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Issues in Bilingualism and Biculturalism
A Hong Kong Case Study
Av David Chor Li, Irmengard Rauch
Inbunden, 1996
560 kr
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Issues in Bilingualism and Biculturalism describes the nature and extent of code-mixing in Hong Kong in the 1990s. It is mainly based on written data obtained from the local Chinese press collected systematically over a period of two years since late 1992. While previous studies on code-mixing …
Semiotics of Musical Time
Inbunden, 2000
922 kr
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Semiotics of Musical Time investigates the link between musical time and the world of signs and symbols. It examines the extent to which musical time is a product of signs, sign systems, and sign-oriented behavior. Sound is discussed as a potential sign of time and of musical time. Inherent and …
Visual Grammar of Pablo Picasso
Inbunden, 2003
1135 kr
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Pablo Picasso’s continued search for the essential features of perceived objects and his natural abidance to the general principles regulating artistic creation determined his intuitive analysis of the various stages of vision. His exploration of pictorial language is reflected in the …
English Gerund-Participle
A Comparison with the Infinitive
Inbunden, 2006
1001 kr
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There is considerable confusion regarding the English suffix «ing,» which is usually treated as «progressive.» The sentence «I regret telling him» shows, however, that this is not always the case. The very same form can sometimes evoke an ongoing process and sometimes a completed action. This book …
How America’s First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery
Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans with Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion
Inbunden, 2004
981 kr
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From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America’s founding householders – English and Spanish alike – took the limited European practice of coerced labor and, over the course of two hundred years, transformed it into a depersonalized and brutal chattel slavery …
Phonology / Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time
Inbunden, 2008
1155 kr
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The Phonology / Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time is an excursion into the phonology of the German language in the present, the remote prehistoric past (Indo-European and Germanic), and throughout the almost thousand-year historical era. It accordingly addresses all eras …
Phoronyms
Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction
Inbunden, 2007
1199 kr
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This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as «cup» in «a cup of tea», classifiers such as «head» in «ten head of cattle», and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun …
Concept of Definiteness and Its Application to Automated Reference Resolution
English and German
Inbunden, 2008
934 kr
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This book is a study of the category of definiteness in the light of research on mental spaces and frames. The author formulates a set of eight uniform rules for the use of the definite, indefinite, and zero articles in English and German. The Concept of Definiteness presents an algorithm for …
Social Differentiation in Cameroon English
Evidence from Sociolinguistic Fieldwork
Inbunden, 2008
866 kr
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Social Differentiation in Cameroon English investigates the correlation between some extra-linguistic variables (gender, age, level of education, ethnicity, regionality, occupation, and mood) and phonological variables in a New English setting that is sociolinguistically and culturally different …
Versatility in Versification
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Metrics
Inbunden, 2009
1213 kr
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Versatility in Versification grew out of an international conference organized by the University of Iceland and the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies and held at Reykholt, Iceland, the thirteenth-century home of Snorri Sturluson. Although medieval Icelandic poetic culture was highlighted at the …
Five Vital Signs of Conversation
Address, Self-Disclosure, Seating, Eye-Contact, and Touch
Inbunden, 2009
889 kr
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How we address people, where we sit, what we disclose about ourselves, how we make eye contact, and where and when we touch are signs of attitudes and emotions. Because we may not be conscious of the social or psychological significance of these signs, they are the stealth aspect of conversation. …
Luther’s «Heliand»
Resurrection of the Old Saxon Epic in Leipzig
Inbunden, 2011
1248 kr
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The 2006 discovery of the Old Saxon Heliand manuscript fragment (MS L) in Leipzig is conspicuous. Besides its proximity to Wittenberg, the Leipzig University Library – site of the discovery – was first dedicated by Martin Luther in 1545. Given this relationship between the Reformer and the …
Language of Migration
Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany
Av Suin Roberts
Inbunden, 2012
1039 kr
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Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany analyzes a variety of genres that depict Korean migration in Germany – namely, newspaper articles, autobiographical narratives, and documentaries – and deconstructs the language of these texts to provide a more …
Language Shift in Southern New England
Morphosyntactic Variation in Franco-American French
Av Louis Edward Stelling, Irmengard Rauch
Inbunden, 2026
1350 kr
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This book investigates morphosyntactic variation during a unique case of language shift in two of New England’s oldest and most well-known Franco-American communities: Southbridge, MA and Woonsocket, RI. The shift from French to English is rapidly nearing completion in Southbridge, where French is …
