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INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION IN INDO-EUROPEAN.
: Methods, Results & Problems
((Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European: Volume 3))
[Thomas Olander & Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (eds)]
Text in English & German. Section Papers from the XVI International Conference on Historical Linguistics held at the University of Copenhagen.
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270pp,
160x240mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£35.00,
8763507854:9788763507851
, Museum Tusculanum Press
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MEDITATIONS & ASCENSION: BLACK WRITERS ON WRITING
[Brenda M Greene & Fred Beauford (eds)]
Representing conversations from the Eighth National Black Writers Conference in 2006, this collection provides in-depth meditations and analyses of literature by black writers. Reflections on the black experience, the American experience, and a more global experience and worldview are all widely discussed, as well as future trends and ascensions for black literature. Students, teachers, journalists, and other writers will welcome the chance to view parts of the writing process and see inside the heads of prominent black writers. Participants include Marita Golden, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Reed, Herb Boyd, Valerie Boyd, Haki R. Madhubuti, Elizabeth Nunez, Tananarive Due, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Camille Yarbrough, Susan McHenry, and many others.
{
300pp,
125x230mm,
September 2008;
PB,
£12.99,
0883782960:9780883782965
, IPG (Third World Press)
} |
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TRANSLATING JAPANESE TEXTS
[Lita Lundquist & Kirsten Refsing]
This is a practical textbook and a precise introduction to problems of and strategies for translating Japanese texts, aimed at both students and teachers of translation, and professional translators. The theoretical foundation is that texts are created by means of interplay between different levels of linguistic material and pragmatic, cognitive and cultural mechanisms. We claim that all translation should hence take such factors into consideration. The book focuses on Japanese and English and attempts to highlight systematic differences between these two languages, but will be useful when translating Japanese into other languages than English and for translation in general. The book will be of interest not only for students and professionals of translation and language studies, but also for people generally interested in Asian languages, cultures and worlds of thought, seen through the lens of translation from Japanese into English.
{
292pp,
150x230mm,
October 2008;
PB,
£20.00,
8763507773:9788763507776
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
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ANCIENT ROME IN SO MANY WORDS
[Christopher Francese]
The brief word-histories in this book are meant to provide background on some words that everyone learns when they study Latin, as well as some rarer terms that have interesting stories to tell about Roman culture. This book lists a new word or phrase that came into American English every year from 1975 to 1998, with a selection of early additions from 1497 to 1750, and discusses the history behind the adoption of each. Teachers and students of Latin can benefit from the slightly more formal, but still anecdotal, approach taken here to some key words in the Latin lexicon.
{
248pp,
155x230mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
0781811538:9780781811538
, Hippocrene Books
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ANGLES ON THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, VOLUME 6
: Literary Translation -- World Literature or 'Worlding' Literature
[Ida Klitgård (ed)]
This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world literature and translation. The term 'worlding', presented by Ástráður Eysteinsson in this collection, is coined by Sarah Lawell in her book Reading World Literature (1994) where it denotes the reader's pleasurable 'reading' of the meeting of 'worlds' in a literary translation -- i.e. the meeting of the different cultural environments embodied in a translation from one language into another. Through such reading, the reader in fact participates in creating true 'world literature'. This is a somewhat unorthodox conception of world literature, conventionally defined as 'great literature' shelved in a majestic, canonical library. In the opening article sparking off the theme of this collection, Eysteinsson asks: "Which text does the concept of world literature refer to? It can hardly allude exclusively to the original, which the majority of the work’s readers may never get to know. On the other hand, it hardly refers to the various translations as seen apart from the original. It seems to have a crucial bearing on the border between the two, and on the very idea that the work merits the move across this linguistic and cultural border, to reside in more than two languages". Picking up on this question at issue, all the essays in this collection throw light on the problematic mechanics of cultural encounters when 'reading the world' in literary translation, i.e. in the texts themselves as well as in the ways in which they have become institutionalised as 'world literature'.
{
152pp,
155x230mm,
July 2006;
PB,
£14.00,
8763504936:9788763504935
, Museum Tusculanum Press
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ESTUDIO DIACRONICO Y SINCRONICO DEL OBJETO INDIRECTO EN EL ESPANOL PENINSULA Y DE AMERICA
[Silvia Becerra Bascunan]
TEXT IN SPANISH. This study contributes to the understanding of synchronic and diachronic aspects of the grammatical relation of the indirect object in Spanish as it appears on the Iberian Peninsula as well as in Latin America. The following aspects have not been investigated until now: Firstly, the grammaticalisation of the cross-reference (from the 21th century to the 21st century) -- the double representation of the indirect object in the light of Henning Andersen's theory of 'drift'. Secondly, an adaptation of the idea of grammatical relations in functional linguistics as it is presented by Simon Dik and Michael Heslund. All kinds of genres are being studied.
