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Why do linguistics? : reflective linguistics and the study of language / by English, Fiona,author.(CARDINAL)597425; Marr, Tim,author.(CARDINAL)408061;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is about noticing. It is about encouraging readers to pay attention to the language that surrounds them. The book addresses fundamental linguistic questions such as: Where do people's beliefs about language come from? Who decides what language we should speak? How do we choose the best way to express what we mean? It introduces a set of practical tools for language analysis and, using examples of authentic communicative activity including overheard conversations, Facebook posts and public announcements, shows how this kind of analysis works and what it can tell us about social interaction. Exploring language and language use from a social, intercultural and multilingual perspective, the authors demonstrate the relevance of linguistics in understanding day-to-day interaction. This book will help readers not only to become informed, active observers of language for its own sake, but also to be able to take on and challenge some of the misconceptions, assumptions and prejudices that so often underlie public discussion of language issues.
Subjects: Linguistics; Language and languages;
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The language of gaming / by Ensslin, Astrid.(CARDINAL)801189;
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Approaches to Discourse Analysis -- Games and Language -- Videogame Genres, Macrostructures and Textuality -- Words and Meanings -- The Linguistic Pragmatics of Gameplay -- Metaludic Discourses -- Gaming and Multimodality -- The Narrative Language of Videogames -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index."The Language of Gaming examines the complex language of videogames and gaming from a discourse analytical perspective. Astrid Ensslin studies the discourses inscribed in videogames by their producers, as well as gamer and media meta-discourses, and focal areas include gamer slang, illocution, multimodality, and narrative structures"--
Subjects: Video games.; Video games; Visual literacy.;
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Children's online language and interaction / by Tudini, Vincenza A. C.,1960-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Drawing on cutting-edge research, this book uses Conversation Analysis (CA) techniques to better understand the language that children use online, and the implications for their language development. Addressing a highly topical area, it is essential reading for students and researchers of applied linguistics, communication, education and sociology"--
Subjects: Language and the Internet.; Children; Internet and children.; Internet users; Conversation analysis.;
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The awakening : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives / by Chopin, Kate,1850-1904,author.(CARDINAL)149662; Walker, Nancy A.,1942-editor.(CARDINAL)761944;
Includes bibliographical references.p.t 1. The awakening : the complete text in cultural context -- Introduction : biographical and historical contexts -- The complete text -- Contextual documents -- Advertisements from magazines -- Fashion plates, Godey's Magazine -- The dressing-table, Godey's Magazine -- Home study for young ladies : visiting cards -- From What women find to do all day, Ladies' Home Journal -- Helen Watterson Moody, from What it means to be a wife, Ladies' Home Journal -- Helen Watterson Moody, from The true meaning of motherhood, Ladies' Home Journal -- The artist and marriage, The Atlantic Monthly -- Ruth McEnery Stuart, from A people who live amid romance, Ladies' Home Journal -- Walter Gregory, The evolution of woman in the South, Godey's Magazine -- James Lane Allen, from Two principles in recent American Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly -- Two Contemporary Reviews of The awakening.pt. 2. The awakening : a case study in contemporary criticism -- A critical history of The awakening -- Feminist criticism and The awakening -- What is feminist criticism? -- Feminist criticism : a selected bibliography -- A feminist perspective -- Elaine Showalter, tradition and the female talent : The awakening as a solitary book -- Gender criticism and The awakening -- What is gender criticism? -- Gender criticism : a selected bibliography -- A gender perspective -- Elizabeth LeBlanc, the metaphorical lesbian : Edna Pontellier in The awakening -- The new historicism and The awakening -- What is the new historicism? -- The new historicism : a selected bibliography -- A new historicist perspective -- Margit Stange, personal property : exchange value and the female self in The awakening -- Deconstruction and The awakening -- What is deconstruction -- Deconstruction : a selected bibliography -- A deconstructionist perspective -- Patricia S. Yaeger, "a language which nobody understood" : emancipatory strategies in The awakening -- Reader-response criticism and The awakening -- What is reader-response criticism? -- Reader-response criticism : a selected bibliography -- A reader-response perspective -- Paula A. Treichler, the construction of ambiguity in The awakening : a linguistic analysis -- Combining perspectives on The awakening -- Cynthia Griffin Wolff, un-utterable longing : the discourse of feminine sexuality in Kate Chopin's The awakening -- Glossary of critical and theoretical terms.Presents the complete text of "The Awakening" by nineteenth-century American novelist Kate Chopin and contains biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, as well as critical essays that analyzes her work.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.; Adultery; Self-actualization (Psychology); Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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Structural anthropology / by Lévi-Strauss, Claude.(CARDINAL)138586; Jacobson, Claire,1927-translator.(CARDINAL)339573; Schoepf, Brooke Grundfest,translator.(CARDINAL)339572;
Bibliography: volume 1, pages 382-395; volume 2, pages 363-372.v. 1. Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- I. Introduction: History and anthropology -- Part 1. Language and kinship. II. Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology ; III. Language and the analysis of social laws ; IV. Linguistics and anthropology ; V. Postscript to Chapters III and IV -- Part 2. Social organization. VI. The concept of archaism in anthropology ; VII. Social structures of central and eastern Brazil ; VIII. Do dual organizations exist? -- Part 3. Magic and religion. IX. The sorcerer and his myth ; X. The effectiveness of symbols ; XI. The structural study of myth ; XII. Structure and dialectics -- Part 4. Art. XIII. Split representation in the art of Asia and America ; XIV. The serpent with fish inside his body -- Part 5. Problems of method and teaching. XV. Social structure ; XVI. Postscript to Chapter XV ; XVII. The place of anthropology in the social sciences and problems raised in teaching it --v. 2. Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- Part 1. Perspective views. I. The scope of anthropology ; II. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, founder of the sciences of man ; III. What ethnology owes to Durkheim ; IV. The work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and its lessons ; V. Comparative religions of nonliterate peoples -- Part 2. Social organization. VI. The meaning and use of the notion of model ; VII. Reflections on the atom of kinship -- Part 3. Mythology and ritual. VIII. Structure and form : reflections on a work by Vladimir Propp ; IX. The story of Asdiwal ; X. Four Winnebago myths ; XI. The sex of the sun and moon ; XII. Mushrooms in culture : apropos of a book by R.G. Wasson ; XIII. Relations of symmetry between rituals and myths of neighboring peoples ; XIV. How myths die -- Part 4. Humanism and the humanities. XV. Answers to some investigations ; XVI. Scientific criteria in the social and human disciplines ; XVII. Cultural discontinuity and economic and social development ; XVIII. Race and history.
