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Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models, Paradigms
by Bernard Laks, with Serge Cleuziou, Jean-Paul Demoule and Pierre Encrevé
Origin and Evolution of Languages has a strong interdisciplinary flavor designed to highlight the true complexity of the debates in the field. Many of the models and theories conjectured can only receive their validation from a convergence of arguments developed across disciplines. The book underscores this dimension by including contribution from disciplines that have been wary, traditionally, of extending beyond their borders: linguistics ...
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The Expression and Perception of Space in Wayana
by Karen Hough
Until recently it was assumed that all cultures perceive and express space from the ego. However, this belief in a universal phenomenological bias is currently being challenged by many linguists from several disciplines, who believe that space can also be perceived intrinsically or absolutely. This ethno-linguistic analysis of the Cariban language, Wayana (still spoken in the dense rainforests of Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil), not only ...
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The French Language and Questions of Identity
edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Mari Jones
Our choice of linguistic code is one of the most fundamental ways open to us of establishing our membership of some groups and our distance from others. This symbolic value of language may often leave it open to exploitation, especially by the state. The present volume demonstrates how the multi-faceted nature of the concept of identity makes its relationship with language both complex and unpredictable. Because of its particular historical and ...
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The Anatomy of Laughter
edited by Toby Garfitt, Edith McMorran, and Jane Taylor
What is laughter - physiologically, psychologically, metaphysically, linguistically, artistically? And what about its politics and ideology? Is laughter culture-specific? Does it travel? These questions were addressed in two colloquia organized by TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 2001-2. The selected essays in this volume explore the conditions governing the production and survival of laughter. The visual ...
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Oral Narration in Modern French: A Linguistic Analysis of Temporal Patterns
by Janice Carruthers
Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration has long been fertile ground for linguists working on tense usage across a variety of languages. Fascinating parallels have been drawn between the patterns in 'conversational' narration (such as anecdotes or personal stories) and in medieval narratives. This book introduces oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French. 141p ...
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Schmied und Frau: Studien zur gallischen Epigraphik und Onomastik
by Karin Stüber
This volume of Series Minor looks at Celtic inscriptions and names in Switzerland. In German. 124p, b/w pls and illus (Series Minor 19, Archaeolingua 2005)
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In the Beginning: Origins of Semiosis
by Morana Alac, Patricia Violi
Contents: Morana Alac, 'Introduction'; Patrizia Violi, 'In the Beginning: The Voice of God and the Voice of the World. Two Stories about Origins'; Umberto Eco, 'Origins of Semiosis'; Jûgen Trabant, 'From Semiogenesis to Gottogenesis in the 18th Century Debate'; Howard Bloch, 'Etymologies and Genealogies: History,Words, and the World'; Winfried Nh, 'Semiogenesis in the Evolution from Nature to Culture'; Thomas Sebeok, 'Origins: Semiosis the Domain ...
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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson
This study includes stories of `obsession, genius, occasional delusion and sometimes bitter rivalry' - this is the story of the code-breakers, a unique group of people, many of whom have dedicated their lives to unravelling the mysteries of ancient scripts. Robinson begins with a general introduction to decipherment techniques and the progress that has been made over the years. The first part of the book focuses on three scripts that have been ...
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Das Ende Alteuropas: Der Einfall von Steppennomaden aus Südrussland und die Indogermanisierung Mitteleuropas
by Marija Gimbutas
Das Ende Alteuropas. Der Einfall von Steppennomaden aus Südrussland und die Indogermanisierung Mitteleuropas by Marija Gimbutas Study of the invasian of steppe nomads from southern Russia and the beginnings of Indo-European culture in Middle Europe. 135p, many pls (Innsbrucker Beitr. z. Kulturwissenschaft 1994)
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Horses, Chariots and Indo-Europeans: Foundations and Methods of Chariotry Research from the Viewpoint of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
by Peter Raulwing
An overview of the current debate on the origin and spread of horse-drawn chariots with a brief review of the archaeological, archaezoological, religious, anthropological and technological evidence and a more detailed survey of linguistics. Raulwing outlines the different types of linguistic evidence, with many examples, and a general history of developments and innovations in chariot design and use. He argues that chariots originated in the Near ...
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