{
March 2006;
PB,
£25.00,
8772899794:9788772899794
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
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FROM DIALECT TO STANDARD
: English in England, 1154-1776
[Hans Frede Nielsen]
This is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The book spans the period up to 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence and the year in which Adam Smith published his 'Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nations'.
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300pp,
150x215mm,
January 2005;
PB,
£25.75,
8778389453:9788778389459
, University Press of Southern Denmark
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GOING TO THE SOURCES, 4TH EDITION
: A Guide to Historical Research & Writing
[Anthony Brundage]
Brundage has revised his popular book to render an even more detailed, practical and 'user friendly' tool for students faced with the researching and writing of a research paper or historiographical essay.
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141pp,
155x230mm,
January 2008;
PB,
£9.99,
0882952536:9780882952536
, Harlan Davidson
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INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK, 2ND EDITION
: A Literary Approach
[C A E Luschnig & Deborah Mitchell]
A.E. Luschnig's "An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach" prepares students to read Greek in less than a year by presenting basic traditional grammar without frills and by introducing real Greek written by ancient Greeks, from the first day of study. This second edition retains all the features of the first but is more streamlined, easier on the eyes, more gender-inclusive, and altogether more 21st century. It is supported by a Web site for teachers and learners.
REVIEW: "...her approach brings students to competency quickly and efficiently. The new version improves what was already a good text, keeping the many exercise sentences, providing a realistic selection of 'real Greek' readings with translation aids conveniently below. The proof is in the pudding: after doing beginning Greek with Luschnig's text, my Greek students have been able to move easily to the second year reading classes in either Euripides or Plato." -- Karelisa Hartigan, Department of Classics, University of Florida. "...offers a thorough and clear account of grammar and syntax, copious exercises for practice, and a wonderful array of brief passages from ancient authors for translation and discussion. My students and I have used the text happily for years, and this new edition is even better than its predecessor." -- Deborah H Roberts, William R Kennan Jr Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, Haverford College. "...the most successful of the more than half-dozen beginning Greek grammars I have used in the classroom, especially in this revised edition. Students meet 'real Greek' early and often, and the exercises are ample and varied. What I appreciate particularly is that this grammar has personality, even a sense of humor, so that my students feel they are learning ancient Greek from Cecelia Luschnig rather than an anonymous textbook..." -- Sherry Gray Martin, Faculty, St John's College, Santa Fe.
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374pp,
180x260mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£23.00,
0872208893:9780872208896
/
HB,
£45.00,
0872208907:9780872208902
, Hackett Publishing
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INTRODUCTION TO SYRIAC
: Key to Exercises & English-Syriac Vocabulary
[Deniel M Gurtner]
Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa in Mesopotamia. Today it is the classical tongue of the Nestorians and Chaldeans of Iran and Iraq and the liturgical language of the Jacobites of Eastern Anatolia and the Maronites of Greater Syria. Syriac is also the language of the Church of St, Thomas on the Malabar Coast of India. Syriac belongs to the Levantine group of the central branch of the West Semitic languages. Syriac literature flourished from the third century on and boasts of writers like Ephraem Syrus, Aphraates, Jacob of Sarug, John of Ephesus, Jacob of Edessa, and Barhebraeus. After the Arab conquests, Syriac became the language of a tolerated but disenfranchised and diminishing community and began a long, slow decline both as a spoken tongue and as a literary medium in favour of Arabic. Syriac played an important role as the intermediary through which Greek learning passed to the Islamic world. Syriac translations also preserve much Middle Iranian wisdom literature that has been lost in the original. Here, the language is presented both in the Syriac script and in transcription, which is given so that the pronunciation of individual words and the structure of the language may be represented as clearly as possible. The majority of the sentences in the exercises -- and all of the readings in later lessons -- are taken directly from the P'itta, the Syriac translation of the Bible. Most students learn Syriac as an adjunct to biblical or theological studies and will be interested primarily in this text. Biblical passages also have the advantage of being familiar, to some degree or other, to most English-speaking students. For many of those whose interest in Syriac stems from Biblical studies or from the history of Eastern Christianity, Syriac may be their first Semitic language. Every effort has been made in the presentation of the grammar to keep the Semitic structure of the language in the forefront and as clear as possible for those who have no previous experience with languages of that family. Syriac is structurally perhaps the simplest of all the Semitic languages. A chart of correspondences among Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac is given.
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114pp,
155x230mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£16.99,
1588140458:9781588140456
, IBEX Publishers
} |
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LURE OF THE LINGUISTIC
: Speculations On The Origin Of Language In German Romanticism
[Shelley Frisch]
Focuses on how Romantic speculations on the origin of language blended 18th century European mystical and enlightenment musings about language to produce lyrical and compelling depictions of its origns and development.
