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Languages of Minority

The book discusses ideas around concepts of orality, the vernacular, translation, and multilinguilism, to argue that the idea of the mother tongue is constructed historically. It highlights the importance…

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Alison Findlay, Sean Murphy, Dawn Archer,
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics - methods of choice for today's histor…

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Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

"By the author of the blog Not One-Off Britishisms (NOOB), an account of when, how, and why various British terms and phrases have become part of contemporary American English. Critics and lexicograp…

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Jakob Ladegaard, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan,
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

"This volume brings scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st-century. One of five volumes offering the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language using computational metho…

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Terra Edwards
Going Tactile

In Going Tactile, Terra Edwards explores life in DeafBlind communities in the U.S. through an ethnographic lens. Drawing on thirty months of anthropological fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Al-An&,
The Book of Rain

The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Shawn M Bullock, Cécile Bullock
Historical Perspectives on Multilingual Education

In a linguistic and cultural landscape that has become more diversified, it has become more and more challenging for politicians, policymakers, researchers, as well as teachers, to deal with the increasin…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa.

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Alex Wright
Cataloging the World

In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers or "electric telescopes," as he called them that would allow people anywhere in the world to search…

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Writing from Invention to Decipherment

Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from across the world. The writers dig into the foundations of writing, showcasing the complexitie…

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Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media

Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our timePeople migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A pheno…

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Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the Us

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.…

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Manuel des langues créoles à base française

Manuals of Romance Linguistics

The handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of French Creole studies, from a both comparative and language-specific perspective. Covering structural and historical features of French-based Creole lang…

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Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French

This volume showcases the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at their intersection. The …

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

"A series of essays on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher.

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Jr. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Jr. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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