The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader

Edited by Roxy Harris, Ben Rampton

Language, Race and Ethnicity: A Reader an essential resource for all students of sociolinguistics, ethnic studies, linguistics, anthropology and intercultural studies. This accessible Reader collects...

Published August 28th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Rule of Metaphor

The Creation of Meaning in Language

By Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language...

Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.

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The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals

A Case Study from Ju|'hoansi

By Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study...

Published August 19th 2003 by Routledge.

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Causes and Consequences of Word Structure

By Jennifer Hay

This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations over lexica, Jennifer Hay investigates...

Published August 19th 2003 by Routledge.

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Origins of Predicates

Evidence from Plains Cree

By Tomio Hirose

This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes...

Published July 7th 2003 by Routledge.

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True to Form

Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

By Christine Gunlogson

This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:

1) It's raining?
2) It's raining.

The difference between (1) and (2) is...

Published July 3rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Becoming a Translator

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation

By Douglas Robinson

Fusing translation theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is an essential resource for novice and practising translators. The...

Published July 3rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Ethnolinguistic Chicago

Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods

Edited by Marcia Farr

This book, together with Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago, documents how the future in a globalizing world is not only increasingly multilingual, but that...

Published July 1st 2003 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Lexicography

Critical Concepts

Edited by R.R.K. Hartmann

Lexicography is a growing academic specialization, with both a practical and a theoretical branch, numerous perspectives, and interdisciplinary significance. This collection draws together the most...

Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.

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A Grammar of Mangghuer

A Mongolic Language of China's Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund

By Keith W. Slater

This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside...

Published June 19th 2003 by Routledge.

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