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The Book of Rain

The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist…

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Shawn M Bullock, Cécile Bullock
Historical Perspectives on Multilingual Education

In a linguistic and cultural landscape that has become more diversified, it has become more and more challenging for politicians, policymakers, researchers, as well as teachers, to deal with the increasin…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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Dekuan Huang,
Chinese Paleography

This book offers an introduction to ancient Chinese characters, addressing the origin and development of ancient writing, the theoretical method of learning ancient Chinese characters, evolution of ancien…

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Colonial Vocabularies

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans' colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, "Oriental language teachers" - as they were termed…

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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa.

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Alex Wright
Cataloging the World

In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers or "electric telescopes," as he called them that would allow people anywhere in the world to search…

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Writing from Invention to Decipherment

Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from across the world. The writers dig into the foundations of writing, showcasing the complexitie…

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Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media

Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our timePeople migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A pheno…

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Manuel des langues créoles à base française

Manuals of Romance Linguistics

The handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of French Creole studies, from a both comparative and language-specific perspective. Covering structural and historical features of French-based Creole lang…

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

"A series of essays on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher.

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Todd S Frobish
Discourses at Play

Todd Frobish explores a diverse set of historical crises through the lens of "rhetorical gameplay", an approach that serves as the intersection between rhetorical theory and game studies.The fie…

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Jr. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Leslie K. Arnovick
Verbal Medicines

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book explores the function of charms in Early English by situating them in the historical and cultural environment of the period. It is essential reading for resea…

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Jr. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America

The World of Linguistics - Band 12

The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser kno…

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Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics

This book showcases the latest research from the world's leading experts on Celtic linguistics. The 15 chapters span a variety of linguistic subdisciplines as well as theoretical and methodological perspe…

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The Method Works

This volume contains an introductory essay, the bibliography of Professor Ringe, and nineteen articles on various aspects of historical linguistics composed by current and former colleagues and students a…

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Jeffrey R. Tharsen
Chinese Euphonics

Welten Ostasiens - Worlds of East Asia - Mondes de l'Extrême Orient - Band 29

What did Old Chinese prose sound like? Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a deep dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout t…

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Medieval English in a Multilingual Context

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book of…

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