A Synthetic Approach to the Anthropology and Archaeology of Language Ori
In this book the authors draw together work from cognitive science, linguistics, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, the authors offer commentary on their own process of discovery and bases for communicating the key ideas across disciplinary boundaries.
This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants' tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.
This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger's concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Wanda Torres Gregory concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger and proposes alternatives to his signature claims concerning silence.
This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Manyoshu, an eighth-century poetry collection.
This book shows that at the beginning of modern thought the revival of ancient skepticism challenged the powers of the intellect in making knowledge possible, opening the way to the consideration of language as an alternative to mental representation, thus leading to an early linguistic turn.
This book brings a new methodological framework for classification of Montenegrin dialects, introducing new criteria to it and focusing on the isoglosses which make those dialects compact. The book is based on field research published in the past 150 years.
Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language examines Camilleri's unique linguistic repertoire provides a systematic analysis of the distribution of Sicilian features in selected historical and mystery (Montalbano) novels, and assesses their function as indices of salient aspects of topics, settings and characters.
Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Brown and Thompson argue that Spanish language education needs to evolve to reflect changes in the U.S.'s sociocultural, socioeducational, and sociopolitical landscape. They provide coherent and compelling discussion of the most pressing issues facing Spanish post-secondary education and strategies for turning these challenges into opportunities.
Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Brown and Thompson argue that Spanish language education needs to evolve to reflect changes in the U.S.'s sociocultural, socioeducational, and sociopolitical landscape. They provide coherent and compelling discussion of the most pressing issues facing Spanish post-secondary education and strategies for turning these challenges into opportunities.
