A leading intellectual historian explores some of the reigning assumptions and imperatives of our age. By looking closely at what "words do and perform", Martin Jay makes us aware of the extent to which the language we use mediates and shapes our experience. Elegantly written and richly insightful, this is a work of cultural criticism and intellectual analysis of the first order. ...

A student introduction to descriptive linguistics, "Describing Language" is essentially practical in its orientation. It is useful for anyone who wishes to refer to technical literature involving linguistic description, who requires a basic conceptual framework and technical vocabulary with which to discuss language, and who needs to make elementary but principled descriptions and analyses of real data (such as classroom interaction or ...

Did you know that to tantalize recalls how Greek mythology's Tantalus was tortured by the food and drink just beyond his grasp? If someone goes berserk, he is emulating the Viking warriors of Norse myth - fabled for reckless bravery that bordered on madness? The phenomenon known as an echo takes its name from a nymph of Greek legend, cursed to repeat whatever was spoken to her? In this lively, meticulously researched book, linguist and literary ...

Presenting new and important scholarship in feminist language theory, this book addresses issues within diverse traditions, bringing together feminist positions, strategies, and styles in an original way. Gathering together authors with different backgrounds and methods, Language and Liberation puts this diverse scholarship into dialogue.<P>The questions and concerns reflected in these essays are presented within the context of their ...

Discourse Analysis is an ideal textbook for students taking a first course in linguistic approaches to discourse. It presupposes no previous coursework in linguistics. It is designed to encourage students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended heuristic, a set of techniques for systematically studying every possible source of the meaning of a sequence of speech or writing. Chapters cover the complex relationships between discourse ...

Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips. From cooties and mugwumps to Ps and Qs and Peeping Tom, this is a doozie of a diversion. ...

The expression "our own language" illustrates the significance of the Irish language for many among the nationalist community in Northern Ireland. They regard the neglect of the language by unionist administrations since the 1920s as another part of the attempted Anglicization of Ireland, and part of the justification for their continued opposition to the union. As a result, Irish has come to be seen as a symbol of resistance, anti-Britishness, ...

Il n'y a pas tout fait un sihcle que le style indirect libre a regu son nom de baptjme, mais sa date de naissance, s'il en a une, se perd dans la nuit des temps. Ce dicalage n'est sans doute pas fortuit. Le SIL est, par essence, voui une existence discrhte, et il a fallu qu'il devienne un procidi littiraire consciemment et massivement utilisi par les romanciers du XIXhme sihcle pour qu'on s'intiresse lui.Le prisent volume est la fois un retour ...

A collection of historically significant articles on machine translation, from its beginnings through the early 1990s. ...

This book explores change and continuity in one of the most vital areas of Mayan culture--language use. The authors look specifically at Kaqchikel, one of the most commonly spoken Mayan languages, with case studies of three highland communities in which the balance is shifting between Kaqchikel and Spanish. ...