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Living Speech : Resisting the Empire of Force
James Boyd White
Hardcover - $62.95
"This is a magisterial work, evidencing the unique breadth of White's mastery of the worlds of law, language, and classical studies. It continues his immensely productive and path-breaking inquiry into the relations among legal texts, literary works, ...
Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture (Volume 2)
Leo Wiener
Paperback - $78.95
Wiener argues that Germanic languages have arisen by a sudden influx of Low Latin, and Arabic. He demonstrates that they arose from the Graeco-Latin glossaries through Gothic interpretations, which themselves owe their origin to the Graeco-Arabic lea ...
Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture (Volume 3)
Leo Wiener
Paperback - $78.95
Leo Wiener argues that Germanic languages have arisen by a sudden influx of Low Latin, and Arabic. He demonstrates that they arose from the Graeco-Latin glossaries through Gothic interpretations, which themselves owe their origin to the Graeco-Arabic ...
Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture (Volume 4)
Leo Wiener
Paperback - $78.95
Leo Wiener argues that Germanic languages have arisen by a sudden influx of Low Latin, and Arabic. He demonstrates that they arose from the Graeco-Latin glossaries through Gothic interpretations, which themselves owe their origin to the Graeco-Arabic ...
Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words : English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese
Anna Wierzbicka
Paperback - $147.95
This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key ...
Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
James M. Wilce
Paperback - $109.95
Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangl ...
Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe : Evidence from the Euromosaic Project
Glyn Williams
Hardcover - $184.95
Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument a ...