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Language Ideologies - Practice And Theory

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 "Language ideologies" refers to the representation (explicit or implicit) of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. These essays examine definitions and conceptions of language focusing on how such activity organizes individuals, institutions and their interrelationships.
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Words And Stones - The Politics Of Language And Identity In Israel

by Daniel Lefkowitz

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 Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language.
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Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words - English, Russian, Polish, German, And Japanese

by Anna Wierzbicka

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 This work 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. It shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.
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Plastic Glasses And Church Fathers - Semantic Extension From The Ethnoscience Tradition

by David Kronenfeld

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 Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word usage.
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In Other Shoes - Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

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 In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts.
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Locked Doors - The Seizure Of Jewish Property In Arab Countries

by Itamar Levin

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 On the eve of the establishment of the state of Israel, the governments of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, among others, began persecuting the Jews who had lived in these countries for generations.
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On Reconstructing Grammar - Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax

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 An analysis of grammar which claims that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages, illustrated by the Cariban language family of South America. The text is volume 18 in the OXFORD STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS series.
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Selected Poems

by Margaret Avison

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The Political Economy Of Poverty, Equity, And Growth: Nigeria And Indonesia

by David (Lecturer In Economics, Lecturer In Economics) Bevan, Jan Willem (, Free University, Amsterdam) Gunning e Paul (Professor Of Economics, Professor Of Economics, Both At Oxford University) Collier

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 This volume analyses and compares economic growth in Nigeria and Indonesia during the period from 1950 to 1985, addressing questions as to why one country was so much more successful than the other.
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The Life Of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America

by Arnold Rampersad

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 This volume traces Langston Hughes' life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941. Portraying his association with a range of political activists, patrons and artists, Arnold Rampersad offers a sweeping panorama of culture and history in the early 20th-century.
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Building In Egypt - Pharaonic Stone Masonry

by Arnold

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 Reprint of the leading book on the methods of stone construction in Egypt from the beginnings at the pyramid complex of Djoser at Saqqara in 2700 B.C. through the pyramids of the Old and Middle Kingdoms to the hypostyle hall at Karnak and other buildings.
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Language Ideologies - Practice And Theory

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 "Language ideologies" refers to the representation (explicit or implicit) of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. These essays examine definitions and conceptions of language focusing on how such activity organizes individuals, institutions and their interrelationships.
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Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 Bc

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 This volume provides an up-to-date selection of inscriptions which are important for the study of Greek history in the fourth century BC. It contains an introduction, Greek texts, English translations, and commentaries, which cater for the needs of today's students.
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Rongorongo - The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text

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 Documents Easter Island's enigmatic script, Rongorongo, Oceania's only known pre-20th-century writing system. This study of this eloquent graphic achievement shows full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving Rongorongo inscriptions, with detailed photographs of nearly all the incised artefacts.
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Words And Stones - The Politics Of Language And Identity In Israel

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 Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language.
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Power Sharing - Language, Rank, Gender And Social Space In Pohnpei, Micronesia

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 This text challenges theories on the nature of social stratification. The author went to Pohnpei and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this view of how language works to create power and social inequality.
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Vernacular Literacy - A Re-Evaluation

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 Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Taking "The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education", as their starting point, in this volume the authors assess the nature and significance of the events that have taken place since then, providing a global overview.
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Seldom Ask, Never Tell - Labor And Discourse In Appalachia

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 Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics, by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian community. Through analysis of conversations in casual yet commercial contexts, she finds that the construction and maintenance of this discourse is essential to socio-economic relationships.
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A Language Of Our Own - The Genesis Of Michif, The Mixed Cree-French Language Of The Canadian Metis

by Peter (Researcher, Researcher, University Of Aarhus, Denmark) Bakker

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 The Michif language is considered "impossible" as it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and utilizes two sets of grammatical rules. This study uses historical research and fieldwork data to analyze the language, spoken by the descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians.
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Plastic Glasses And Church Fathers - Semantic Extension From The Ethnoscience Tradition

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 Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word usage.
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Referring To Space - Studies In Austronesian And Papuan Languages

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 This collection of previously unpublished case-studies of a number of Austronesian and Papuan languages illustrates the means that these languages offer to their speakers for referring to space. Understanding the differences between the various systems of spatial reference requires not just linguistic, but also cultural, historical, and geographical knowledge.
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Relatively Speaking - Language, Thought, And Kinship Among The Mopan Maya

by Eve (Professor Of Anthropology, Professor Of Anthropology, University Of Virginia, Usa) Danziger

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 Using 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, the author examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children, showing that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods.
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Disorderly Discourse - Narrative, Conflict And Inequality

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 This volume contains eight essays that are at the intesection of two important areas within linguistics: conversational analysis, and the use of narrative in the creation, mediation, and resolution of conflict. The contributors explore these issues in a variety of cultures and languages.
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The Powers Of Genre - Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

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 This volume describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders of a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse.
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