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253pp,
155x230mm,
December 2004;
PB,
£20.95,
0841914508:9780841914506
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
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MINIMAL REFERENCE
: The Use of Pronouns in Finnish & Estonian Discourse
[Ritva Laury (ed)]
This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnish languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives for human referents, as well as other topics of current interest in research into the nature of pronominal reference, in particular the contextual, interactive and grammatical factors which influence the use and interpretation of pronouns. An international group of authors approach these questions from several theoretical frameworks including psycholinguistics, syntax, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. The volume is the first collection of articles on this topic published in English. Authors include Outi Duvallon, Marja Etelämäki, Päivi Juvonen, Elsi Kaiser, Lea Laitinen, Renate Pajusalu, Eeva-Leena Seppänen, and the editor, Ritva Laury.
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217pp,
180x260mm,
March 2005;
PB,
£23.50,
9517466366:9789517466363
, Finnish Literature Society
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NEUROPSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON DYSLIEXIA & OTHER LEARNING DISABILITIES
[Simone Aparecida Capellini (ed)]
This books presents research and issues related to reading and writing acquisition and problems in its acquisition, contributing as a basis for students and professionals to direct with competence isolated and integrated acquisition in reading, writing and arithmetic in normal children and in children with learning disabilities. The subjects in this book confirm the necessity of filling gaps in the understanding of integration between neurological and psycholinguistic aspects which are necessary for reading and writing development.
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139pp,
180x260mm,
May 2007;
HB,
£59.50,
1600215378:9781600215377
, Nova Science Publishers
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OUTLINE OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
: 3rd Revised Edition
[Niels Davidsen-Nielsen]
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156pp,
155x230mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£15.70,
8778385520:9788778385529
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
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SPEECH & LANGUAGE DISORDERS IN BILINGUALS
[Alfredo Ardila & Eliane Ramos (eds)]
During the last years a significant number of papers, books, and monographs devoted to speech and language impairments in bilingual children have been published. Different aspects and questions have been approached and today we have a relatively good understanding of the specific characteristics of the speech and language difficulties potentially observed in bilingual and multilingual children. This interest has been significantly resulted from the potential developmental and educational consequences of bilingualism. Our understanding of the communication disorders in adult populations is notoriously more limited, even though over 50% of the adult population can speak at least another language in addition to his/her native language. That simply means that over 50% of the communication disorders observed in adults are bilingual speech and language disorders: bilingual aphasias, bilingual dementias, bilingual stuttering, etc. This book was written with the specific purpose of filling this gap. The major purpose of this book has been to integrate the state of the art on the different aspects of the communication disorders observed in adult bilinguals. The book is organised in such a way that an integrated perspective of bilingualism is presented: from the normal conditions to the pathology; from the clinical descriptions to the rehabilitation issues; from the biological factors to the cultural variables.
{
244pp,
180x260mm,
August 2007;
HB,
£52.99,
1600215602:9781600215605
, Nova Science Publishers
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TAKE DANISH - FOR INSTANCE
: Linguistic Studies in Honour of Hans Basbøll
[Henrik Galberg Jacobsen, Dorthe Bleses, Thomas O Madsen & Pia Thomsen (eds)]
Text in English and Danish. Linguistic studies in honour of Hans Basbøll presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday 12 July 2003. This is a collection of 29 linguistic papers spanning as diverse areas as phonology, morphology, language acquisition, computational linguistics, linguistic theory, and model-building -- all areas to which Hans Basbøll, professor of Scandinavian linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, has contributed in significant ways. The contributors are linguists from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and USA. Beyond the papers, the book contains a bibliography on Hans Basbøll’s work from 1968 to 2003.
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314pp,
180x260mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£26.50,
8778388260:9788778388261
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
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UNIVERSITY GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH
: with a Swedish Perspective
[Dr Maria Estling Vannestål]
A corpus-based university grammar with a Swedish perspective, written in English. The book is mainly aimed at first-term students of English at Swedish universities. What else characterises this book? Its layout aims at clarity, particularly in the way it points out problem areas and uses symbols to illustrate different aspects of language usage; it gives an introduction to the study of grammar and the building blocks of language; it provides extensive information about language variation, based on corpus research; it comprises a large number of exercises of various kinds, traditional as well as non-traditional ones; it comes with a website including corpus exercises and short audio lectures; it provides information about differences between English and several other languages used by our immigrants and exchange students; all examples are authentic, taken from, for instance, language corpora, the Internet, lyrics and students' essays; a comprehensive appendix includes, among other things, useful expressions and an English-Swedish/Swedish-English glossary.
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540pp,
180x260mm,
August 2007;
£47.00,
9144034997:9789144034997
, Studentlitteratur AB
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