Teacher Education in East Africa: the Importance of Socio-cultural Vontext; J.Abd-Kadir & F.Hardman Changing Cultural Ways with Praise: a Distant Action Research Project in China; J.Wang & M.Cortazzi Cultures of Learning in Academia: A Lebanese Case Study; N.Bacha & R.Bahous Voices of the Reticent? Getting Inside Views of Vietnamese Secondary Students on Learning; D.Bao Towards Transformative English Language Education: Evolving Glocalization in Textbooks used in Malaysia; H.Abdul Rahim & S.Abdul Manan PART III: LEARNERS' PERCEPTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF TEACHERS Kazakh Students' Perceptions of Good English Teachers: Multiple Heritages in a Culture of Learning; G.Makhanova & M.Cortazzi 'He or She?' Examining Cultural Influences on Iranian Language Learners' Perceptions of Teacher Efficacy; M.Nemati & S.Kaivanpanah Poles Apart: Protocols of Expectations about Finnish and Thai Teachers; E.Berendt & M.Mattsson Problematising the Culture of Learning English in Vietnam: Revisiting Teacher Identity; L.Thi Thu Huyen & P.Le Ha PART IV: THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIALIZATION AND MOTIVATION IN CULTURES OF LEARNING Cultural Models, Children's Beliefs, and Parental Socialization: European American and Chinese Learning; J.Li Social Network Relations in Omani Students' Motivation to Learn English; S.Dadi & L.Jin Demotivating Factors Affecting Iranian High School Students' English Learning; R.Sahragard & Z.Alimorad Japanese EFL Learners' Remotivation Strategies; J.Falout , T.Murphey , T.Fukuda & M.Trovela
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Palgrave Macmillan Gender and Language Research Methodologies
Book SynopsisThe first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics, Conversation analysis, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, Discursive psychology and Queer theory. Trade Review'Gender and Language Research Methodologies provides researchers with a rare and detailed look into the specialized application of research methods to questions of language and gender.' - Discourse& SocietyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Current Research Methodologies in Gender and Language Study: Key Issues; J.Sunderland& L.Litosseliti PART 1: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY Sociolinguistic and Ethnographic Approaches to Language and Gender; J.Swann& J.Maybin Reconstructing the Sex Dichotomy in Language and Gender Research: Some Advantages of Using Correlational Sociolinguistics; A.K.Hultgren Negotiating Methodologies: Making Language and Gender Relevant in the Professional Workplace; L.Mullany Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Spontaneous Talk and Ethnographic-Style Interviews: Balancing Perspectives of Researcher and Researched; P.Pichler PART 2: CORPUS LINGUISTICS 'Eligible' Bachelors and 'Frustrated' Spinsters: Corpus Linguistics, Gender and Language; P.Baker Perpetuating Difference? Corpus Linguistics and the Gendering of Reported Dialogue; K.Harrington The English Vocabulary of Girls and Boys: Similarities or Differences? Evidence From a Quantitative Study; R.Jiménez Catalán& J.Ojeda AlbaPART 3: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS Conversation Analysis: Technical Matters for Gender Research; C.Kitzinger Categories, Actions and Sequences: Formulating Gender in Talk-In-Interaction; E.Stokoe PART 4: DISCURSIVE PSYCHOLOGY Discursive Psychology and the Study of Gender: A Contested Space; N.Edley& M.Wetherell Discursive 'Embodied' Identities of 'Half' Girls in Japan: A Multiperspective Approach; L.Kamada PART 5: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Controversial Issues in Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis; R.Wodak CEOs and 'Working Gals': The Textual Representation and Cognitive Conceptualisation of Businesswomen in Different Discourse Communities; V.Koller Harnessing a Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender in Television Fiction; K.Kosetzi PART 6: FEMINIST POST-STRUCTURALIST DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis - A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach?; J.Baxter Interwoven and Competing Gendered Discourses in a Preschool EFL Lesson; H.Castañeda-Peña PART 7: QUEER THEORY The Contributions of Queer Theory to Gender and Language Research; H.Sauntson Queering Gay Men's English; W.Leap References Index
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Pennsylvania State University Press Babel of the Atlantic Max Kade Research Institute
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture.Trade Review“The volume is successful in exposing the hidden and often underappreciated role that multilingualism played in colonial Philadelphia and its surrounds. Interpreting complex transatlantic networks and cultural change through the lens of multilingual and multicultural societies forces scholars from different disciplines and traditions to collaborate to achieve a more comprehensive, panoramic assessment of these developments. These concerted efforts reveal the complex, sometimes contradictory part that certain key figures such as Benjamin Franklin played in the establishment of societal and linguistic norms.”—Michael T. Putnam H-Transnational German Studies“This fine volume is a highly welcome addition to the literature on translation and intercultural communication in the multiethnic environment of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Babel of the Atlantic combines the perspectives of history, literary studies, and material culture; it brings together experts on Pennsylvania German history and culture, ethnohistory, and the history of abolitionism; and it is sensitive to issues of gender.”