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Scandoromani
Remnants of a Mixed Language
Av Gerd Carling, Lenny Lindell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2459 kr
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Scandoromani: Remnants of a Mixed Language is the first, comprehensive, international description of the language of the Swedish and Norwegian Romano, also labeled resande/reisende. The language, an official minority language in Sweden and Norway, has a history in Scandinavia going back to the …
New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews
Inbunden, 2024
1975 kr
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At the intersection of Jewish studies and linguistic research, the essays assembled in this book approach the topic of the languages of Sephardic Jews from different perspectives, spanning chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on diverse sources – from medical glossaries …
Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies
Inbunden, 2013
2459 kr
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In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate …
Leopard's Spots
Inbunden, 2015
2257 kr
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In The Leopard’s Spots, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language. Such constructions are constrained by our cognitive system, but leave lots of space for …
Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology
Inbunden, 2012
3237 kr
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Genealogical linguistics and areal linguistics are rarely treated from an integrated perspective even if they are twin faces of diachronic linguistics. In Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets take up this challenge. The result is a wealth of empirical facts …
Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket
Av Robin Sabino
Inbunden, 2012
2660 kr
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Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to …
Small-Language Fates and Prospects
Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected Essays
Av Nancy Dorian
Inbunden, 2014
2747 kr
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In Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by …
Evidentials in Ryukyuan: the Shuri Variety of Luchuan
A Typological and Theoretical Study of Grammatical Evidentiality
Inbunden, 2013
2251 kr
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Evidentiality, the linguistic category which marks the source of the speaker’s information, has often been overlooked in studies of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), the only sister language of Japanese. In this book, Arakaki provides the first comprehensive analysis of Luchuan evidentials. She proposes that …
Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture
Av Alexandra Aikhenvald, Anne Storch
Inbunden, 2013
2393 kr
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Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In about a quarter of the world's languages, grammatical evidentials express means of perception. In some languages verbs of vision subsume cognitive meanings. In others, cognition is associated with a verb …
Body in Language
Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment
Av Matthias Brenzinger, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Inbunden, 2014
2834 kr
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The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal …
Grammatical Gender in Interaction
Cultural and Cognitive Aspects
Inbunden, 2014
2257 kr
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In Grammatical Gender in Interaction: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects Angeliki Alvanoudi explores the relation between grammatical gender in person reference, culture and cognition in Modern Greek conversation. The author investigates the cultural and cognitive aspects of grammatical gender, by …
Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702)
A Social History of the Use of Dutch in Early Modern Britain
Inbunden, 2015
2606 kr
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In The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702) Christopher Joby offers an account of the knowledge and use of Dutch in early modern Britain. Using extensive archive material from Britain and the Low Countries, Chris Joby demonstrates that Dutch was both written and spoken in a range of social domains …
Languaging Without Languages
Beyond metro-, multi-, poly-, pluri- and translanguaging
Av Robin Sabino
Inbunden, 2018
1734 kr
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Drawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees linguistics from its two-thousand-year-old, ideological attachment to reified grammatical systems. …
Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
The 'Head'
Inbunden, 2019
1828 kr
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Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’ edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The ‘head’ is investigated as a source domain for extending multiple concepts …
Siouan Languages and Linguistics
Selected Papers by Robert L. Rankin
Av David Rood
Inbunden, 2024
1822 kr
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Robert L. Rankin was a seminal figure in late 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of Siouan linguistics. His knowledge, like the papers he produced, was voluminous. We have gathered here a representation of his work that spans over thirty years. The papers presented here focus on both the …
Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia
Inbunden, 2020
2324 kr
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Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth – nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: …
Spanish across Domains in the United States
Education, Public Space, and Social Media
Inbunden, 2020
2700 kr
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This edited volume adopts a new angle on the study of Spanish in the United States, one that transcends the use of Spanish as an ethnic language and explores it as a language spreading across new domains: education, public spaces, and social media. It aims to position Spanish in the United States …
Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)
A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Inbunden, 2020
3143 kr
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In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. For most of this period, the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to trade with Japan. Using the analytical tool of …
Conversational Analysis of Acholi
Structure and Socio-Pragmatics of a Nilotic Language of Uganda
Av Maren Rüsch
Inbunden, 2020
2774 kr
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A Conversational Analysis of Acholi elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on detailed examples, Maren Rüsch links the structural organization of Acholi conversations to cultural features such as politeness, language socialization and narrations. Despite …
Multilingualism and the Role of Sibling Order
Second-Generation Latino Children in the U.S.
Inbunden, 2020
1971 kr
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Based on a multi-year ethnography in one Spanish-speaking community in New Jersey, this book is a meticulous account of six Mexican families that explores the relationship between siblings’ language use patterns, practices, and ideologies. Combining insights gained from language socialization and …
Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek
A Constructional Approach
Inbunden, 2020
2727 kr
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In Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek:.A Constructional Approach Silvia Luraghi offers a comprehensive account of construction variation with two-place verbs belonging to different sub-domains of experience (including bodily sensation, perception, cognition, emotion and volitionality) in the …
Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition
Inbunden, 2021
2038 kr
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Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In …
Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers
Av Izabela Will
Inbunden, 2021
2104 kr
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Is the relation between gestures and language conventionalized? Is it possible to investigate the backgrounds of the users by means of these gestures?This book offers an in-depth analysis and description of five recurrent gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria, examined from a …
Romance-Speaking Balkans
Language and the Politics of Identity
Av Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic
Inbunden, 2021
2038 kr
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The relationship between language and identity is a complex topic everywhere in the world, but maybe it is even more crucial for those people living in the Balkans who speak a Romance variety. This volume is the result of a project started by the Balkan History Association, and brings together …
Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
The ‘Eye’
Av Melike Bas
Inbunden, 2021
2056 kr
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The volume explores the body part ‘eye’ as a source domain in conceptualization and a vehicle of embodied cognition. It includes in-depth case studies of languages situated in different cultural contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. It also provides insights into cross-linguistic …
Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic
A Cross-Generational Study
Inbunden, 2022
3130 kr
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What is the relationship between spatial and temporal representations in language and cognition? What is the role of culture in this relationship? I enter this discussion by offering a community-based, cross-generational study on the community of speakers of aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic, members of a Negev …
Art of Language
Av Anne Storch
Inbunden, 2022
2603 kr
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This book contributes to opening up disciplinary knowledge and offering connections between different approaches to language in contemporary linguistics. Rather than focusing on a particular single methodology or theoretical assumption, the volume presents part of the wealth of linguistic knowledge …
Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
The ‘Face’
Inbunden, 2022
2217 kr
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The ‘face’ is the most identifiable feature of the human body, yet the way it is entrenched in language and cognition has not previously been explored cross-linguistically. This comparative volume continues the series on embodied cognition and conceptualization with a focus on the human ‘face’. …
Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
The ‘Heart’
Av Judit Baranyiné, Kóczy
Inbunden, 2023
2445 kr
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The book explores the conceptualization of the ‘heart’ as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and …
Cultural Semantics in the Lexicon of Modern Chinese
Av Ming ZHAO
Inbunden, 2023
1579 kr
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What is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese?This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at the synchronic level: conceptual gap items and …
