Vicarious Language : Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan

Miyako Inoue
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"Inoue has accomplished an extraordinary task, which is without precedent in the East Asian Fields. To my knowledge, no author has ever demonstrated as persuasively as she does that the issues concerning women's Japanese can be explored in such an in ...

Understanding African American Rhetoric : Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations

II Jackson
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This is an extraordinarily well-balanced collection of essays focused on varied expressions of African American Rhetoric; it also is a critical antidote to a preoccupation with Western Rhetoric as the arbiter of what counts for effective rhetoric. Ra ...

Law, Language, and Science : The Invention of the "Native Mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930

Diana Jeater
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By the 1920s, linguistic and ethnographic projects to formalize the language and legal systems of Shona peoples in Southern Rhodesia served to impede, rather than enhance, knowledge about local communities, In the 1980s and 1900s, translation and eth ...

Law, Language, and Science : The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930

Diana Jeater
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This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with histo ...

Mankind, Nation and Individual from a Linguistic Point of View : Otto Jespersen Collected English Writings

Otto Jespersen
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Speaking Culturally : Language Diversity in the United States

Fern L. Johnson
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In Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, author Fern Johnson probes the rich cultural legacies and deep cultural dimensions underlying discourse in the U.S. This culturally rich examination of discourse places the changing dem ...

Language and Masculinity

Sally Johnson
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This is the first extensive account of men's language--of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity.

Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics

Barbara Johnstone
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The only book on qualitative research methods designed especially for readers doing research on language and society, Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics provides a brief, accessible introduction to general theoretical and practical questions abo ...

Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain

Anne Judge
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Governing the Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England

Jane Kamensky
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Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me," but in the seventeenth century peopl ...