—Mark Häberlein,author of The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820“Taken together, these essays make a strong case for more effectively and thoroughly acknowledging the approximately 120,000 German-speaking immigrant settlers who arrived in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century, [constituting] nearly one-third of its population. In reminding us of Pennsylvania’s multicultural past, they also call on us to more fully reckon with how linguistic and cultural variation influenced the state’s early history, and they challenge us to consider the processes by which the English language and Anglo culture became normative.”—Judith Ridner Early American Literature“The connections across the diverse contributions in this skillfully edited volume are facilitated by a thorough index at the end. The endnotes for each chapter appear with their respective chapters. The book’s aesthetic appeal is enhanced by the inclusion of over forty high-quality black-and-white images. It is to be recommended to anyone with an interest in the multicultural history of early America, especially those wanting to learn more about the diversity of German Pennsylvania.”—Mark L. Louden Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsContentsList of illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic; “Differences of Manners, Languages and Extraction. Was Now No More”? Bethany WigginPART 1 NEW WORLD, NEW RELIGIONS1 . “Wie ein Nimrod / Like a Nimrod”: Babel, Confusion, and Coercive Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Patrick M. Erben2 . The Moravian Threat to the Old World Establishment Craig Atwood3 . Women, Migration, and Moravian Mission: Negotiating Pennsylvania’s Colonial Landscapes Katherine FaullPART 2 THE LANGUAGES OF EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS4 . Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen Jürgen Overhoff5 . German or English? Halle’s Pastors in Pennsylvania and the Search for the Right Language, 1742–1820 Wolfgang FlügelPART 3 THE LANGUAGES OF RACE AND (ANTI-)SLAVERY6 . Writing Against Slavery: Germantown, Quakers, and the Ethnic Origins of Early Antislavery Thought Katharine Gerbner7 . “Ein schrecklicher Zustand”: Race, Slavery, and Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania Birte Pfleger8 . How the Quakers Worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and Enslaved and Free Africans: All in the Antislavery Cause Maurice JacksonPART 4 THE LANGUAGES OF WOOD AND STONE9 . Communicating Through Wood and Stone: Building a New World Identity in Pennsylvania Cynthia G. Falk10 . Germans in Colonial Philadelphia: Ethnicity, Hybridity,and the Material World Lisa MinardiList of ContributorsIndex
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Springer The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Media Discourse Hodder Arnold Publication
Book SynopsisThe study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Drawing on examples from TV, radio and the press, the author focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change.Trade Review'...offers a new contemporary approach to media language which connects both with the key issues in modern social theory and with poststructuralist interest in intertextuality and genre mixing. It will be highly useful for media studies courses and adds a dimension to existing issues and theories in textual analysis.' Theo van Leeuwen, School of Media, London College 'This book offers insights into media, media discourse and their interface with wider social processes that you will not find in other writers...Fairclough produces a unique range of insights into media discourse. The field would be much the poorer without his work.' Journal of SociolinguisticsTable of ContentsApproaches to media discourse; communication in the mass media; critical analysis of media discourse; intertextuality and the news; representations in documentary and news; identity and social relations in media texts; Crimewatch UK; political discourse in the media; critical media literacy.
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Little, Brown Book Group Unspeak Words Are Weapons
Book SynopsisUnspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. ''Climate change'' is less threatening than ''global warming''; we say ''ethnic cleansing'' when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are accepting the messages that politicians, businessmen and military agencies wish us to believe. Operation Iraqi Freedom did more than put a positive spin on the American war with Iraq; it gave the invasion such a likeable name that the American news networks quickly adopted it as their tagline for reporting on the war. By repackaging the language we use to describe international affairs or domestic politics, Unspeak tries to make controversial issues unspeakable and, therefore, unquestionable.In this thought-provoking and important book, Steven Poole traces the globalizing wave of modern Unspeak from culture wars to the culture of war and reveals how everyday words are changing Trade ReviewA study of [UNSPEAK] is not just ttimely and welcome but (you'll feel once you've read this book) urgent. ...we should all be grateful to Steven Poole for his public spiritedness in undertaking it. Will someone please give him a medal, or a government office, or a slot on the radio with daily updates? * Claire Harman, EVENING STANDARD *Poole has a sharp eye for hidden meanings and sub-texts. His account of politician s' addiction to the word "community" is a tour de force. By emphasising that one should always "look to the language", and going about his task with such forensic brio, Po * Francis Wheen, THE LIBERAL *Steven Poole is to rhetorial doublespeak what the small boy was to the naked emperor: a pin to prick the speech bubbles * SUNDAY HERALD *Steven Poole is to rhetorical doublespeak what the small boy was to the naked emperor: a pin to prick the speech bubbles . . . UNSPEAK sets out the case against, and also offers forensic analysis of, some of the most notorious examples he has found... UNSP * SCOTSMAN *
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