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Social and Linguistic Change in European French: A Trans-National Perspective

Social and Linguistic Change in European French: A Trans-National Perspective


Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley



About the Author NIGEL ARMSTRONG is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of French, University of Leeds, UK. TIM POOLEY is...
The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, V. 1

The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, V. 1


Allan Karker, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Hanster Naumann, Kurt Braunmüller, Oskar Bandle, Ulf Teleman



Review "Oskar Bandle and his team have provided the student of Northern European languages with an invaluable tool."Graem...
The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, V. 2

The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, V. 2


Allan Karker, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Hanster Naumann, Kurt Braunmüller, Oskar Bandle, Ulf Teleman



Review "Oskar Bandle and his team have provided the student of Northern European languages with an invaluable tool."Graem...
Authority and Identity: A Sociolinguistic History of Europe Before the Modern Age

Authority and Identity: A Sociolinguistic History of Europe Before the Modern Age


Robert Mccoll Millar



About the Author ROBERT McCOLL MILLAR is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. His books incl...
The Frege Reader (Blackwell Readers)

The Frege Reader (Blackwell Readers)


Gottlob Frege



Review "The book aims to be the best single edition available for introductory Frege courses. It is a well organized, rea...
Ockham algebras

Ockham algebras


T. S. Blyth, J. C. Varlet



Review "An Ockham algebra is a bounded distributive lattice enriched with a dual endomorphism. Particular classes of Ock...
Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Third International Symposium, Hyderabad, India, January 15-17, 2009. Proceedings

Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Third International Symposium, Hyderabad, India, January 15-17, 2009. Proceedings


Gérard Huet, Amba Kulkarni



Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Third International Symposium, Hyderabad, India, January 15-17, 2009. Proceedings...
Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge: On Two Dogmas of Epistemology

Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge: On Two Dogmas of Epistemology


Stephen Hetherington



Review "Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge is an interesting and provocative book, defending novel views about a wide range of...
Divided by a common language : a guide to British and American English

Divided by a common language : a guide to British and American English


Christopher Davies



Review "This is a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises." (Minneapolis Star Tribune ) --This text refer...
Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage

Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage


Patricia A. Cahill



Review "[An] excellent study...Sets the stage for a new understanding of early modernity itself." --Studies in English Li...
The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies

The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies


Jeremy Munday



About the Author Jeremy Munday is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the ...
The Rhetoric of Law

The Rhetoric of Law


Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns



The Rhetoric of Law...
Writing Genres

Writing Genres


Amy J. Devitt



Review “Writing Genres presents an excellent, comprehensive discussion of contemporary genre theory as it has develo...
Case in Africa (Oxford Linguistics)

Case in Africa (Oxford Linguistics)


Christa König



Review "Case in Africa is an essential reference for researchers of African languages and case studies. It is impossible ...
The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference

The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference


Lawrence Venuti



Amazon.com Review Over the past two decades, Lawrence Venuti has proven to be an elegant and extraordinarily nuanced tra...
Revisiting Racialized Voice: African American Ethos in Language and Literature

Revisiting Racialized Voice: African American Ethos in Language and Literature


Associate Professor David G. Holmes



Review “[An] ingenious, tightly reasoned study.”—Choice “[Holmes’s] project, to problematize v...
Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)

Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)




From Publishers Weekly To mark 85 years of work assuring that oppressed writers are heard in their home countries and aro...
The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature)


Stephen Harrison



Book Description Horace is a central author in Latin literature and his work spans a wide range of genres. In this 2007 v...
Language Contact: An Introduction

Language Contact: An Introduction


Sarah G. Thomason



Review A eulogy to the richness of expression in language ! This is a very exciting book for readers who take delight in ...
Voices in the sky: radio debates

Voices in the sky: radio debates


Alfred Snider



Voices in the sky: radio debates...
Ideology and Image: Britain and Language (Multilingual Matters)

Ideology and Image: Britain and Language (Multilingual Matters)


Dennis Ager



Review "A very substantial new angle on Language Policy and Planning, something which is much needed in what I consider a...
Teaching translation from Spanish to English: worlds beyond words

Teaching translation from Spanish to English: worlds beyond words


Allison Bee Lonsdale



Language Notes Text: English, Spanish ...
Changing the terms: translating in the postcolonial era

Changing the terms: translating in the postcolonial era




About the Author CA ...
Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)




Review This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech. Folia Linguis...
Aesthetic Essays

Aesthetic Essays


Malcolm Budd



Review "[I]mportant collection.... Philosophers of art will admire the unfussy care and insight with which Budd probes th...
Defining Creole

Defining Creole


John H. Mcwhorter



Review "This book is a welcome addition to the linguistic literature on creole languages and is sure to provide the fodde...
Neuromimetic Semantics: Coordination, Quantification, and Collective Predicates

Neuromimetic Semantics: Coordination, Quantification, and Collective Predicates


Harry Howard



Book Description The analysis of well-known facts of natural-language semantics from a neurocomputational perspective. ...
Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Challenges in the Social Life of Language


John R. Edwards



Review 'For more than a quarter of a century Professor John Edwards has stood as the traffic cop at the intersection of P...
Questions in Dynamic Semantics (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface)

Questions in Dynamic Semantics (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface)


Alastair Butler, Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker



Questions in Dynamic Semantics (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface)...
Historical linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Historical linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)


Barry J. Blake, Kate Burridge, Jo Taylor



Historical linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)...