Subjects: Structural anthropology.;
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Czechoslovakia's blueprint for "freedom": "Unity, socialism & humanity"; Dubcek's statements, the original and official documents leading to the conflict of August 1968. / by Ello, Paul.(CARDINAL)175277; Dubček, Alexander,1921-1992.(CARDINAL)126406; Komunistická strana Československa.Ústřední výbor.(CARDINAL)171769;
Analysis of document I. Document I: The speech delivered by Alexander Dubcek at the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia on April 1st 1968.--Analysis of document II. Document II: The action program of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.--Analysis of document III. Document III: From the meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia May 29-June 1, 1968.--Analysis of document IV. Document IV: Standpoint of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to the letters of five Communist and workers' parties.
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Morphology of the folktale / by Propp, V. I͡A.(Vladimir I͡Akovlevich),1895-1970.(CARDINAL)149152;
Includes bibliographical references.On the history of the problem -- The method and material -- The functions of dramatis personae -- Assimilations : cases of the double morphological meaning of a single function -- Some other elements of the tale -- The distribution of functions among dramatis personae -- Ways in which new characters are introduced into the course of action -- On the attributes of dramatis personae and their significance -- The tale as a whole.Vladimir Propp was born in Petersburg, April 29, 1895. In 1932 he was called to a position at the University of Leningrad and went on to make major contributions to Russian folklore studies, comparative mythology, and the classification of folklore genres. His international fame is closely tied to the contributions he made to the structural analysis of folklore in Morphology of the Folktale. -- from back cover.
Subjects: Afanasʹev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich), 1826-1871.; Fairy tales; Fairy tales; Tales; Tales;
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A gateway to Sindarin : a grammar of an Elvish language from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the rings / by Salo, David,1969-author.(CARDINAL)466701; Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Lord of the rings.(CARDINAL)220787;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-435)."From the 1910s to the 1970s, author and linguist J.R.R. Tolkien worked at creating plausibly realistic languages to be used by the creatures and characters in his novels. Like his other languages, Sindarin was a new invention, not based on any existing or artificial language. By the time of his death, he had established fairly complete descriptions of two languages, the "elvish" tongues Quenya and Sindarin. He was able to compose poetic and prose texts in both, and he also constructed a lengthy sequence of changes for both from an ancestral "proto-language," comparable to the development of historical languages and capable of analysis with the techniques of historical linguistic. Salo covers the grammar, morphology, and history of the language. Supplemental material includes a vocabulary, Sindarin names, a glossary of terms, and an annotated list of works relevant to Sindarin"--
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Sindarin (Artificial language); Imaginary languages; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Fantasy literature, English; Languages, Artificial.;
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The Cambridge companion to the Qurʼān / by McAuliffe, Jane Dammen.;
Subjects: Qurʼan;
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Surnames, DNA, and family history / by Redmonds, George,1935-2018.(CARDINAL)313335; King, Turi.(CARDINAL)313336; Hey, David.(CARDINAL)158465;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-224) and index.By-names -- Hereditary surnames -- Expansion and decline -- Distribution and migration -- Linguistic and social factors -- Meaning and method -- DNA and surnames -- The link between surname and Y chromosome type -- The wider pictureThis book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and show the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing how names often remain concentrated in the districts where they first became established centuries ago. In the process the book casts fresh light on the ancient peopling of the British Isles. The authors consider why some names die out, and how others have spread across the globe. They use recent advances in DNA testing to discover whether particular surnames have a single, dual or multiple origins and whether various forms of a name have a common origin.
Subjects: Family histories.; DNA; Heredity, Human.; Genetics; Names, Personal.; DNA fingerprinting.;
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