Oikos – Domus – Household
The Many Lives of a Common Word
Inbunden, 2013
951 kr
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Oikos – Domus – Household: The Many Lives of a Common Word describes historic episodes in the lives of these words, from the Greek oikos and Roman domus to our current family and home. The episodes highlight their function as controlling metaphors used very differently from culture to culture, but …
Wordly Wise
The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante’s "Commedia"
Inbunden, 2011
1181 kr
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In Wordly Wise: The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante’s Commedia, Raffaele De Benedictis proposes a new critical method in the study of the Divine Comedy and Dante’s minor works. It systematically and comprehensively addresses the discursive aspect of Dante’s works and focuses mainly on the reader, …
Emerging from out of the Margins
Essays on Haida Language, Culture, and History
Inbunden, 2014
1063 kr
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This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book’s focus on language – past, …
Muerte y la Mascara en Pablo Picasso
Inbunden, 2013
1055 kr
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En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su intimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancolicos del Periodo Azul. Con solo veintidos anos de edad y desesperadamente pobre, decide restringir su paleta a colores predominantemente frios, sugerentes de la nocturnidad, …
Five Vital Signs of Conversation
Address, Self-Disclosure, Seating, Eye-Contact, and Touch
Häftad, 2012
492 kr
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How we address people, where we sit, what we disclose about ourselves, how we make eye contact, and where and when we touch are signs of attitudes and emotions. Because we may not be conscious of the social or psychological significance of these signs, they are the stealth aspect of conversation. …
BAG – Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project
Inbunden, 2015
1154 kr
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The sixteen chapters comprising this book on the Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project offer over twenty-five years of research into the changing language of native speakers and first-generation American-German speakers residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1984 the principal project …
Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor
Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries Which Sustain It, and How It Was Used to Sanitize American Slavery’s History
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences in the roles of masters and …
Early Runic Inscriptions
Their Western Features
Av Irene García Losquiño, Irmengard Rauch
Inbunden, 2015
1283 kr
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Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something about their dialects, and can we extract other information from their study as a corpus? The Early Runic Inscriptions: …
Applicative Arguments
A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English
Inbunden, 2015
1025 kr
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Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and English applicative arguments. These arguments are nominal elements that are not obligatory parts of a sentence. Both German and English have several …
Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology
Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek
Inbunden, 2015
897 kr
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Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties. When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful generalizations within and across paradigms. The inheritance tree format serves as an alternative to traditional …
Language Vitality Through Bible Translation
Av Marianne Beerle-Moor, Vitaly Voinov
Inbunden, 2015
852 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly …
Glocal English
The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World
Inbunden, 2015
893 kr
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Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the …
Truth Be Told
Sense, Quantity, and Extension
Av John Justice
Inbunden, 2015
801 kr
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Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes. Currently, semantic theory …
Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch
Av Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1395 kr
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Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch represents that portion of Irmengard Rauch’s articles which center on contemporary and historical Germanic linguistic phenomena. They thus speak to the principal North, East, and West Germanic dialects. Her authored books The Old High German Diphthongization: A …
Kiezenglish
Multiethnic German and the Global English Debate
Av Lindsay Preseau, Irmengard Rauch
Inbunden, 2020
1132 kr
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Is English a threat to language diversity in Europe? This question has been hotly debated in language policy and planning in Germany and the EU, particularly in institutional and business contexts. However, the effects of English on non-official minority speech communities, such as speakers of …
Reflections on Syntax
Lectures in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Child Language Acquisition
Av Joseph Galasso, Irmengard Rauch
Inbunden, 2021
1060 kr
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The lectures in this book are immensely Chomskyan in spirit, recursive-syntactic in nature, and tethered to a framework which takes as the null hypothesis the notion that language is an innate, pre-determined biological system—a system which by definition is multi-complex, human-specific, and …
