Cecil Brown - Böcker

Brown examines the nature of acculturation - the process of the incorporation of foreign words about new concepts into a language - in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifically, he examines how Native American languages ad...

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Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, ric...

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Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal--no one seems to know who Stagolee really is. Stack Lee? Stagger Lee? He has go...

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The story of North Carolina's railroad development is the story of a long and unsuccessful struggle to secure a trunk line east and west. Today the main railroads run north and south, following the fundamental geographical lay of the land, the ori...

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North Carolina's highway system was one of the greatest single steps toward progress ever made by the state, linking the somnolent and backward communities with the more accessible and progressive sections. This volume presents the story of this h...

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Cecil A. Brown was born in the rural South seventeen days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor to a family of tenant farmers. Growing up, his family did it all: the planting, harvesting, and marketing. The landowner provided the land and took a sign...

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A novel based on the legend of Stagger Lee recalls the unfortunate chain of events that led St. Louis's first black policeman to arrest Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a pimp, for the murder of Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Reprint.

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Nostalgia, they say, is not what it used to be. Once a witticism, this statement about the past has come to pass. Nostalgia really isn't what it used to be. Less than a generation ago, it was regarded as reactionary, as regressive, as reprehensibl...

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Nostalgia, they say, is not what it used to be. Once a witticism, this statement about the past has come to pass. Nostalgia really isn't what it used to be. Less than a generation ago, it was regarded as reactionary, as regressive, as reprehensibl...

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Frustrated with the progress of her application to join the St Vincent and the Grenadines detectives, Cassie Providence resigns from the police force and sets up as a private investigator. This collection features her first six cases: the disappea...

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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO BROWN'S WITTGENSTEINIAN LINGUISTICS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. WITTGENSTEIN AND ORDINARY USAGE -- II. FORMULATION OF RULES-OF-USAGE -- III. DISTINCTION BETWEEN FORMULATIONS -- IV. ASPECTS OF TH...

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